Category: indie
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Liz Durrett – Outside Our Gates (2008)
New releases from many bands and artists hit the proverbial shelves today, September 9th, 2008 (why are Tuesdays big album release dates anyway…) and outside some of the expected hits, I have found a great little gem that I didn’t expect – Liz Durrett’s “Outside Our Gates“! While I have not been on the Liz…
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New Elephant Micah – Why isn’t this guy famous?
So the name doesn’t roll of the tongue (or maybe it does), but Elephant Micah has been around for a few years supplying masterful CDRs full of down tempo fuzz-folk. So I am making up genres now, but if you have heard Joe O’Connell’s recording you know what I mean. Elephant Micah has 9 albums…
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Singer? Songwriter? Actor? Blurring the lines in Indie-ville.
***Guest Blogger Alert, guest blogger alert!*** The very musically experimental Devendra Banhart has been a staple on the indie circuit for many years. He recently featured his ladylove Natalie Portman (and porn legend Ron Jeremy) in his music video for Carmensita from Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. Carmensita is styled like a 60’s / 70’s…
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Lotte Kestner – China Mountain (2008)
So I am finally posting on Lotte Kestner’s China Mountain, another great album this year which came out of nowhere (for me at least – and it has been out for months already). If you are a member of the Last.fm group Slow-coustic, you are more than aware of this incredible singer-songwriter Anna-Lynne Williams as…
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Hoquiam (2008?)
Just a mini post today, just because I didn’t get to due to the “guest blogger” situation below. I better get used to this as she may be a regular contributor to the ol spot on the web… I just had to post on this as I have been watching their MySpace profile for a…
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Bon Iver, Joanna Newsom, Alec Ounsworth, et al.
Independent Artist Vocals Styles – A dissection. I was thinking in traffic the other day about the “indie” band/artists and the vocal styling they can have. What I am alluding to is the fact that often a vocalist in the “off the beaten path” side of the music industry can sometimes be…”not a formally trained…
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Woodpigeon’s New Album is out! Summer it is my friends, summer it is.
So I thought I would post on some great summer sounds that I just picked up from a band that I ironically enough, don’t know enough about. The band is Woodpigeon who just so happen to be from the very city I currently live in! I KNOW. I had heard of them prior to listening…
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Olympic sized post (not really, it is actually quite average sized)
So we all know what is happening at the moment – OLYMPICS! 08/08/08 This is always an exciting time as I am a big fan of worldwide competition (enjoyed a spirited game of “Risk” here and there in my day) and what better competition is there than the Olympics? Okay some of you may not…
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Changing and Growing all the time…
“Changing and Growing” – this is a term used very often in my place of work. I might venture to say WAY to often used in my place of work. I use my professional life now in conjunction with my real life (day to day drone work vs. this website) and say that I am…