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Ariel Pink 2010, June
His serendipitous home studio techniques have become symbolic to a generation of young people who consider themselves the alternative to alternative.
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Black Powder
Black Powder, a founding member of Human Ear, makes healing dark mystery music with drum machines, drones and frineds.
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Bubonic Plague
Long before synth-pop revivalism became the norm — complete with straight-faced goth-isms, Micro-Korgs and automated rhythm sections — Bubonic Plague were doing it all with a not-so-straight face.
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Garbaj Kaetz
Veteran performers in LA, San Francisco, Berlin and Amsterdam, they turn their wisdom into gleefully executed, precisely calibrated glam rock.
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Gary Wilson 2010, June
Gary Wilson is an influential experimental recordng artist from San Diego, California.
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Geneva Jacuzzi 2010, June
She creates painstaking layers of synth and rhythm counterpoint, breathing life into forgotten dance tropes from the 1980's and 1990's.
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Indian Jewelry 2010, June
Indian Jewelry is Texas's answer to 30 years of edgy bi-coastal psychedelia.
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Janet Kim 2010, June
Janet Kim is a songwriter, community leader, teacher and gallerist from Los Angeles.
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Jason Grier 2010, June
Referred to by Human Ear people as the "connector," his curatorial efforts seek to define the intersection of ever-increasing directions in contemporary art music.
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Jeff Phelps
Jeff Phelps is loved by musicians and music lovers for his idiosyncratic sense of orchestration, plaintive lyricism and line.
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John Webster Johns 2010, June
John Webster Johns is a bi-coastal rolling stone and recording artist.
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Julia Holter 2010, June
Her thematically rich, delicately orchestrated music deals with memory, process and divinity unpretentiously.
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Linda Perhacs
Linda Perhacs is a major American singer and visionary artist.
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Makeing Tents
Makeing Tents describes a communal banding together to create temporary, ramshackle (intentionally mis-spelled) soul-shelters.
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Maria Minerva
She creates drenched, quizzical popscapes that suspend time, while defying the dreary self-importance associated with fuzzed-out modal pop.
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Mark So 2010, June
His works uphold, through every conceivable strategy, the delicate boundary between restriction, chance, aesthetic beauty and imperceptibility, often demanding great attention through changing experiences of silence.
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Michael Pisaro 2010, June
His music is often described as having a transformative effect on awareness of time and auditory perception, in addition to a surface of intense beauty.
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Michael Stasis
His washed-out tape fades rub up against industrial punches, evoking nightmare soundtracks with a pop sensibility.
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Nite Jewel 2010, June
Linear editing, one-chance and chance-based composing, and painstaking adjustments characterize her recent work in the analog studio environment.
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Raw Geronimo
Gushing, 1000-watt-sweet pop tunes with just-balanced construction and countryside histrionics like a young Maria Tanase or Peggy Lee.
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Ry Rocklen 2010, June
Ry Rocklen is a sculptor whose music is a dreamlike merger of indie, hip hop and chill electro.
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Stellar OM Source
Her music sheds light on an ecstatic plane of experience that (still) lies beyond the worldly experience of genre-play.
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The Samps
The Samps is somewhere between full circle and vicious spiral for musique concrète.
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Vibe Central 2010, June
Vibe Central's charged literary sensibility and brutalist aesthetics virtually defined the protean community that gave rise to Human Ear.
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Weave 2010, June
Weave's music spins a world tapestry that lives up to its name.
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William Basinski 2010, June
William Basinski is an influential modern electronic iconoclast.
