As we continue on with various Bands to Watch posts, today we are featuring two “new” fascinating one man bands,…
Category: Indie Artist/Group Profiles
SXSW 2010 Bands to See, Vol. I: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Princeton, Real Estate, The Drums and Surfer Blood
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club It’s not a stretch that Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would be high on the list of…
Disbanded: Band Break-Ups, Vol. I: New Faces, The Fake Fictions and The Catholic Comb
It sucks when good bands break up. In the past year, we’ve seen a number of bands split, and the…
Band of the Week: Oregonian Band The Dimes Present a History Lesson of Colonial Boston in Song
When we first heard Portland, Oregon’s The Dimes‘ splendid album, The King Can Drink the Harbour Dry, in December (after…
Band of the Week: The Genre-Bending Music of Hosta
There are still plenty of fantastic songs and albums from 2009 that we’re catching up to, and we suspect that…
Band of the Week: Austin’s Wiretree Release One of the Best Under-the-Radar Albums of 2009, ‘Luck’
New video for Wiretree’s song, “Days Gone By” We have not been able to stop playing one of 2009’s most…
The Sun Break From A Major Label Deal, Team Up With Spoon Producer and Shine On Their Second, and Last, LP
What happens when a band with a major record label deal tosses it away and puts everything on the line…
Band of The Week: Long Beach Folk Pop Band Avi Buffalo
Eighteen-year-old Long Beach, Calif., guitarist and singer/songwriter Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg, and his band, Avi Buffalo, have created quite a buzz within…
Bands to Watch: Double-Shots on the Rocks from Scotland Yard Gospel Choir and Fool’s Gold
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir is not a gospel choir at all, but a rock band; and they’re not even…
Treasure Island Music Festival This Weekend: Flaming Lips, MGMT, Decemberists, Beirut, Grizzly Bear and More!
The last touch ups to the stages for this weekend’s Treasure Island Music Festival are being made as thousands of…
In Dee Mail: One Man Band Series with Washed Out, Stuart Newman and Labrador Labratories
Largely due to the availability of affordable technology and the explosion of the Internet in recent years, independent musicians are…
In Dee Mail – One Man Band Series: Portland’s Fascinating Channel In, Channel Out
Marcus Cotten is Channel In, Channel Out, a one man experimental band from Portland, Oregon. He writes and records lo-fi,…