Well, not quite but nearly. Picking up tips from the Big Book of Indie Publishing I’ll be sending out advance copies of Crashed America for review over the next few weeks. eBook only at this point and with the proviso that you’ll get it read and reviewed for a launch […]
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I once used a Ouiji board to get in touch with Steve Jobs and tell him that I thought his products were vastly overrated, his distribution system overly controlling and his company greedy and lawsuit happy. As an act of revenge he made me drop my Android phone and crack […]
Well, I figure a good first post on my new site would be one which answers a question which I’ve barely even asked myself so far, why Indie publishing? Now over the months to come there’s going to be more and more said about my novel (well, by me at […]
[bandcamp album=1199402859 bgcol=FFFFFF linkcol=4285BB size=grande3] Not my usual cup of tea but a nice enough dose of Electro Indie nonetheless.
The Wagner Logic – Easiest to Grab (Jamendo) The normal habit for people posting their work on Jamendo is to say ‘we can’t define ourselves by a genre’, which is annoying and usually completely untrue but such is life I suppose. A rather more bizarre habit though is to list genres […]
Ever cutting edge in my musical tastes I’m sitting down today to review an EP from 2006 that’s made by a band who have an album freshly released this year. Pitchfork and NME evidently have nothing on me, well, NME certainly doesn’t but in this day and age that’s not […]
Soup Indie is, as far as I know, a genre that I’m the only one to have ever mentioned. Which either makes it a unique act of observation worthy of one of the most transcendant geniuses of our time or, and this is the more likely reason, it’s just a […]
Stop, start, stop, start, stop, start. A curious album today. Technically I suppose it’d be ‘Indie’ and, unlike most, I do place some stock in the concept of genres given that most musicians who say they can’t define themselves in such an ordered manner are usually just a bit deluded […]
Emerging from the more interesting outer edges of Indie, where cross-overs and ‘influences’ are obligatory to prove that you’re not just making Indie (which no one ever gets enthusiastic about) comes Cameron Steele with an album which struggles to find the right balance throughout, although not always to bad effect.
A bit of a mongrel offering today with ‘Accountants By Day’ from Kescho, released on the Swedish net label 23 Seconds – from which on the first listen alone you can pick up hints of everyone from Donovan to The Libertines, via The Coral, The Fugs and any number of […]