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The Disaster Transport SR was originally introduced in 2013 following its smaller relatives the original Disaster Transport and the Disaster Transport JR which all hold a special place in the history of EarthQuaker Devices.
Read MoreMay is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and to honor that, EarthQuaker Devices artist, blogger and scholar Julian Saporiti is writing a four-part series called Ghost Echoes that revolves around the rich and deep subject of ethnomusicology.
Read MoreThis month, we offer you a few precious questions and answers with our beloved Sales Manager, Master of Halloween Costumes, keeper of hairless cats and flatulent synthesizer sound connoisseur, Karl Vondran.
Read MoreAlong with her love of the violin, Archives confesses to being a collector of instruments and a growing effects pedal board that includes several EarthQuaker Devices.
Read MoreWhen you’re stuck in a rut and stuck at home, here are five ways that effects pedals can help take even your most practiced ideas to the next level.
Read MoreAttention tone hounds: here are a few releases for this month. Please check out these albums in your desired format and support the artists that use our pedals!
Read MoreWe chat about his incredible journey - both geographical and musical, from playing in high school hardcore bands to the process of developing his solo project, Sinkane, all the while getting scooped up by bands like Caribou, Of Montreal and Yeasayer.
Read MoreJonathan Nuñez gives us a tour of his minimal set-up in this episode of Board To Death!
Read MoreSweet Spirit is a thought provoking rock band from Austin Texas that has about one billion members. Josh Merry is one of them, and plays guitar. He agreed to give us a tour of his JAM PACKED pedal board in this episode of Board To Death!
Read MoreBrendan Canning and Andrew Whiteman give us a look at a portion of their effects arsenal while on-stage with Broken Social Scene in this tag-team episode of Board to Death.
Read MoreKicking off this thang, is an interview with Jonathan Nuñez of TORCHE. They have a new album out NOW called “Admission”, on Relapse Records. It’s a great spin, features EQD pedals big time, and you should check it out -as if you haven’t already!
Read MoreCovet came to EarthQuaker Studios and laid down a session of their tune "Howl". Enjoy a melodic window into the minds of these progressive wizards.
Read MoreLow set up shop at EarthQuaker Studios to lay down two spine-tingling songs off of their newest SubPop release, “Double Negative”.
Read MoreCelebration takes the name to heart. They rarely perform live, but each show is, well, a celebration. There’s usually a theme, and the band enlists their friends to transform DIY venues into hand-built spectacles rivaling any stadium show…
Read More“Step one in my sound,” says Larson, “is the Speaker Cranker. I have [it] on one-hundred percent of the time…It makes a not-so-great amp sound better.”
Read MoreSince 1997, MATMOS have pushed the boundaries of what would soon be called “intelligent dance music” beyond the natural limits of self-contained software and circuitry by using found objects…
Read MoreAkron’s goodtime indie-rockers Stems (featuring EQD wire wizard Justin Seeker on vocals and guitar) stopped by the studio to tear through this earworm of a track titled, appropriately enough, “Good Times…”
Read More“It’s a lot of fun. Growly. Nice. Like it. Love it. Awesome.”
Elle Puckett of Eisley and Maggie Rogers’ touring band calls upon a carefully selected collection of boutique stompboxes including the Avalanche Run, Spatial Delivery, and the occasional Altiods tin to craft the ambient tones for which she is known.
Read MoreIn SQÜRL’s music, the twisted scraping of industrial wreckage (to my ears the byproduct of musician/filmmaker Jim Jarmusch’s northeast Ohio upbringing) gives way to uneasy drones seemingly stuck in time like crestfallen Lake Erie tides fighting a losing battle against subzero temperatures before resolving at last into saturated but sparkling reverberated arpeggios. It’s what The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly might have sounded like if Ennio Morricone booked studio time with Steve Albini and hired Sunn O))) as session musicians...
Read More“For live stuff, I stick with pedals that are going to be the most useful,” says Pallbearer’s Brett Campbell. As the frontman for the Arkansas sludgelords, Campbell’s ideal tone is much like his powerful vocal delivery, “heavy…warm, and clear.” To achieve his signature sound, Campbell needs gear that can keep up with his low A-E-A-D-F#-B tuning. “[The Hoof] is very controllable for a fuzz,” he says...
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