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Saturday Morning Mix: v.1
Wolf People signed to Secretly Canadian this week, and we’ve been teased with a track from their upcoming album in 2010. We’ll make room for one more wolf band.Neon Indian is the solo work of Alan Palomo, and this is the opening track from the recently released Psychic Chasms. I played this song on my [...]
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Five Reasons Why Your Band Should Not Rely On Myspace
Myspace is brokenThink about it, in order to customize the look and feel of a Myspace page, you have to break the CSS. What you have are millions of Myspace pages with horrible backgrounds and floating text that is difficult to read, filled with comments from fake friends. In order for Myspace to continue to [...]
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E.P. Hall to release Mommy Crow
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As I have been sifting through stacks of local artists in Bloomington, I was taken aback when I heard E.P. Hall’s new album. Opening with the caw of a crow, Mommy Crow is a compelling twelve track that deserves the attention of listeners who enjoy thoughtful music. E.P. Hall is predominately the work of Elise [...]
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Late Autumn Mix
Since I haven’t had a lot of time to blog quality posts lately, I thought I’d at least tie you over with some new music (cleared for posting, of course). While I have been working on things in the background, I feel bad that you’ve been staring at my blog anxiously waiting for more music.I’ll [...]
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Grizzly Bear: Read, Able video
Grizzly Bear has a new video for Ready, Able from their latest album Veckatimest. The video is set in a stop-motion with claymation creatures, directed by Allison Schulnik. It’s always interesting when directors mix types of animation together, and Allison does it well!YouTube - Grizzly Bear – Ready, Able
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The Swell Season: Low Rising video
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If you’ve seen the independent film Once, you’re probably familiar with The Swell Season. In case you haven’t seen it, do yourself a favor and find a friend who has a copy. In the film the main characters rent out a studio in Dublin and record an album. But what made Once so unique is [...]
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Kite in the Air: Magic Marker
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Track:Magic Marker
Kite in the Air is a new electro pop act featuring Emma Lucia (Jed and Lucia) and Mark Reveley (Wzrdz, Meterhead, Jed and Lucia). The band released their first single yesterday, Magic Marker, for free from their upcoming EP on Zero Brains Records. Their sound is “somewhere between Adult, Laika, Ladyhawke, Azure Ray, Mu, Gary [...]
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Frank Schweikhardt: Life But No More
Frank Schweikhardt is one of the many Bloomington artists I’m excited about. His debut full-length, Life But No More, is coming out on November 17th on Bloomington’s Crossroads of America Records, and it’s one of those albums that you feel intimately attached to after a few listens. Frank recorded the album with several seasoned Bloomington artists: [...]
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More about the Bloomington music scene
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Artist:Sticky and the Bees
As I’ve settled in to my new home in Bloomington, Indiana, I’ve been getting to know who the local artists are, going to shows, and sitting down with people involved in the local music scene. According to Andy Goheen (Sticky and the Bees, E.P. Hall) who organizes shows for The Bishop, Bloomington has over 500 bands.Shortly [...]
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Shout Out Louds to release Work in February
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Shout Out Louds have completed their next album, Work. Their follow up to Our Ill Wills will land on February 23rd, 2010 on Merge Records.Phil Ek produced Work at Bear Creek Studio in Seattle. You might be familiar with Ek’s work with Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, The Shins, Built To Spill, and Modest Mouse. [...]
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Native takes on Indiana music scene with Wrestling Moves
South Bend based indie rockers Native will be releasing their new album Wrestling Moves on October 30 in a small cramped basement of Chicago called Summer Camp, and this will be a show for the ages.On a first listen to Native’s newest record, I was immediately impressed at (firstly) the quality of the new record. [...]
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On the Road with Chris Hickey
The music industry is driven by the desire to make money. A decade ago, the most universal of the American music companies (including Universal itself) were controlled by the likes of Seagram. Today, the honor goes to Vivendi. Perhaps Monsanto will be in control tomorrow.“How does a music company become more profitable?”This [...]
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Thursday Common Existence Tour
Common Existence Tour pushes Thursday to a whole new level.Not many bands can perform after 12 years the same way they did at their first show. Thursday hit the New Jersey scene in 1997 and released 6 full length albums since, including their most recent album Common Existence. Although the album has been out since [...]
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Sleeping At Last: Green Screens video
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Sleeping At Last has released a new music video for Green Screens, their first video for their latest album, Storyboards. The video was created by Javen Ivey, and is a tremendous mixture of animation and stop-motion photography, fitting perfectly with the song.The video can be viewed on Vimeo and Youtube.
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Lowell Brams and Sufjan Stevens: Music For Insomnia
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Sufjan Stevens‘ month of October could not be more impressive yet clandestine at the same time. While everyone is expecting Sufjan to continue his gimmick of writing an album for every state, he is instead releasing two instrumental albums in the month of October and a contributed heavily to a third instrumental album to be [...]
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Say Hi: One, Two … One video
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Kicking off Say Hi’s tour with David Bazan is a fresh new video for the song, One, Two… One. The song is from his Barsuk release, Oohs & Aahs, released earlier this year. Directed by Drew Norton, in the video, “Eric is hunted by the obsessive, beautiful, and cruel goddess Diana.”Say Hi – One, Two [...]
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The Subjects: New Soft Shoe EP
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Track:Winter Vacation
The Subjects have released the first single (or should we say leaked on RCRD LBL) from their new EP, New Soft Shoe. Winter Vacation isn’t nearly as lo-fi as their debut album, is much more percussive, and overall the songwriting is stronger. The four tracker can be purchased for $3.49 on Think Indie.With an origin [...]
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The Weakerthans: Sun In An Empty Room video
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The Weakerthans posted a new video yesterday for Sun In An Empty Room, from their Reunion Tour album, released in 2007 on ANTI. The concept video begins and ends with older adults sharing their experience living in the North End for 30-odd years. Their responses are a mixture of difficulties, of social perspectives, and fond [...]
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David Bazan: tour with Say Hi in a new van
David Bazan of Pedro the Lion and Headphones fame is going on tour with Say Hi (To Your Mom). During the tour Bazan will be joining up with TW Walsh’s band, The Soft Drugs, for a show in Cambridge, close to where Walsh lives and works as a mastering engineer and software developer.David Bazan’s first [...]
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