Artist Profile: James Sudakow explores dark matter with his electric violin

Having been raised on these kinds of records, James Sudakow, an electric violoinist based out of Long Beach, California felt like a sort of soothing blanket. He mixes synths with electro-loops and recycled breaks with live drums, percussion, electric guitar and bass and of course his whining, squealing, soaring electric violin played through a Marshall stack. […]

Artist Profile: Phoenix Rising

Phoenix Rising out of the Bay Area brings us a neo-classical, lyrical style that is both haunting and refreshing for its very defiance of stereotypes. Beautifully recorded, their latest release Ascension has as much to do with Lisa Gerrard and Penguin Cafe Orchestra as it does with Deuter and Enya. […]

Artist Profile: Joseph A. Peragine

Artist Profile: Joseph A. Peragine Music Zeitgeist recently discovered the music of Ohio artist Joseph A. Peragine. The self-produced multi-instrumentalist creates gorgeous and urgent evolving songs that summon up the best that the first wave of early 90’s independent alternative music had to offer. This is not a slight – it was a golden […] […]