Indie
Stephen Carradini
The positive prog-rock movement that Fang Island helped break last year has been a blast to listen to.
Monday 20 May
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Topic: indie
Adebisi Shank — This Is the Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank
More mostly instrumental, relentlessly fun, technical rock.
Indie
Stephen Carradini
The positive prog-rock movement that Fang Island helped break last year has been a blast to listen to.
The Mountain Goats — All Eternals Deck
Great songs that aren't cohesive at all
Givers — In Light
The most enthusiastic calypso/indie-pop band ever delivers
Indie
Stephen Carradini
Givers’ “In Light” does not capture the exuberant magic that the band puts out live.
Piñataland — Hymns for the Dreadful Night
Beautiful arrangements, skilled players and excellent production. What more could you want?
Indie
Stephen Carradini
As a newly minted music producer, I’m now professionally invested in the way that recordings sound (which means I have even more distaste for the intentionally terrible recordings of the San Francisco garage-rock scene).
James and Evander — Constellating EP + 2
Like the Postal Service. But not.
Indie
Stephen Carradini
I love The Postal Service. I’ve yearned for the day that their long-rumored second album comes out; I’ve pretty much resigned myself to it never appearing. In its stead, I’ve sought out other ge
Matt the Electrician — Accidental Thief
Maybe the Avetts’ long-lost brother?
Folk
Stephen Carradini
Banjo-playing Matt the Electrician actually was an electrician before he took up music full-time. This sort of earnest, workingman’s dignity powers his pop folk.
VOTD: Typhoon climbs a tree for La Blogotheque
Dogs, hanging instruments and hipsters all around you. Sounds like a typical Take Away Show to me.
The 2000s saw folk singers assemble indie-orchestra bands loaded with violins, cute musician girls and scruffy faces (Sufjan Stevens, Lost in the Trees, Austin, Texas's Mother Falcon).
Portland’s Typhoon just may have literally taken this sub-sub-genre as high as it’s ever gone.
VOTD: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. cover Pavement
‘Everytime, everytime, everytime, everytime …’
What’s a more perfect song for the A.V. Club’s “Summer Break” series than a gentler, more melodic and acoustic version of Pavement’s classic “Summer Babe,” I ask? Well, certainly not the winter version.
Note: ‘Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.’ might just be one my all-time favorite non-metal band name.
VOTD: Sufjan Stevens live at WNYC
Watch Sufy play ‘Pleasure Principle’ with half of The National
Last week on his Postpostrock.com blog, Daniel J. Kushner published a terrific, three-part interview with neon gaff tape-wearing indie Americana folk artist Sufjan Stevens that focused on his most recent release, the odd but intriguing departure, “The Age of Adz.” Sufjan’s not known to give many interviews, so I definitely encourage you to give this one a read.
Attentive viewers will recognize one of the Dessner brothers (they’re twins, so bonus points to whoever can tell me which one it is) on this intimate live-in-studio session for WNYC radio in New York, and attentive listeners will recognize the song as the end of Sufjan’s epic suite, “Impossible Soul,” from “The Age of Adz.”
by Matt Carney
07.26.2011
1 year ago
Attentive viewers will recognize one of the Dessner brothers (they’re twins, so bonus points to whoever can tell me which one it is) on this intimate live-in-studio session for WNYC radio in New York, and attentive listeners will recognize the song as the end of Sufjan’s epic suite, “Impossible Soul,” from “The Age of Adz.”
