U.K. indie rockers Alt-J released an online documentary concert this past Friday night via The Warner Sound. The 54 minute concert (watch below) was filmed at Midland Theater in Kansas City, Missouri. Alt-J (stylised as ∆) recently won the prestigious 2012 Mercury Prize, awarded to the best album released in the U.K. and Ireland annually. The debut full-length An Awesome Wave has remained relevant since its release in September 2012 as the band plays sold out shows world wide.
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Flashback Friday: Galaxie 500
GoINDEEpMusic presents Flashback Friday featuring Galaxie 500.
Galaxie 500 are a well-regarded indie band from Boston, Ma. that formed in 1987. The band consisted of frontman Dean Wareham (vocals/guitar), Naomi Yang (bass), and Damon Krukowski (drums). The three met at high school in New York in 1981, but it wasn’t until college that the they started playing together while attending Harvard University. Interestingly, early on Damon didn’t own a drum kit and needed to borrow fellow Harvard classmate Conan O’Brien’s kit who recently had given up on the drums. Conan would later go on
to a lucrative late night television career and appear regularly in the GoINDEEpMusic Indie On TV section.
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CHVRCHES Announce Debut Album Release Date
One of the most anticipated album releases of 2013 is that of Glasgow, Scotland’s electropop CHVRCHES. The band announced today that the full-length debut titled The Bones Of What You Believe will drop on September 24 in the U.S. The trio will make available a 12 track standard release and a 18 track special edition that will include remixes, bonus tracks, and live footage. Can’t wait!
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Yo La Tengo Release Animated Video “Ohm”
Indie pioneers Yo La Tengo have released an animated video for the song “Ohm.” The tune can be found on their latest album Fade which came out on January 15. Fade amazingly is the Hoboken, NJ band’s thirteenth studio album.
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New Music Tuesday July 9, 2013
The following albums dropped today and are available in your local trendy record stores or on digital download.
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Watch Franz Ferdinand Video “Right Action”
Roughly ten days ago Franz Ferdinand shared two songs off of their upcoming release Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action out August 27. We now have a video for the first single “Right Action.” If you think the new video looks similar to the indie classic “Take Me Out” it’s because both were directed by Jonas Odell. Amazingly, “Take Me Out” turned ten years old this year.
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Artist Spotlight: No Joy
Every Sunday we take an INDEEp look into an emerging indie artist.
This week we Shine the Sunday Spotlight on No Joy.
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Watch Dan Deacon’s “USA” Video
As the Fourth Of July holiday weekend comes to a end, celebrate some more with Dan Deacon. Dan’s 2012 album release America closes with a four part orchestral suite titled “USA.” The video features a psychedelic trip across our beautiful country. Only problem is you need 22 minutes of your precious time to check it out.
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The Replacements Leak 2 Rehearsal Video Clips
The Replacements have teased their fans over the last week with two separate video clips of reunion tour rehearsals posted to the band’s new Facebook page. The first clip is 9 seconds of “Alex Chilton” and the second is 19 seconds of “Favorite Thing” (watch clips below). It remains unclear who will be the other two musicians that will join Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson for the reunion shows. “Allegedly” long time drummer Chris Mars will not part of the reunion, because he would say no…Let it be known, I don’t believe any of that shit.
The Mats are currently scheduled to appear at three Riot Fest dates in Chicago, Toronto, and Denver.
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Thursday August 8 – FOALS – House of Blues – San Diego
GoINDEEpMusic will be out at the House of Blues in beautiful San Diego, Ca. on Thursday August 8 for an evening with FOALS.
The night of fun begins with the punk-pop band Drowners from NYC and concludes with renowned English indie rockers FOALS. Hopefully, the evening provides an opportunity to discuss Heritage Acts with Yannis.
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Phoenix Release Video For “Trying To Be Cool”
Love them or Hate them… the French pop band Phoenix has dropped another single to the world from their latest album Bankrupt!. Phoenix recently headlined the two weekend Coachella festival back in April. The band’s world tour returns to the U.S. starting on August 30.
Check out “Trying To Be Cool” here … or not:
New Music Tuesday July 2, 2013
The following albums dropped today and are available in your local trendy record stores or on digital download.
Editors “The Weight Of Your Love”
The British rock band Editors return with their fourth album and first since 2009. The first single from the album is “A Ton Of Love”
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Pixies Announce Fall 2013 Tour & New Bassist
Never a dull moment in Pixies camp lately. Two weeks ago we learned that bassist Kim Deal quit the band, and then this past Friday the new song “Bagboy” turns up in your inbox. This morning news broke of an European fall tour and a new Kim on bass. Frank Black, Joey Santiago, and David Lovering will joined on stage by their new bassist Kim Shattuck. Ms.Shattuck’s credentials include fronting the L.A. rock band The Muffs, as well as a member of the eighties paisley underground band The Pandoras. Who could have imagined that this blog would make two separate references to the “paisley underground” scene in less than one week?
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Indie on TV alert for the Week of 7/1/13
Not much to report this week as most programs have scheduled repeats all week. About a month ago I saw Superhunanoids at the Make Music Pasadena Festival. Check out the repeated February 11th performance this week.
Remember you can watch previous week’s performance in the weekly Indie on TV sections.
Here’s the schedule:
Daly
Monday = Superhumanoids
Kimmel
Wednesday = ZZ Ward
Indie NYC
Saturday = ON AND ON. Admiral Fallow, ZZ Ward
The Music Experiment featuring Empire Of The Sun
Thursday = Palladia Channel (Check local listings)
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Franz Ferdinand Shares 2 Songs From Upcoming Album
Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action the first release from Scottish indie rockers Franz Ferdinand in four years is scheduled to drop on August 27. You can listen to two of the tracks from the album below. Franz Ferdinand recently played the two weekend Coachella Festival and both of these tunes made it on the on the setlists in the desert. Apparently both of these songs will be made available for download this coming Tuesday. They’re currently available as a double A-sides 7″ single.
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