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Category Archives: Indie
#albumoftheday / REVIEW: KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS: NOW I’M READY
Duo Keep Shelly In Athens hail from Athens, Greece and have been releasing music since 2010. Now I’m Ready is only their second album but they’ve pumped out over a half dozen 7″s, 12″s, and cassette singles, so they’re far from being unproductive. In fact, if you add up all of the songs...
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#songoftheday / VIDEO: The Mynabirds – “Wildfire”
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#albumoftheday / REVIEW: CHELSEA WOLFE: ABYSS
For me, Chelsea Wolfe’s albums have always been more about an overall vibe than specific songs taken individually. I do prefer certain songs, yes, but within the context of her albums. They’re not songs I’d necessarily take and put on a playlist. (They don’t necessarily play well with other artists.) I have to be...
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#albumoftheday / REVIEW: EZRA FURMAN: PERPETUAL MOTION PEOPLE
Ezra Furman is a restless warrior. He well-established this on his first two solo albums and with his late band the Harpoons. One has only ever needed to hear a few of his songs to realize that he’s a guy who can’t sit still, not even inside his head. He is always brimming...
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#songoftheday / KILLER AUDIO: MONARCHY: “LOST CAUSE” (BECK COVER)
Monarchy's lovely cover of Beck's "Lost Cause" will be on their Re|Vision EP, which will be nine cover versions and a remix. It will be released on the 15th of June. "Lost Cause" was commissioned by Julian Ballestros, a fan who supported the duo through the "choose a...
#albumoftheday / REVIEW: SCOTT WEILAND AND THE WILDABOUTS: BLASTER
A few months ago I caught Scott Weiland and his band, The Wildabouts, when they performed in the Wolf Den at Mohegan Sun Casino. And he was at the top of his game. He sounded fantastic, seemed to be enjoying himself and was full of energy. All of these things are also true...
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#albumoftheday / REVIEW: THE JULIANA HATFIELD THREE: WHATEVER, MY LOVE
“I let them dress me up in other people’s clothes / But you still don’t wanna know,” sings Juliana Hatfield during “Invisible,” the melodious opening track to The Juliana Hatfield Three’s sophomore release Whatever, My Love. The other two of the three are drummer Todd Philips, and bassist Dean Fisher. And if this...
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#songoftheday / VIDEO: Garbage – “The Chemicals” feat. Brian Aubert
Another year, another fantastic Record Store Day release by Garbage. This time around it's "The Chemicals," which features Brian Aubert of Silversun Pickups. But don't expect it to sound like Silversun Pickups because it really doesn't. At all....
#albumoftheday / REVIEW: THE WOMBATS: GLITTERBUG
“It’s all good with me if I know it’s all good with you,” sings The Wombats’ frontman Matthew Murphy during “Pink Lemonade,” just one of many fun songs from their infectious new album, Glitterbug. And, guess what, it’s all good to me! It’s hard to believe it’s only the band’s third full-length album,...
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VIDEO: twenty one pilots – “Tear In My Heart”
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VIDEO: The Vaccines – “Dream Lover” [not to be confused with the Mariah Carey song]
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#albumoftheday / REVIEW: THE DODOS: INDIVID
The Dodo’s last album, Carrier, was made in the wake of the death of their live guitarist Christopher Remer (see also: Women). It was a record brimming with emotion and fairly complex arrangements, easily one of The Dodo’s best albums. Immediately following the making of that album, Meric Long and Logan Kroeber, who’ve...
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#songoftheday / AUDIO: RICHARD TYLER EPPERSON: “CHRISTMAS IT’S ALMOST HERE”
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#songoftheday / REVIEW: BUTCH WALKER: “BED ON FIRE”
Butch Walker is one of today's most incredible singer/songwriters and producers. But Ryan Adams produced this track, as well as the rest of Butch's upcoming album Afraid of Ghosts, giving it a haunting hue through which Butch conveys a whole lotta emotion. This mesmerizing number is so...