For any of you planning on making the festival rounds this summer (Sasquatch anyone?), there is definitely one band you should take the time to see. Formed by music students from Texas in 1999, Midlake blends folk rock and indie together in the telling of their brilliant and well crafted stories. Featured as a single [...]

Dirty, grungy, distorted, overexposed, and even skanky, are all words that feel right when describing Makeout Videotape’s turn on the Harry Nilsson classic I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York. The cassette-sounding rendition can be found on the Vancouver lo-fi/garage-rock duo’s limited-release EP “Heat Wave!”, which appears to be the only release-proper from the band [...]

Up today is some sublime lo-fi indie-rock/pop, care of Vancouver-based The Awkward Stage.  Consisting of frontman Shane Nelken, Tygh Runyan (Beans) on guitar, Tony Koelwyn (Bossanova) on drums, and Chris Mitchell who plays with the Vancouver Symphony on trumpet and keyboards, The Awkward Stage have two full-length releases to their name since forming in 2006. [...]

Now I know this song is a little more mainstream than I usually post, but its an amazingly underrated track and needs to be shared.  Coming from The White Stripes‘ Grammy winning 2003 release Elephant, Black Math can be found on side one following the wildly successful Seven Nation Army.  Receiving almost universal critical acclaim upon release, [...]

Tonight’s tune is coming much later than expected.  This is thanks to a buddy of mine, who came back from the dead to take me out for a beer (read: 6 beers) after work today.  Orange Marmalade comes from Mellowdrone’s debut full-length album Box, released in 2006.  Based out of Los Angeles, the indie-rock/lo-fi band [...]

Amazon put out a pretty cool list of the “100 Greatest Indie Rock Albums of All Time”, that I ran across yesterday.  It reminded me of a number of tunes that I absolutely love, and have yet to post.  One of the songs I want to highlight comes from, arguably, one of the greatest indie-rock [...]