DC Summer Radio - Hour One
Week one (embedded below) features a slick Ariana Grande sample, Turkish psych, an indie pop summer anthem, and the musings of a stoned kid
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Nathan Yoder
May 12, 2020
Album Preview - Luke Schneider - Altar of Harmony
Luke Schneider is a popular Nashville-based session musician, having played a variety of stringed instruments alongside Margo Price, William
Nathan Yoder
May 11, 2020
Album of the Week - water feature - in the world generally
Tasty Morsels is a record label of sorts, but one that does not actually distribute physical copies of albums, promote tours, or make any mo
Nathan Yoder
May 4, 2020
Album of the Week - V/A - Piano Cloud Series Volume Five
Apologies to Karim Kamar, who released an excellent album of solo piano music this past Friday, but when pitted against a 50-song, two-and-a
Nathan Yoder
Apr 27, 2020
Album of the Week - Jäverling ◇ von Euler - Musik för trädgårdar
With their new release, Musik för trädgårdar (which is inspired by plants and horticulture), the Swedish duo of Rickard Jäverling and Henrik
Nathan Yoder
Apr 20, 2020
Album of the Week - Chihei Hatakeyama - Void XX
Chihei Hatakeyama makes music to melt to. His meditative new age pieces are composed of heavily-processed instrumentation, recorded and the
Nathan Yoder
Apr 16, 2020
Pickathon Presents "A Concert A Day" to Support Artists
As artists postpone tours and venues drop events, Pickathon, the beloved music festival and PNW cultural institution, has decided to step up
Nathan Yoder
Apr 13, 2020
Album of the Week - Inwards - Bright Serpent
To those who do not entirely appreciate the genre, electronic music can feel repetitive. A melody that spans an entire track, repeating ove
Nathan Yoder
Apr 9, 2020
Artist Interview Series: Shelley Short
This installment spotlights Shelley Short, a musician who just left the Pacific Northwest for Australia, but still holds Oregon very close,
Nathan Yoder
Apr 7, 2020
Artist Interview Series: Derek Hunter Wilson
As show coverage drops off during this period of quarantine, the "features" space on this site will feature more and more artist...
Nathan Yoder
Apr 6, 2020
Album of the Week - Clarice Jensen - The experience of repetition as death
Considering our current situation, the title of Clarice Jensen's most recent release feels pretty spot-on. "What day is it, again?" we wond
Nathan Yoder
Apr 2, 2020
Artist Interview Series: Rich Ruth
This third artist write-up captures a Q+A correspondence with Rich Ruth, a Nashville artist who is currently composing ambient music.
Nathan Yoder
Mar 31, 2020
Artist Interview Series: Leslee Smucker
This installment spotlights Dr. Leslee Smucker, an inter-media artist who, on top of her academic research and teaching work, performs chamb
Nathan Yoder
Mar 30, 2020
Album of the Week - Nils Frahm - Empty
It's been said that when Nils Frahm takes his show on the road, he brings so much equipment that auditorium stages literally sag under the w
Nathan Yoder
Mar 24, 2020
Artist Interview Series: Sunbathe
An email exchange with Maggie Morris of Sunbathe.
Nathan Yoder
Mar 23, 2020
If You're Needing an Album to...
50 albums to help you navigate these strange days.
Nathan Yoder
Mar 23, 2020
Album of the Week - Ratgrave - Rock
Sometimes an album emerges out of nowhere and is so stylistically different than whatever else you are immersed in, that you can't forget it
Nathan Yoder
Mar 16, 2020
Album of the Week - Glåsbird - Norskfjǫrðr
Glåsbird makes musical postcards - compositions defined by place. In the past, the artist's location-themed albums captured the desolate, f
Nathan Yoder
Mar 13, 2020
Homebound
As we collectively enter this strange and frightening phase of social and professional quarantine, music can act as a centering presence. A
Nathan Yoder
Mar 12, 2020
Fennesz at Holocene - 03/11/2020
The prolific Austrian guitarist and soundscape artist made a rare visit to Portland on Tuesday evening, and showed a Holocene audience that
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