If you follow Apes on Tape closely, you might know that I used to work on a farm in Northeastern Washington. One of the craziest moments of my past year was discovering an artist who grew up in a small, former mining town just minutes away from that farm. That artist, Allen Stone, has had […]
Over the past few years, I’ve had the pleasure to have stumbled upon and followed a band called Pickwick. What was originally the musical project of Galen Disston has evolved through several stages into it’s current version: one of Seattle’s best new bands. The six man soul group went from a few guys making noise […]
The lo-fi, indie pop music of husband and wife Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore has been making waves since they dropped their first singles in the summer of 2010. That summer, the duo, better known as Tennis, had just returned from a seven month sailing voyage along the eastern seaboard. Since that time, they released […]
In between the draft version of this interview and releasing it right now, anyone remotely familiar with college sports became aware of the Penn State- JoPa news. Ironically, amidst our new interview with Lauren Larson of Austin, TX’s Ume we discussed the band’s short tenure at Penn State. Since leaving grad school at PSU, her […]
It’s been quite the past few weeks for Anthony Gonzalez and the French electronic group called M83. On October 10, their sixth full length studio album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming began streaming on the internet. Shortly after, they released a beautiful video for single “Midnight City”. Critics and fans alike received the new album incredibly well, […]