Show Us Your Junk! Ep. 24 - Joel Hamilton (Studio G)
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Joel Hamilton takes us on a tour of Studio G in Brooklyn New York, home to a generous amount of impossibly rare studio gear.
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Board to Death Ep. 23 - Rafael Brasil (Far From Alaska)
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Rafael Brasil is very enthusiastic about his board(S), and really digs octave pedals. A LOT! Board to Death Episode 23 features Rafael going over his effects for two different boards and explaining their use to create his unique sound.
Read MoreRainbow Machine: Retrospective
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Since entering our world at the end of the first decade of this century, the Rainbow Machine has turned more than a few heads with its bizarre and captivating trademark sounds. Take a trip over the rainbow into the mind of the creator of this somewhat misunderstood musical contraption, as Jamie Stillman shares some historical anecdotes.
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 23 - Steve Albini (Shellac, Electrical Audio)
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Steve Albini has recorded hundreds upon hundreds of bands spanning three decades. He has probably engineered one of your favorite records. His organic, non-meddling approach requires dependable and versatile recording equipment. With all of this great studio equipment, there had to be some oddball pieces floating around that he could dig up. Don’t worry, he will show you some of it.
Read MoreAn Interview with Katie Harkin [Sleater-Kinney, Sky Larkin, Waxahatchee]
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Would it be weird to call Katie Harkin the Forrest Gump of amazing lady indie rock? Probably. But look up some of the coolest indie bands of the past 15 years – not coincidentally, most led by women – and you’ll see Katie Harkin.
Read MoreEarthQuaker Session: Low
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Low set up shop at EarthQuaker Studios to lay down two spine-tingling songs off of their newest SubPop release, “Double Negative”.
Read MoreBoard to Death Ep. 22 - Cesar Soto (Ministry)
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In this episode of Board to Death, Cesar Soto was kind enough to give us a detailed rundown of his touring kit when the all-powerful MINISTRY came to town!
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 22 - Robert Carranza (The Solar Powered Plastic Plant)
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Robert Carranza has spent most of his life discovering how music works, and the last 25 years in the recording industry learning lessons and discovering what is important to him. Producing records for Jack Johnson, Marilyn Manson, Mars Volta and Los Lobos, and winning four Grammy awards are just some of his juicy career accomplishments.
Read MoreA Mid-Song Pizza Break with Death Valley Girls
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We talk about the band’s origins, influences, the paranormal and supernatural, and that Iggy Pop-eating-a-hamburger video, because, if you did a video featuring Iggy Pop eating a hamburger, wouldn’t you want to talk about it too?
Read MoreBoard to Death Ep. 21 - Doug Gillard (Guided by Voices, Nada Surf, Cobra Verde)
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Ohio native rocker Doug Gillard visited the EQD studios for our latest episode of Board to Death! Doug has played in many bands including Guided by Voices, Nada Surf, and Cobra Verde.
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 21 - Phil Manley (El Studio, Trans Am, Life Coach)
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You may know of Phil from his far-out bands Trans Am and Life Coach; but what you may not know is that this guy is also the owner of a historic diamond in the rough recording studio located in San Francisco, California.
Read MoreDownload a Free Track from And So I Watch You From Afar
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Happy Holidays from And So I Watch You From Afar and EarthQuaker Devices, what a mouthful! Now get ready for an earful of Arpanoid...
Read MoreBoard to Death Ep. 20 – Matt McJunkins (A Perfect Circle, The Beta Machine)
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In this episode of Board to Death, Matt McJunkins shares his philosophy when it comes to using effects for different purposes, and what is sweet enough to be in his chain.
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 20 - Ready Player Juan
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Bassist Juan Alderete (the Mars Volta, Deltron 3030, Marilyn Manson) takes us on a guided journey through the musical oasis of Los Angeles packed with killer gear, pop-culture references, and cameo appearances by Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails), Tim Lefebvre (David Bowie), and Nick Reinhart (Tera Melos).
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 19 - Money Mark (Beastie Boys, Beck)
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Enjoy a peek into the studio of a natural inventor; someone whose collaborative temperament blurs the boundaries between electronics and music.
Read MoreEarthQuaker Session: Celebration - "Armies and Leggies"
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Celebration 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 MoreBoard to Death Ep. 19 – Lauren Larson of Ume
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“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 MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 18 - Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth)
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In thirty short years, Sonic Youth produced one of the largest and most stimulating bodies of work of any American rock band…
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 17 - Kurt Ballou (Converge, God City Studio)
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“I’m interested in how a new tool can inspire a new artistic creation. When I get a new pedal, I’m like, ‘Oh wow! I can figure out what this thing does,’ and I spend all this time tweaking knobs [and] learning the pedal, but maybe in that process you come up with a new riff, and that riff becomes a new song, and then that song takes on a life of its own.”
Read MoreAaron's Bass Hole: Enter the Aqueduct
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The Aqueduct vibrato to be simple enough that you could treat it as a replacement for built-in amp vibrato, but deep enough to inspire new musical ideas, and if you really crank it, weird enough to be down for whatever.
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