Five interviews with New England noise musicians, Winter-Spring 2013.Visit our website, investigatingregionalscenes.org, for more info.Stories About Music

story about music #7OuroborosSeason one concludes with a story about Taraka Larson, her band Prince Rama, and her first manifesto, The Now Age.Thank you to Kyna Doles for her help as an editor for this season.Stories About Music

story about music #6To Dream of Another ContinentA story about love, music, Europe, and memories sparked by A Winged Victory for the Sullen concert.Stories About Music

story about music #5My Friend TylerI met my friend Tyler in the autumn of 2010 after we moved into the same dorm room. He was already a musician by then, making pop music that mixed in a variety of other genres: indie rock, world beat, classical, jazz, shoegaze, ambient-anything was up for grabs, really.But those things have never been the central …

story about music #4, Part IIA Story About the Trouble BooksEpisode 5 picks up after the concert that night. Keith and Linda let us stay in their basement after a chance thunderstorm popped up and rained in the tent we’d pitched in their backyard. As my friend Ricco slept on the couch, I lay on my back on the floor and wondered if I wasn’t just a l…

story about music #4: A Story About the Trouble BooksIn the summer of 2013, I was on the edge of moving back to Pennsylvania. In a last ditch effort to be a real journalist, I drove out to Akron to find the couple whose album kept me company on a lonely night in July.Stories About Music

story about music #3 Alex & LorenaIn the radio industry, a tape synch is an industry term for when two people are recorded separately while talking on the phone at the same time. Being a low budget production, Stories About Music has had to rely on these for the past few episodes. Being a no budget production, we've also had to rely on musicians wh…

story about music #2The Tragic Fate of All Hidden ScenesIn 1995, Bluetile Lounge released Lowercase, a perfect example of the tiny subgenre known as slowcore. But for a series of coincidences, it would've disappeared forever. I trace the history of Lowercase from when I first encountered it back to a small indie rock scene in Perth, Australia that …

story about music #1Between Two ElverumsWhy can't one musician escape an album he released fifteen years ago? now available on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-about-music/id1037075754?mt=2Stories About Music