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unusual facts about indie music



Andy Dunlop

Andy Dunlop (born Andrew Dunlop, 16 March 1972, Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland) is a Scottish musician, who is the lead guitarist of Scottish indie band, Travis.

Doing God's Work – A Creation Compilation

Doing God's Work - A Creation Compilation is a various artists compilation album of British indie music released in 1987 by Creation Records.

Enrique Gatti

Enrique Gatti is a common reference in several songs made by the British indie band Art Brut.

Go! With The Times

With The Times is an album recorded in November 1980 but released in 1985 by West London Post punk and Indie band The Times.

Marina Records

Marina Records is a German record label started in 1993 and specialising in indie pop.

New Loud Rockets

New Loud Rockets were an indie band from Cape Town, South Africa.

Pop Goes Art!

Pop Goes Art! is the debut album recorded in the summer of 1981 but released in 1982 by West London Post punk and Indie band The Times.

Sling Slang Records

Sling Slang Records is an indie record label based out of Southington, Connecticut.

Stacked Up

The band's first two singles, "The Key", released in September 1993, and "Switch", released in March 1994, made the UK Singles Chart Top 50, and garnered rave reviews from both dance and indie reviewers.

Telefonplan metro station

Indie music club Landet is situated just some hundred meters from the station, this having made the station and the area more crowded nighttime than ever before.

Voidstar Productions

Founded in 1995 as an independent tape label to support the release of recordings by the band Zero Times Infinity and band member's related projects ukuphambana and Nau-Zee-auN, it has since expanded to release recordings by other artists including Death In June, KK Null, Pine Tree State Mind Control, Ukuphambana, The Vomit Arsonist, Massdirge, and Ethan E. Eves.

XXYYXX

He is most notable for gaining a prominence within the indie music culture, despite his young age and experimental lo-fi music, which he made in his bedroom with FL Studio and software from Ableton.


see also

Empire of Dirt

Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music is a 2006 book by Wendy Fonarow.

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein

One of his paintings was used as the cover art for the CD Transmalinnia by the Los Angeles indie music group Lumerians.

Fall Records

Founded in 2000 in Grand Haven, Michigan, the label publishes for a small number of indie music acts.

February Album Writing Month

Each album documents the corresponding year's FAWM event, and previous releases have been met with critical praise from indie-music magazines such as Wonkavision and PopMatters.

Ferry Gouw

He is the frontman of the indie band Semifinalists, and has directed and produced music videos for several bands in the UK indie music scene, including Lightspeed Champion.

John Steup

He served as Vice President of the online indie music giant, CD Baby, from 1998 to 2006.

Mississippi Palisades State Park

Indie music artist Sufjan Stevens made reference to the Palisades in his song The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us! on his 2005 concept album Illinois.

The Jennifers

The Jennifers began building a reputation in the Oxford indie music scene, influenced by Ride, The Charlatans, Inspiral Carpets, The Kinks, the Who, and including traits of the Shoegazing era.

The Nerve

The Nerve (musical album), The album by Filligar, nominated for Rock Album of the Year by the Indie Music Awards.

The Raw Men Empire

On May 2010 they opened Jeffrey Lewis's show in Israel and on October 2010 They performed in Israel's most important Indie Music Festival - In-D-Negev featuring singer-songwriter Amit Erez and a brass quintet.

This Is Somewhere

The album's cover art appeared on the season four episode of "Ace of Cakes," Volcano Cakes and Mix Tapes, appearing on a cake for The Sound Garden, an indie music store.

Urinine Records

He folded the label on July 4, 2004 citing the increased commercialization of the indie music scene.

Velour Music Gallery

BYUtv indie music show AUDIO-FILES has had multiple episodes filmed at Velour including episodes featuring Imagine Dragons, Joshua James, Damien Jurado, and others.