The Bay Bridged — Grouper, the ambient solo project of Portland artist Liz Harris, will make a rare live appearance with collaborator Ilyas Ahmed at the Hemlock Tavern on Tuesday, May 28. Danny Paul Grody and Irwin Swirnoff (of aQuarius recOrds) will support the intim... more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — [click for larger image] Our friends at self-titled magazine have hooked us up with a... Read more » more info

Impose Magazine — A festival that VICE Magazine once described as "the least assy festival," Chaos in Tejas is back again this year with an ever-growing lineup of hardcore, punk, metal, and garage bands from May 30 to June 2 in Austin, Tejas. Some recent additions to ... more info

XLR8R — The inspiration behind The Man Who Died In His Boat, Liz Harris's latest album as Grouper, merits re-mentioning. As a teenager in Oregon, Harris visited the recent wreck of a sailboat with her father. The boat had drifted back to shore after bei... more info

XLR8R — Brian Foote, who is making his 100% Silk debut on February 11 as Leech, has been a noble fixture in left-field, ambient IDM projects: He had a long stint as Nudge, has done production work for both Zola Jesus and Grouper, and helps with operations at... more info

Consequence of Sound — A haunted search for meaning in the reverberating mist. more info

DrownedInSound — Songwriting of this calibre needs no embellishment. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — “Vital” is one of the highlights from Grouper’s achingly beautiful new release, an LP’s worth... Read more » more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — Along with the welcome news that Grouper’s out-of-print masterpiece Dragging A Dead Deer Up... Read more » more info

XLR8R — Portland's Liz Harris (a.k.a. Grouper) has collected 12 unreleased recordings from the sessions which yielded her 2008 breakthrough record, Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill, for The Man Who Died in His Boat, a new LP set to drop next year via Kran... more info