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Community Matters + For the Record

On Community Matters, we chat with artists who share their stories on how other people impact their music. A supportive community is one of the things that inspires artists to start making music & then keep making it — this is an ode to those relationships. For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads about their stories + the music that makes them. Both are productions of Grey Matter, a community for sharing and discovering music, together. Our mission

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01 For the Record || Lauren Murada

Community Matters + For the Record ·

2023/09/13

For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them. Lauren is the Marketing Manager and a resident DJ at the Brooklyn club, Good Room. MUSIC MENTIONS ‍First Record Happy House by The Juan MacClean Dance Music Human Head Records ($2 bins) The Good Room Joy & The Loft (disco parties) Lauren Gilet + Laura Morín:

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00:39:49

Haley Fohr (Circuit des Yeux)

Community Matters + For the Record ·

2020/09/25

"I think, I really think and hope—I hope that there is a vaccine for the coronavirus within the next six months to a year. And I also hope there's a vaccine to the music industry." Haley Fohr is a composer and singer-songwriter based in Chicago. You may know her as Circuit des Yeux or as the enigmatic Jackie Lynn, and if you don’t, once you’ve heard her sing you won’t forget her. Her voice has a lovely, haunting timbre that glides between four octaves, and she’s exceptional at relating her personal

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Lubomyr Melnyk

Community Matters + For the Record ·

2020/08/14

“The goal of the pianist is to bring life to the piano. And the piano has been waiting all its life long for someone to come and bring it life, bring it light. Let it sing, even for a few moments." Lubomyr Melnyk is a composer and pianist of Ukrainian origin. He plays what he calls continuous music, a style whose rigorous technique shares commonality with martial arts. He's regarded as the world’s fastest piano player, capable of playing 19 and a half notes per second. It’s a skill that’s enabled

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00:20:34

Dagny

Community Matters + For the Record ·

2020/07/17

"I try and not get too affected on what's happening around in the industry, or what kind of sound people are expecting, or what kind of music is working right now... I try and remember the 16-year-old self just sitting on the bed with an acoustic guitar, trying to say something." Dagny is a pop artist from Tromso, Norway. She comes from a musical family and began her career in the folk tradition, and then in 2015 she surprised the industry with a breakout pop single called “Backbeat,” which

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Pierre Lewis (The Lewis Connection/Commodores)

Community Matters + For the Record ·

2020/06/26

“They don’t really know that much about me…they have no idea about my Prince history or nothing, you know. I just try to keep it low-key and not say too much.” Pierre Lewis is a keyboardist who came up in the Twin Cities in the ’70s. It was one of the most important and under-appreciated scenes for funk music, and that spirit was aptly captured in the compilation record, Purple Snow, named for Prince, the Purple One, who hailed from the Twin Cities himself. The album chronicles the history of the

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00:23:39

Andrew Fox (Visuals)

Community Matters + For the Record ·

2020/05/21

"There's been a washing away of that cultural element in music discovery online…there's no sense of authorship as a fan, and there's no interaction with the artist." Andrew Fox is a musician and songwriter out of New York. Outside of NYC, he's also spent stints in Berlin and Paris, and in his music, the energy of the Berliner techno scene and that romantic Parisian charm are nearly as present as the Brooklyn indie aesthetic that surrounded him when he was coming into his own in the

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00:21:33

Scott Lucas (Local H)

Community Matters + For the Record ·

2020/04/28

“You get a sense of who’s important, what’s important, and hopefully people will realize what you had by just being able to go out and see other people, be in a room, and actually be present.” Scott Lucas is the lead singer and guitarist of Local H, an alt rock band out of Zion, Illinois — a small town about an hour north of Chicago. He and three high school friends founded the group together in 1990, but by 1993, two of them had left and Local H carried on as a duo, with Joe Daniels on drums and

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00:26:47

Elliott Sharp

Community Matters + For the Record ·

2020/04/14

“The people that I connect with online come from all over the musical world, from contemporary composition, from blues, from free jazz, from rock music, from noise… To me it’s just all music. I’ve never felt those barriers were hard and fast — they were imposed by someone else.” Elliott Sharp has been one of the key figures in the avant-garde and experimental scenes in New York City since the late 1970s. With close to 100 releases spanning jazz, noise, orchestral, no wave, contemporary classical,

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Madison

Community Matters + For the Record ·

2020/04/07

“Eventually I got on the microphone, I sang and it was sort of this epiphany, hearing my voice. And that night literally changed my life.” Madison is an independent artist living in New York by way of Miami. She releases music under her own label, G Records, and she’s been featured in numerous tv shows, promos, and commercials. She recently released a trifecta of singles dedicated to female empowerment and her most recent release, the wonder (we are the dreamers), is about the unjust political

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00:19:22

Julian Tepper (The Natural History)

Community Matters + For the Record ·

2020/03/30

Julian Tepper was the bass player in an overlooked band called The Natural History. The band toured around the country in the early oughts and almost made it big. But the band broke up right before the release of their second LP, The People that I Meet, the record that was supposed to (and eventually did) include the original, widely acclaimed song, "Don't You Ever" (made famous by Spoon). Julian ended up trading music for writing and recently published his third novel, Between the Records, which,

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