Tag Archive for the term: indie

As Tessa mentionned here, Indyish will indeed be at Grumpy’s bar, Thursdays from 7-9pm starting tonight, doing web video interviews with a wide and fascinating range of people in various parts of art and indie’s various industries, and underground stars we love. We’ll be posting these on Indyish’s video site, so they’ll all appear on […]

Belleisle is a young group of old souls who jumped into recording to catch these sounds as they are coming together all early, earnest and yearning in the band-becoming-band process. Tasha Cyr’s voice is particularly delicate, charming, soo soul sad and careful, thoughtful, dropping soft things in her phrasing. (Tasha is recording with the Darling […]

Hey guys, sorry for the delay but the Indyish CTV piece is finally online! This was aired nationally back in February, and then it went through rigamarole and highwater but tadah and tra la la, here it is from Indyish Video:

We blushed a lot when we saw this, because we feel like we’re just getting […]

I was introduced to Steel Pulse via Elran when we met 7 years ago, so it’s exciting that we’ll be able to go review their show in the Montreal International Reggae Festival together this weekend. Here’s a video of the legendary polical beautiful reggae band doing their famous title track from their first album Handsworth […]

I am traveling through Ontario these days, after a weekend in Toronto, I am leaving Kingston for Ottawa later this afternoon to head towards an epic family reunion with my 9 cousins and their twenty million parents and kids (feels like). We are what’s left of a mad matriarchy, and all girls but 1 in […]

Ok, we’ve got a few nice things to point you to today. We’re a hard-working duo here at the Montreal-based independent label Fixture Records and we really appreciate when other hard-working folks put their energy into our projects.
First off, Brave Radar drummer and excellent solo electronic artist Gabriel Ng has been recording new songs […]

Independent music labels around the world are being brought together by a non-profit collective called Merlin, and now, together, they are starting to shape the music industry.

This from a quick article on ArsTechnica:

Merlin is trying to pull off a magic act: unite the world’s indie labels into a single negotiating force that can fight […]

A great article and podcast from NPR today on a site that’s very Indyish lovable - Neocha, “indie’s creative community in China”:
When America was rocking to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, the airwaves in China were dominated by songs with lyrics from Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book.
It’s more open today, but the Communist government still […]

Serah Marie from Worn talks a lot about the bizarre but undeniable pattern she sees in photos submitted to her alternative indie fashion zine. They are almost unrelentlessly photos of skinny white girls, and it’s a problem. Vogue’s step to try and right the scales is a brand new all black issue. Though this doesn’t […]

Snippits gathered for those who wished they were there last week at the Radio City Music Hall to see My Morning Jacket… to be honest, of course, these don’t really suffice, but they give a hint of the feeling. Here’s a review from the Village Voice if “this show was ok, but not as good […]