Indie Brooklynites stretch to make their own Yankee Hotel Foxtrot . The songs can't quite compete, but the record proves that the Wilco Effect continues to produce a vibrant American scene. There's a nice song deep on Phonograph's sophomore album, OKNO, that drifts along in a euphonious swirl of ambient-roosty, quiet-noisy, mainstream-indie, organic-electronic, Brit-influenced Americana. The song is called "American Music", and ain't it the truth. Indie-rock is a head-swimmingly dense scene, but Phonograph is a band out of Brooklyn that helps define what American rock sounds like in 2009, if such a thing is possible. A [...]

It is the birthday of John P. Hammond. He was born on 13 November 1942 in New York. He is somtimes mistakenly called "John Hammond, Jr", which is his father's name. He is a blues singer and guitarist. I like his voice, he sounds like he has got the blues. John Hammond - Phonograph Blues Push Comes to Shove Click image for info @Amazon.com

Kyle Bylin , Assoicate Editor In recent news reports, it's becoming more and more apparent — that at a time when the record industry is reeling from changes that it barely understands — other industries are beginning to experience many of the same transformations. Take, for instance, the recent pricing war between Wal-Mart and Amazon – where 10 book titles were dramatically discounted by the big-box retailer and Amazon, including many others, followed suit by decreasing their prices as well. It didn't take long before the [...]

Astonishing collection of early 20th century song This is an astounding collection on a number of levels. First and foremost, it's a brilliant anthology of early American song, sung with love and introduced with learned background by Tiny Tim. The set's liner notes provide additional information on the songs and details of how they fit into Tiny Tim's career. These recordings capture Tiny Tim singing songs of his own choice, with no record label breathing down his neck for a novelty release that would reignite memories of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips." Instead, Tiny Tim [...]

Give the Drummer Some's 6 Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere This past week your hard-working Miner dove deep into the inky dark of music's lost history and came up cradling some shimmering gems: Rainful Days appears to be the only record ever released by West Sussex folk siren Maria Barton. The album came out on the tiny Airship label in 1980. ••• More stellar music recorded on British soil comes from Johnny and June Carter Cash, whose live performance at the London Palladium in '75 was released , replete [...]

One of my favorite mixes from last year was Sustain & Decay . It was fun digging up old recordings & mixing them with new releases. So I decided to do a follow-up, with the result being " revenants of the past ". It follows the same basic formula of last years mix(which was also released in October). I browsed through a ton of files [...]
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We get letters from all sorts of artists here at Earmilk , but this on particularly stood out to me for some reason. Maybe it was because I saw the words "Orchestra" and "11-Piece". Either way, when I checked it out, I was nothing less than stoked on my new discovery. Emmanuel and The Fear bring a new vibe to the Polyphonic Spree/ Sufjan/ Arcade Fire feel, and I can't get enough of it right now. I think I even hear a little Cursive influence in there. I had never heard of the [...]
Grace is lending backup vocals to Brooklyn band Phonograph on a tune called "Well Wisher" for their album "OKNO" to be released on September 28th. Strangely, the tune is available right now at the iTunes store. Asture fans will recall the Phonograph opened for GPN for the 12/28 show on the NYE run. Phonograph has a strong Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers vibe.

Recent additions to freemusicarchive.org include... Silver Apples live on The Stork Club, 1/24/1997 ! The pioneering group 60's duo reformed in the late 90s, and WFMU was one of their first stops along the way. The performance included this cover of Wilson Pickett's " Wait Till the Midnight Hour " (mp3), and you can read more about it here . Silver Apples is performing at Oscillations , "a festival of extraordinary audio-visual events celebrating new music, art and film," taking place right now in Belfast, Ireland. The lineup [...]
Today Harmonix/MTV Games releases The Beatles: Rock Band. Seth Schiesel, in his review of the game for the New York Times says: "The Beatles: Rock Band is nothing less than a cultural watershed, one that may prove only slightly less influential than the band's famous appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1964. By reinterpreting an essential symbol of one generation in the medium and technology of another, The Beatles: Rock Band provides a transformative entertainment experience." Towards the end of the review, Schiesel goes on to say: "Of course almost nothing could [...]
(this post originally appeared on Pop Candy last week, but I've decided to re-post it with artwork and mp3's! Hope you like!) So you think you have your favorite album of the year already picked, do you? Not so fast - we still have four months of fantastic records to go through. (Well, three, because no one really releases records in December.) In the coming months, I assure you there will be some fantastic records ... some from bands you already know, some from bands you should get to know, and quite possibly your [...]

Woods – "The Dark" Woods began in the woods, at the foot of Bear Mountain. In the earliest days it was a collaborative improvisational group with two core members and several guests, known as "woodsists." Shortly thereafter, Jeremy Earl and Christian DeRoeck emerged from the woods, dusted themselves off, and began to walk upright. The two woodsists immersed themselves in human culture, learned to craft a melody, to wield a tambourine, to construct a crude phonograph from spare bicycle parts. They learned the value of a cassette. Jeremy and Christian returned to the woods [...]
As usual, my picks in bold . Sunday, 8/30 Birchmere: Teena Marie [sold out] Black Cat (back): The Scare, Cold and Come of Age, Black Shade DC9: The Nine Red and Black: Elaine Lachica, In Heaven and You Velvet Lounge: Anthony Pirog's Sextet, Franck Vigroux Monday, 8/31 9:30 Club: Rock the Bells Birchmere: Teena Marie [sold out] Black Cat (back) Ear Pwr, Toro Y Moi Galaxy Hut: Title Tracks, More Humans Merriweather Post: Killers, [...]

MP3: Roadside Graves - "Far And Wide" MP3: Roadside Graves - "Ruby" Here are the Wisconsin and Chicago shows we recommend you take in this week. Check them out below and let us know which ones you'll be attending or ones you think should really make our list . This week's recommended new release is Mew - No More Stories . Upcoming Wisconsin Shows: [...]

From the LA Times: By MICHAEL WALKER, Michael Walker is a free-lance writer based in New York. NEW YORK -- Les Paul is plowing through the last of his chicken supper at Fat Tuesday's, the tiny basement jazz club in Manhattan where he has performed two shows on Monday nights for the last eight years. It's 15 minutes or so before the start of the first set, and the tables ringing the stage are already filled. As usual, the 76-year-old guitarist and inventor, whose pioneering designs for [...]
Ken Thomson (Asphalt Orchestra mem.) @ LPR ( more by Andrew Frisicano ) tonight in NYC * DANCE * Kanye West @ Cipriani * Carimi @ Brower Park * The Fabulous Thunderbirds @ BB Kings * Los Salseros del Hudson @ Wagner Park * John Scofield Trio @ Madion Square Park * Alberta Cross, Phonograph @ Brooklyn Bowl * [...]
Monday: Bela Fleck + Toumani Diabate @ Central Park Summerstage 8pm FREE There was a time when being a fan of "world music" took a special breed of person, someone who was adventurous enough to shop in weird sections of their local record store and try things that weren't on the radio. Thanks to the internet that's no longer the case. Instead people all over the country are starting to realize that music doesn't just come from here and England, there's a lot of places with some awesome music. Tonight you get to see two of the [...]
Grace Jones @ Sonar Fest ( more by Zach Dilgard ) tonight in NYC * DANCE * Louis CK @ Caroline's * Arlo Guthrie @ Castle Clinton * BBC w/ Nels Cline @ The Stone * Ismael Miranda @ East River Park * The Mumbles @ Rockwood Music Hall * Grace Jones @ Hammerstein Ballroom * Chrisette Michele [...]
Since I had done this for the 100th post back in March , and this is A Future in Noise's anniversary week after all, here I am going to bring you... 100 More Music Websites! Recommend your personal favorites in the comments if you don't see them here ( or in the previous 100 sites post )- this is an elite selection, I hope you have fun browsing through it! [...]

A super-sized edition of our continuing series, with updates on some past inclusions and new independent artist features ; recommend your fav indie artists in the comments! --- * UPDATES ON PAST ARTISTS FEATURED! * Henry's Phonograph ( Issue #4 ) - Psychedelic / Rock - London, UK: Fabulous new track!: "Nervous Wreck" Bombadil ( The Weekend Review) - Folk / Rock Lyrical - North Carolina, USA: A free mp3 from Tarpits and Canyonlands ( out now [...]