Tag Archive for the term: independent

The Pale Blue Sky Sessions is a personal blues inspired disc featuring Canadian guest musicians. Kim Richardson appears on 2 tracks and Wild T. appears on 3 tracks just to name but 2.
Walk A Mile featuring Shawn McDonald on guitar has kept Paolo I. in the top 3 local blues artist charts for almost [...]

The songs are drama pretty, and sad like after all those years. Also the bandcamp player is snazzy, so here you go folks; enjoy the building piano and thoughtful electric guitar of this EP from Sacramento indie, pretty antipop pop band Tin Can Notes; and the pained and painted hollar that still stays sandy [...]

An independent label is defined by the Association of Independent Records (AIM) as one with a controlling share over any Major label shareholder:

A “major” is defined in AIM’s constitution as a multinational company which (together with the companies in its group) has more than 5% of the world market(s) for the sale of records and/or [...]

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 [...]

Independent from 1960 to 1988 the Motown record label was perhaps the most influential independent of all time. In a period of incredible global upheaval and tension, Motown brought people of all colours and creeds together in appreciation of life, joy, freedom to experiment, and to be all the odd and awesome things an individual [...]

I listened to the “Free to Be You and Me” record over and over and over again when I was little – so much so that carefully lifting and flipping the record and putting the needle down is one of my earliest memories. Alan Alda’s voice on the story Atalanta’s big race was my first [...]

Indies have taken over the means of production and broke the back of monopoly capitalism, or so the argument goes, and now we enter a next stage where large corporations try to disguise themselves as independent to fit in – witness Starbucks opening cafe’s disguised as not-Starbucks:
On Friday, Starbucks opened a store in Seattle that’s [...]

I can’t really imagine what this event will be like, still, with a mix of speakers, reading, music and performance it sort of sounds like our Monthly Mess and seems like something I should share with you can art loving folks with all your whimsy. Has anyone out there been to a Jovialist Cabaret? It [...]

Alright, 2 facts that I feel to be self evident:

everyone loves at least one Indigo Girls song at some point in their lives.
because they are awesome.

As you might guess, these are one of my close-to-heart bands. You know, bands you went through things with when you were young and things were heavy and [...]

Normally I don’t mind the cold and snow of Montreal, it’s sparkly and pretty and we don’t own a car anymore so we’re done with sitting in the cold waiting for it to warm up, moving it across the street in the middle of the night when the plows come roaring, losing it under mountains [...]