Soundtrack of our Lives Archives

Soundtrack of our lives: Queens based artist Will Kaplan give us his picks as his TransBorder Art residency begins

New Jersey born, Queens based artist Will Kaplan crosses boundaries of mediums, techniques and text to create his work. Exploring hemmed nature reserves growing up he focused on tensions between…

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Soundtrack Of Our Lives: Magna Zero

For many of us who grew up playing in garage bands, we daydream about what life could’ve been like if we continued jamming and made it to the big-time. That…

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Soundtrack of Our Lives: Emma Spartz

It’s one thing to admire an artist’s work from afar, behind a screen, or in the crowd of a show. But it is something else entirely to share a personal…

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Soundtrack of Our Lives: Who Parked The Car

I was first turned onto the French funk outfit Who Parked The Car when they submitted their second single, “Other Side” to me for review. Their throwback sound, in line…

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Soundtrack Of Our Lives: Patrick Pearson of LYR

If you heard last years brilliant Call In The Crash Team, no doubt you’ll be a fan of LYR, the band comprised of poet laureate Simon Armitage alongside producers Richard…

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Soundtrack of Our Lives: Bo Moore of The Peacers brings the groove

SAN FRAN’S Sic Alps, living guitar legends, were one of those bands which, with the amount of the talent in its ranks, could only burn bright and, like an unstable…

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Soundtrack of Our Lives: Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles freewheel us through great handpicked tracks

BILL MACKAY, the Chicago-based guitarist, improviser of note and all-round scion of six strings, sure loves to enter into a two-way conversation with other artists with reliably beautiful results; witness…

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Soundtrack of Our Lives: breaking psych-folk troubadour E.R. Jurken takes us a for a trip through the music of his life

THEY loved what they heard so much they set up a label just for him. Yep, that’s the tale of E.R. (Ed to his friends) Jurken’s slow peregrination towards a…

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Soundtrack of Our Lives: New Bums’ Ben Chasny takes us for a musical trip

NEW BUMS is the collaborative shore of of Six Organs of Admittance’s prolific psych voyager Ben Chasny and Donovan Quinn, of erstwhile Jagjaguwar psych-folk mainstays Skygreen Leopards. The duo first ventured into the world…

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Soundtracks of Our Lives: Farmer Dave Scher

FARMER DAVE SCHER may be better known to you from the string of excellent bands he’s both been in and collaborated with down the years. He was a member of…

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