Top Ten Best Indie Songs of 2008

We listened to a lot of independent releases at MusicZeitgeist in 2008 and not all of it was good. In fact, some of it was incredibly well recorded, but too much of it sounded the same: handclaps, 1950’s be-boppy, lo-fi, Disco-infused, melancholy boy-with-an-acoustic or girl-with-a-piano, Billy Holiday-biting tripe seemed to rule the roost. But some of it was really, really good. […]

Artist Profile: Mark Northfield’s Lush Romantic Melancholy

Mark Northfield’s music belies the work of a higher mind that deserves its place in the same pantheon as Aqualung, Antony and the Johnsons, Damien Rice or anything by Andy Partridge. […]

How Independent Bands Can Start Booking Shows

An independent band is ready to market themselves by touring after: putting a core band together, rehearsing new music, and recording music for a CD, or an EP. Selling products during a tour such as t-shirts, CD’s, stickers and other marketable products are essential for a band to do to fund the project. […]

Top Ten Spins for the Week of December 8th, 2008

It’s easy to hate on, but Britney’s Circus deploys some of the best producers working today and its star is probably a lot more fucked in the head than you. […]