February 2012
4 posts
Kickstarter Update #1: State of The Blogger Union
Hey All, Hope everyone had a lovely Valentine’s Day filled with romance, passion, and especially sweet, sweet candy. We’re very excited to be featured as “Project of the Day” today on Kickstarter and wanted to share some of the exciting things that have been happening since first launching the kickstarter campaign: — Some equally rad and generous labels have reached...
Preservation Records & Rose Quartz Blog Present Ad...
This Saturday, February 8th, Ad Hoc, Preservation Records and Rose Quartz present “ASTRALWERKS”, a night of cosmic and psychedelic music to send you straight into the stratosphere.
From the former editors of Pitchfork’s experimental blog Altered Zones, Ad Hoc is a Brooklyn-based, 100% independent, daily music and visual culture publication that brings together music bloggers, writers and...
January 2012
2 posts
Ad Hoc Kickstarter Launches Today
Following a solid run as the editors of Pitchfork experimental sister site Altered Zones, Emilie Friedlander and Ric Leichtung are back with Ad Hoc, an underground music and visual culture publication created for and by a community of music lovers with a shared ethos: that of building the world you want to see using the materials at your disposal. A collective of ten taste-making music blogs...
Hello World
My name is Emilie Friedlander. If you follow underground music, you may know my work as the former editor of Pitchfork sister site Altered Zones (R.I.P.), the founder of the blog Visitation Rites, and the singer and violinist in the band La Big Vic. I am currently writing reviews at Pitchfork, and finishing up a Master’s in Journalism at NYU. In 2010, I was mentioned on a list of “10 Women...