Anacortes Unknown Music Series
Home is the unspoken but clear center that holds together the Anacortes Unknown Music Series. Formerly What the Heck Fest, the newest incarnation of the same event is a festival only in the…
Mount Eerie Announces Details for Ocean Roar, Hear mp3 Excerpt
As planned, Phil Elverum, creative force behind Mount Eerie, has announced the details of his forthcoming LP, Ocean Roar, which will act as a counterpoint to the recently released Clear Moon. The album…
It’s Like Sculpting: An Interview with Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum
With his newest effort Clear Moon out now and its counterpart Ocean Roar on the way later this year, prolific and luminary songwriter Phil Elverum corresponded with us via email about the acquisition of his…
P.W. Elverum & Sun Announce the Anacortes Unknown Music Series #1
After last year’s annual What the Heck Fest, Phil Elverum of Microphones/Mount Eerie/D+/K Records fame announced that the festival would not be continuing into its 11th year. Instead, he and fellow D+ member…
Album Review: Mount Eerie – Clear Moon
Prolific songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Phil Elverum has donned both the monikers Mount Eerie and The Microphones as recording aliases over the years, also tampering with the spelling of his own given name…
Preview Mount Eerie’s Clear Moon
The first of two new albums by Phil Elverum’s Mount Eerie project is being streamed today over at NPR. The 11-track release was recorded in Elverum’s church-turned-studio, located in Anacortes, Washington, using analog…