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02.09.10Have You Met…Bomb The Music Industry!?Six Steps To Assembling A Music Industry Bomb: Step 1: Create digital recordings and sell them on a donation only basis, run by your own record label. Invite your friends to do the same. Step 2: Play all-ages-only shows for $10 or less. Step 3: Provide stencils for fans to create their own t-shirts Step 4: Tell people that if they learn your songs they can jump on stage and help at shows Step 5: Make music that is good, and music that means something to a large (or, even a small) group of people Step 6: Call your band Bomb the Music Industry! (exclamation point ...
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01.12.10Have You Met… The Lighthouse and the Whaler?I've always said that the extensive Metroparks system is one of the best things about Cleveland, and now - along with never-ending bike trails, families of deer, and more pavilions than you can count - we can add the birthplace of one of Cleveland's catchiest up-and-coming local bands to the list. The Lighthouse and the Whaler are a collection of strapping Cleveland lads who met in the park one day to "jam" and ended up falling in love with the music they could make. I was introduced to the heartwarming folk stylings of TLATW this Friday when they were featured at ...
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12.22.09Have You Met… We Are Wolves?Montreal, Canada continues to set the standard as one of the hubs of indie rock music, and electro/synth trio We Are Wolves are a perfect example of why. After releasing Non-Stop Je Te Plie en Deux in 2005 and Total Magique in '07, We are Wolves are ready to drop their third LP titled Invisible Violence, hitting shelves Feb 2, 2010 on Dare to Care records. Synth, bass, and drums are king when it comes to We Are Wolves' sound, forming a creative hybrid of punk and electronic music. Instead of repelling each other, the two genres come together in a ...
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12.15.09Have You Met… Adam Green?If you think you don't know who Adam Green is, I suggest that you think again. If you're a fan of either the Juno soundtrack or anti-folk as a whole, then you've probably sung along with a Green song or two under the band name The Moldy Peaches. Back in 2004 Adam ditched Kimya Dawson to concentrate on his solo work, which come 2010 we'lll find him 6 LP's deep into. His next album, Minor Love hits shelves February 16th courtesy of Fat Possum Records - but don't expect the cutesy acoustic stuff of Kimya or the Moldy Peaches. With the help ...
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12.08.09Have You Met… The Paper Raincoat?Last month I was on a business trip in Boston and happened across a tiny vegetarian restaurant/famous Cambridge folk center and decided it was the perfect place to grab a bite alone. Little did I know I had stumbled across not only a delicious pumpkin beer and meat-free meal, but the debut LP-release show of Boston gone Brooklyn's The Paper Raincoat. It's pretty rare that I can feel moved at a show when I don't know a single song going into it - but somehow, somewhere, The Paper Raincoat grabbed a hold of my music loving soul and wouldn't let ...
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11.10.09Have You Met… Brown Bird?The economy may be down but if there's one thing we here in the good 'ol US of A have in abundance it's bearded folk singers. Unfortunately for you, I'm still not sick of them, which is why I feel the need to introduce you to the New England-based twang sangers Brown Bird. I'm not usually one to do this, but I'll let their myspace do the talking, because I feel it does it so well. “Brown Bird began over five years ago as the brain child of songwriter David Lamb and has developed into a miniature orchestra of harmonized voices ...
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09.22.09Have You Met… Girls?What is it about San Francisco and giving birth to good music? I mean seriously, what did Jerry Garcia drop in the water system to give the Bay area its talent pool? Today marks the release of one of the soon-to-be most talked about albums of the month (year?), Album, by the lo-fi duo Girls. Hey, I'm just excited to see two non-beareded Sunshine Staters making music that matters. There's something endearing about the goofy vocals and low maintenance instrumentation that these guys offer, and their more memorable tracks (See: "Lust For Life" and "Hellhole Retrace") can easily hold their own as ...
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09.08.09Have You Met… Verb The Adjective Noun?There's something kind of exciting about finding a new band with a lot of potential. Something that tells you "I need to keep an eye on these guys" - and that's exactly how I feel after listening to Verb The Adjective Noun. I'll be honest, when their free EP Reds kicks off with opening track "Stoop" you'll be a little confused. "Is this metal vocalist really singing over banjo riffs?", you'll ask yourself. But once the song hits the chorus, you realize this Boston based 5-piece might just be up to something after all. You see, this EP is going to ...
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09.01.09Have You Met… Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes?July 7th came and left with some pretty standout album releases (Bowerbirds, Cass McCombs, Discovery), which might be why I skimmed so quickly over an album called "Up From Below" which hit the shelves that same summer day by a group called Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. It may have taken me a few months to catch on to the So-Cal 11-piece, but this is definitely a better late than never situation. "Up From Below" is the group's first full-length release, and a follow-up to their May EP "Here Comes". The group was formed by Ima Robot's frontman Alex ...
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08.25.09Have You Met… Trouble Books?Today after work I took a much needed trip to the best local record store on earth (pay attention, Cleveland) Music Saves. While perusing the vinyl selection I got held up on the album you see pictured above. It was so pretty and d.i.y looking, screen printed and seemingly hand glued - it pretty much screamed local. I quickly memorized the band name so that when I returned home I could Sherlock Holmes the situation via the interwebs. What did I find? Well, not much. I think that's because the Akron, Ohio based ambient group who call themselves Trouble Books like ...
