January 2010
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Dead Times - I Love Myself and I Want to Live
I Love Myself and I Want to Live is the new release from Dead Times (originally released under Calvin Markus), currently only available as an exclusive download from A Future in Noise. Featured here with a soundtrack release on the label I started recently, Vulpiano Records, with Three Days of Sound: Music From the Film and an interview and originally on AFIN with Dead Times’ Midnight Glass...
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Burnt Fur - Halloween Session Demos (2009)
Boston group Burnt Fur are one of my favorite independent bands I have covered here so far (the reader is heartily encouraged to check out Unfurl - “the best of new wave, post-punk, and electronica, with a dash of modern sensibility”) to tide fans over until their Reverie EP in spring, they’ve released Halloween Session 2009, a Peel Session-style 5 track set. Suitably spooky,...
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Adam Green - Minor Love
Oh, Adam Green…I saw him for the first time in the Durch die Nacht documentary with Carl Barat, not having been familiar with his previous band with Kimya Dawson, The Moldy Peaches (now famous for “Anyone Else But You” being included in Juno). I dove right into and became enamored with his solo material after hearing “Her Father and Her”, and count the...
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Independent Music Discoveries: Issue #26
The first AFIN post of the new year! Getting caught up on a couple of particularly good submissions, expect some site changes to come and greater frequency of posts… Mystery Plane - London/South-East UK I had written about Lives of Angels (Mystery Plane’s Gerald O’Connell’s other band) along with their album Elevator to Eden, previously on Substix. It was quite cool to...