Indie Music 101
I think this guy teaches a course at Columbia now….
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I think this guy teaches a course at Columbia now….
Check out this great band from Austin.
Sound Team.
“The way I describe it is, we’re basically a bunch of people who are into electronic music trying to play a Motown song,” — Bill Baird, co-founder of Sound Team.
Pretty interesting quote. That’s kind of like saying that someone looks like a cross between Don Knotts and Juan Guzman… you know they are destined to be one, but you’re not sure how.
Before putting out thier first full length record with Capital (Movie Monster), the band did it all themselves, saying enough money to buy an old record pressing factory to build an analog recording studio (Big Orange). They’ve shared the stage with the likes of Spoon, The Walkmen and The Arcade Fire. Now, you can catch them on tour with the French Kicks.
Here’s a wicked track called Your Eyes Are Liars, sounds a little like Interpol if they were British.
Also, take a listen to the title track, Movie Monster.? Dark, New Order-esque, maybe? late Radiohead.
I’m off to see this one for the first time. Here’s the lineup:
2:30pm to 3:00pm Lady Racers
3:15pm to 3:45pm Fat Robot
4:00pm to 4:30pm Fembots
4:45pm to 5:30pm Great Lake Swimmers
5:45pm to 6:45pm Chris Brown All Star Band featuring Kate Fenner
7:00pm to 7:45pm Jon-Rae and the River
8:00pm to 8:45pm Holy F*ck
9:00pm to 9:45pm Hidden Cameras
10:00pm to 10:45pm Wintersleep
11:00pm to 11:45pm Constantines
I hope the Cons start with ‘Draw Us Lines‘. Check out ‘Love In Fear‘.
It’s taken me a while to get something down about this band.
This Coast is from somewhere near the middle of Canada, a place called Toronto. The name comes from a Paul Simon song, sounds like a mix between Verve, U2, Smiths, New Order. Building/driving atmospherics made from heavy reverb, offset with the slightly fragile sounding vocals of Benjamin Spurr. Backed by a solid rhythm section.
Check out a couple tracks on the bands myspace page. ‘The Lines Are Cut‘ has this characteristic U2 crescendo, ‘Circles‘ cycles through catchy hooks. There’s also a new track on the band’s homepage with piano (‘Not For Long‘).
They play this saturday in Toronto with The Diableros and In Support Of Living for the OXFAM 4 change fundraiser.
Check out ‘Here it Goes Again‘ by Montreal’s Chicago’s OK Go. (oops, thought they were a Montreal band for some reason….)