If it wasn’t for the chocolate bar… The Ocean Blue would be Hersey, Pennsylvania’s pride and joy. The indie pop band consisting of David Schelzel (lead vocals/guitar), Steve Lau (keyboards/saxophone), Bobby Mittan (bass), and Rob Minnig (drums and vocals) formed in 1986 while in high school.
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Lollapalooza has released the webcast schedule for this weekend’s festival in Chicago. The live streams arrive courtesy of You Tube. Some of the notable shows include Queens Of The Stone Age and Nine Inch Nails on Friday, The National and The Postal Service on Saturday, and a possible 50 song 4 hour set from Bobbie Smith and The Cure on Sunday. Pretend flights and hotel rooms are still available for those not making their way to Chicago this weekend. Happy Pretending!
Lollapalooza website:
http://www.lollapalooza.com/
Webcast Schedule (ALL TIMES CENTRAL):
Friday, August 2nd:
02:30 pm – Smith Westerns
03:30 – Icona Pop
04:15 – Crystal Castles
05:15 – Imagine Dragons
06:15 – Queens of the Stone Age
07:30 – Band of Horses
08:30 – The Killers
10:00 – Nine Inch Nails
Saturday, August 3rd:
02:15 pm – Ben Howard
03:00 – Court Yard Hounds
04:00 – Local Natives
05:00 – Ellie Goulding
06:00 – The National
07:15 – The Lumineers
08:30 – The Postal Service
10:00 – Mumford and Sons
Sunday, August 4th:
02:30 pm – Alex Clare
04:30 – Two Door Cinema Club
05:30 – Alt-J
06:30 – Steve Aoki
07:00 – Vampire Weekend
08:15 – The Cure
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Dinosaur Jr. bassist Lou Barlow’s side project Sebadoh are scheduled to release their first studio album in fourteen years. The lo-fi pioneer’s eighth full-length Defend Yourself will be released on September 17. Last month the band released a surprise EP Secret. The track “All Kinds” from the EP is featured in the video below, check it out.
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Here’s your Indie on TV alert for the Week of 7/22/13.
Remember you can watch previous week’s performances in the Indie on TV page.
Here’s the schedule:
Kimmel
Wednesday = Queens Of The Stone Age
Thursday = Palma Violets
Fallon
Monday = The Virgins
Go here to view it
Conan
Monday = Franz Ferdinand
Wednesday = Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros
Indie NYC
Saturday = FOALS; The Airborne Toxic Event; Stars
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Every Sunday we take an INDEEp look into an emerging indie artist.
This week we Shine the Sunday Spotlight on Veronica Falls.
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Nine Inch Nails fans that tuned in Friday night to watch the Fuji Rock Festival webcast, only to find that it was geo-blocked, can breathe a sigh of relief. The 21 song set (setlist below) from the Japan festival has been made available courtesy of You Tube user mikezak4. The 93 minute show includes 3 new songs.
Watch NIN 7/26/13 Fuji Rock Festival show here:
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The Postal Service have released a 14 minute documentary via The Creators Project that was shot behind the scenes at their recent appearance at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The electronic supergroup consists of Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie), Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel), Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley), and touring member Laura Burhenn (The Mynabirds). The band is currently celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the indie classic album Give Up with a tour and deluxe reissue of the album. Fans of The Postal Service should make time for the 14 minute documentary.
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The NYC indie pop band Cults plan to release their follow-up to the their self-titled debut on October 15. Reports have the band
expanding the their style by working with producer Ben Allen whose resume includes Animal Collective, Washed Out, and Youth Lagoon. The sophomore album titled Static was announced with a 60 second album teaser that features the album tracks “We’ve Got It” and “So Far.”
Watch the Static album teaser here:
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Simple Minds are an alternative rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. The band originally formed as a punk rock outfit in 1977 called
Johnny & The Self-Abusers. The band was short-lived and only released one single before half of its members formed The Cuban Heels and the other half formed Simple Minds. The band took its name from lyrics in the David Bowie song Jean Genie.
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HOW FUN! Non stop Pixies news! Today the band released a second video for the single “Bagboy” via Rolling Stone. Frontman Frank Black had this to say about the reasoning behind a second video:
“We didn’t set out to have two music videos for ‘Bagboy,’ but once we saw both of these, we knew we didn’t want to use just one. They’re so good, so creative, and each in its own way, and both made by up-and-coming filmmakers. …Who says you can’t have two videos for a song that show two completely different perspectives? Not us.”
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Sixteen days after releasing the video for “Right Action,” Franz Ferdinand have released a second video for the song “Love Illumination” (watch below). Monday night the Scottish indie rockers performed at the Ed Sullivan Theater in NYC for the Live On
Letterman Show. You can watch the entire 48 minute performance below while it’s still available. The band says it’s all systems go for the release of the new album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action on August 27.
Enjoy all 48 minutes of Franz Ferdinand Live On Letterman here:
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The English indie band The Vaccines plan to release an EP titled Melody Calling on August 13. The band recorded the EP in Los Angeles, the release date matches the beginning of their U.S. tour where they will support Phoenix and Mumford and Sons. The Vaccines have shared the song “Everybody’s Gonna Let You Down.”
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The following albums dropped today and are available in your local trendy record stores or on digital download.
Apparently, this is the week that bands with twenty plus members release albums…
Chillwave extraordinaire Ernest Greene who uses the moniker Washed Out, is scheduled to release his second full-length album Paracosm on August 13. Paracosm is the follow-up to Ernest’s terrific debut from 2011 Within and Without. A couple of weeks ago the first single “Don’t Give Up” surfaced, today we have the video.
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The Australian indie electronic band Cut Copy shared a new song this past weekend at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago. The four piece set up a booth at the festival and made 120 limited edition copies of the 12″ single “Let Me Show You” available. Each record was lathe-cut on the spot with the purchaser’s name engraved into the one-sided record. One of those 120 people that bought the record was nice enough to post their “first listen” on You Tube.
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