Video: Phonograph: 'Somewhere Between'

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 [...]