Tag Archive for the term: independent artists

Happy Holidays Everyone!!!
Click on the link below to Download the entire Compilation for free:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/39z4t3
…or click on any track below to download individual tracks!
Track Listing:
1. Max Henry- There is No Rose Suicide (by Benjamin Britten)
(featuring members of ZEROES, YOUNG GALAXY)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/h6u5fh
2. Jessie Stein- Happiness like Christmas Comes and Weirds You Out
(featuring members of THE LUYAS)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6vtlkm
3. Mixylodian- Zombie [...]

The good folks at Planned Parenthood Ottawa have put together a fundraiser event that not only supports the fine work they do in sexual health, but gives exposure to local independent artists as well. PPO gave forty-five handmade “Magic Boxes” to local artists (and a few celebrities such as Rick Mercer and Ashley MacIsaac) [...]

They Might Be Giants has released an interactive quiz game online for kids, and for adults who enjoy bright colours and learning. The Here Comes Science Game tests your knowledge of science, and your ability to listen to poppy songs with video clues and questions. Answer 12 questions right out of 18 and win [...]

Sweet Reese from San Francisco indie electro players (possibly playas) Butterfly Bones sent us an MP3 from their album Pretty Feelings, a collection of “stuff we’ve been working on in our co-op basement;” which suggests a shockingly hot basement, because their tracks make me want to jerk my spine and shoulders in bizarre but satisfying [...]

New Montreal group Pablo the Band are more successful then most at riding the dangerous edge between unpleasant noises and pleasurable ones; they push me away but then something rubs me the right way, and instead of turning them off, I turn them up louder.
[MP3] 22-Pablo_the_Band_-_Medical_Miracle
And somehow they fit alongside these photos, submitted to [...]

Interesting ideas on the value of time spent in this blarticle / manifesto from Michael Erard (of New York Times, Wired, Science, The Atlantic, etc.) Especially the crucial point that many communities or networks already, and have always, weighted the value of time spent at the craft to assess themselves and fellow members for dedication, [...]

note: in this post we’ve included the full press release from YACHT about their new music video for Psychic City, plus a quote from their website that adds a little more context to the video. I’ve also made a request for the bibliography and annotated list of rituals, so if they give us permission to [...]

Hey folks,
I’m a visual artist who recently exhibited at the July Monthly Mess. You can find out more about that fab event here:
http://www.indyish.com/events/monthlymess/
My medium is linocut printmaking. Don’t know what that is? Don’t worry. I’m used to getting blank stares and “lino-what?” reactions when I say that. For this very reason, I’m making this [...]

This is how we work when we’re in the final weeks and days of a site change: short, intense brainstorming and opinion trading sessions, intense like fights, but not quite the same because these are more fun, followed by extended closed-door-quiet where he codes and designs, and I write and draw and think and pace. [...]

“The honesty in Windsor’s music is its strength – pleas of love and cries of anguish, all searching for a better place, a better state of mind, a better wind to blow through Windsor and make it whole again.” Jamie Greer, So Who Does Windor Ontario Think They Are?
Windsor Ontario, I had no idea! The [...]