Liz Harris aka Grouper kept busy through 2011 with two LPs and 12"s and new projects; by that clip I guess it's strange we've had to wait a full three weeks before she made a mark on 2012. So here it…   Read Story »

Liz Harris, the Portland-based queen of ambient drift who records as Grouper, has teamed up with fellow PDX musician Ilyas Ahmed on a new project that they're calling Visiter. Together, they've…   Read Story »

The Portland resident Liz Harris releases a whole lot of gorgeously fragile ambient music as Grouper, and she often does it in tiny limited-run vinyl editions, without letting many people know. Her…   Read Story »

We've previously mentioned "Alien Observer," the title track to one of two LPs that Liz Harris, aka Grouper, self-released this month (together the albums are called A I A). Both the song and the…   Read Story »

Longtime favorite Liz Harris, aka Grouper, is self-releasing two new LPs on 4/11: Together she's calling them A I A, separately they're Dream Loss and Alien Observer. Listen to AO's plaintive, dreamy…   Read Story »

"Hold" is the a-side to a forthcoming tour 7" (b/w "Sick") by Portland's languid, lush ambient bedroom auteur Liz Harris aka Grouper. "Hold" comes a year after "Hold The Way," in tandem suggesting a…   Read Story »

When we pointed you toward two new Grouper songs, I said it sounded like Liz Harris recorded "Vessel" and "Hold The Way" with the fall chill in a dark Northwestern forest as her backing band. This…   Read Story »

On these new tracks, ex-Outsider Liz Harris sounds like she's using smeary stars and the fall chill in a dark Northwestern forest as her backing band. Listen closely at MySpace (via GvsB).   Read Story »

Our second year at Kutsher's was rainier than the first, but that didn't matter so much to us or, seemingly, the other attendees: If anything, this year felt more celebratory (and debauched) than…   Read Story »

Blog readers had so many options on Friday night in L.A. -- Passion Pit, Lykke Li, SVIIB and Black Moth Super Rainbown all in town -- and still the ticketless masses chose the Wiltern sidewalk for…   Read Story »