Iggy and the Stooges were in cracking form on The Colbert Report last night, making them the latest in a long line of bands who've appeared as guests on Stephen Colbert's long-running satirical chat show. Of all the late-night hosts on TV, Colbert seems to get the most amusing interviews and performances out of musicians; here are a selection of The Colbert Report 's very best musical moments. You're more than welcome. [...]
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Hot on the heels of our event hibernation, were back and back we are. Alright Seattle, it's time we bring you our own brand of dance party. That's right, but don't expect Gogo dancers or any other mess like that here - this is a no frills dance party. BUT, don't get us wrong, shite will be fully equipped with the finest new music on the plantet, lasers, a fog machine and poppin off with the best people Seattle has to offer. Seriously, we're super excited to anounce this weekly dance night. To get an idea of the music we'll be personally spinning, take a look [...]
>> Well, the Christmas tree went up at Clicky Clicky HQ this afternoon, so we're ready now to turn our attention to the music of the season. A reliable pleasure for the last few years has been a holiday offering from Boston dream pop giants The Hush Now , and we were pleased to receive recently the slow, serene rumination "I'm Always Broke In December." It's the first Hush Now Christmas jam to feature a lead vocal from drummer and polymath Barry Marino. The title communicates the sentiment aptly, but it is the band's patient, [...]
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When a musician dies, they leave behind an aural legacy - songs that serve as eternal reminders of what this person did when the microphone was on. This legacy isn't always difficult to pick out. Sometimes it's present in virtuosic mastery of an instrument. Sometimes it's complex composition. Sometimes it's just a voice - capable of bypassing your nervous system and flexing your muscles on its own. Before his sudden passing , nothing Bill Doss did was nearly that obvious. He could clearly play a guitar quite well, but he hardly ever let it rip, be it [...]
I planned to write about something else, but I started listening to the Gap Dream album and now everything else sounds pale in comparison right now. Gap Dream is the name Cleveland, Ohio dude Gabriel Fulvimar uses to record, and this album came to fruition when Fulvimar sent the guys at Burger Records one of his songs. They loved it and now it's on a slab of vinyl. The album came out earlier this year on Burger's format of choice, the cassette, but the Fullerton label is now getting around to properly issuing it on [...]
Doss (right) pictured with OTC bandmate Will C Hart Yesterday we got the startling news that Bill Doss died in his Athens home. Doss was the co-master behind the Olivia Tremor Control, a member of the Apples in Stereo, and a founding member of the Elephant 6 recording company with his childhood friends Robert Schneider, [...]
Terrible news from America today, as Olivia Tremor Control's Bill Doss has died : 1968-2012 We are devastated by the loss of our brother Bill Doss. We are at a loss for words. Last year, Bill told Aquarium Drunkard a little about what he'd hoped the band would be: Aquarium Drunkard: This is what I love about y’alls records, those records…it doesn’t sound to me like 1996, like indie rock of the time, Superchunk, Archers of Loaf… BD: That’s kind of what we were hoping, that if someone [...]
Pattern: Catrin Lewis . The Peddlers - On A Clear Day Three on a Cell (1968) Benny Sings - Big Brown Eyes Art (Dox, 2011) Yuna - Live Your Life Live Your Life (Fader, 2012) Dorsh - Je t'aime Je t'aime (2012) Alt-J - [...]
Music, you might have been told, can come from anywhere - the sky! the trees! the rushing wind! Well, that's definitely true, but in recent months we've been noticing a lot of more deliberate projects dedicated to tapping very unconventional sources for their musical potential. From the universe's gamma rays to goldfish, from traffic patterns to brain waves, turns out almost anything in our world can create a beautiful symphony, if only we can figure out how best to listen. Click through to listen to the dulcet tones of music wrung from the weirdest of sources, and if you know [...]
Chicago-based Musician Chris McDuffie has been part of Apples In Stereo since Tone Soul Evolution , but now he's moved to Chicago and created his own band, Whitejacket (a reference to a literary influence of his, Herman Melville) that wears its Beatlesesque influences on its sleeve. Opening with the low key "Versus Angel" its got all those vintage sounds and ghostly choruses that the Apples are famous for. White Album fans are sure to hear the cues in "The Modern" and "Easy Now." Chris also claims more obscure influences like Margo Guryan and Billy Nicholls. “The [...]
Elephant 6 fue un legendario colectivo de músicos y artistas fundado en Denver, Colorado, y del cual surgieron algunas de las más importantes bandas de la escena independiente estadounidense durante los noventa. A Elephant 6 le debemos Neutral Milk Hotel, The Apples In Stereo, The Olivia Tremor Control, Of Montreal, etc. El siguiente es el trailer de un documental que combinará entrevistas y actos en vivo para mostrarnos la historia del colectivo desde sus inicios. Un filme obligado para cualquier auto-nombrado melómano.
Over the years the Elephant 6 Collective have had many documentaries allegedly in the works. Now with the release of this trailer, it's clear we're finally going to get a good one. Above you'll find interviews with Robert Schneider (Apples in Stereo), Bill Doss (Olivia Tremor Control, Sunshine Fix, AiS), Will Cullen Hart (OTC, Circulatory [...]
The Dandy Warhols have had one hell of an interesting relationship with the music industry. They’re a band who literally rose to fame by being apathetic toward it, and that sense of nonchalance has been carrying them ever since. The band made a recent decision to stop releasing anything commercially appealing, choosing to only cater to their tried and true fan base rather than attract new listeners. Well, at least that’s what every other music critic would have you think. Thank goodness I’m not one of them. Music critics lightly started backlashing the Dandys after 2003’s Welcome to [...]
From the same label that gave us Allo Darlin', check out The Just Joans.
A quick deal in the UK with up and coming label Claub AC30 and Taffy have been catupulted to the tender ranks of rising indie punk stars, having already recieved glowing reviews and comparisons to indie darlings The Primitives , Teenage Fanclub , and the Apples in Stereo . We spoke to Taffy and go the low down on what they were bring to the UK scene, and they dished the dirt! MUZU: You guys have been about for quite some time now and through various incarnations with different members, do you [...]
One of Hitchcock's favorite actresses: Tippi HeadDrum. Ba-dum-bum... Time for yet another in the seemingly inexhaustible list of great songs from bands forming the so-called Elephant 6 Collective. I knew you couldn't wait, so. And it's a great one, folks, let me tell you. Or you can tell me. It's "The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One," by Neutral Milk Hotel, from their 1998 masterpiece, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea , an album chosen by Amazon.com's music editors as #2 on its list of [...]
Friday Five : \'frī-(,)dā,-dē 'fīv\ : On the sixth day of every week, I hit the shuffle button on my iTunes, then share the first five tracks and thought for each track. Sometimes there is a playlist involved, occasionally we'll have a guest, but most of the time it's just me. The rest is up to you, our friends and readers! Fire up your media player of choice and share the first five random track of your shuffle in the comments. The Five: "Armageddon It" by Def Leppard (from [...]
Photo by You Ain't No Picasso Ever heard of The Apples In Stereo ? The Elephant 6? Robert Bobbert and the Bubble Machine ? Okay, that last one was a children's album that's only tangentially related to this here post, but it just serves to show that Robert Schneider is a seriously busy and talented dude. From kickstarting the whole Elephant 6 collective to pumping out albums full of psychedelic pop-rock-and producing that classic Netural Milk Hotel album we all know and [...]
There have been so many notable new releases that dropped in the past week that music lovers have plenty of great, new music to keep them busy, and which explains partly why we're late with this post (this week's releases will be posted soon, but first the really good stuff). While January is usually a [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
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