INDIE Music Thread

[slab_diaz]

frm old skateboard videos.

 

[slab_diaz]

i think these guys are from subpop too (beach house)

 

[mr brown]

bunch of special releases for black friday at independent record stores. list is in link below

http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases

thinking about making a trip to cop the new Toro y Moi single 7" and the Norah Jones//Dave Sitek remix EP

 

[niquefreak94]

 

[soversotowel]

 

[boys noize]

Parquet Courts

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Austin City Limits - Sonic Youth

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Electric Ocean People - North

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Pigface - Suck

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Local Natives - Breakers

Vid released for their upcoming album release...

 

[certifiedsw]

I'm not sure if this completely falls under the "Indie" category but a new candidate has emerged for song of the year........

 

[trilluminated]

^^ good looking out..

i just bought his EP off of bandcamp.

 

[missinpieces]

http://www.hulkshare.com/pdrqvvoi3i0w
His 6 track EP is defiantly refreshing and worth the DL.


www.IamRichKing.com

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Broken Social Scene - Looks Just Like The Sun

Love this song...

 

[Kimchi Papi]

The Orwells - Lays At Rest

Kinda like this song...

 

[ellimacecyoj]

Stumbleine is REALLY good. Straight euphoria.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

I liked the first & third ellimaCecyoJ...

 

[Kimchi Papi]

RAC - Climbing Up The Walls (feat. Liz Anjos)

I love remixes by RAC (André Allen Anjos & co). This one's a really nice radiohead cover featuring Anjos' wife)






Washed Out - New Theory (RAC Mix)

Always enjoyed this remix from RAC...

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Shout Out Louds - Blue Ice

Anyone down with this band? New song. Not sure when their new album drops...

 

[certifiedsw]

DIIV - OSHIN

A late, but welcome, addition to my album of the year top ten list. Reminds me a lot of Wild Nothing and that's not a bad thing at all.

 

[albooboo5]

Aesop Rock's wife. One of my favorite recent albums.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

POLICA - Lay Your Cards Out & Wandering Star

Nice post CertifiedSW.

This band's debut was produced by Ryan Olson (of Gayngs).

 

[certifiedsw]

Thanks psk.


I only skimmed through that Polica album a week ago, I definitely need to give it a full listen I love Lay Your Cards Out. The distorted vocals are a nice touch.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

The first link from Stereogum mentions a really good read from Vulture (New York Magazine) about the state of economics for Indie Bands (third link). The second link is also from Stereogum. It's a really long read but very informative about how Indie bands can at least break even.

http://stereogum.com/1165101/grizzly-bear-are-not-rich/news/

http://stereogum.com/1218552/decons...-musicians-break-even/top-stories/lead-story/

http://www.vulture.com/2012/09/grizzly-bear-shields.html

Grizzly Bear Are Not Rich

Nobody in music is making much money these days. We know that. Everybody knows that. Nobody buys music, and the very idea that we shouldn’t download the stuff for free is sort of a generational non-starter. But you’d think that Grizzly Bear, one of the biggest bands in indie-dom, would be doing fine for themselves. Their music shows up in commercials, they reliably sell in the hundreds of thousands, they play big venues like Radio City. But as it turns out, that may not be the case.

In a fully absorbing new story in New York magazine, Nitsuh Abebe, a great writer and a friend of mine, follows the Grizz during their pre-release rounds, taping a music video in upstate New York and playing at Radio City. And though there’s plenty of stuff about the band’s history, its internal dynamics, and the new album Shields, the real takeaway is that even a big indie band like Grizzly Bear can’t count on steady paychecks, and they don’t sound too happy about it.

Here’s Ed Droste: “People probably have an inflated idea of what we make,” says Droste. “Bands appear so much bigger than they really are now, because no one’s buying records. But they’ll go to giant shows… Obviously we’re surviving. Some of us have health insurance, some of us don’t, we basically all live in the same places, no one’s renting private jets. Come to your own conclusions.”

And here’s Chris Bear: “There’s people that know they make X dollars a year, and that’s not going to change. Or if anything, they’ll get a raise. That seems like a pretty reasonable setup, compared to maybe having one really good year, and then who knows what the future is.”

Members of the band also point out that, even though they make their money touring, various different expenses take big chunks out of that, and that ad licensing doesn’t pay as much as you might expect. The most poignant part might come when Droste talks about how people won’t drop $9 on a digital copy of an album, even though that amount is just “a ******g appetizer, a large popcorn at the movie theater, and you’ll have it forever, and they took two years to make it.”

Droste again: “I’d like to someday own a house, and be able to have children, and be able to put them through school, in an urban environment that one enjoys living in. A lot of people do it. And doing it through music is harder than doing it as a lawyer.”

Abebe goes in deep on indie rock economics in the piece, also talking to people like Travis Morrison, Frankie Rose, and Franz Nicolay. And though your reaction to the band’s money comments may vary, the whole piece is certainly worth a read; it’s here.

 

[dt43]

Late submission for one of the better indie songs of the year, imo: