Keith Fullerton Whitman

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Homegrown II: Shea's stadium

Uniting 53 bands under one roof
All too often, our music scene is referred to in the past tense.
By NOLAN GAWRON | October 12, 2010

The amalgamated adventures of Felix Kubin
For those who heard German electronics maestro Felix Kubin slice the air with fried keyboards and speed-tweaked samples at Boston’s Goethe-Institut last November, his return to the States couldn’t come soon enough.
By MATT PARISH | May 17, 2010

Haus music

The Whitehaus spares its carpets with Blastfest 3
On a sleepy side street in JP sits the Whitehaus, where, on a recent Saturday evening, muffled electronic gurgles and drones pulse from the basement like the sounds of some secret sci-fi laundromat. It's an experimental electronics night anchored by Boston synth overlord Keith Fullerton Whitman, but it could be any number of scenes that the Whitehaus has welcomed into its living room over the past four years.
By MATT PARISH | March 17, 2010

Weekend trip

Rad four-day psych fest will free your mind, man
It pains me to have to ask this, but looking at the insane list of bands at Boston promoter Dan Shea's upcoming four-night "Homegrown" pysch fest at Church, I have no choice: what exactly does "psych music" mean at this point?
By MATT PARISH | July 15, 2009

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Assault and batteries

Geoff Mullen plugs in; Lord & Karlheinz freak out
After a brief stint in Pittsburgh, guitarist and electronic musician GEOFF MULLEN is back in his native Rhode Island, and the New England music scene is so much the better for it.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | February 20, 2009

School daze

Sonorous studies at Oxfam
The shows that Tufts University’s Oxfam Café has hosted over the past year-plus are not your typical sweat-drenched college rock shows.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | September 17, 2008

Without a script

Zeroplan keeps moving
Zeroplan is a performance series that combines improvised experimental music with avant-garde movement and dance.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | June 10, 2008

Domestic, violent

Jason Lescalleet leaves the house
Jason Lescalleet makes shudderingly intense music: sometimes beautiful, sometimes harsh, rarely boring.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | April 22, 2008

Space cases

Astronaut and Ernst Karel
Perhaps it’s something in the air, but in the last year or so it seems that Boston’s experimental outer limits has seen an analog-synthesizer renaissance.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | December 14, 2007

On-line bins

Mimaroglu Music Sales and Weirdo Records
In the age of the iPod and the impersonal digital download, the death knell of the traditional record store, piled high with vinyl and CDs, gets sounded with monotonous regularity.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | October 17, 2007

Day by Day by Day

A column ends
Two years ago, the Phoenix asked me to write a weekly column about Boston’s growing electronic music and DJ scene.
By DAVID DAY | September 18, 2007

Amerindie Echoes

Deerhunter, Institute of Contemporary Art, July 12, 2007
There were no frocks or fits of self-abuse on stage.
By MATT ASHARE | July 23, 2007

The more things change

Matmos and So Percussion, Remis Auditorium, October 12, 2006
As excellent as the show back in January was, I didn't think I would've wanted to pay to see the same thing twice. Slideshow: Matmos and So Percussion at Remis Auditorium at the MFA, October 12, 2006
By WILL SPITZ | December 18, 2006

Avant gardening

'Brainwaves’ invades the Regent
A Web site that’s hosted everyone from the Dresden Dolls to Diamanda Galás and Tortoise brings an international festival to Arlington.
By DAVID DAY | November 13, 2006

Punk 2 techno

MBR’s Gladstone makes the switch; plus, Brainwashed’s 10th anniversary
For more than 16 years, Somerville’s Jonathan Gladstone has been one of the familiar voices of punk-rock radio on MIT’s WMBR, but now he’s switching his pitch up.
By DAVID DAY | July 05, 2006

Keith Fullerton Whitman

Lisbon | Kranky
Consisting of one new 42-minute track recorded live in guess-where, Lisbon encapsulates the best moments from Keith Fullerton Whitman’s two Kranky-released full-lengths.
By ELI ANDERSON | April 24, 2006