Fling ii: Modular Synths, Pedal Steel, and Michigan Motorik
This week we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on Ann Arbor krautrock band Fling ii . I sat down with drummer and synthesist Brad Gowland, an...
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Martin Bisi: Forty-Five Years of Sonic Murder
This week we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on producer and engineer Martin Bisi . Bisi has run BC Studio out of the Gowanus section of Br...
Azar Lawrence: Spiritual Jazz With the Funk Left In
This week we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on tenor saxophonist Azar Lawrence . Lawrence is a veteran of Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner's ba...
Josh Mason: Punk and Circuitry, Zippered Together
This week we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on Florida sound artist Josh Mason . Mason’s new album, Kicking A Dark Horse , is out now on g...
Terri Lyne Carrington: A Dance Record for Dark Times
This week we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on drummer, composer, and educator Terri Lyne Carrington . Carrington has just released Trip t...
Chris Molanphy: One Chart to Rule Them All
This week we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on pop-chart analyst Chris Molanphy . For almost a decade, Chris has hosted Hit Parade , Slate...
Danalogue: Telling the Future Through Old Machines
This week we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on synthesist and producer Danalogue . Danalogue is a founding member of The Comet Is Coming a...
Suzanne Ciani: The Buchla's Orchestral Homecoming
This week, we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on five-time Grammy-nominated composer Suzanne Ciani . Suzanne has spent decades innovating e...
Steven Bernstein: The Trumpet's Blank Slate
This week we’re putting The Tonearm 's needle on trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Steven Bernstein . Amongst his many activities, Steven...
Alden Hellmuth: Saxophone Tethered to a Galaxy of Bass
This week, we’re putting The Tonearm 's needle on saxophonist and composer Alden Hellmuth . Alden grew up in Hartford, studying in the Jacki...
Dave Douglas: Transcend Is Not the End
This week, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas . Douglas’s latest album, Transcend, came out in April....
Ora Cogan: Hard Hearted Is How You Survive
Today, we’re putting The Tonearm ’s needle on singer and songwriter Ora Cogan . Ora Cogan’s music pulls from folk, country, psychedelia, and...
Billy Polo: Audio Engineer as Archaeologist
Today, we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on Billy Polo , in-house audio and mastering engineer, at iconic Jamaican music label VP Records...
Stephen Emmer: Composing at the Edge of Silence
Today, we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on Stephen Emmer, a Dutch composer and musician based in Amsterdam. Stephen came up in the late 7...
George Grella: The Time-Bending Art of Minimalist Music
Today, we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on George Grella , one of the sharpest music critics working today. George is the music editor of...
Meredith Bates: The Quiet Science of Sound Worlds
Today we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on Meredith Bates , a JUNO Award-winning violinist and composer based on Salt Spring Island, Briti...
Nick Fraser: Still Screaming Into the Snare Drum
Today, we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on Toronto drummer and composer Nick Fraser . Nick Fraser is one of the most distinctive voices i...
Maria Schneider: Composing in the Age of Curated Rage
Today, The Tonearm’s needle lands on composer and avid birdwatcher Maria Schneider . Few composers working today have Maria Schneider's rang...
Caroline Davis: The Saxophone Reimagined in the Fallows
Today, we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on Caroline Davis , a saxophonist and composer based in New York. Her new album, Fallows , just c...
Miho Hazama: The Conductor Who Leads with Love
Today, we’re putting The Tonearm's needle on composer and chief conductor of the Danish Radio Big Band, Miho Hazama . Miho grew up inside th...