MusicZeitgeist.com Presents: Blue Rabbit – March 2009 Indie Artist of the Month

Blue Rabbit out of San Francisco comes at you like an urgent whisper, channeling early 90’s wombadelics like Lush and Cocteau Twins, the rumble and earthiness of Captain Beefheart and Tom Waits and the soft-compressed breaks of the Bristol Trip Hop in a way that feels as fresh as the 2009 calender you just thumb-tacked to your wall. Selected from hundreds of submissions, we asked band leader Heather Anderson to fill us in. Here’s what we discovered down the rabbit hole… […]

VIDEO: Carina Round – Backseat (Official Video)

I had the pleasure of seeing Carina Round at Hotel Cafe in Hollywood last year and she was vacillating between winsome plinkiness and PJ Harvey demonology within the course of her 40 minute set. This terrific video is so fresh it only has 250 views at YouTube as of this posting. It’s weird recognizing some personal friends in it lip-syncing to her lead vocal. […]

INTERVIEW: THE JOY FORMIDABLE

An interview with The Joy Formidable’s Ritzy Bryan, discussing the release of A Balloon called Moaning, the creative process, and more. […]

LIVE REVIEW: French Kicks at the Troubadour, 2-24-09

A review of French Kicks’ live performance at the Troubadour, February 24, 2009. […]