Tag Archive for the term: music

Tonight I’m going to go check out the mainstage of M for Montreal, a bilingual industry showcase for local music that comes round once a year here in Montreal, Quebec. On the lineup are Karkwa, whose music videos we recently featured here on Indyish, and Jon Lajoie who is funn-nny and who we featured back [...]

Ah ladies with your ukulele’s and your chirpy old timey tones, will I ever have enough of you! This gal Ingrid Michaelson is one of those voices you’ve heard on Grey’s Anatomy and on commercials on the tv and then you find out she’s determinedly indie and it’s like ah! of course. How else to [...]

For seriously sexy stacks of indie rock songs check out Indie Rock Cafe’s series - Best Songs of 2008. They’re on to volume 7, which features tracks from Wolf Parade and The Stills, so Montreal still rules the indie rock clearly, but also great songs from Firewater (Brooklyn via the World), The Black Keys (Akron [...]

Thanks to Musebox for the heads up on Australian band Rudely Interrupted. The music is great, heavy sad and joyful all at once, and the musicians make me so happy. I have family and friends with Aspergers and it means a lot to see these guys and gal with all their own unique disabilities freakin [...]

Some free music for you from the nice people at Vice, and here’s why:
It seemed like a natural fit to have producers at Fools Gold, the label run by A-Trak, brother of Dave 1 from Chromeo, remix Chromeo’s tracks…
Chromeo “100% (Treasure Fingers B-Live Pemberton Mix)”
Chromeo “100% (Nacho Lovers B-Live Pemberton Mix)”
Chromeo “100% (Trackademicks B-Live [...]

The website KnowtheMusicBiz.com has a useful article up today that breaks down what an actual indie label paid to bring a new album to market, and ends with this insightful bit of wrap up that highlights the role a lack of transparency has played in keeping indie decision-making a bit muddled. Here’s to spreading the [...]

Davis Guggenheim directed the movie that won Al Gore his Oscar, An Inconvenient Truth, and filmed the 30-minute Barack Obama “infomerical” that ran on all stations before the election. But the next project we’ll see from him is getting far, far away from politics and diving straight into noise. Lots and lots of noise.
It Might [...]

This finally starts to sound like the right way to tackle the RIAA’s numbskullery with regards to prosecuting filesharers. Because what seems clear to me is that multi-billion dollar corporations bullying students and other low income individuals to stop them sharing is indeed unconstitutional.
Add to this ridiculously unfair situation a truly scary gulf between [...]

Spend today sampling this collection and then try to tell the music video that the medium is dead (who makes random proclamations like that anyway? also… who talks to music videos?)
Here’s a few that I enjoyed from the 60 Beautiful Music Videos gathered by Ashley Ringrose, and here are all of them over on SmashingMagazine.

The Silent Years wandered from Detroit to LA and back, won my heart completely with their nerdy sincerity and pretty pretty harmonies, and along the way made some beautiful videos in collaboration with young contemporary artists:

Lots more of these artist videos and live The Silent Years shows on Video.Indyish.com.