Monthly Archives: May 2011
Side Projects
A friend of mine asked me this morning what the purpose of a side project was, as far as music and the workings of an artist or a band goes. In all honesty, it’s a good question. Obviously, there are … Continue reading
Wolf Music
Artist: Boreal Network Title: Phase with the Moon EP Released: 2009 (?) Label: Retronym Genre: ambient, IDM Available as a free download (with a suggested donation for a good cause) via the Retronym webpage, Boreal Network’s lupine themed album found … Continue reading
Helplessness Blues
Artist: Fleet Foxes Title: Helplessness Blues Released: 2011 Label: Sub Pop Genre: Folk/folk rock, indie, Americana I stumbled across Fleet Foxes a few years ago while sniffing around the Sub Pop’s webpage. An EP and one album later, and I’m … Continue reading
Swoosh!
Reposted from my original blog, September, 2010 Artist: Sphongle Album: Are You Shpongled? Released: 1998 (originally, multiple reissues) Genre: Ambient, tribal, trance ambient, psyche ambient I’m twelve years late on getting this album, mostly because it was always so hard … Continue reading
Re-Enter the Vaselines
Reposted from my personal blog, September, 2010. As the story goes, Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain introduced the world the The Vaselines by getting Sub Pop Records to release a compilation of their first record and EPs, and later, covering a few … Continue reading
A Little Dog Named Snuggles
Reposted from my personal blog September 2010 Artist: Negativland Title: These Guys are From England and Who Gives a Shit? Released: 2001 Genre: sound collage, noise, experimental A long, long time ago, there was a little dog, named Snuggles. He … Continue reading
Dreamend
Reposted from my personal blog, October, 2010. Artist: Dreamend Title: Maybe We’re making God Sad and Lonely Released: 2005 Genre: Post rock, Indie, indie instrumental, hauntology This lovely limited edition LP is pressed on orange and blue vinyl, hand numbered, with … Continue reading
Nomi?
Reposted from my personal blog October, 2010, edited and revised. This won’t be a review in the traditional sense, in that this is more of contemplative post. So who are we looking at? Klaus Nomi Klaus dresses like a space … Continue reading
FSOL
A repost from my personal blog, December 2010 ARTIST: The Future Sound of London Title: Environments 3 Released: 2010 Genre: Ambient, Modern Classical, abstract, IDM It would appear that after we’ve waited fourteen years between the rumored release and the … Continue reading
Tuning In: About Tuning Into Obscure + Contact info and Submissions
Hi! You’ve found the front page of Tuning Into Obscure! I know the date on this says May of 2011, but ignore that. Scroll down for new content. And now, the obligatory front page bio stuff and contact info…. Finally, … Continue reading
