This song just slugs you in the gut.

Get the rest of the Roadside Graves’ great session at HearYa, and while you’re at it, take a listen to the version of Wooden Walls here.

At 8.00 p.m. we quite magically waltzed through the black door in the brick wall. There we were, the Goonite Club, 69 Rosebury Ave, Clerkenwell, London, ECIR4RL, a location that not even MapQuest could find that we reached through a metro station of which no one seemed to be particularly aware. Never mind, we were there, and on time. A muddy hall opened into a dark room with brightish youngish punkish things vaguely rocking out, and a man in a striped shirt shook my hand. “Ian,” he introduced himself, “Shall we have a drink?” Read more

The sound of Desolation Wilderness is a collage of punk-rock ethic and dream pop sound layered between postcards and pictures of uncertain date.  Free your mind of desolation and forget about wilderness, unless your idea of wilderness connotes a happily ambivalent vagabond.  The music of this Olympia, Washington band is a beachy-keen flash of dreamy ambient-pop that’s a little retro and more than a little happy-go-lucky.  The sound of Desolation Wilderness echoes back like Read more

It’s Stereopathic’s busiest week yet.  All told, we’re bringing in six out-of-town artists to entertain Moscow with various forms of folk music, countrified and otherwise. Check out our Birds on a Wire page for links to everyone’s respective myspaces, and for a big fat pic of David Dalbey’s beautiful poster. And, of course, there’s more after the jump . . . Read more

Justin Ringle, a Moscow, Idaho native and the center of Portland folk band Horse Feathers, had an interview last year with the SoCal blog Aquarium Drunkard, an interview that managed to ask nearly every question a Stereopathic interviewer might have asked him. To wit: Read more

Poster by David Dalbey

Laura Gibson very kindly risked carsickness and the bleary-eyed, sleepless rigors of living in a tour vehicle while en route to a several-show stint at SXSW to answer some questions we posed to her in anticipation of her upcoming show here this Friday. Laura, touring in support of her much-beloved by Stereopathic record, Beasts of Seasons, alights upon Moscow alongside Seattle’s Pablo Trucker and Troubletown (also known as Jenna Conrad). An elegant and deliberate record, Beasts of Seasons piqued our curiosity not just about Laura’s songwriting and recording processes, but also about the Read more

Low Red Land, from San Francisco, make music that echoes their geographic history. They met in New York, played in Boston and then moved to the City By The Bay. They play music that’s reminiscent of post-hardcore with shadings of folk. It’s a dichotomy they embrace; they play sets both electric and acoustic. It’s fantastic when a band that can rock as hard as a Fugazi, Jawbox or Rival Schools can also be content to sit down with an acoustic guitar, banjo, accordion and vocal harmonies. Their new album, Dog’s Hymns, while leaning more towards the rock ‘n roll, finds a balance between these two sides of the band. They effortlessly mix throat-tearing protest songs and softer personal songs. This is a band totally at home with being two very different things. And in the end, they pull it all into one big, unified whole.

Go see them in Moscow, on April 1st, at the Nuart.

Low Red Land - “Dog’s Hymns”

Low Red Land - “Landmark”

Nate is a land and music surveyor. He lives in Moscow with his wife and two children. He is not from Moscow, but he likes it here and wants there to be more music of the live variety.

After the huge success the new intro to the show had amongst users (1 of our 12 listeners loved it!), we’ve decided to make the song publicly available. It’s FREE!* Enjoy!

Stereopathic Song

The song is DRM free and ready-made to be incorporated into your morning “Wake Up” playlist, aid recovery from your fortnightly existential crises, or be mashed up with The Kingston Trio and Duran, Duran.

*Market research revealed that only the unsought-after demo of “35-45 year olds with extreme early-onset-dementia” would actually “pay money for that crap.”

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