Tag Archive for the term: nyc

The press release below doesn’t cite the author of the poem that this Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers album title is taken from, but maybe literature lovers can name it? My fellow English majors? Here’s a clue: the author had long extensions built for her hands to sign autographs over seas without leaving home…
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Really fricken cutesville electro indie pop from Brooklyn, a band called Puppetbox, appeared in my email inbox today all ready and waiting with a sweet buddy music video to make my life more full of skinny men dancing hilariously (and not just in the music video, but also here at home! nice.) This marks the [...]

Check out the brilliant little youtube girl made good on tour in New York, or all over the interwebs with her sweet ukulele love songs, planetary diatribes, gorgeous lyrics, goofy sense of humour, and general self-starter awesomeness written all over her.

lots more of the best from Danielle Ate the Sandwich up on Indyish Video!

New York, NY, January 12 – The MuseBox is proud to announce that former Smiths member Andy Rourke will join the New York City and Toronto-based music marketing firm as its Director of A&R.
Harnessing his near 30 years of experience in songwriting, live performance and production Rourke will identify and work with unsigned and up-and-coming [...]

MMMMMmmmm Mice Parade, it’s time to feature you in my love-list of indie music videos. The beautiful layered indie electro of Mice Parade are like the sounds I imagine my house makes for it’s own fun when I’m not looking.
Here’s their song Double Dolphin on the Nickle for you to taste test:
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Other reasons [...]

Tis the season for church bazaars and craft fairs and, thankfully, fortunately, increasingly, for indie and handmade art access of all kinds. A few events are being planned for the coming months that sound a bit extra interesting, hence the blog post:
[Editor's Note - You can now add your own indie art events to our [...]

While we’re remembering some of the good indie fun had in 2008, let’s flash back to September 2008, NYC, Fashion week madness. For me one event in particular is worth revisting for it’s epicness (I do love a large scale indie art event) and that’s the Fashion Indie show where over 20 independent designers showed [...]

Please file this under “Americans being Awesome” (you’ve been keeping that file up to date right?) A NYC boutique called The 1929 in honour of the new depression has sprouted up in SoHo featuring indie artists, performers and independent fashion designers.
The 1929 will be up for a month or so in a vacant spot [...]

Two sets of brothers and one brotherly, baritone friend came together from Ohio to Brooklyn to be The National, except first they were American Mary. “Discovered” by Rolling Stone last year, they have been building their marching mumbled, low rider, soft thunder rock and making it roll since 1999, stayed in the indie area, and [...]

Ah Get Your War On… I remember disctintly discovering the comic and feeling like finally it met the level of awful I needed to unthaw a bit. Thanks David Rees for teaching us to laugh at the nauseating ironyhorror that has been international and dometic policy since 9/11. I swear the laughter was healing and [...]