Video of the Week – Rockettothesky – Grizzly Man

Rockettothesky from Oslo, Normay is an amazing mixture of Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, The Knife, Kate Bush and Julee Cruise (via David Lynch) is pretty much the best thing we could have poured out of our blender of awesome smoothie this morning. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. […]

Artist Profile: Van Risseghem Floats On Realities

Hailing from Tulsa, Oklahoma, twenty-something singer-songwriter Jonathan Van Risseghem summons daydreamy pop-melodicism that betrays influence from such diverse sources as Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine and more AOR fare like Train’s “Drops of Jupiter.” […]

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… […]

Google Shuts Down Video, Big Labels drop DRM and Indie 103.1 R.I.P

There is a lot to report in the music world this week, major changes, shifts in policy and the death of what may have been one of the best radio stations ever. […]