Tag Archive for the term: independent music

Desktop is Keith Thompson from Electric Six and Zach Curd from The Pop Project.
Desktop is unlike Curd’s and Thompson’s other projects, meeting somewhere between Stevie Wonder, New Order and 80s Detroit techno. Thompson’s thick and driving bass lines and Curd’s rich, reverb-drenched harmonies stand out as highlights of their debut self-titled EP. The EP was [...]

An album that emerged from front porch conversations about people’s happiness, and the exploration of the special lilts in human speech, sounds suspiciously like a lovely, earnest thing doesn’t it? And it is, founding member of haunting experimental local legends Do Make Say Think and Broken Social Scene Charles Spearin’s The Happiness Project is set [...]

Perhaps you’ve heard the angry murmuring, well now there’s litigiousness to make it official – In a dense ad section for Camel cigarettes in Rolling Stone, Xiu Xiu, A Silver Mount Zion, Lavender Diamond, Fucked Up and dozens more beloved independent music makers, many local, found themselves mapped, tagged and ‘name checked’ without so much [...]

The first thing Dan Seligman tells me once we’ve introduced ourselves is that he’s producing five shows for the Arcade Fire right now. This is impressive and potentially nerve making so at this point I make my first mention of Danagement, to ask if he’s now Danaging Arcade Fire. This is in reference to his [...]