Articles by Peter Ellman

Colin Stetson

All This I Do For Glory

PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2017

Colin Stetson is a musical genius. The rhythms, melodies and harmonies produced by one man's windpipe and fingers are awe-inspiring. His ne...

Willie Nelson

God's Problem Child

PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2017

Willie Nelson is one of the greatest singer-songwriters ever, and a living legend for country and rock music. He has transformed and transc...

Justin Walter

Unseen Forces

PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2017

To describe how Justin Walter makes his music gives only a vague idea of what it might sound like, but let's try anyway: He loops and layer...

Valgeir Sigurðsson

Dissonance

PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2017

Valgeir Sigurðsson is one of the most highly regarded composers and producers in Iceland, and has collaborated with Björk, Brian Eno, Nico...

Little Dragon

Season High

PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2017

Little Dragon — the Swedish electro-synth dance-pop experimentalists that have garnered comparisons to Radiohead and Prince, and have colla...

Actress

AZD

PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2017

Actress, aka Darren Cunningham, is back with AZD, which press materials describe as "a chrome reflected journey into a parallel world." Mus...

Six Sci-Fi Secrets from the Wooden Sky's 'Swimming in Strange Waters'

PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2017

Gavin Gardiner admits that he's relatively "new to the sci-fi world," but the Wooden Sky's Swimming in Strange Waters (out now on Nevado) d...

Aye Nako

Silver Haze

PUBLISHED Apr 5, 2017

Silver Haze opens with a strange soundscape of warped guitar, a mellow drumbeat and an old family tape of children playing, then ends with...