Despite not being a honey fan, every spring I take my class through a writing unit on advertising. Their goal? To create a brand new type of honey, make a jar for it, write a commercial and videotape it. The group of kids I have this year have taken it further and done more with it than ever before. My honey fandom is improving though. After giving up agave nectar because of its false advertising I've been using a little more honey to sweeten things. I know it isn't vegan but the health food guru I know mentioned [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Bleating Hearts : "Walls Come Tumbling Down" [mp3] from Bleating Hearts search for more Bleating Hearts posts at Largehearted Boy Candidate : "April Again" [mp3] [...]
Welcome back to this edition of The Indie Sabbath , your Earmilk source for all things indie from rock, pop, and psychedelic, to folk, experimental and everything in between. It has regretfully been some time since the last Indie Sabbath, so needless to say I am anxious to make up for lost time in the indie music world. If you're still grieving from the breakup of Ben Gibbard and Zooey Deschanel , the indie-est couple out there, I feel you, and I am happy to say I have selected some tunes with your heartache in mind. As [...]
Halloween is over (if you missed the Halloween mixes go here) , and the holiday season (is it too early for Christmas mixes?) is revving up. Isn't it crazy that 2011 is almost over? In addition to the holiday season, this is the time of year when 'best of' lists; see IRC's Best Songs of [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Britpop Returns While Seattle was working up the Grunge (see last night's review of Mark Yarm's oral history of Grunge), the UK was reacting against the anti-fashion, heavy punk sound via the more upbeat, optimistic Britpop movement. Spearheaded by Blur and Oasis and incorporating everyone from Pulp to The Boo Radleys, from Elastica to Supergrass, Britpop drew on the UK's rich pop history to create a sound unashamedly wrapped in the union jack reclaiming it from the hands of the political far right. With a delicious sense [...]
As we near the end of the work week Sydney Australia's Fallon Cush present "Disintegrate" from the self-titled album . The record was recorded at Linear Recording in Sydney and mastered at Abbey Road in London. facebook
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Brown Shoe : "Late Nights" [mp3] from The Gift Horse search for more Brown Shoe posts at Largehearted Boy Company : "Waiting for Saints [...]
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