The Microphones

Totally Fuzzy — O’Death are an Americana - Gothic Country Folk band from New York. Borrowing their band name from a traditional American folk song that comes out of Western North Carolina, O’Death draws on traditional folk, bluegrass, punk, gypsy music, metal,... more info

The Independent — Microphones and equipment from John Lennon's home studio – on which he recorded his early solo albums and hit single "Imagine" – are to be auctioned. more info

ContactMusic — Recording equipment John Lennon used while working on his peace anthem Imagine is to be auctioned off online. Microphones and tape recorders from Lennon's Ascot Sound Studios are among the items that will be sold off to the highest bidders at a sa... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — SXSW drew to a close yesterday, and all that remains is a couple hundred BBQ stains on couple hundred plaid shirts. Did you miss the festival? We did too, but here's a summary of what happened, based on a perusal of event photos: a lot of artists loo... more info

All About Jazz — Over at Pirate Verbatim, a new blog that chronicles artists' thoughts on file-sharing, a great quote went up from Phil Elverum. He's the man behind Mount Eerie and The Microphones. Phil doesn't have strong opinions on music piracy, but argues that it... more info

XLR8R — German minimalist Pantha du Prince helped make our first night at Seattle's Decibel 2010 one to remember with his headlining set of lush and enriching ambient techno. But what made the experience truly rewarding was our chance to actually sit do... more info

Silent Uproar — Mount Eerie will release a new rarities and singles compilation, Song Islands Vol. 2, on October 19th via P.W. Elverum & Sun. Most of the 31 included tracks "have only been released into ultra-obscurity on limited 7" singles and forgotten compilation... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Sunny North of Sunnybrook turned us on to Pennyslvania resident Matthew Hampson's project Caring Practice. When he's not recording Microphones-esque jams like "Duck Meditation" all by his lonesome, Hampson also handles the drums in the percussion-hea... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Last time we checked in with former Titus Andronicus member Andrew Cedermark, we Playlisted the homespun ballad "From Memory". Cedermark's got a full-length, Moon Deluxe, due out in a few months on Underwater Peoples, and we have the title track for ... more info

Popdose — I’ve always owned PCs, and have never had much of an interest in home recording, so when Dave, Jason and I started recording the Popdose podcast a couple of months ago, I entered the fray as an absolute beginner — and if you listened to our first... more info