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Posted by HoboEye in Music on 04 10th, 2011 | No Comments

Music: Typhoon, Portland, OR

Portland indie orchestra Typhoon turned many a critical head in 2010 after releasing their epic Hunger and Thirst on Tender Loving Empire. They were named as one of Portland’s best new bands by Willamette week, toured in support of Yann Tiersen, and opened for Belle & Sebastian and Avi...

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Music: The Hounds Below, Detroit, MI

The Hounds Below, from Detroit, Michigan, features Jason Stollsteimer, formerly of the Von Bondies, along with Ben Collins on guitar, and Ben Luckett on drums. Bridging a 1950s rock and roll vibe to a modern sensibility of indie pop, the Hounds Below have a distinct sound that is captured in every...

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Music: Metric, Toranto

When you hand over your money for a concert ticket, what are you really paying for: some idea of the performer you’ve gleaned from gazing longingly at album covers and compulsively clicking YouTube videos, or the performer as they choose to express themselves on that given day? Is the consumer...

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Music: Wolf People, UK

Tidings is the first dark and frenzied offering from London’s Wolf People — an alchemistic compendium of English classic rock that has been doused in wine, its pages left red-stained, blurred and melded in the most interesting ways. The quartet — and first UK rock band to join the...

Posted by HoboEye in Music on 12 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Music: Blood Red Shoes, UK

Blood Red Shoes is Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell. The band formed in late 2004 after previous bands broke up (they were called Lady Muck and Cat On Form respectively). Carter and Ansell didn’t really know each other that well but started writing songs they liked very quickly and then started...

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Music: Mexican Institute Of Sound, Mexico City

Camilo Lara never set out with the intention of taking his personal musical career seriously. At first, he was simply creating holiday mixes for friends. But then his friends convinced him that he should take his songs off his computer and into the studio. Now four years later, Lara, known as the Mexican...