WNYU.org is broadcasting North by Northwest right now! Tuesday mornings 8AM-10AM.
When thinking about the Pacific Northwest, little else comes to mind aside from rain and coffee. However, the upper left pocket of America is steadily building a northwest sound that is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. North by Northwest aims to showcase the vibrant and incredibly diverse hip hop scene that is starting to play in integral role in the city’s bubbling music scene in a similar way that grunge did in its founding years.
DIRTY BEACHES came into the studio Friday before his show with Xiu Xiu & Father Murphy.
Like Bo Diddley or minimalist synth provocateurs Suicide, Dirty Beaches’ compositions are not so much stripped down as they are refined to their essence. Drum loops, Hungtai’s croon, and the yearning melodies draped atop belie as much a sense of haunting mystery as they do romanticism and wry humor.
The brief but badass set will be broadcast at 5 PM EST on The New Afternoon Show this Monday, May 7th. Tune in at 89.1 FM or WNYU.ORG for this exclusive mix, featuring Alex Hungtai & co as they reach past the 60s and the 80s, fully draping the listener in a fuzzy, road-weary atmosphere.
WNYU listeners, meet Jon Brion, the composer behind such films as Magnolia, I Heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, NY. Brion merges catchy, piano-pop ballads with existential lyrics and edgy instrumentation to create a compelling cinematic sound unlike any other.
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+++ Tune in to Hip-Hop & Her Family 5-7pm to hear what went down at the festival directly from the Not Enough Mics crew— plus another live freestyle cypher!
Prepare to have your faces melted: Nashville’s DIARRHEA PLANET play live on the Sound Between this Saturday, March 3rd with ~*~DJ Jon Blistein~*~ Tune in from 2-4pm EST on wnyu.org
Eli is a hyphenate, drummer (in his duos Red Horse and Aster, alongside Jandek, Loren Connors, Greg Kelley, Spencer Yeh, etc), composer, constructor of massive motorized string installations, operator of the fantastic record label Rel, painter, printer, draftsman… Today he’ll be playing a solo percussion set. La Monte Young once referred to (Eli’s sometime collaborator) Tony Conrad as a ‘classic New England inventor type’ (to paraphrase), a title also befitting Eli. The anachronism it might suggest is not totally accidental, as Eli’s music eschews electronics (except for some amplification) altogether, rejecting the obscurity and detachment of circuitry and interface in favor of loving studies of profoundly resonant metals, Takis/Joe Jones-esque mechanical sculptures, and a drum sound like a Tinguely machine infinitely sustained in its moment of collapse or the crackling coals on Xenakis’ “Concret PH”. This is a music in which deep listening and reverie coincide with severe, almost uncanny physicality and momentum. And if you can’t tell from the gush, I think it’s one of the best things about ‘the underground’ today.
