Portland - The Portland indie music scene is alive and well with local Portland independent bands like Scotland Barr & The Slow Drags. Barr and the Drags are good for the local indie music economy, at a time when the real economy is sucking the proverbial egg. The boys celebrated their latest full-length CD [...]
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Seattle, You Was There, 3/30/08 - I don’t usually go out on a Sunday, but when Bob Schneider is on the playbill, you make sacrifices.
A word to the ignorant masses, and an aside to those that already know: Do not go to a Bob Schneider show and expect it to be anything [...]
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New York - Brooklyn’s Bombs played the Lolita Party at Glasslands to a crowd eager to dance, due in some part most likely to the free cans of Sparks that were being served.
Syrupy malt-liquor energy drinks aside, those in attendance were left with little decision but to shake it as the keyboard, bass, and [...]
Georgia - Legendary singer songwriter, Michael Hurley has been burned through the bone by unexpected hospital sojourns, obscurity, liquor and just plain old mean life. Who else can claim to be bluegrass, country and psychedelic all at once while proclaiming to be on “hipster control” in rock and roll wastelands!
Hurley’s songs have been [...]
New York - Far from your typically loud, sweaty concert event, Joanna Newsom played gorgeously at the Howard Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The formality of seeing her play in a classy theatre with symphonic stature makes just as much sense as if she were booked at a dingy [...]
New York - Pinback’s newest release, Autumn of the Seraphs, brings something new to the genre of indie rock. The record flows as perfectly as any record created with artistic integrity should. The songs fit together like puzzle pieces and the progression of the mood carries itself through the record respectably; not [...]
New York - It felt a bit insane to walk into the Bowery Ballroom recently and remind myself that this sold-out show would feature a band who’ve just barely put out an album.
Vampire Weekend have earned seemingly endless waves of attention for their hot sound, and now at this their official record release event, [...]
Nashville, TN, 1/20/08 - Blues is alive and well in the 21st century, and while there might not be any bluesmen left from the cotton fields of the Mississippi, thanks to a batch of young musicians who are dedicated to keeping the genre alive, the sound of the delta can still be heard [...]
Portland, OR, 1/18/08 - Some bands just make you feel happy even if the message is depressing. Akin to the Shins, The Dimes evoke feelings of a jovial nature by way of lush harmonies and jangley guitar riffs. Whether by accident or design, the band possesses a Brit-pop timbre which is Fab Four-comparable.
Formed in [...]
Austin - New Year’s Eve in Austin is generally referred to as amateur night, due to the packs of Jagerbomb-happy frat boys stumbling from bar to bar. The Mohawk is safely tucked away on Red River, a couple of blocks from the mayhem, giving the hipsters a little Lonestar-filled Oasis.
It does catch you off [...]
Minnesota, 1/9/08 - Indiedrive, Inc., of Minnesota, announced the creation of the world’s first dedicated usb flash drive album marketplace today. The company is a place where indie artists can sell their music on flash drives.
Indiedrive will distribute the digital music and other media files on advanced, premium grade usb flash drives through South [...]
New York 1/2/08 - Petra Haden filled up the small, personal space at The Stone last night with a show involving mainly her and a loop machine. The violinist and sometime Decemberists member is indeed known for her a Capella explorations, most notably her home-recorded version of The Who Sell Out in its [...]
Georgia, 1/4/08 - Not for the faint of heart, San Diego-based, Ilya E. Monosov’s debut album is full of love songs. Listening to it is like putting your heart in a frying pan. Monosov is best known for his work with the mystical, folkadelic Mountain Home. Both share the same mysterious label Language of [...]
Billboard publicity wire reported today that musicians and artists rely on MySpace to market music and that even baby boomer bands should get on board, and used a new book titled “MySpace for Musicians” as its source.
Here’s the release:
Detroit, MIÂ January 3, 2008 — Search for your favorite Top 40 bands and their MySpace [...]
(Seattle, 01/02/08) After the critical acclaim hurled upon their debut EP Hey Celestial!, Siberian certainly had their work cut out for them in trying to assemble a full-length that lived up to high expectations.
The product is of course With Me (Sonic Boom), a diverse collection of shoegaze/post-rock, indie-pop, and alternative styles all delivered by [...]
(12/30/07) Reuters reported today that five newer web sites are likely to make waves in the indie world next year by helping artists get shows, sales, and song placement on films and TV shows.
And each of the sites are free to use.
Amie Street lets fans pick a price. Songs range from free to 98 [...]
(Minneapolis, 12/30/07) Minnesota’s Radio Orphans Jaw Knee and Finneaus are releasing their latest album, Unclaimed Freight, in its entirety on their podcast.
The podcast features nine music tracks including album artwork and is listed in the iTunes podcast directory or available for direct download at radioorphans.blogspot.com.
The Radio Orphans produce their own independent music and videos.
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(Plano, Tex., 12/28/07) In what may turn out to be one of the strangest crossover marketing schemes, Frito-Lay North America, the convenient foods division of PepsiCo., announced that the Doritos brand has selected 10 unsigned group and solo artists as semi-finalists in the Doritos “Crash the Super Bowl” challenge.
Judges involved in selecting the semi-finalists [...]
(Olympia, 12/27/07) The genius of 70’s punk acts was not their musical talent, but rather it was their ability to construct short and simple songs with authority and force. The short life of punk was emulated by countless bands who wanted to combine musical muscle with the rebellious spirit of the genre. One [...]
(Portland, 12/27/07) I originally reviewed this album when it first came out last year, and enjoyed it thoroughly. After the review was published, I listened to the album more, and came to realize how much I love Daytime Volume. This Portland-based band deserves a lot more credit than it’s receiving and if you haven’t [...]
