Posted by Dave on January 16, 2013 · Leave a Comment
It’s cold and rainy today in New York, so you know what that means. Well, normally I’d say let’s pop in something sad, slow, and possibly acoustic, but not today! No, today I’m in a pretty [...]
Category: Indie Artists, indie pop, Indie rock, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, New York City, Punk · Tags: avant-garde, Black Flag, Bong Rips, chill, Crawl, garage, hardcore, hardcore punk, High Pop, Hip Hip Hooray, Hippie Speed Ball, indie, indie punk, Minor Threat, new york, pop, Punk, rain, stewm, The Creaky Boards, The Pixies, weird
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 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 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment
So I’ve expressed my love for Fantomas in a previous post, and if you’ve taken the time to check them out you can probably guess that sometimes I like some weird shit. Well, here’s another for [...]
Category: Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags: avant-garde, Avery, bones, dawn, Decadent Sluts, dissonance, EAAAE, eat, Eat Avery's Bones, Fantomas, ice, machines, Nice Ice, sluts, vomit, Vomit at Dawn, Workaholics
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 Alex on March 27, 2012 · 1 Comment
Brace yourself – it’s about to get funky. As soon as you see the phrase “Afro Klezmer,” you know you’re in for something out there. The 4th Ward Afro Klezmer Orchestra from Atlanta, GA combines old-school jazz [...]
Category: Funk rock, Indie Artists, jazz, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, Punk, World · Tags: afro klezmer, Atlanta, avant-garde, Georgia, jazz, klezmer, orchestra, world music
Recent Comments