You’ve got just about a month left to place an order from Asaurus Records, the micro-indie label that releases beautiful hand-packaged CDRs from the likes of Pants Yell!, Colin Cleary, The Mathletes, and many more. There’s a very generous selection of free tracks to download, too. Among the “I Hate the Sound of Guitars”-endorsed discs […]
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act in haste or repent at leisure
04 May 2008 · No Comments
Tags: indie pop · lo-fi · asaurus · 2007 · 2006 · n · indie rock · c
new england digital music bonanza
03 May 2008 · 2 Comments
I’m going to link MySpace pages in this post. I feel like it’s a little irresponsible to do that without mentioning a more-or-less safe way to follow the links. Here’s what I recommend for visiting MySpace:
Set up a browser (or browser profile) to delete all cookies on exitI like to configure Opera up for […]
Tags: lo-fi · 2008 · punk · indie rock · d · h · c
Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses
03 Feb 2008 · No Comments
More justification for my usual laggardly approach to putting together the year-end mixes: If I’d put my 2007 list together midway through January, it definitely would’ve included Les Ondes Silencieuses, represented probably by “Echoes and Coral,” or “Sea of Tranquility.”
Colleen (real name: Cécile Schott)’s story would be intriguing even if I didn’t love the music. […]
Tags: electro-acoustic · experimental · leaf · 2007 · c
The Capstan Shafts - Consumption Violets, A Brace for Hephaestus, Kid Butane Goes to Greenland
12 Nov 2007 · No Comments
Here are some things that Dean Edward Wells, a.k.a. The Capstan Shafts, doesn’t have:
Fancy recording equipment
A rock-solid sense of timing
Rabid perfectionism about the recording process
Long songs
Here are some things that Dean Edward Wells does have:
A prodigious bounty of catchy melodies and riffs
A bevvy of quirky lyrics set to the former
A pretty good singing voice
A modicum […]
Tags: lo-fi · indie pop · 2007 · indie rock · c