Articles by Alan Ranta

Andrew Bird

Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of...

PUBLISHED Jun 2, 2014

Andrew Bird is one of those guys who have to make music. Trained in the Suzuki method since he was able to hold a violin, he has appeared o...

Sasquatch! Music Festival with Die Antwoord, HAIM, Rodriguez

Gorge Amphitheatre, Quincy WA, May 23-25

PUBLISHED May 28, 2014

There was a hint of struggle looming over this year's Sasquatch!, after their failed attempt to split the festival into two weekends, but o...

Ben Frost Explains the Uncomfortable Origins of 'A U R O R A'

PUBLISHED May 27, 2014

For Ben Frost's earlier albums, the experimental guitar/piano-based composer was happy to work from the safety of recording studios in his...

Ben Frost

Lazy Is Perspective

PUBLISHED May 27, 2014

Australian producer and electroacoustic composer Ben Frost hasn't been up to much in the past decade, other than moving to Iceland, helping...

Ben Frost

A U R O R A

PUBLISHED May 23, 2014

For his first solo album since 2009's By the Throat, experimental composer and producer Ben Frost made himself uncomfortable. Sick of the r...

Chris Schlarb

Making the Saint

PUBLISHED May 23, 2014

It's people like Chris Schlarb that keep music interesting. The California nomad, under the influence of Bill Laswell, has been known to as...

The Gaslamp Killer

Fortune Sound Club, Vancouver BC, May 18

PUBLISHED May 20, 2014

With a champagne flute in hand, his fluffy beard and 'fro rivalling the bellowing shagginess of Reggie Watts, William Benjamin Bensussen br...

Trans Am

Volume X

PUBLISHED May 16, 2014

This Maryland power trio, propelled by the drums of Sebastian Thomson (also of Baroness) and fronted by singer/bassist Nathan Means and gui...