Brassland

Q&A: Buke & Gase on homemade instruments, unconventionality, and doing it all live

Idiosyncratic girl/guy duo Buke & Gase, named after its homemade baritone ukulele and guitar-bass, chats about its move from Brooklyn…

ALARM’s 50 Favorite Albums of 2012

Another year, another torrential downpour of albums across our desks. As always, we encountered way too much amazing music, from…

Video Premiere: Jherek Bischoff’s “Blossom” f. Wordless Music Orchestra

From a performance recorded at NYC's Merkin Hall for the Ecstatic Music festival, check out Jherek Bischoff with Wordless Music…

Fuzz for all ages: Baritone ukulele and guitar-bass get dirty on brand-new Buke & Gase

Hear "Misshaping Information," a new cut from Buke & Gase, whose patented baritone ukulele and guitar-bass have gotten even fuzzier,…

Review: Jherek Bischoff’s Composed

The latest from Parenthetical Girls member Jherek Bischoff is a piece of immaculately arranged orchestral pop, one whose level of…

Video: Jherek Bischoff’s “Young and Lovely” f. Zac Pennington & Soko

Get ready to hear the name Jherek Bischoff a lot more often. The multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer has crafted an…

100 Unheralded Albums from 2010

Among the thousands of under-appreciated or under-publicized albums that were released in 2010, hundreds became our favorites and were presented…