Band Name: Bell Hollow Album Name: Bell Hollow Best Element: The clean melodies that intertwine within the songs Genre: ’80s UK post-punk with nocturnal alt-rock Website: www.bellhollow.com Label Name: None Band E-mail: bellhollow-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Pull up a chair, throw on a black light, sit back, and relax to the soft sounds of Bell Hollow, a...
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A Cappella and Lovin’ It If you’ve read anything of IndependentClauses, you’ll notice that I like new sounds. I like sounds that I can’t play, can’t write, can’t even imagine. If you’ve got a sound that’s unique, I want to hear it. I like to know that there is still creativity out there. This...
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40,000 Photos, 2000 Bands, and 10,000 Screaming Kids John Neidhardt and BandGallery.com Impressive numbers, huh? That’s just a little bit of John Neidhardt’s work. Neidhardt is the founder of the amazing resource BandGallery.com, a site where amateur music photographers can post their work to get noticed by places like IndependentClauses.com, as well as by...
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Band Name: Crush Kill Destroy Album Name: Metric Midnight Best element: Complex, brilliantly executed songwriting Genre: Indie-rock Website: www.crushkilldestroy.net Label name: No Karma (www.nokarma.com) Band e-mail: ckd@crushkilldestroy.net Ever since Chris Otepka got tinnitus so bad that he had to end Troubled Hubble and Pete Townshend issued a cry that rock will make you deaf...
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Band Name: Faster Faster Harder Harder Album Name: S/t EP Best element: Strong vocalist and acknowledged dance tendencies Genre: Upbeat indie-dance-rock Website: www.fasterfasterharderharder.com Label name: N/a Band e-mail: Fasterhardermusic@gmail.com Whoever came up with the idea of the “treble-high recording” should be shot. Out of all of the recording problems in this world, my least...
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Album Name: The Greatest Underground Show on Earth: Calgary Metal Compilation 2006 Genre: Metal Website: www.cyclonerecords.ca Label Name: Cyclone Records Band E-mail: info@cyclonerecords.ca Compilations are probably the hardest thing to review, especially when they have more than two genres of music on them. Cyclone Records’ The Greatest Underground Show on Earth hits you with...
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Band Name: Various Album Name: Assemblage Vol 1.0 DVD Best Element: Really high quality choices. Genre: Metalcore/Emo/Punk/indie….all separately, not a mix. Website: www.greytwoeleven.com Label Name: Grey Two-Eleven Records Band E-mail: celeste@solidpr.com Grey two-eleven’s Assemblage Vol. 1 is a very interesting release. It’s like a compilation album- only it’s a DVD of music videos instead...
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Band Name: Inner Surge Album Name: Signals Screaming Best Element: Vocals Genre: Political hardcore Website: www.innersurge.com Label Name: Cyclone Records Band E-mail: innersurge@hotmail.com Political rockers Inner Surge have put out yet another hard hitting political rock album. Signals Screaming has no distinct genre- the sounds range from processed melodic hardcore to downright brutal hardcore...
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Underappreciated Album: The Juliana Theory’s Emotion is Dead. In 1999, I had a chance to see Audio Adrenaline when they were on tour supporting Underdog- arguably their best release in a prolific career. Unfortunately, I didn’t like the album enough at the time to lay out the money, so I missed out on a...
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Making Tracks: Intro So this is a new feature I’m starting up- basically a list of websites I’ve enjoyed in the past month. I’ll do it every month, because when you spend as much time on the internet as I do, there’s a lot of places I frequent. Most of these will have to...
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