Tag Archive for the term: folk

November, December shows:
31 Oct 2009 21:00L’esco Montreal, Quebec
4 Nov 2009 21:00L’Agité Québec, Quebec
11 Nov 2009 14:30L’univers folk (choq FM Radio) Montreal, Quebec
21 Nov 2009 20:00Divan Orange Montreal, Quebec
27 Nov 2009 21:00 Cagibi w/Patrick Pleau Montreal
6 Dec 2009 20:00 L’esco Montreal

Got this sweet email from Brooklyn’s Secondstar, comes complete with a free EP full of songs from far away friends whistling for you and me to come find them and they follow their drums and croaky pretty repetition like a chant from the light to the dark.
Here’s one of the free Secondstar songs, called [...]

Hi,
you can buy our first full length album here or on our myspace (myspace.com/mypeoplesleeping) and soon from our website www.mypeoplesleeping.com. It is being released this December 2009 and was completed in September after 1 year of recording to tape at the Pines in Griffintown, Montreal.
feye =
the pope
bloodhounds
sounding pitch
Yes No No
cortes
take anything
blue dust
$10
Song from My People [...]

What I caught of their set at Il Motore last night for Pop Montreal 2009 was electrifying, so here are the videos I’m able to dig up on Canadian indie folk band Bruce Peninsula. These come close to approximating the size of the live sound the Bruce Peninsula make, but not quite, you must add [...]

Bright and dear – both his visual art and his layered, lovely music making – Chad Van Gaalen also enjoys sharing, so go get his recent EP for free from this website:
http://www.softairplane.com/

We’ve featured his many music videos – those made for himself and other artists – on Indyish before, and you can dig those up [...]

These tracks from Chicago indie band Inchworm are really, truly, amazingly good with zeitgeistily appropriate lyrics longing for simple things like days without money, knowing it’s a maybe a teenage phase to long like this, but longing anyway, with sounds aptly described as “ragged blues and barroom psychedelia.” The stories and songs were fostered and [...]

For Immediate Release
Indyish.com Announces POP Montreal Showcase
October 2nd, 2009 @ 9:30pm
Il Motore, 179 rue Jean-Talon Ouest (au coin de Waverly)
salonilmotore@gmail.com
www.indyish.com/events/monthlymess
Indyish brings the madness of their Monthly Mess inter-arts showcases to international arts festival Pop Montreal. For the 2nd year running Indyish is proud to be an offical showcase producer for the fest, and is preparing [...]

The press release below doesn’t cite the author of the poem that this Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers album title is taken from, but maybe literature lovers can name it? My fellow English majors? Here’s a clue: the author had long extensions built for her hands to sign autographs over seas without leaving home…
A [...]

We’re just a couple of days away from the big blowout Birthday Mess! It’s going to be a blast, and we’re all really excited about it!
We’ve made a few changes to the schedule, everything is being condensed into one day, August 15th!
But we’ve got some fantastic, new additions to the show!
* Inertia Productions will be [...]

Round 2 of my self-satisfying spotlight on the many official and diverse music videos of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Will Oldham (aka Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, Palace Music…):

Lots more live footage and music videos and stuff over on Indyish Video.