Latest from The Tonearm:
Borderline Ambient — Two Decades of Lusine
Jeff McIlwain’s tenth Lusine album, ‘Melting Days,’ makes the case that rhythm and atmosphere were never opposites to begin with.
Tony D’Onghia
Martin Bisi, Recording Engineer Without a Uniform
Forty-five years into BC Studio, Bisi talks through hardcore and hip hop as underclass music, the trouble with the post-genre label, the taboo of anger, and the collaborators who shaped ‘Dancing On The Power Lines.’
Lawrence Peryer
Laura Veirs Alone in the Temple of Bloom
After 30 years of handing her records to producers, Veirs recorded ‘Temple Songs’ entirely alone, guided by wabi-sabi, the DIY ethos she took from Ani DiFranco, and a determination not to fall down perfectionism’s rabbit hole.
Carl Dexter
The Underdog Beat — Ira Robbins on Trouser Press
A second anthology, ‘Zip It Up! Too,’ finds the magazine’s co-founder still keeping faith with the bands that sold ten copies rather than ten million.
Jim Allen
Yuka Honda’s Impossible Dreams — On Celebrating Yoko Ono
For Honda, an artistic format is a language rather than an identity — a conviction she shares with Ono, and one that made curating a tribute feel less like a departure than a translation.
Meredith Hobbs Coons
Latest from The Tonearm Podcast:
Fling ii Interview: Michigan Motorik and Modular Synths
Fling ii’s Brad Gowland and Richard Murphy on ‘3’ — forty-minute jams in a Michigan church cut to six-minute tracks, with pedal steel over motorik.
Martin Bisi on BC Studio, Gowanus, and Genre
Producer Martin Bisi on the same Brooklyn building since 1979, the rezoning of Gowanus, why genres work like social movements, and Dancing on the Power Lines.
Azar Lawrence on Spiritual Jazz, Lineage, and the Funk
The saxophonist on McCoy Tyner, his friendship with Pharoah Sanders, and why he doesn’t observe the jazz lineage — he is it. Plus the album’s title story.
Josh Mason on Modular Synthesis and Nonlinear Composition
Sound artist Josh Mason on his Greyfade FOLIO release ‘Kicking A Dark Horse,’ a modular album and book built to be entered at any point.
Terri Lyne Carrington: Trip the Night Fantastic Interview
The four-time Grammy winner on the new Social Science album, trusting collaborators before they’ve earned it, and calling herself a frustrated drummer.
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