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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

Pequenos Cuentos by Orvoton

The brick-and-mortar world shares oxygen with all things virtual in this quite-postmodern retelling of daily life: a beautiful, tortured cello...

How Bands Make Money

Or more to the point, how bands don't make any money. Fresh off of reading Steve Albini's take on The Problem...

Updates: Supergroup of the Infamous Sort

Apparently the whole thing was a hoax. No one wants to be in a band anymore, they want to be in...

Update: Arctic Monkeys Transmission About to Begin

The highly anticipated web transmission of the Arctic Monkeys forthcoming album Humbug is about to begin here. Go check it out...

Stream Julian Plenti is…Skyscaper

Interpol has always been one of those bands that I'm either completely on board with or have had a hard...

"Plankton have gone fishing."

Well, that's crappie news. (Tee, hee!) The plankton in question is Plankton, short for Planet K-Tone, I'm told, and hailing...

yes/oui/si

The music writes itself when that is the name of your band. yes/oui/si has a smart, universal, and playful...

"Behind the Mountains" by Japancakes

Japancakes have released what the over-40 set used to call a maxi-single. It's called "Behind the Mountains" and you...

Apple to Bundle Media with Download

The are many things that I love about this technological day and age. I love being able to pull a...

What's with the artwork? Some kind of indie rock terror alerts?

The styles among the various artists we cover here have become so divergent that it's even difficult for us to...

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