Indie Music Filter: Volume 2
I love making mix cds. or playlists.
I made one over the holidays as my ‘best of ’06’ double disc. My cd burner worked more hours than Rudolf did near the end of december, pumping out 50 copies (100 discs total). I’m going to skip a little bit of the work this time.
I’ve made a new mix of music I’ve been listening to over the last little while. You’ll hear some Voxtrot, Snowden, Cloud Cult, David Vandervelde, and a bunch others. The main goal in mind? To get you listening to these amazing artists.
Download Volume 2 here. *Its a big file (77Mgs) so it will take some time to download.
**One thing I should mention, all the tracks on this disc fall into a couple different categories. They either agreed to post their mp3 on my site, or their music has been made available on the net by a part of their team (homepage, myspace page, label page, publicity company, etc.). If you’d like off the disc, send me an e-mail.
Pela
Click here to sample some new music from Pela. I read somewhere on one of their sites that they are premiering a new track each week on this e-card leading up to the release of thier first full length CD Anytown Graffiti. The first track (Waiting On The Stairs) is a great shoegaze shuffle that builds to a soft ending. Lost To The Lonesome is the track thats been playing quite a bit on my computer the last couple of days.
The first time I heard it was the Cassettes Won’t Listen remix that you can download here. I initially thought it was Bloc Party.
I’m really impressed with?what I’ve heard so far of this band. I expect their record to be released in the next couple of months through Great Society (imprint of Worlds Fair). The band currently resides in Brooklyn, NY but members come from the ‘hinterlands of New York city and California’. Previous work experiences include busking in the subways, selling necties at Times Square, carpentry, or playing polka at Croatian weddings. Now focus seems to be on touring this band, playing a bunch of US dates into April (along with a couple stabs at SXSW).
Also, take a look at this video I found on youtube of the band performing a track called Cavalry (also on the to be released disc). That chorus really rings right, not a huge fan of the noise at the end. More tracks can be found on their myspace page.
Objects Of My Affection
Take a look at this great video, Objects Of My Affection by Swedish pop trio Peter, Bjorn and John. You’ve probably heard their whistle track Young Folks, if not, head over to their myspace page.
Zunior.com. The little digital music store
Did anyone notice this thing show up on my page recently?? He’s a friendly widget who likes to give people great Canadian digital music by sending you to Zunior.? Take a look.
Zunior – the little digital music store is a Canadian online record label and music store, started by Dave Ullrich, formerly of The Inbreds. Zunior is a sort of iTunes for independent artists, but better facilitates artist independence and freedom.? –from Wikipedia.
You can pretty much find any Canadian indie band you are looking for there, or discover new artists through Zuniors podcast.? And for people who love the physical product, you can also download pdfs of the artists cover artwork.? Keep your eye on the widget kids…?
Zunior.com.? The artists make more, the users pay less.