Mike Lamardo | ZME Science

Gearing Up For Moogfest 2012

Every year, the mountainous city of Asheville, North Carolina houses the electronic/post-rock powerhouse festival Moogfest. Named after Robert Moog, a pioneer of electronic instruments, the festival primarily brings across many of the leading contemporary artists of electronic music, but also branches into the realms of experimental rock, hip-hop and more. This is the third year that Asheville is hosting the festival, with the first five editions having been held in Manhattan and elsewhere in New…

Some October Releases to Watch

Every month brings about a mess a new releases from artists over each and every genre. Unfortunately, most of them come out quietly while others get brought up in every outlet. This is usually thanks to some sort of notoriety – just think about Billie Joe Armstrong and his freakout recently. Oops, I guess I kind of promoted their new album – but I’m not going say the name of it. Looking at the list…

Gearing Up For Flying Lotus’ “Until The Quiet Comes”

Steve Ellison, better known by the name of Flying Lotus, has travelled quite the way from his early start producing interlude tracks for Adult Swim. The 28 year old experimental electronic musician divulges into the more visceral, hazy subset of beats. His tracks are often densely layered, unpredictable and often serve as the perfect soundtrack for wandering the streets past midnight. With his last release Cosmogramma in 2010, which was received with overwhelming positive response, Flying…

Snarky Puppy Engages in 50 Day/50 Gig US/Canada Tour

It was probably only a month ago that several of my friends and colleagues started talking about this band, “Snarky Puppy”. Despite my jazz/fusion background, the group had been completely unfamiliar to me. So of course the only thing that I could do was listen to every track I could get my hands on. Not much to my surprise, the collective had struck/slapped/punched me like few bands have the capability of. The clash of 90s…

Adam Yauch’s Will: Keep My Music Out of Ads

Before the Beastie Boy Adam Yauch passed away from cancer in May of this year, he made one thing very clear in his will: no commercial can feature any music written by him. Along with other artists like Levon Helm of The Band and Tom Waits, Yauch was very much against the usage of music for advertisement purposes. While Yauch’s wishes may appear to be valid, but an article by Wendy S. Goffe in Forbes…

Kimbra Teaming Up With Ben Weinman For New Record

Kimbra, the New Zealand singer-songwriter whose fame exploded after being featured on Gotye’s single “Somebody That I Used To Know” is in the process of a new album. Clearly, an open mind is apparently a big part of her new project, since she is working with Ben Weinman of The Dillinger Escape Plan, and others. If you’ve listened to the Dillinger Escape Plan, you know that they can be, well, completely brutal. Dissonance, shifting time…

Dysfunctional Love Between the Artist and Audience

The smoke is still seems to be clearing from the explosion set off on the internet by David Lowery and Emily White during the middle of June. Lowery, a professor at the University of Georgia and member of the groups Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker put up a lengthy, yet meticulously constructed article on a blog called The Trichordist. This article was a rebuttal towards White, an intern for NPR Music’s “All Songs Considered” who…