Let's try this again, two at a time
0 Comments Published by Kate on Sunday at 5/27/2007 09:53:00 PM.
When I said I was looking for a co-blogger or two, I wasn't kidding. Send me an e-mail if you're interested.
Winterkids - Hear Me Out
For a band that has yet to release a full, well-promoted album (this excludes Memoirs, which appears to have only been released for promotional purposes?), Winterkids know how to make gloriously danceable indie rock. Some of us indie kids get bored out here in the country, but "Hear Me Out" requires a one-person head-bobathon. Think the Futureheads, kiddos.
Winterkids' Website / MySpace
Buy Tape It (7") from Rough Trade
Phonograph - Watch and Ward
On the opposite end of the indie rock spectrum (I didn't know there was one until I made it up just now) lies Phonograph, whose music reeks of deliberate cautiousness and subtlety in a world fraught with difficult decisions and regret. Yes, their debut album was released in February, but I don't discriminate.
Phonograph's Website / MySpace
Buy Phonograph from arclight records
P.S. - The Broken West are touring + Pitchfork announced the final line-up for its music festival.
Winterkids - Hear Me Out
For a band that has yet to release a full, well-promoted album (this excludes Memoirs, which appears to have only been released for promotional purposes?), Winterkids know how to make gloriously danceable indie rock. Some of us indie kids get bored out here in the country, but "Hear Me Out" requires a one-person head-bobathon. Think the Futureheads, kiddos.
Winterkids' Website / MySpace
Buy Tape It (7") from Rough Trade
Phonograph - Watch and WardOn the opposite end of the indie rock spectrum (I didn't know there was one until I made it up just now) lies Phonograph, whose music reeks of deliberate cautiousness and subtlety in a world fraught with difficult decisions and regret. Yes, their debut album was released in February, but I don't discriminate.
Phonograph's Website / MySpace
Buy Phonograph from arclight records
P.S. - The Broken West are touring + Pitchfork announced the final line-up for its music festival.
Labels: artist profile, band dump, broken west, festival, phonograph, pop, rock, winterkids
If I feed you music, will you eat it?
1 Comments Published by Kate on Tuesday at 5/01/2007 05:43:00 PM.
Elk City - You Got MeI only have one track from New Believers, which was released April 17, sitting on my computer at this time, but I've been listening to it the way I do when I find a piece of perfect pop. "So if you're feeling lonely and alone / put down your sorrows and pick up the phone."
Buy New Believers from Amazon
Elk City's Website / MySpace
Windmill - Plastic Pre-Flight SeatsI picked up this track as part of my ongoing emusic browsing/downloading, and find that, in all its electronic instrumentation and quietness, it gives me an overwhelming sense of deep frustration hidden in whispered moments and walks in the morning sunlight. Where I get this feeling from, who knows?
Buy Puddle City Racing Lights from eMusic
Windmill's Website / MySpace
The Broken West - On the Bubble"Indie rock" is something of a hated label amongst those who don't listen to it (or who don't admit it). Though the Broken West fits this label with a hard-to-pin-down guitar section, a solid drumline, and ever-thoughtfully worded lyrics, as I write this I realized I have a hard time pinning down where it fits on the "indie rock" spectrum. Pavement? Voxtrot? something? I feel like this may be the secret to the Broken West's success within the blogger community (see Hype Machine).
Buy I Can't Go On, I'll Go On from Amazon
The Broken West's Website / MySpace
Ahem. A radio rip of the new Interpol single has been making its way around.
Labels: band dump, broken west, Electronic, Elk City, pop, rock, windmill
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