Category Archives: Indie

12.16.10
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Bird By Snow Travel Across the Water


In October of this year, Gnome Life Records label operator Fletcher Tucker  released his fourth full-length album with the band Bird By Snow. Entitled Common Wealth, the album has a broad yet natural sound, indicative of Fletcher himself.

Gnome Life has an exciting 2011 planned with releases from Psychic Hiking, Spencer Owen, Sean Smith & Johanna Borcert, The Range Of Light Wilderness, Aaron Sheppard, as well as a new Bird By Snow album all on the horizon.

But right now, Fletcher and company are focused on Bird By Snow’s newly released single “Across the Water,” which is available for download HERE.

Bird by Snow is also doing a couple spot shows in January, the dates of which can be found below.

 

Bird By Snow Upcoming Shows

Jan 5 Bottom Of The Hill San Francisco, CA

Jan 31 Elbo Room San Francisco, CA

12.16.10
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LA’s Lady Danville Announce West Coast Tour with Dashboard Confessional


Wrapping up their east coast tour with Ben Folds, including 3 shows at the CMJ Music Marathon, Lady Danville returns to their west coast roots. The three-piece acoustic folk-pop trio will be touring with Dashboard Confessional in December 2010 and January 2011.

Formed out of the UCLA’s Awaken A Cappella in 2007, Lady Danville has been selling out shows in Los Angeles area ever since and are excited to return home for a dozen shows.

If you missed the east coast tour or won’t be able to catch any of Lady Danville’s west coast dates, mark your calendars for their scheduled appearance at SXSW 2011.

Tour Dates:

JAN 10 – The Summit Music Hall w/ Dashboard Confessional
Denver, Colorado

JAN 11 – In The Venue w/ Dashboard Confessional
Salt Lake City, UT

JAN 13 – Neumos w/ Dashboard Confessional
Seattle, WA

JAN 14 – Wonder Ballroom w/ Dashboard Confessional
Portland, Oregon

JAN 15 – The Regency Ballroom w/ Dashboard Confessional
SAN FRANCISCO, CA

JAN 16 – House of Blues Anaheim w/ Dashboard Confessional
Anaheim, CA

JAN 19 – Troubadour w/ Dashboard Confessional
West Hollywood, CA

JAN 20 – Troubadour w/ Dashboard Confessional
West Hollywood, CA

JAN 21 – Troubadour w/ Dashboard Confessional
West Hollywood, CA

JAN 22 – House of Blues San Diego w/ Dashboard Confessional
San Diego, CA


http://www.myspace.com/ladydanville


12.16.10
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“Lookout, Lookout” Here Comes Perfume Genius


On December 9th Perfume Genius released its new video for the single “Lookout, Lookout.”  The video was directed by Patrick Sher also directed the video for MOBY’s “Wait for Me.”  If you haven’t seen this video by now I would suggest making it a top priority on your to-do list.  It’s a very simple and realistic video but it definitely puts of the vibe of the complex emotions poured into the track.  You really can get a grasp of the song through the video.  I’m a firm believer in not allowing a Video to impact the actual music to any measure of extent but this one just spoke to all my insecurities, and I found myself responding to it more with the imagery, than without it.

12.15.10
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Sleeping In The Aviary Fly Coop For Winter Tour

 

Minneapolis group Sleeping In The Aviary loves to chase different genres. On their first album Oh, This Old Thing? the band cranked lo-fi punk songs that drew comparisons to the Buzzcocks and the Thermals.

On their second album the band tried their hand at indie folk, with Expensive Vomit In A Cheap Hotel being compared with Bright Eyes and Baptist Generals.

The band’s third album, Great Vacation, just came out last week. This time, the group has gone the way of layers of backup vocals and pop songs, with instruments like harps and trumpets making appearances (in addition to the creepiest cover art of the year).

The band will be on a national tour starting in January to support the new album. You can catch them, in all their lo-fi punk, indie-folk and pop glory, at

Sleeping In The Aviary Winter 2011 Tour:

01.06 • Minneapolis, MN — Triple Rock

01.07 • Madison, WI — Hgh Noon Saloon

01.08 • Appleton, WI — Hunger Strike Riot
01.09 • Milwaukee, WI — Borg Ward
01.10 • Chicago, IL — Empty Bottle
01.11 • Indianapolis, IN — Radio Radio
01.12 • Bloomington, IN — Rachael’s Cafe
01.13 • Nashville, TN — Little Hamilton Collective
01.14 • Atlanta, GA — The 529
01.18 • Houston, TX — Jet Lounge
01.19 • San Antonio, TX — The Ten Eleven
01.20 • Austin, TX — Hole In The Wall
01.22 • Dallas, TX — Double Wide
01.25 • Albuquerque, NM — Winning Coffee Co
01.26 • Tucson, AZ — The Hangart
01.27 • Phoenix, AZ — Trunkspace
01.28 • San Diego, CA — Soda Bar
01.29 • San Francisco, CA — The Pink House
01.30 • Oakland, CA — First Church Of The Buzzard
02.06 • Olympia, WA — Le Voyeur
02.12 • Boulder, CO — Astroland
02.15 • Wichita, KS — Kirby’s

12.15.10
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Mute Talks Restructure


After returning to being independent after reaching an agreement with EMI Music, Mute has released details of their new structure. Led by Daniel Miller, Mute will be comprised of the record label, publishing company and a new artist/producer management company. Angie Somerside is returning to Mute as Group MD and will be starting up the new artist management company. The new company has already received new signings, including Junip, Josh T. Pearson and S.C.U.M. Mute’s NY office is currently working with such artists as Moby, Liars, Fever Ray and Paul van Dyk, to name a few. Andrew King continues to take charge of the publishing company and Mute’s NY office will be headed by General Manager, Mark Fotiadis, who will work closely with the UK company in publishing and managment deals.