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Video Killed the Podcast Star
The DJRadiohead Podcast Experience goes VIDEO. You've heard the voice and read the words. Now see the man behind it all.
Read More »Indie Round-Up for December 1 2005: Danielia Cotton, Tina Dico, Jay Mankita, Steve Northeast
It speaks for the romantic, the idealist, the lover, the hopeless (or hopeful) devotee, the Icarus, the Abelard in us all.
Read More »CD Review: Elbow – Leaders Of The Free World
In the late 1990s, Elbow came out from the Manchester music scene. The band is made up of Guy Garvey (vocals), Mark Potter (guitar), Craig Potter (keyboard/organ), Peter Turner (bass) and Richard Jupp (drums). In 1997, the band signed with Island Records, however, its debut album was never released due …
Read More »CD Review: Grandaddy – Excerpts From The Diary Of Todd Zilla EP
Not many bands have a better “indie” sound than Grandaddy. Playing since 1992, this Modesto, CA band retains its soothing sounds and dreamy rhythms for most of its latest EP, Excerpts From The Diary Of Todd Zilla. Listening to this eight track EP, one can notice Grandaddy’s influence on other …
Read More »CD Review: Dios (Malos) – Dios (Malos)
Formed in 2002, this band from Hawthorne, CA is one of the many indie rock bands bursting onto mainstream radio. Dios (Malos) creates varied melodic tunes, ranging from the emotionally spending “Say Anything” to the carefree promoting “So Do I.” The band’s sound is its appeal, mostly for the lack …
Read More »CD Review: Matt Pond PA – Several Arrows Later
Philadelphia-native Matt Pond PA – singer/songwriter Matt Pond, along with guitarist/bassist Josh Kramer, violinist Rosie McNamara-Jones, cellist Jim Hostetter, and drummer Sean Byrne – has been playing since the band formed in 1998. The band has quickly made waves in the music press with Rolling Stone magazine naming Matt Pond …
Read More »Indie Round-Up for November 03 2005: fielding, Hayley Taylor, Gentle Giant
It's fair to ask if we really need another song about a man who can't commit.
Read More »Review: Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine Reissued
One of industrial music’s finest hours, Nine Inch Nails’ 1989 debut album Pretty Hate Machine is being reissued by Rykodisc on November 22 (not yet available in Amazon). Available only by import for several years, there will be rejoicing in the streets when Trent Reznor’s explosive, corrosive, but also touching …
Read More »CD Review: Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume I
Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness is Coheed and Cambria’s follow-up to its gold selling album In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3. Good Apollo is the first half of the band’s third installment of its prog-rock/sci-fi series of young Claudio …
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