Posted by Dave on December 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment
How many influences do you think you can successfully mix together and still create something unique and interesting? Three, maybe four? Eventually if you put too many things in the pot, the flavor gets lost and [...]
Category Avant-garde, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags avant-garde, Coheed & Cambria, coldplay, Frankenstein, influences, musicality, NOPARTS, NSFW, primordial stew, Prog, progressive, Racer X, Slipknot, Sounddrug, The Liquid Tension Experiment, The Rapture, Tomahawk, wierd
Posted by Dave on October 18, 2012 · 2 Comments
When I say one-man-band what do you think of? I personally picture a large man equipped with a tuba, a guitar, and a few pedals connected to the cymbal hung over his head and the bass [...]
Category Avant-garde, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags avant-garde, bass drum, brilliant voice, colors, cymbal, effects, Grimes, Guitar, Here's How, images, Live at Studio 43, Lykke Li, magic, music, one-man-band, one-woman-band, poetry, reba hasko, Seeds From the Twisted Pear, shapes, synths, tuba
Posted by Michelle on October 18, 2012 · 3 Comments
We will be bringing you full FEATURES on the phenomenal bands we saw play live. Also look out for Part 2, which will include VIDEO coverage of all the happenings 660 Grand Rock Soup Studios. — This [...]
Category Art, Avant-garde, Best of Seeds, Indie Artists, Jersey City, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, New York City, Psychedelic, Rock, rock and roll · Tags 660 grand, alicia ruth, art, cecelia celeste, chris nyne, debra devi, devi, funk, Jersey City, john fathom, john ruddy, junestar mrblackman, kiwi, mark finne, New Jersey, reba hasko, reggae, Rock, rock soup, sexinthemouth, the audiobodies, vera vixeness, winner takes all
Posted by Dave on October 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Over the weekend I jumped off the edge of coincidence and deep into the avant-garde. Let me explain what I mean. I journeyed to Brooklyn from my Harlem apartment (for those of you who don’t live [...]
Category Avant-garde, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, New York City, Psychedelic · Tags accessible, anticipated, avant-garde, awkward, Believers, Brooklyn, coincidence, cold, complex, effects, electro, enjoyable, expected, harlem, hipster, indie, innovative, Jump Ship, No One, NYC, pleasure, Railbird, relaxing, Rock, songwriting, sounds, Strange, Sunday, time signature, weekend, wet
Posted by Dave on July 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment
A little while back we did a review of A Band of Ghosts; an avant-garde band that played spooky, jazzy tunes. In that review we said they were working on their debut album. Well, guess what, [...]
Category Avant-garde, hypetree, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags a band of ghosts, Andrea Thorne, avant-garde, blues, bluesy, consistency, dark, debut, debut album, different, familiar, fog, funk, gimmicks, hypetree, jazzy, mettle, Musical Machine, night, ominous, poorly lit, pop, reggae, review, roads, spooky, spooky blues, thunderstorms, unique, versatility
Posted by Dave on June 7, 2012 · 3 Comments
For those of a more discerning taste I bring you Cash Pony. These guys are incredible, showing off their musical know-how with not only catchy hooks and crunchy bass, but also with funny time signatures and [...]
Category Avant-garde, Indie Artists, Math rock, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags avant-garde, Carpal Tunnel Vision Quest, cash, Cash Pony, chaos, Fantomas, horns, jazz, math, math rock, new math rock, pony, Rock, sitar, Starthistle
Posted by Chris on March 5, 2012 · 6 Comments
Lakookala sounds like sweet, whimsical name, but holy fuck, is this music heavy. It’s not super distorted and aggressive like metal, it’s just dark and heavy, like old school Velvet Underground or something. It’s painful, but [...]
Category Avant-garde, Featured, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, Rock · Tags dark punk, drone, indie rock, Lakookala, no wave
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