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Berkovich" /><category term="Danish" /><category term="Royksopp" /><category term="indie awesome" /><category term="black rebel motorcycle club" /><category term="Torrent" /><category term="those darn critics" /><category term="Transport" /><category term="black market radio" /><category term="idlewild" /><category term="the mighty boosh" /><category term="the hedge schools" /><category term="the future of the left" /><category term="summer indie" /><category term="givers" /><title>Pretentious Indie Boys</title><subtitle type="html">Your one stop shop on how to live a more Indie life</subtitle><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false&amp;v=2" /><author><name>Seb Berkovich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07514337172599257449</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_t95CPgxTR7w/SX8oidvTxLI/AAAAAAAAAK8/_8EnvOlsQkw/S220/berko.jpg" /></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>113</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/indieawesome" /><feedburner:info uri="indieawesome" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><logo>http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif</logo><feedburner:emailServiceId>indieawesome</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkQARHc7fCp7ImA9WhdSF0U.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-8797653394309728722</id><published>2011-07-27T02:29:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T16:25:45.904+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-07-27T16:25:45.904+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="indie awesome" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="alternative electro bus funk" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Indie pop" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="givers" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="of montreal" /><title>Poptastic</title><content type="html">&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;That's right, a blog post. Who would've thought you'd see another one of those, not me for one. But sure, why the heck not.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/giversmusic"&gt;Givers.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="  ;font-family:georgia;" &gt;A band who's name I had &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jun/07/new-band-givers"&gt;seen somewhere&lt;/a&gt; last month and completly forgotten about.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; A five-piece indie pop band all the way from &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;Lafayette, Louisiana, and my my are they poptastic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt; (my word of the week by the way).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"    style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"    style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/A0vzHSPmTfE" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;They've &lt;a href="http://www.musicfansmic.net/post/5577439812/givers-up-up-up"&gt;been called&lt;/a&gt; a cross between Mystery Jets and Vampire weekend, and they certainly look the part. But the more and more I listen to them I can't help I think they're a conventional version of "of Montreal"; cardigans instead of costumes, simpler lyrics, more minimalist songs. Their album "In Light" was released in June of this year and the first song on the record and single "Up Up Up" is as poppy as they come, and sounds like a fusion of a hundred different indie bands, clearly these guys have done their research which unfortunately does pigeonhole them a bit. The video is a bit... well, I'll leave it for you to watch. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; "&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rLTOLlyjs70" span="" height="349" width="560"&gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/font&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; "&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;Then there's songs like "&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exZTgOWOo4A"&gt;Saw You First&lt;/a&gt;" and "Ceiling of Plankton" (included above for your listening pleasure) with their vocals taken right out of of Montreal's book. It's hard not to like the songs, yet ultimately they don't stand out from the many, many other similar bands out there. Nothing experimental or outstanding, but simple good for what their are, happy poppy indie songs. They'll be playing the Academy in Dublin come August, and you can guess where we'll be. That's right, at a bar, but then we'll be at the gig.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;In other news, I suggest you all go and check out &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/series/newbandoftheday"&gt;New Band of the Day&lt;/a&gt; over at The Guardian, a brilliant little daily blog (hats off to them for their stamina), responsible for a good few of my favorite musics lately including this. As well, Idaho indie band/our friends &lt;a href="http://theverymost.com/"&gt;The Very Most&lt;/a&gt;, had a new single out in May. If you like happy music head over &lt;a href="http://www.eardrumspop.com/2011/05/02/epop017-the-very-most/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to give a listen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-8797653394309728722?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/Rz5yyKeaPws" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/257975442017617410/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3506325123283220029&amp;postID=257975442017617410&amp;isPopup=true" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/257975442017617410?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/257975442017617410?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/Rz5yyKeaPws/in-key-of-black.html" title="In the key of Black" /><author><name>Chip</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13815675941169372315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SXEcSA2cS5I/AAAAAAAAAL0/Z-2AEO1yr4Q/S220/Christmas+Party.png.png" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/TBddG11ucLI/AAAAAAAAAjw/xLM7ef9DSt8/s72-c/The-Black-Keys-Brothers-503913.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" /><feedburner:origLink>http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2010/06/in-key-of-black.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUQHQX06eSp7ImA9WxFQEEs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-7496082743269803714</id><published>2010-05-05T12:51:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-05T13:42:10.311+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-05-05T13:42:10.311+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="indie awesome" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="alternative electro bus funk" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="idlewild" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="post electric blues" /><title>Idling</title><content type="html">For a band that's been around for ages, &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Idlewild"&gt;Idlewild&lt;/a&gt; slipped under my radar for a long time. I had known about them for a long while, but never paid too much attention to them. That is until of course I came across their new album.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/S-FnhqMGXJI/AAAAAAAAAik/pHHk573RpJI/s1600/idlewild-post-electric-blues-702247.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 316px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/S-FnhqMGXJI/AAAAAAAAAik/pHHk573RpJI/s320/idlewild-post-electric-blues-702247.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467765250562874514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Idlewild/Post+Electric+Blues"&gt;Post Electric Blues&lt;/a&gt; is a much produced album than their others, losing a bit of their raw sound from earlier albums (call it maturity or whatever... narc). The result is pretty good though. Songs like "Younger Than America" and "Dreams of Nothing" are fine examples of their latest incarnation of their sound, while "Take Me Back To The Islands" and "Take Me Back In Time" (I'm noticing a pattern), are slower more introspective and a little seemingly out of place, but still awesome. As per usual, I'll let you make up your mind, I'm not your mother after all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news, apologies to those who I haven't sent the &lt;a href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2010/02/indie-mix-tape-2.html"&gt;mixtape&lt;/a&gt; to yet (I'll get to it soon, promise), and to those who have got their copy I hope you liked it. Also, I particularly liked &lt;a href="http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/comics/00000338.png"&gt;this comic&lt;/a&gt; today...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-7496082743269803714?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/HIIms2JNzSA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/7496082743269803714/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3506325123283220029&amp;postID=7496082743269803714&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/7496082743269803714?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/7496082743269803714?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/HIIms2JNzSA/idling.html" title="Idling" /><author><name>Chip</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13815675941169372315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SXEcSA2cS5I/AAAAAAAAAL0/Z-2AEO1yr4Q/S220/Christmas+Party.png.png" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/S-FnhqMGXJI/AAAAAAAAAik/pHHk573RpJI/s72-c/idlewild-post-electric-blues-702247.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" /><feedburner:origLink>http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2010/05/idling.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0IGRn07fSp7ImA9WxFXEk0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-1010068315120514556</id><published>2010-03-02T11:26:00.005Z</published><updated>2010-05-18T17:52:07.305+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-05-18T17:52:07.305+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Indie" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="gigs" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="erland and the carnival" /><title>Erland &amp; The Carnival... and Us</title><content type="html">So, a while back we went a seen &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Erland+and+the+Carnival"&gt;Erland &amp;amp; the Carnival&lt;/a&gt; in Crawdaddy's in what must have been the strangest gig we've been to in ages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/S_LFl-nHbzI/AAAAAAAAAjk/xWr2cOsSi3E/s1600/erland.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/S_LFl-nHbzI/AAAAAAAAAjk/xWr2cOsSi3E/s320/erland.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472653753461468978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The support band (who's name I can't remember, I'll try and find it out), were good. Very good in fact, although there were 2 minute intervals between songs while the guitarist tuned his guitar in perfect silence. Not even the crowd made a whisper. Which was quite odd as the crowd, who themselves were perfectly silent during the intervals but then proceeded to talk as loud as they could during the performance. There was also a good mix of fans of the band and people who clearly had wandered in by accident.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More importantly Erland &amp;amp; The Carnival played a great set, playing every song from the album. In particular "Love Is A Killing Thing" was even better live than it is recorded. For a band that is seemingly randomly thrown together (I mean, where did they pick up &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Tong"&gt;Simon Tong&lt;/a&gt; from?!?), they play extremely well together, no matter what the &lt;a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2010/0122/1224262812355.html"&gt;Irish Times&lt;/a&gt; say...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news, I am quite enjoying the Black Keys &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNXwicxlsvI"&gt;new single&lt;/a&gt;. The  video is especially silly...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-1010068315120514556?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/BNP6iE-cp70" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/1010068315120514556/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3506325123283220029&amp;postID=1010068315120514556&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/1010068315120514556?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/1010068315120514556?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/BNP6iE-cp70/erland-carnival-and-us.html" title="Erland &amp; The Carnival... and Us" /><author><name>Seb Berkovich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07514337172599257449</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_t95CPgxTR7w/SX8oidvTxLI/AAAAAAAAAK8/_8EnvOlsQkw/S220/berko.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/S_LFl-nHbzI/AAAAAAAAAjk/xWr2cOsSi3E/s72-c/erland.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" /><feedburner:origLink>http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2010/03/erland-carnival-and-us.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUcAQnc6fSp7ImA9WxBUFU4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-2053718433202417123</id><published>2010-03-02T10:49:00.006Z</published><updated>2010-03-02T13:37:23.915Z</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-03-02T13:37:23.915Z</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="alternative electro bus funk" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="farm world" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="indie folk" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="wisconsin" /><title>Not Farmville, Farm World</title><content type="html">Occasionally we get emails from people. We like getting emails from people. We had an email a few days ago from someone professing the greatness of &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/farmworld"&gt;Farm World&lt;/a&gt;, the recording name for Michael Armstrong, a man from Madison, Wisconsin. Apparently not craving fame or money from his music (which is a good thing), he has gone largely unnoticed by the world (which is a bad thing).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/S40Qy3oLujI/AAAAAAAAAfk/sKe1jY6CiQA/s1600-h/It%27s+A+Boy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/S40Qy3oLujI/AAAAAAAAAfk/sKe1jY6CiQA/s320/It%27s+A+Boy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444025990672792114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His music meanders through different styles but it's mostly reminescent of Bon Iver and the influence is clearly heard through his songs. Songs like "Look Up!" and "Eat, Kill, I Want Your Soul" have a very folky sound to them, while "Barn Baby" has an a more rockier side to it. "Dark Room", with it's autotuned vocals could be straight off Bon Iver's Blood Bank EP.  Finding his stuff online is near impossible, bar what's up on his myspace page. If we weren't emailed it, I doubt we would have found it. This is very underrated music, and we could only hope that someone, somewhere finds this guy and puts his name out there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other non-related ramblings, I'm enjoying &lt;a href="http://www.billiethevision.com"&gt;Billie the Vision&lt;/a&gt; a lot lately. Also, &lt;a href="http://www.johnshellyandthecreatures.com/"&gt;JSC&lt;/a&gt;'s new album. Still waiting for &lt;a href="http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com"&gt;BRMC's&lt;/a&gt; new one which is released here on Friday (hopefully). You should read &lt;a href="http://antonation.blogspot.com/"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; too. It's a friend's non-sensicalness. Funny though. And keep mailing us awesome music.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-2053718433202417123?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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We sure do love procrastinating around here. So here's volume two of our awesome indie compliation. Better late than never. It's a mix of everything we liked back then, stuff we like now and a few other random things we've come across in between, but mostly is bands we've seen and liked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/S4fAdg-8HCI/AAAAAAAAAfE/RVXTnmHktR0/s1600-h/3865940471_7cfc6ffa72.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/S4fAdg-8HCI/AAAAAAAAAfE/RVXTnmHktR0/s320/3865940471_7cfc6ffa72.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442530288003193890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Side A:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Liam Finn – Better to Be&lt;br /&gt;Passion Pit – Sleepyhead&lt;br /&gt;My Bloody Valentine – Only Shallow&lt;br /&gt;The Very Most – Bleess&lt;br /&gt;Tokyo Police Club – Cut Cut Paste&lt;br /&gt;Erland and the Carnival – Trouble in Mind&lt;br /&gt;Billie the Vision &amp;amp; The Dancers – A Beautiful Night in Oslo&lt;br /&gt;Gregory and the Hawk – Stone Wall, Stone Fence&lt;br /&gt;Spoon – Written in Reverse&lt;br /&gt;Oh No Oh My – Walk in the Park&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Side B:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jenny Owen Youngs – Fuck Was I&lt;br /&gt;Iron &amp;amp; Wine – Hickory&lt;br /&gt;Oxford Collapse – Please Visit Your National Parks&lt;br /&gt;of Montreal – An Eluardian Instance&lt;br /&gt;Mirah – Million Miles&lt;br /&gt;Billie The Vision And The Dancers – Take Me to the Boats&lt;br /&gt;The Tallest Man on Earth – The Gardener&lt;br /&gt;Foy Vance – Homebird&lt;br /&gt;Wilco – Sky Blue Sky&lt;br /&gt;The Very Most – April Is The Kindest Month&lt;br /&gt;John, Shelly and the Creatures – Long May You Reign&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want a copy, drop me a comment or send me a mail to chip@indieawesome.com In other news, can't wait for &lt;a href="http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/"&gt;BRMC&lt;/a&gt;'s new album next month, and &lt;a href="http://www.axecop.com/"&gt;Axe Cop&lt;/a&gt; is the best comic ever made. Last week's poll says people have all their music on their computer... Really? All of it? Today's photo is by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/owlbookdreams/"&gt;owlbookdreams&lt;/a&gt;... A very talented person from Canadaland.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-2663666177735382546?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Erland+and+the+carnival/_/Trouble+in+Mind?autostart"&gt;Erland And The Carnival&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Awesome indie folky rock from the UK.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/theamazingfew"&gt;The Amazing Few&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Our favorite rockabilly punk indie band has new songs up!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/theverymost"&gt;The Very Most&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Happy indie from Boise, Idaho.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/theblackstrands"&gt;The Black Strands&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Shoegazy rock, a la BRMC.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/eFAJFFzVdMQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><feedburner:origLink>http://del.icio.us/indieawesome#2010-02-17</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0EGQ3o8fip7ImA9WxBWEk4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-7674801123618230912</id><published>2010-02-03T22:43:00.003Z</published><updated>2010-02-03T23:27:02.476Z</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-02-03T23:27:02.476Z</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="alternative electro bus funk" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Indie pop" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="boise" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="the very most" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="idaho" /><title>So Very, Very Most</title><content type="html">&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Ok&lt;/span&gt;, again we let our concentration lapse. We go to the gigs, we talk about the musics, and yet we don't write any of it down. Time to dust the cobwebs off the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;ol&lt;/span&gt;' blog, and see if this thing still works.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/S2oDn9LtFiI/AAAAAAAAAd4/VD1Pdrg277M/s1600-h/The%2BVery%2BMost%2Bsmileyband.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/S2oDn9LtFiI/AAAAAAAAAd4/VD1Pdrg277M/s320/The%2BVery%2BMost%2Bsmileyband.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434159885349361186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, today is new band time. &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/theverymost"&gt;The Very Most&lt;/a&gt;. Idaho's best indie pop band, even if they do think all the best bands  come from Scotland (they're right though). Happy go-lucky indie pop so make you feel good inside. There's a unique mix of folksy acoustic guitars and funky &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;synths&lt;/span&gt;. To quote the &lt;a href="http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/the-very-most-congratulations-forever/Content?oid=936774"&gt;Boise Weekly&lt;/a&gt;, "Most songs are in a major key and tend to bounce around like a carefree  child in an inflatable carnival jumping house".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, the Boise Weekly can be oddly specific at times. A Year With The Very Most, a compilation of their last four &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;EPs&lt;/span&gt; was released a few weeks ago. Go &lt;a href="http://www.ayearwiththeverymost.com/"&gt;listen to it here&lt;/a&gt;! If you live in Dublin you can find it in &lt;a href="http://www.roadrecs.com/"&gt;Road Records&lt;/a&gt;, or if you live in Boise you can find it in &lt;a href="http://www.buymusichere.net/stores/recordexchange/"&gt;The Record Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-7674801123618230912?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/ARRhORw27Mg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/7674801123618230912/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3506325123283220029&amp;postID=7674801123618230912&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/7674801123618230912?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/7674801123618230912?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/ARRhORw27Mg/so-very-very-most.html" title="So Very, Very Most" /><author><name>Chip</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13815675941169372315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SXEcSA2cS5I/AAAAAAAAAL0/Z-2AEO1yr4Q/S220/Christmas+Party.png.png" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/S2oDn9LtFiI/AAAAAAAAAd4/VD1Pdrg277M/s72-c/The%2BVery%2BMost%2Bsmileyband.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" /><feedburner:origLink>http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2010/02/so-very-very-most.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUQFQnw_fyp7ImA9WxNWEU4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-3327638369206570991</id><published>2009-10-09T12:19:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-10T01:08:33.247+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-10-10T01:08:33.247+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="indie awesome" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="acoustic indie" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="indie folk" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="the tallest man on earth" /><title>For Conor...</title><content type="html">Well, it would seem we neglected the blog again. As happens from time to time. But what's a little time off between friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Ss_PepwsBSI/AAAAAAAAAWc/Gd1g2fh77Q0/s1600-h/tallest.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Ss_PepwsBSI/AAAAAAAAAWc/Gd1g2fh77Q0/s320/tallest.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390755404498863394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways, here's someone surprisingly good. &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Tallest+Man+on+Earth"&gt;The Tallest Man On Earth&lt;/a&gt;, Swedish folk singer Kristian Matsson's solo stage incarnation. Best described as like a Swedish &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Sun+Kil+Moon"&gt;Sun Kil Moon&lt;/a&gt;, he songs are a brilliant example of that lovely folksy sound that just captivates you. Having recently seen him in Whelans, I was surprised by the number of people who were there (and knew the words to sing along too), so this is definitely something to look into. There's a good few of his videos up on &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Tallest+Man+on+Earth/+videos"&gt;last.fm&lt;/a&gt; and on the &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/thetallestmanonearth"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;, so check them out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today's lovely photo is by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/karlg/"&gt;Karl Gunnarsson&lt;/a&gt;, Icelandic man living in Sweden. I bet you're all jealous of him.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-3327638369206570991?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/atz_pt1C5to" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/3327638369206570991/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3506325123283220029&amp;postID=3327638369206570991&amp;isPopup=true" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/3327638369206570991?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/3327638369206570991?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/atz_pt1C5to/for-conor.html" title="For Conor..." /><author><name>Chip</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13815675941169372315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SXEcSA2cS5I/AAAAAAAAAL0/Z-2AEO1yr4Q/S220/Christmas+Party.png.png" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Ss_PepwsBSI/AAAAAAAAAWc/Gd1g2fh77Q0/s72-c/tallest.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" /><feedburner:origLink>http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2009/10/for-conor.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0YGQXk8fSp7ImA9WxNREko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-5822590620099345620</id><published>2009-09-06T21:39:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-09-06T22:05:20.775+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-09-06T22:05:20.775+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="random" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="manchester orchestra" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="indie rock" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="mean everything to nothing" /><title>Note To All Orchestras, You Should Sound More Like This</title><content type="html">I was going to continue talking about &lt;a href="http://www.timesonline.com/"&gt;The Times&lt;/a&gt; today, but I've something much more important... A new band!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the way from Atlanta, Georgia come &lt;a href="http://www.themanchesterorchestra.com/"&gt;Manchester Orchestra&lt;/a&gt;, indie rock with a bit of everything else thrown in. After hearing about these guys from a friend, and missing out seeing them playing, I went out and got their album. I ended up buying their newest one, &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Manchester+Orchestra/Mean+Everything+to+Nothing"&gt;Mean Everything To Nothing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SqQjHqJAp6I/AAAAAAAAAVk/w1tT83Z72Ko/s1600-h/manchester.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SqQjHqJAp6I/AAAAAAAAAVk/w1tT83Z72Ko/s320/manchester.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378462469465352098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their sound is a strange mix of almost everything, but it stays together with a sense of continuity. Formed in 2005, we're clearly dealing with proper music fans here... You can hear &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;influcence&lt;/span&gt; from Grunge, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Shoegaze&lt;/span&gt; and Folk, all thrown together, all expertly performed, and the end result is something that will amaze you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The photo is by a mysterious man called only "&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/thebrady/"&gt;Brady&lt;/a&gt;" and who has an interesting &lt;a href="http://bradyrosino.com/"&gt;photo blog&lt;/a&gt;. I wonder if it would be possible to do our blog using only photos and still get our style of semi-coherent music reviews across...?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-5822590620099345620?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/isZUOeYvBVo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/5822590620099345620/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3506325123283220029&amp;postID=5822590620099345620&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/5822590620099345620?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/5822590620099345620?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/isZUOeYvBVo/note-to-all-orchestras-you-should-sound.html" title="Note To All Orchestras, You Should Sound More Like This" /><author><name>Chip</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13815675941169372315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SXEcSA2cS5I/AAAAAAAAAL0/Z-2AEO1yr4Q/S220/Christmas+Party.png.png" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SqQjHqJAp6I/AAAAAAAAAVk/w1tT83Z72Ko/s72-c/manchester.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" /><feedburner:origLink>http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2009/09/note-to-all-orchestras-you-should-sound.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUcFRXY7cSp7ImA9WxNSGE8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-6546696203006235715</id><published>2009-09-01T16:50:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2009-09-01T17:36:54.809+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-09-01T17:36:54.809+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="weezer" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="brmc" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="the horrors" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="MGMT" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="pants" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="those darn critics" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="elbow" /><title>Better the second time around?</title><content type="html">Well after a month off, we're back and more indie than ever I suppose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In The Times newspaper, in which the music reviewers attempted to be "hip" and "with it" in discussing &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Horrors"&gt;The Horrors&lt;/a&gt; new album, they raised an interesting and valid question... How many times has a band's second album better than their first?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Sp1M0hBsf4I/AAAAAAAAAVc/u4ED32MWITc/s1600-h/shop.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Sp1M0hBsf4I/AAAAAAAAAVc/u4ED32MWITc/s320/shop.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376537995252629378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sure, there have been great examples of bands crashing and burning. The more commercial the band, usually the worse they do. There's a ton of bands today, that are favorites of the critics, that aren't going to make an album as well received as their first. And it'll be compared to their first, and they'll be assumed to have lost, whatever it is they had. This is the doom I foresee for bands like &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/MGMT"&gt;MGMT&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The more subtle version of this is when a second album is despised by critics but then goes on to be well received by fans and eventually by critics many, many years later. Good examples of this are &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Weezer"&gt;Weezer&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Weezer/Pinkerton"&gt;Pinkerton&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Black+Rebel+Motorcycle+Club"&gt;BRMC&lt;/a&gt;'s "&lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Black+Rebel+Motorcycle+Club/Take+Them+On%2C+On+Your+Own"&gt;Take Them On, On Your Own&lt;/a&gt;". Taking this to it's logical conclusion, you get Elbow, who's first album, though not hated by critics, went mostly unnoticed, then 14 years later they come up with &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Elbow/The+Seldom+Seen+Kid"&gt;The Seldom Seen Kid&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, what bands do you know who out did themselves the second time around?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and today's photo is from &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/oemebamo/"&gt;Jurriaan Persyn&lt;/a&gt;, who's a bit of a jazz enthusiast it would seem. And according to last month's poll, radio is dead. I'll go tell those pesky radio presenters to pack it in finally.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-6546696203006235715?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/PzKvqw5tAiE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/6546696203006235715/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3506325123283220029&amp;postID=6546696203006235715&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/6546696203006235715?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/6546696203006235715?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/PzKvqw5tAiE/better-second-time-around.html" title="Better the second time around?" /><author><name>Chip</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13815675941169372315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SXEcSA2cS5I/AAAAAAAAAL0/Z-2AEO1yr4Q/S220/Christmas+Party.png.png" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Sp1M0hBsf4I/AAAAAAAAAVc/u4ED32MWITc/s72-c/shop.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" /><feedburner:origLink>http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2009/09/better-second-time-around.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DU8EQXwzfyp7ImA9WxJbF0U.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-8945899806568900231</id><published>2009-07-28T14:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-07-28T14:30:00.287+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-07-28T14:30:00.287+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="casiokids" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Norway" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Indie pop" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="of montreal" /><title>Children! To your keyboards!</title><content type="html">Here's a band that impressed me a long time ago... We'll like 3 months ago, when they were supporting &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/of+Montreal"&gt;of Montreal&lt;/a&gt;, but seeing them at Oxegen jogged my memory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/casiokids"&gt;Casiokids&lt;/a&gt; are a Norwegian indie-something band. Not quite pop, or as last.fm might describe them electronic. Whatever it is it's very experimental.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Sm5BWxmDnKI/AAAAAAAAAVU/bcl2BtRy9RU/s1600-h/casiokids.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Sm5BWxmDnKI/AAAAAAAAAVU/bcl2BtRy9RU/s320/casiokids.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363296065770724514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They're something different to see live. There's lots of things going on, on stage. People on keyboards, guitars, extra drums, and shaking little maracas and the likes. I can't really describe their music properly with words. It's a mix of rock, pop, electro, shoegaze. I'd just call them a Scandinavian Explosions In The Sky.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check their stuff out on &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/casiokids"&gt;Myspace&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Casiokids"&gt;Last.fm&lt;/a&gt;. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. Thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/jonhefel/"&gt;Jon Reksten&lt;/a&gt; for the awesome photo&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-8945899806568900231?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/XoxL-ccyYjQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/2528564011947278816/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3506325123283220029&amp;postID=2528564011947278816&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/2528564011947278816?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/2528564011947278816?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/XoxL-ccyYjQ/indie-jesus.html" title="Indie Jesus!" /><author><name>Seb Berkovich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07514337172599257449</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_t95CPgxTR7w/SX8oidvTxLI/AAAAAAAAAK8/_8EnvOlsQkw/S220/berko.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" /><feedburner:origLink>http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2009/07/indie-jesus.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0UFRXgyeyp7ImA9WxJVGUU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-3201330546129688039</id><published>2009-07-07T16:17:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-07-07T16:40:14.693+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-07-07T16:40:14.693+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="video" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Indie" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="indie story" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="children" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Dimitri Frazao" /><title>A Story For Little Indie Folk</title><content type="html">i've always objected to fairy tails that encourages children to accept other people's differences in some sort of mutual respect thing.&lt;br /&gt;Why not a story where one idiot.. let's call him Colin the mango. Gets talking to Kevin the microwave. Colin says&lt;br /&gt;"hey there, have you heard of Lady GaGa, she's makes great music". "nope your confusing music with contrived bullshit" says Kevin who walks away never to have to listen to Colin's shit ever again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it may need some fleshing out, but the content is probably about right. anyway for people who are interested in a story with a lovely indie life lession, one that perhaps isn't quite harsh enough, but it's a good start, take a gander at &lt;a href="http://www.blatube.com/watch/?v=YASjqtXzZck"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YASjqtXzZck&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YASjqtXzZck&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x234900&amp;amp;color2=0x4e9e00" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it was created by an american guy called Dimitri Frazao, who has other stuff to &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/dimitrifrazao"&gt;watch here&lt;/a&gt;. keep up the good work&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-3201330546129688039?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/lindaTivSiw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/3201330546129688039/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3506325123283220029&amp;postID=3201330546129688039&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/3201330546129688039?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/3201330546129688039?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/lindaTivSiw/story-for-little-indie-folk.html" title="A Story For Little Indie Folk" /><author><name>Seb Berkovich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07514337172599257449</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_t95CPgxTR7w/SX8oidvTxLI/AAAAAAAAAK8/_8EnvOlsQkw/S220/berko.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" /><feedburner:origLink>http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2009/07/story-for-little-indie-folk.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkIARHg-fyp7ImA9WxJVEkU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-9206292332186228716</id><published>2009-06-29T15:54:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-29T16:15:45.657+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-06-29T16:15:45.657+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="major record lables" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="indie charts" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="indie label" /><title>An Indie Chart For Indie Music!</title><content type="html">There has never been an official indie chart that properly represented indie music. You might find they have some Fat Cat Records band or Asthmatic kitten show up in there but they're generally swamped in main stream marketed indie, bands i dare not even name... so it's about damn time that an effort has been made to kick the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_label"&gt;big 4 labels&lt;/a&gt; out of Indie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t95CPgxTR7w/SkjaV0znmvI/AAAAAAAAAOM/1M_OrW7MtOQ/s1600-h/om2.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 326px; height: 343px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t95CPgxTR7w/SkjaV0znmvI/AAAAAAAAAOM/1M_OrW7MtOQ/s320/om2.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352768225617091314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As of today, the first truly official indie charts are being published in the UK. these do not contain any artist on any of the big 4 and more importantly no record lable that is any less than 50% owned by an independent source. we may actually see the first time when the big 4 can't buy themselves into a chart!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Independents Breakers charts as they are known will rang both singles and albums, and as i said the first charts will be released today. sadly they appear to have a non-existent web presence. which will change i hope after a little while, so do your best to support that newest way to find great indie music, and perhaps finally kill off the major label monopoly&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-9206292332186228716?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/iju9sxqTAmc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/9206292332186228716/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3506325123283220029&amp;postID=9206292332186228716&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/9206292332186228716?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/9206292332186228716?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/iju9sxqTAmc/indie-chart-for-indie-music.html" title="An Indie Chart For Indie Music!" /><author><name>Seb Berkovich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07514337172599257449</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_t95CPgxTR7w/SX8oidvTxLI/AAAAAAAAAK8/_8EnvOlsQkw/S220/berko.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t95CPgxTR7w/SkjaV0znmvI/AAAAAAAAAOM/1M_OrW7MtOQ/s72-c/om2.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" /><feedburner:origLink>http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2009/06/indie-chart-for-indie-music.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUIFRHc7cCp7ImA9WxJWF0o.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-7467112720892019167</id><published>2009-06-23T16:15:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-23T17:11:55.908+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-06-23T17:11:55.908+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Spinnerette" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="punk" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="The Distillers" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Queens of the Stone Age" /><title>Remember The Distillers?</title><content type="html">I sure do, and how I loved them. And after their 2006 demise, they left a bit of a gap in the music scene. Trust Brody Dalle and Tony&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Bevilacqua to come up with something, and something good at that. Now add Jack Irons (former drummer of Pearl Jam, amongst others) and Alain Johannes (one of the many former guitarists of Queens of the Stone Age), and the result is &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Spinnerette"&gt;Spinnerette&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I only heard the album last week, and was quite impressed, though looking at my desk there's a copy of Kerrang from March which raves about these guys (note to self, clean my desk). Incidentally, never trust anything anyone says in any magazine, it's just nice to read though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SkD2C0TAExI/AAAAAAAAAUM/lYjH3VXOfw4/s1600-h/spinnerette.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SkD2C0TAExI/AAAAAAAAAUM/lYjH3VXOfw4/s320/spinnerette.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350546885574660882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But back to the music, just think of Queens of the Stone Age, with a female vocalist (who incidentally can't sing as high as Josh Homme, though that says more about him than it detracts from her). The music is quite well composed, heavy distorted bass, heavy drums, and very, very grungy guitars. Brody's voice suits the music perfectly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The one negative thing I will say is that some of the songs (namely "Geeking" and "Sex Bomb") seem a bit long and repetitive. If they were a bit shorter, they'd be perfectly fine. That being said I'll let it go, the rest of the album is brilliant. The best songs have to be "Ghetto Love" and "Baptized By Fire" both available on their &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/spinnerettemusic"&gt;Myspace&lt;/a&gt; for your listening pleasure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few unrelated things... A review of Gregory and The Hawk in Whelans will be up on my &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/user/ronanmc/journal"&gt;last.fm &lt;/a&gt;page soon. It was pretty awesome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A belated thanks to our friend Robin at &lt;a href="http://forwardmusic.wordpress.com/"&gt;Forward Music&lt;/a&gt; for his kind words earlier in the month, who's blog is now year old and who's new website puts ours to shame (stay tuned for a whole new design soon. I'll get around to it eventually).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/carradine65/"&gt;something.from.nancy&lt;/a&gt; for the awesome picture of Spinnerette today. She's Female, she's taken, and she sells clothes on &lt;a href="http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/something*from*nancy_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZ"&gt;ebay&lt;/a&gt;. So check her pictures and the clothes out.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-7467112720892019167?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/1qC_1-YONmg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/7467112720892019167/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3506325123283220029&amp;postID=7467112720892019167&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/7467112720892019167?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/7467112720892019167?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/1qC_1-YONmg/remember-distillers.html" title="Remember The Distillers?" /><author><name>Chip</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13815675941169372315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SXEcSA2cS5I/AAAAAAAAAL0/Z-2AEO1yr4Q/S220/Christmas+Party.png.png" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SkD2C0TAExI/AAAAAAAAAUM/lYjH3VXOfw4/s72-c/spinnerette.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" /><feedburner:origLink>http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2009/06/remember-distillers.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkAAQnw4eip7ImA9WxJWFEk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-5276478263408010599</id><published>2009-06-12T15:16:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-19T21:52:23.232+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-06-19T21:52:23.232+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Scotish Indie" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Belle and Sebastian" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="God Help The Girl" /><title>God Help Belle</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/28122769/God+Help+The+Girl+3512791705_20b92af360.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 406px; height: 406px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/28122769/God+Help+The+Girl+3512791705_20b92af360.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well Belle and Sebastian have been pretty quite for a long while the last thing they released was just an album of stuff they did with the BBC. Turns out Stuart Murdoch has been writing songs for a girl group he decided to create. which makes a lot of sense, Belle and Sebastian has always been a bit let down by the range of their female vocalists. So what &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/pleasegodhelpthegirl"&gt;God Help The Girl&lt;/a&gt; seems to be is a load of songs Stuart wrote as an excuse to hang around with 3 beautiful women. Good for him. They have a nice little sample playing on their myspace page, Come Monday Night is a lovely little number here's the video&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XxmrKav8gUM&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XxmrKav8gUM&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If i was to be cynical about it i would say that it's basically just Belle and Sebastian being re-branded with some added sex appeal. But i'm not cynical, just jealous that i could never go around asking girls to be in a new band i'm forming without coming across like a bit of a weirdo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-5276478263408010599?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/42n87rQoaoU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/5276478263408010599/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3506325123283220029&amp;postID=5276478263408010599&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/5276478263408010599?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/5276478263408010599?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/42n87rQoaoU/god-help-belle.html" title="God Help Belle" /><author><name>Seb Berkovich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07514337172599257449</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_t95CPgxTR7w/SX8oidvTxLI/AAAAAAAAAK8/_8EnvOlsQkw/S220/berko.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" /><feedburner:origLink>http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2009/06/god-help-belle.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CE8GSHc9fCp7ImA9WxJXFkg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-5619439837821341320</id><published>2009-06-10T18:14:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-10T17:53:49.964+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-06-10T17:53:49.964+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="last.fm" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="deezer" /><title>A Last.fm Alternative</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Si_kD3lZ8ZI/AAAAAAAAATs/U1RIbUIzAwI/s1600-h/Last.fm_Logo_Red.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 57px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Si_kD3lZ8ZI/AAAAAAAAATs/U1RIbUIzAwI/s320/Last.fm_Logo_Red.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345742037823648146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It may be finally time to leave &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/"&gt;last.fm&lt;/a&gt;. It hurts me to say it, but it's true. Unless you are one of the lucky few who live in the UK, the US or Germany (those lucky few numbering in the several hundred million),  you may have noticed you have to pay now to listen to music on last.fm.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This trend was started last year when &lt;a href="http://www.pandora.com/"&gt;Pandora&lt;/a&gt; decided to block all non-US listeners. Pandora was quite the useful tool in finding new and interesting bands, but since it didn't have the social aspect to it, never had the same appeal to me as Last.fm did. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In fairness, last.fm are only charging €3 a month to listen, so it's not that bad, but that's still infinitely more than free. Though all the rest of the site (the charts, the gig listings, the whole social side of it) remains free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Si_jw1NA1LI/AAAAAAAAATk/4K9rN_mQEi4/s1600-h/deezer_3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 112px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Si_jw1NA1LI/AAAAAAAAATk/4K9rN_mQEi4/s320/deezer_3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345741710766953650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;One interesting alternative, is &lt;a href="http://www.deezer.com/"&gt;Deezer&lt;/a&gt;. Deezer seems to be quite similar to last.fm in many ways, except it's a little flashier (There's a pun in there for all you web nerds). Although I like it, it just doesn't have the ease of use that last.fm does and although I'm not sure, it doesn't have half the cool awesome indie people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I might just stay with last.fm anyway. It mightn't be free, but it's home. And home is where the indie is after all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-5619439837821341320?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/CvN1dlZwGs4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/5619439837821341320/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3506325123283220029&amp;postID=5619439837821341320&amp;isPopup=true" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/5619439837821341320?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/5619439837821341320?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/CvN1dlZwGs4/lastfm-alternative.html" title="A Last.fm Alternative" /><author><name>Chip</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13815675941169372315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SXEcSA2cS5I/AAAAAAAAAL0/Z-2AEO1yr4Q/S220/Christmas+Party.png.png" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Si_kD3lZ8ZI/AAAAAAAAATs/U1RIbUIzAwI/s72-c/Last.fm_Logo_Red.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" /><feedburner:origLink>http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2009/05/lastfm-alternative.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><title type="text">Links for 2009-06-09 [del.icio.us]</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/I6AUhotOvr8/indieawesome" /><updated>2009-06-10T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>http://del.icio.us/indieawesome#2009-06-09</id><content type="html">&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/hockey"&gt;Hockey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Funky summer tunes.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/thedyingseconds"&gt;The Dying Seconds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Experimental Melodramatic Popular Song&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/I6AUhotOvr8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><feedburner:origLink>http://del.icio.us/indieawesome#2009-06-09</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEMHQX44eyp7ImA9WxJXFUg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-8155726450955051416</id><published>2009-06-09T14:50:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-09T15:07:10.033+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-06-09T15:07:10.033+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Indie" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="experimental" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="the dying seconds" /><title>Dying to be heard</title><content type="html">Alight, after a few weeks off fighting for indie in the Irish elections we're back and here to inform you of the next band you should already know about.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Si5rkiJwiLI/AAAAAAAAATM/EPjU9xP768E/s1600-h/The%2BDying%2BSeconds%2BIMG_5930.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Si5rkiJwiLI/AAAAAAAAATM/EPjU9xP768E/s320/The%2BDying%2BSeconds%2BIMG_5930.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345328083122555058" style="cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wemakeweapons.com/"&gt;The Dying Seconds&lt;/a&gt; are Electro-Indie-Pop band from Dublin. It's a very experimental sound, which I won't even bother to attempt to describe. Now in their second year together they'll be releasing their second EP, "Some Grand Romantic Gestures" next Tuesday in Whelans.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Their &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/the+dying+seconds"&gt;l&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/the+dying+seconds"&gt;ast.fm&lt;/a&gt; page has all the songs from their first EP "Seconds" available for free download, which already puts them in my good books. The fact the music sounds awesome makes it even better. So get yourself their music, and get yourself to the gig. I know I will.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-8155726450955051416?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/Xts-BEiABZo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/8155726450955051416/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3506325123283220029&amp;postID=8155726450955051416&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/8155726450955051416?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/8155726450955051416?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/Xts-BEiABZo/dying-to-be-heard.html" title="Dying to be heard" /><author><name>Chip</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13815675941169372315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SXEcSA2cS5I/AAAAAAAAAL0/Z-2AEO1yr4Q/S220/Christmas+Party.png.png" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Si5rkiJwiLI/AAAAAAAAATM/EPjU9xP768E/s72-c/The%2BDying%2BSeconds%2BIMG_5930.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" /><feedburner:origLink>http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2009/06/dying-to-be-heard.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0MESHgyeCp7ImA9WxJRGE4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-6393386732434824854</id><published>2009-05-20T17:46:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-20T18:10:09.690+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-05-20T18:10:09.690+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ezio" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="whelans" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="indie rock" /><title>The Easy choice...</title><content type="html">Summer means more time, later nights and lots of gigs. Time to start looking in our favorite place in town to go, Whelan's. The next few weeks of gigs wasn't looking too promising until I stumbled across these guys...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/ShQ49wv2L7I/AAAAAAAAAR0/xXKJ5frCGPs/s320/ezio.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337954092049641394" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ezio are a British Acoustic-y Rock indie band from Cambridge. They're similar to Elbow, in so far as they've been going since 1990 and have yet to make it into the mainstream. It's always good to see bands going for that length of time without the desire to get rich/famous and sell out into the popular music scene.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The songs they write are quite varied, with interesting influences from classics like The Stones or The Who mixed with a good bit of originality. Head over to their &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/eziouk"&gt;Myspace&lt;/a&gt; page. The songs to listen to are "Higher" and "Woohoohoo (Song for a fired waitress)".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;They'll be playing upstairs in Whelan's, on Sunday 24th. I think you'll know where we'll be. Today's lovely photo comes from someone, known only as &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/r_rose/"&gt;Rachel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-6393386732434824854?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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Now i think it's time to name our main contender for the title....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Miranda July&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/2990127/Miranda+July.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 752px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/2990127/Miranda+July.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This lovely lady from the indie capital of the America; Portland, Oregon has been able to create some really special work, in so many different mediums that it's hard to know exactly where to start. So i think i'll start with my first introduction to Miranda, which was a film which she, wrote, directed and stared in. &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415978/"&gt;Me and You and Everyone We Know&lt;/a&gt;, this is a great platform to begin the journey into Miranda's work. The movie gives away the theme of most of Miranda's work. Take very average everyday people, add just a drop of weird to each of them and suddenly you've got a whole lot of weird, that your going to think seems perfectly normal, because the moral of the story is that everyone is in fact a little weird. This is a fantastic film, and it's worth your time to get it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t95CPgxTR7w/ShF31rGHhHI/AAAAAAAAAOE/0Ptt_HLdBBE/s1600-h/Me-and-You-and-Everyone-DVD.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t95CPgxTR7w/ShF31rGHhHI/AAAAAAAAAOE/0Ptt_HLdBBE/s320/Me-and-You-and-Everyone-DVD.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337178797395903602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other fronts she has a website where she would ask people to participate in doing something like &lt;a href="http://learningtoloveyoumore.com/reports/11/11.php"&gt;(Assignment #11)  Photograph a scar and write about it&lt;/a&gt;, people do so and you've got yourself an online exhibit. &lt;a href="http://learningtoloveyoumore.com/index.php"&gt;take a look here&lt;/a&gt;. there's some really interesting ones.&lt;br /&gt;She also has herself a very odd experimental&lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Miranda+July"&gt; spoken word album&lt;/a&gt; as well as a really enjoyable book of short stories called &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Belongs-Here-More-Than/dp/1847671160/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1242658825&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;No One Belongs Here More Than You&lt;/a&gt;. There is lots more stuff out there that Miranda is up to and it's a lot of fun searching around and trying to find what she's up to next. i've certainly become a big fan of hers.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-936532620549453171?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/MxAsosexl50" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/936532620549453171/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3506325123283220029&amp;postID=936532620549453171&amp;isPopup=true" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/936532620549453171?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/936532620549453171?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/MxAsosexl50/queen-of-indie.html" title="The Queen of Indie?" /><author><name>Seb Berkovich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07514337172599257449</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_t95CPgxTR7w/SX8oidvTxLI/AAAAAAAAAK8/_8EnvOlsQkw/S220/berko.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t95CPgxTR7w/ShF31rGHhHI/AAAAAAAAAOE/0Ptt_HLdBBE/s72-c/Me-and-You-and-Everyone-DVD.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" /><feedburner:origLink>http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2009/05/queen-of-indie.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEQBR30yeCp7ImA9WxJSGUU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-7800311389125663261</id><published>2009-05-10T19:48:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-10T20:05:56.390+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-05-10T20:05:56.390+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Indie pop" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="passion pit" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Indie music" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Manners" /><title>This'll put Manners on ya!</title><content type="html">New York Indie pop favorites, &lt;a href="http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;ct=res&amp;amp;cd=5&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.last.fm%2Fmusic%2FPassion%2BPit&amp;amp;ei=ACQHSvfoN-PRjAetn_z4Ag&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHAPPT30Fn3BrS-Ss2623xnJmOqZQ&amp;amp;sig2=pwmPteszoVZYErEnLmCdNA"&gt;Passion Pit&lt;/a&gt; are back... and this time with an album. Their EP &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Passion+Pit/Chunk+Of+Change"&gt;Chunk of Change&lt;/a&gt; was one of the best EP's I've heard in a long while. It subsequently spent nearly three months on repeat on my music player.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Sgcj7jywcyI/AAAAAAAAAQk/761gLwf_yUk/s1600-h/manners.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 317px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Sgcj7jywcyI/AAAAAAAAAQk/761gLwf_yUk/s320/manners.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334271789771027234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The album is exactly what you'd expect from these guys. "&lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Passion+Pit/Manners"&gt;Manners&lt;/a&gt;" brilliant collection of indie pop tunes in that certain indie style you get from having three people playing keyboards at the same time. There's definitely some awesome songs, "Little Secrets" is one of my favorites, and only one song, "Sleephead", made it from the EP to the LP. It seems to me that is has been re-produced in a subtly different way (if I'm imagining this, which is a distinct possibility, do tell me). There's a few more slower, more introspective songs, like "Swimming in the Flood", to contrast all their usual upbeat stuff you've come to expect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One song I do not like, is "The Reeling", the single off the album. It sounds like something off the soundtrack to a movie in the 1980's. It just seems to be lacking in that originality that I love from these guys.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Head over to their &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/passionpitjams"&gt;Myspace&lt;/a&gt; page to hear some of the lovely tracks...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-7800311389125663261?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/otlls-8_xlc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/7800311389125663261/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3506325123283220029&amp;postID=7800311389125663261&amp;isPopup=true" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/7800311389125663261?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/7800311389125663261?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/otlls-8_xlc/thisll-put-manners-on-ya.html" title="This'll put Manners on ya!" /><author><name>Chip</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13815675941169372315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SXEcSA2cS5I/AAAAAAAAAL0/Z-2AEO1yr4Q/S220/Christmas+Party.png.png" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/Sgcj7jywcyI/AAAAAAAAAQk/761gLwf_yUk/s72-c/manners.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" /><feedburner:origLink>http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2009/05/thisll-put-manners-on-ya.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEQBR3czfSp7ImA9WxJSE00.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-1727787329832858164</id><published>2009-04-28T18:00:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-02T23:12:36.985+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-05-02T23:12:36.985+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="summer indie" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="black market radio" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="black rebel motorcycle club" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tokyo police club" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Summer" /><title>Summertime Indie!</title><content type="html">Well, after a busy couple of weeks and some awful neglect of the blog, it's time to get back to the indie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have noticed that (at least with me) each year certain albums tend to dominate my summer playlists. Although it is a little too early to tell what these are going to be yet, it's worth a look back at what was the sound of last summer...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SfzEdgwugsI/AAAAAAAAAQc/Xzd-hUdIjXs/s1600-h/summer"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SfzEdgwugsI/AAAAAAAAAQc/Xzd-hUdIjXs/s320/summer" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331352070189384386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Black+Rebel+Motorcycle+Club/Screaming+Gun"&gt;Scream Gun EP - BRMC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got a copy of this hard to come by EP off a friend and it I instantly became addicted. Consisting of 5 songs that didn't make it on to their debut album, including Fail-Safe (possibly one of their best work to date).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Black+Market+Radio"&gt;Better Than A Killer - Black Market Radio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suggested to my by indieawesome friend &lt;a href="http://wwww.last.fm/user/kevwotton"&gt;Kev&lt;/a&gt;. Peter Cornell (brother of Chris) along with 3 friends. Possibly one of the best grunge albums I've ever heard. I must have listened to this hundreds of times, and didn't get sick of it. I'm still not sure if BMR are still around (if you know please tell me), but I sure hope so because I'd love to go see them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Tokyo+Police+Club/Elephant+Shell"&gt;Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lovely happy indie pop. It's hard not to like music like this, and although every song it only about 2 minutes long (I don't think they'd work if they were longer), and the album is quite short, it does make for good summertime listening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lovely summery photograph is by Stathis Stavrianos, who titled the photo "Summer Wasting..." after the Belle &amp;amp; Sebastian song... Looks like someone know's his indie&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-1727787329832858164?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/Vz2WUVClX1Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/5799853308705212669/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3506325123283220029&amp;postID=5799853308705212669&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/5799853308705212669?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/5799853308705212669?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/Vz2WUVClX1Y/camera-obscura.html" title="Camera Obscura!" /><author><name>Seb Berkovich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07514337172599257449</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="24" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_t95CPgxTR7w/SX8oidvTxLI/AAAAAAAAAK8/_8EnvOlsQkw/S220/berko.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t95CPgxTR7w/SdyPjOR2IrI/AAAAAAAAAN8/QYpSMQgA8q0/s72-c/Camera%2BObscura.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" /><feedburner:origLink>http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2009/04/camera-obscura.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEUCRHk5cCp7ImA9WxVaEU8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3506325123283220029.post-6174302409417475435</id><published>2009-04-07T17:18:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-04-07T17:37:45.728+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-04-07T17:37:45.728+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Royksopp" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Indie music" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="junior" /><title>A Quick Review: Röyksopp - Junior</title><content type="html">If you haven't heard about this album yet, you must go out and get yourself a copy. Although they've been around for a good 8 years now, this album by far is their best. &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/R%C3%B6yksopp/Junior"&gt;Junior&lt;/a&gt;, is part of a two album project which examines two different sounds. Junior, is apparently an album for the Springtime. Very happy and upbeat. The second part, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_%28album%29"&gt;Senior&lt;/a&gt;, which is due out towards the end of the year, will be more moody and introspective. So, in part this could be considered a concept album, something we've seen a lot of in the past year from Franz Ferdinand's &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Franz+Ferdinand/Tonight:+Franz+Ferdinand"&gt;Tonight&lt;/a&gt; to of Montreal's &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/of+Montreal/Skeletal+Lamping"&gt;Skeletal Lamping&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SduABIW6vcI/AAAAAAAAAPE/hyAvZtEX3iY/s1600-h/royksopp_junior.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SduABIW6vcI/AAAAAAAAAPE/hyAvZtEX3iY/s320/royksopp_junior.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321988141580205506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first two songs off the album deserve much praise. Happy Up Here, which is a brilliant track by anyone's standards and The Girl and The Robot, which has Swedish singer Robyn on vocals, not that I'm a big fan of Robyn or anything. One song that is quite awful is Tricky Tricky, which features the lyric "Is six afraid of seven, because seven eight nine?" possibly one of the worst puns the world has seen this century. Though if you ignore the lyrics, the song is not that bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out they &lt;a href="http://royksopp.com/music"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; for some full track previews and their &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/royksopp"&gt;Myspace&lt;/a&gt; page for some interesting remixes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3506325123283220029-6174302409417475435?l=sebberkovich.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indieawesome/~4/i1QYOnl4JJE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/feeds/6174302409417475435/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3506325123283220029&amp;postID=6174302409417475435&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/6174302409417475435?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3506325123283220029/posts/default/6174302409417475435?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/i1QYOnl4JJE/quick-review-royksopp-junior.html" title="A Quick Review: Röyksopp - Junior" /><author><name>Chip</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13815675941169372315</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="21" height="32" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SXEcSA2cS5I/AAAAAAAAAL0/Z-2AEO1yr4Q/S220/Christmas+Party.png.png" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aBWNgnhQ-vI/SduABIW6vcI/AAAAAAAAAPE/hyAvZtEX3iY/s72-c/royksopp_junior.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><link rel="license" type="text/html" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" /><feedburner:origLink>http://sebberkovich.blogspot.com/2009/04/quick-review-royksopp-junior.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><title type="text">Links for 2009-01-30 [del.icio.us]</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/indieawesome/~3/2DRA5fSyByY/indieawesome" /><updated>2009-01-31T00:00:00-08:00</updated><id>http://del.icio.us/indieawesome#2009-01-30</id><content type="html">&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7964/regen1nt.gif"&gt;The Weather In Ireland RIGHT NOW&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
very depressing but true&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ofmontreal.net/videos/gronlandic-edit/"&gt;of Montreal &amp;raquo; Gronlandic Edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
a video that resembles they&amp;#039;re live show&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://thosearentmuskets.com/index.php"&gt;Those Aren't Muskets!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
funny video&amp;#039;s by funny guys&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://static0.blip.pl/user_generated/update_pictures/198204.jpg?1232704996"&gt;Life in Bottle terms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
life is explained&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://armorgames.com/play/107/portal-the-flash-version"&gt;Portal The Flash Version&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
yay! portal!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ideaity.com/archive/pride-prejudice-zombies/"&gt;Pride &amp;amp; Prejudice &amp;amp; Zombies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
yes! perfect&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/"&gt;Can You See the Sunset&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
A nice little place to read about and listen to music.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/"&gt;The Line Of Best Fit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Yet another music blog.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Oxford+Collapse"&gt;Oxford Collapse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
New York Indie Rock.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/okkervilriver"&gt;Okkervil River&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Indie Folk Rock. Awesome.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/itsamusicalberlin"&gt;It's A Musical&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Indescribable.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/kiddakota"&gt;Kid Dakota&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Indie rock/country?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/terhaar"&gt;Ter Harr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Lo-fi Indie Rock&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/mnconcertphotos/"&gt;Staciaann's Flickr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Some pretty awesome photos.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/user/ronanmc/journal/2009/01/12/2e81r0_making_up_for_lost_time"&gt;Making Up For Lost Time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Reviews from the gigs I&amp;#039;ve been to in the last few months...&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://forwardmusic.wordpress.com/"&gt;Forward Music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
The new home of one of our favorite indie blogs.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=fashion"&gt;Maddox's Fashion Tips&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Pretty funny...&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Agitated+Radio+Pilot"&gt;Agitated Radio Pilot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Nice, mellow, folk.&lt;/li&gt;
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