On the day of the Google/YouTube acquisition, YouTube announced a licensing deal with Universal Music. Apparently, Grouper and Bolt.com didn’t get the memo. Universal Music has come out swinging in ...

Over the past two decades, Liz Harris has embarked on a series of northward moves up the Pacific — Los Angeles, Portland and then further north in Oregon to Astoria — implying a relationship to the ...

It's been a few years since Liz Harris released any of the spectral, expansive music that she records under her Grouper moniker. Next month, though, Harris will release Shade, a new album of Grouper ...

There may be no major independent musician in America who shuns the spotlight with more zeal than Grouper, aka Oregon guitarist/vocalist Liz Harris. Walking silently onstage to her work station and ...

Liz Harris, the mysterious Pacific Northwest resident who records as Grouper, operates entirely on her own schedule. That's true of her music, a sort of organic DIY version of ambient, her songs ...