Sufjan Stevens is dearly, deeply loved for singing songs that tell about our selves and places, and there are some truly touching cover videos online. There are some amazing ones produced for the contest organized by our buds at Said the Gramaphone, some just produced in living rooms for fun with little sisters, some in [...]
Snowy morning dance party over here in celebration of the recent visit to Montreal from Paris’ Justice off the Ed Banger indie eletro label.
First here’s a quickie intro to Ed Banger:
Now here’s some tasty Justice for All:
And in case you ever feel lonely, remember, We Are Your Friends:
This Bulgarian musician beautifully combines traditional Bulgarian music with haunting and subtle technical intrusions and then thunderous electric guitars, and interesting instrumentation throughout. It’s been a struggle for her to release her latest record, and the hoops she had to jump through are different in some ways to what a North American musician might experience, [...]
Today’s young adult generation has discovered a genre of music that has existed for several years, but was never fully recognized until people were finally able to listen to it on the Internet.
Indie music has become so well listened to because, for the most part, it doesn’t sound quite like anything that most people have [...]
Feist is coming back to Montreal to play the Bell Centre Nov.5, and there’s some great new live show footage of her online (if like me you enjoy the hand held, blurry and singin’ along,) plus lots of beautiful “official” videos, so here we go!
This is from the 14th of Oct at the Penticton Events [...]
Panic at the Disco are excited for Halloween! They just put out this kooky homey Hallows video on youtube a few hours ago: “Everybody scream, it’s almost Halloween!”
And here’s their video from a few months ago, “That Green Gentleman”:
As one youtube commenter wrote aptly: “if nature had a sound this would be it.” Check out Marilis’s Fleet Foxes photos for Indyish here.
Official Video for White Winter Hymnal:
Live at the Bowery Ballroom:
Oliver James in Chicago:
Fleet Foxes Myspace
Subpop Page for Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes Pitchfork Review
Well, Warner Music brought these guys to my attention, so I guess the empires are trying to adapt to the -ish, rather then fall? =) And I guess not all this content I found from The Waking Eyes is indie if the record is coming out with Warner, but some of it certainly was made [...]