MusicZeitgeist.com Presents: Western Civ – April 2009 Indie Artist of the Month

Hailing from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Western Civ, comprising bassist Jason Briggs, drummer Bryan Cabler and lead vocalist Rich Henderson, originally were all members of the same small-town Alabama high school class, and have been making music together with virtually no interruption for well over a decade. […]

Interview with Dan Luperini of Madras about their latest release

Los Angeles based band Madras has its own signature – something that, like Andy Partridge has its own distinct character and yet seems so very familiar. […]

Top Ten Spins For the Week of March 9th, 2009

MusicZeitgeist.com’s Top Ten Indie Spins For March 2009 featuring Grammatics, The Joy Formidable and Ida Maria […]

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… […]