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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On the Road with Chris Hickey
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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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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Tim Williams: I Hit Another Wall video
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Tim Williams is releasing a new album, Careful Love, along with a video and single for the opening track, I Hit Another Wall. The album is tremendous, as you’ll hear in this song.In May, 2008, Tim Williams had open-heart surgery and had to remain in bed for most of the year. The album art is [...]
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A trip down thesixtyone
While searching for new music sites I came across a site called thesixtyone (think Route 61). Mashable describes thesixtyone as “Mp3.com meets Digg.” What do they mean with that comment? Digg is a voting-based site where popular stories filter to the front page. Mp3.com was the first music social site where artists could climb charts [...]
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Matt Pond PA: The Dark Leaves LP
What was a side project for Matt Pond PA, The Dark Leaves is now turning into a full-length album. The songs on the album were originally going to be released under Matt Pond PA’s name, but they were scrapped and reworked as a side project, The Dark Leaves. Altitude Records is now releasing The Dark [...]
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El Perro Del Mar: Love Is Not Pop
Sweden is known for its innovative indie, and readers of Puddlegum know that we have a soft spot for music coming out of Scandinavia. El Perro Del Mar is one of the artists we enjoy in particular, and we’re excited that they have a new album, Love Is Not Pop, coming out on October 20th.Change [...]
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The Many Avenues of Hype Machine
Besides Google, no other website pushes more traffic to music blogs, and ultimately to independent artists, than Hype Machine. Developed by Anthony Volodkin, Hype Machine is a music blog aggregator . We’ll take a look at what that means and the services Hype Machine offer to music fans.An aggregator gathers data from a bundle of [...]
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Taxi Taxi! debuts full-length
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The Stockholm twins known as Taxi Taxi! have released their debut full-length, Still Standing at Your Back Door. In 2005 Johanna and Miriam Eriksson Berhan were only 15 when they released a song on Myspace, and grabbed attention worldwide. They released two EPs with Rumraket, the label operated by the Efterklang folk, Taxi Taxi! in [...]
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The Rest: Everything All At Once
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There’s a band that I would have written about earlier this year if I had been on top of my game, but introducing you to The Rest is certainly not too late. The Rest recently signed to UK’s Something In Construction and Everything All At Once will be released on October 10th (in the UK). [...]
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Fanfarlo: The Walls Are Coming Down video
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So I missed this video while I was in my posting hiatus, but this band is simply too good to not share. Fanfarlo is currently on tour (finishing a US tour and then heading east toward the UK), and their Reservoir album is possibly my favorite disc of the year.This is a video for Fanfarlo’s [...]
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Jeremy Enigk: Mind Idea video
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In conjunction with the Sunny Day Real Estate reunion tour, Jeremy Enigk has released a music video for Mind Idea from his latest album, OK Bear. AG Rojas (not AJ Rojas) did a fine job directing this video.Jeremy Enigk – Mind IdeaYouTube – Jeremy Enigk – “Mind Idea” OFFICIAL VIDEO.
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Great Lake Swimmers: Still video
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Great Lake Swimmers released a video for Still, from Lost Channels. The music video was filmed on February 28, 2009 in Toronto, Canada, while the band performs in a room full of friends. The video opens with a relaxed and casual setting; background chatter gives way to the band performing at a house show.If you [...]
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Mick Boogie remixes Peter Bjorn and John
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Mick Boogie has remixed Peter Bjorn and John’s latest album, Living Thing, and is giving it away as a free download. The remix of Stay This Way also has a music video on Vimeo, in eight bit graphic fashion. I feel it, can you feel it?Mick Boogie / Peter Bjorn and John – Stay This [...]
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Sleeping At Last: Storyboards
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Sleeping At Last is releasing Storyboards, their fourth full-length independently this week. This Chicago three-piece has intertwined their sound with a string quartet, more than their previous two albums that showcased the same quartet. Sleeping At Last is preparing for a national tour this fall; details are pending.Storyboards is a delicate and emotionally moving album, [...]
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