On Episode 8 of Air Check, Jake Brownell meets a group of theater pipe organ enthusiasts working to keep the instrument alive, Jeff Bieri speaks with professor of musicology Ryan Banagale about the ...

Of all the artists associated with the freak-folk movement, Six Organs of Admittance’s Ben Chasny sounds most like a “normal” folk musician, largely because he’s a much better guitar player than most ...

Folk Music is the trio's newest CD, due for release by Origin Records on October 16. What we do is kind of a folk music because of the legacy of organ combos injazz," says guitarist Broom, who ...

Since 1992, Deep Blue Organ Trio has been working tirelessly to keep the flames of classic organ jazz burning. They've held down a weekly gig at Chicago's Green Mill and have released two highly ...

There’s very little music today (or ever) that is completely sui generis, completely new. This is not a bad thing. Originality is hardly what counts in the pursuit of good music. And in our ...

It also suggests one aspect of where Pentangle were at in 1969 and a familiarity with the 1966 Bert Jansch/John Renbourn album Bert and John.

Later this month, Ben Chasny’s long-running drone-folk project Six Organs Of Admittance will release the new album Burning The Threshold, and we’ve already posted the early track “Taken By Ascent.” ...

In perhaps their most listener-friendly album to date, Six Organs of Admittance’s “The Sun Awakens” achieves something their previous efforts have lacked-variety. Clocking in at 44 minutes, “The Sun ...

The Washburn University Coleman Hawkins High School Jazz Festival, an event named in honor of the jazz great who spent part of his youth in Topeka, will bring about 600 students from two middle ...

Local songwriter Ben Chasny admits that he often creates from the headspace of “Everything is kinda fucked; let's write a song about it.” Despite working on fingerpicked themes in the tradition of ...

San Francisco may have lost Six Organs of Admittance mastermind Ben Chasny to Seattle last year, but the adventurous spirit he weaves into his experimental compositions remains undeniably Bay Area in ...