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,...

Posts Tagged ‘unsigned’

"…has been called 'meaningless and misleading' in an IUPAC technical report due to the contradictory definitions and its lack of a 'coherent scientific basis.' There is an alternative term 'toxic metal,' for which no consensus of exact definition exists either. As discussed below, depending on context, 'heavy metal' can include elements lighter than carbon and can exclude some of the heaviest metals."

June 6, 2009 | by Fred

I've been in a bit of a metal fit lately. Don't worry, this isn't an installment of Radiohead and Philosohy,...

Tags: Alexia, From Chaos, I Eat Landmines by the Handful, Lucky Like Kokura, My Minds Weapon, Scarlet, Sick, This Was Always Meant to Fall Apart, unsigned

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Throw me a bone, here

May 17, 2009 | by Fred

Someone could have told me about this site.

Tags: Bad Like Jesse James, The Sons of MOD, unsigned, Unsigned Chart

Categories: Misc.

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Someone has clearly drawn my blood while I slept,…

May 16, 2009 | by Fred

...sent my DNA sample to a lab, mapped it with some 137 data points on three musical axes, stolen off...

Tags: Beirut, Birmingham, bombdog, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hawk and a Hacksaw, Jacques Brel, la lune et la mer, Labradford, Mogwai, Pan American, Rad io head, Sigur Ros, Silver Mount Zion, stressbundle, unsigned

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Mein Gott im Himmel but rock musicians look like children anymore

May 13, 2009 | by Fred

I don't like the name of the band (Proximity Effect). I don't like the fact that any one of...

Tags: AutoPilot, Deftones, Muse, Proximity Effect, Rad io head, Rage Against the Machine, Sigur Ros, unsigned

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"In a nightmare, every choice you make is wrong"

May 10, 2009 | by Fred

Been wandering around Myspace again this morning. Check out what I believe to be our first link to a...

Tags: Adam Fietz, Ant Dog, Beautiful Life, Deep Into Your Veins, Jeffrey Marks, Marxist, TranSutra, unsigned

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Our house is pretty much an episode of House

May 7, 2009 | by Fred

The septic shock syndrome is about to do me in. It always starts with an expensive, beautiful new landscaping...

Tags: Calm the Sea, Confused as Ever, Septic, Septic Federation, Septic Skank, Sound Junkies, Stromba, unsigned

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"We crossed the lawn, we crossed the road. Clink-clank came the horseshoe music from Mystery Lodge."

April 27, 2009 | by Fred

--Vladimir Nabokov, from page 288 of Pale Fire. This morning's post is the last book search, I promise. I think. Today...

Tags: Pale Fire, unsigned, Vladimir Nabokov

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"In those days it wasn't actually necessary for a music teacher to understand music. All he had to do was sing songs for the children."

April 25, 2009 | by Fred

--Ghass?n Kanaf?n?, from page 139 of Palestine's Children. OK, I'm cheating a bit tonight, searching for music based on book titles...

Tags: Dead Men, Fire in the Sun, Ghass?n Kanaf?n?, I'm On Trial, Matthew Ayo, Men in the Sun, Palestine's Children, Rad io head, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, True Love Waits, unsigned

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Pepto-Bismol Wednesdays, Vol. 1, No. 1

March 25, 2009 | by Fred

Back to work, folks. The ever-weekly mardis gras known as New Music Tuesdays is behind us. There wasn't...

Tags: All Nights, Crack the Skye, December ists, Machinist, Mastodon, Metamorphosis, Myspace, Papa Roach, PBW, The Crane Wife, unsigned

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World Tour: Ireland

March 17, 2009 | by Patrick

In honor of St. Patty's Day and that the Pittsburgh Steelers owner, Dan Rooney, having been named the US ambassador...

Tags: A Natural Light, Dad Records, Future Kings of Spain, Ireland, Irish bands, Irish music, Nervousystem, St. Patrick's Day, The Immediate, The Killdares, The Rags, unsigned

Categories: Featured, World Tour

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