Perhaps a future xmas gift for your fave indie rock fan, Danielson: A Family Movie (or, Make A Joyful Noise HERE) by J.L. Aronson is coming to a theatre near you. Premiered this past weekend in the home of the Hoosiers, Bloomington, IN, (also the home of Secretly Canadian, the Danielson Family") DAFM follows Daniel Smith [...]
Chicago's 3rd best band, Quasar Wut Wut, sends along their Christmas song about 12 snowmen and, um, their resistance to shrinkage. Listen to The Holiday Song (12 Snowmen, 24 Snowballs) There's more on their MySpace page or you can d/l some snippets from their page at Glorious Noise Records. Buy Quasar Wut Wut's 2004 album, Taro Sound, from [...]
Free indie, indeed. Guiltless, even. Mike over at FreeIndie has managed to cull together some great music into downloadable albums that you don't make you feel like shouting, "Avast ye mateys! We're comin' aboard!" everytime you download some music. How's that possible you say? Well, every "album" he posts is really a series-of-tubes-tastic mix of 5 of [...]
Steve Poltz helps us visualize how today's attractive but talent-challenged teens can grow up to become pop stars. Excerpted from the 2006 documentary, Before The Music Dies, also featuring My Morning Jacket, Calexico, North Mississippi All-Stars, and the late, great Billy Preston (among others) and available on DVD starting December 12. [...]
My favorite video of the moment has gotta be Matt and Kim's "Yea Yeah." If that video reminds you of Cube2's "Baby Doll" video that Tim Robbins and John Cusack made on spec in the movie Tapeheads, I'm sure it's just a coincidence. Anyway, the reason I [...]
I'm just starting to think that Sufjan Stevens might just be able to pull his plans to make an album for each of the 50 U.S. states. He's only traverse-citied the sonic landscapes of Michigan (Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State) and Illinois (Come On Feel the Illinoise) so far, but he's reportedly knee [...]
Every now and then performing at a music festival can really pay off big for a band. Even a band that's been around for say, more than 4 years and has 4 albums to their name. A band like the Blow. Although the Blow began simply as the natural evolution of Khaela Maricich's previous work with [...]
The Heartless Bastards are getting ready to wrap up one hell of a year. The big winners at the 2006 Cincinnati Entertainment Awards, picking up best Rock band and Album of the year, the Queen City trio has also been featured on NPR three times in recent months (Morning Edition, All Songs Considered, and a [...]
Domino Records recently rereleased Pavement's second-to-last album, Wowee Zowee, in a deluxe 2-CD Sordid Sentinels Edition. What the heck does that mean? And should you shell out £12.00 for it? Well it means that in addition to the entire remastered album, you get 18 unreleased recordings, 9 non-album B-sides from the "Rattled [...]
If you don't know who Leslie Hall is by now, you probably don't have a series of tubes connected to your haus... because this would have arrived in your inbox with the subject line: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: omigawd rofl! Leslie, a 24-year old art school graduate from Ames, [...]
Nobody knows where you are is more like it.The runner up in MTV's Basement Tapes contest, the Dog Police were featured twice on Weird Al's Al TV. Here's the song for those of you who are into that sort of thing. Dog Police Bookmark to:
Lasse Gjertsen is at it again. As you may know, the 22-yr old from Volda, Norway readily admits that he can't beatbox. And now he has revealed that he also can't play the drums or the piano. So what can he do? Well he can edit for starters. He can [...]
Popular artists selling their music for use in advertising is nothing new. In some camps, it's viewed as being a shrewd business move and in others, it's viewed as selling out. But regardless of where you sit on that fence, you know it's bound to happen. When I saw this ad for Kraft cheese crumbles, [kml_flashembed movie=" http://www.youtube.com/v/pFjct VBg6K8" [...]
Yesterday I received a rather distressing email informing me that one of our Philly faves, Mazarin, would play their final show will play their final show on December 2nd. That doesn't mean, however, that Quentin Stoltzfus and the gang are gonna stop playing. After their swan song at at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia, the [...]
If you've read this site before, perhaps you remember back a few months ago when we suggested you sacrifice at least one White Castle run so you can buy ABO's 2nd album Derdang Derdang. It's still one of my favoritest albums from this year.
Spank Rock is puerile nerdy hip-hop, not unlike the Beastie Boys, though think less screeching granny and more whining Urkel. The group's name is apropos, and like all the young dudes, these guys are just as apt to spank it as they are to rock. They whip it out to measure it in each track, [...]
Last Friday I headed over to the Southgate House to welcome Cincinnati native and former Afghan Whigs frontman, Greg Dulli, back to town with the Twilight Singers. This was a show that I had been looking forward to, my wife had been marking off calendar days for, and a good portion of the metro area [...]
Since being saved in the 11th hour by Bill Nguyen of lala.com, woxy.com has turned it up to, well, 11. This past week's Lounge Acts featured an almost hour long acoustic set/interview with Pixies frontman/teenager of the year, Frank Black, and program director, Matt Shiv, is kicking it up in lala with a rather nice exploration [...]
A rather lovely Gilliam-like animation mix from Cyriak. Now that you've got that embedded in your noggin, how 'bout listening to that song over and over again? Listen to No More Memory Bookmark to:
O n Monday, October 30th, 15 theaters across the U.S. will screen the My Morning Jacket concert film Okonokos . If, like us, you can't get enough of My Morning Jacket, and you happen to live in or close to the 15 cities chosen for this event, you could catch the film the evening before the DVD becomes available. (The soundtrack came out a month ago.) Apparently, there's a light plot to the film. The staging is semi-primeval, the audience at the Fillmore was encouraged to dress in as [...]
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Kavinsky – RoadGame
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