The music of Contre Jour

Imagine Cut The Rope meeting Angry Birds Space somewhere in French children's literature, and you're getting close. If you've got a smart phone, you owe yourself a copy of Contre Jour for several reasons,...

^{free download:} Symptomatic EP, by La Machine

In March we met La Machine, concluding, "Sung through a pulse jet and stripped down to the sub-bass." Their dark-as-a-cave, quick-as-a-Zoloft releases continue with the Symptomatic EP. The title track sets paint-can percussion...

^video: “Same Old,” by Audioley

TMIM regulars are already familiar with Francois Peglau, who has been releasing a track-by-track follow up to The Imminent Failure of since December 2010. His singalong verse, campy wit and upbeat revolutionary politics are...

^{video vault:} “Snow,” by Pooma

How is this for degrees of separation? Desiree's new Finnish obsession leads us to a month-thence Soundcloud upload of a toddler-aged remix of a five-year old track. It's "Snow," by Pooma, from their...

^profile: John Harrison of Cedar Lines

Sunday, January 29, 2012, 11:45am John Harrison can’t find a kit that he likes. The drum line is already written: a smudged, industrial arrangement that summons Cleveland, not Cincinnati. It would work just fine on its own,...

Archive for May, 2009

This Week on Late Night TV

May 4, 2009 | by Patrick

More and more often late night TV shows have been spotlighting indie acts as their musical guests. I always tend...

Tags: Adele, animal collective, Antony and the Johnsons, Bat for Lashes, Carson Daly, Craig Ferguson, David Letterman, Franz Ferdinand, Jay Leno, Jenny Lewis, Jimmy Fallon, Lily Allen, Lykke Li, The National, Van Morrison

Categories: Misc.

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Free mp3 Compilations on Amazon

May 4, 2009 | by Patrick

Here are 5 record label samplers available for free on Amazon. If you love free music as much as I...

Tags: Anti, Bar/None Records, free-download, Jagjaguwar, MP3, Secretly Canadian, Sub Pop

Categories: Free Downloads

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Band name of the week

May 4, 2009 | by Fred

Previously on Band Name of the Week, we uncovered Music for Dead Birds. This week it's Daughters of the...

Tags: Band Name of the Week, Daughters of the Sun, Gong the Divider, Whale's Blood

Categories: Featured, MySpace Music Mining, Tracks and Clips

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The iPhone is pretty, but it is, indeed, a hate machine

May 4, 2009 | by Fred

Trent Reznor's relationship with Apple seems to be suffering a sort of downward spiral, eh, pig, piggy pig pig pig?...

Tags: Apple, censorship, iPhone, iPhone app, Nine Inch Nails, The Downward Spiral, Trent Reznor

Categories: Music News

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Sessions in the Attic

May 3, 2009 | by Fred

The unofficial, surely temporary salida de Tobias has left me the de facto Myspace Guy. I accept. And nights...

Tags: Overpass, Paul DeCeglie, Sessions in the Attic, The End

Categories: Featured, MySpace Music Mining

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Update: Find of The Week Vol.1 No.10

May 1, 2009 | by Patrick

From a simple Find of The Week to a great record label. Oh how the kids grow up so fast. The...

Tags: Don't Haunt This Place, Hometowns, Saddle Creek Records, The Rural Alberta Advantage

Categories: Featured, Find of the Week

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Korn's Concept Album

May 1, 2009 | by Patrick

Not to be out done by Green Day, Mastodon or The Decemberists, Korn has announced their plans to release a...

Tags: Concept Album, December ists, Green Day, Jonathan Davis, Korn, Mastodon

Categories: Music News

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Heh.

May 1, 2009 | by Fred

Singing wunderkind William Shatner is the subject of a lively new novel, Shatnerquake, by Jeff Burk (ISBN 1933929820). ...after...

Tags: Bruce Campbell, Campbellians, Captain Kirk, Cartoon Kirk, Denny Crane, Esperanto Shatner, Jeff Burk, Klingon, Priceline Shatner, Rescue 911 Shatner, Shakespearean Shatner, Shatner-clones, Shatnerquake, Singer Shatner, TJ Hooker, Twilight Zone Shatner, William Shatner

Categories: Music News

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