This song is indie-indie music. (Indie-indie is a term that we just made up. You’ll know it when you hear it.) And this song right here is the apotheosis of indie-indie music. We adore it. (Featured on our #42 podcast)
These two Japanese kids are embracing American culture so hard that they spend their whole lives touring around small clubs in the southeast. From what we’ve seen, their show is even better than their sound. Here’s the itunes link to Get it On. Check it out. (Featured on our #42 podcast)
Rome Widenhouse is the guitarist/singer/songwriter of Asheville band Thresher. Thresher has just released their first EP as a quartet, called Equinox. We featured their song “Velcro”, which was from their EP before that, on our #40 podcast. My favorite musical instrument or item that I purchased recently is: A Supro Hampton Guitar. For years I’ve […]
This Electric Reptile’s song Bombay Sapphire was featured on our #40 podcast, in which we reported everything we know about this artist (nothing). John speculated that he might be a deeply-undercover member of Roxy Music; evidently this or some other nefarious deception is true, because in this interview, This Electric Reptile goes on to reveal […]
We do a lot of work this week in figuring out the modern music economy, including offering an extremely helpful Star Wars metaphor, and John makes up a song about Audiotree, and we figure out what Sofar is, sort of. Also this week – really incredible bands from Japan, Australia and Costa Rica (and Nashville. […]
Yacht party with Duran Duran. We plan our local tv access show, as well as our upcoming fake trip to SXSW. John analyzes various Finnish dialects. We add unnecessary umlats to metal bands of our acquaintance, and Bad Banker grows increasingly nervous about our upcoming performance. And of course the music is excellent: The Retinas […]
A ferocious hurricane of a woman who will appear in your living room and scream at you. She completely overwhelms (and sometimes trades out) the three men who back her up. We want to hear her music playing until we feel so bad that we feel better. (Featured on our #41 podcast, The Revolütion Will […]
Lighter and sweeter than cotton candy, just the way a pretty pink-haired girl wearing black underwear and black stockings should sound. Particularly if she’s backed up by a band of identical pink-haired people of various genders wearing the same outfit. (Featured on our #41 podcast, The Revolütion Will Be Puppetized)
The only part of the Finnish we understand is when he says “Pow! Pow! Pow!” or “woah-oh-oh-oh-oh” or “Huh! Huh!” But that’s enough. We also understand “oooOoooOO,” which is the universal language. Good job, Finland. (The song title, which as you observe contains three umlats, means “I’m getting mixed up.”) (Featured on our #41 podcast, The […]