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<managingEditor>jake@indieworkshop.com</managingEditor><item><title>Rzl Dzl video</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=401</link><description><![CDATA[Hardcore may not be what it used to be, but these kids sure look like they are going to have some fun before the rug is pulled out by Hot Topic and MTV2.

 
        ]]></description><author>jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=401#comments</comments><pubDate>10.06.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>IW: Abridged - Mittens on Strings</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=400</link><description><![CDATA[IW Abridged - Mittens on Strings
Look Up the Sky
Emperor Jones

Mittens on Strings are a small gaggle of Kentucky boys who rock off-kilter pop songs that at times seem held together by thin metal wire or twine. There's a loose feel, like a pick-up session or a sing-along. Textures and instrumentation are tacked, taped and glued on to the sides as the charming songs jog past. Acoustic guitars, accordion, often understated electric guitar, drum-machine (ill-advised for this guy) and even some mandolin make the ride. Along with the off-kilter song structure come some quirky lyrics that often work well and don't bog the whole disc down. For fans of lo-fi folk-rock with pretty flourishes and a wee bit of dark thrown in. Ignoring a cut or two that are overly-quirky you've got a strong disc of late-nite, summery, alt.-country-ish/indie-pop sounds that are sure please. 

Myspace

Mittens on Strings - Last Shot - MP3

]]></description><author>awr1000@hotmail.com (Adam Richards)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=400#comments</comments><pubDate>10.04.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>New Excepter video</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=399</link><description><![CDATA[

a nice little... crazy... trippy video for "The Rock Stepper".
]]></description><author>jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=399#comments</comments><pubDate>09.26.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>Alien8 makes mp3s available</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=397</link><description><![CDATA[Alien8 has updated their website making the majority of the label's releases available for sale in MP3 format. 

Here's some instruction from the label:

"On the page for any release that is available for digital sale the visitor will find an audio player and list of tracks to preview the album via streaming audio. Albums are available for preview in their entirety (not just shorter clips). By clicking the '+' beside the track title or 'Full Downloadable Album' it can be added to a visitor's shopping cart. These features are also found in the store section of our site for any applicable Alien8, Fancy or Substractif release."

So far you can check out downloads of full albums by Acid Mothers Temple, Mitchell Akiyama, Books on Tape, Tim Hecker, Hrsta, Tomas Jirku, Kiss Me Deadly, David Kristian, Les Georges Leningrad, Lesbians on Ecstasy, Molasses, Nadja, Polmo Polpo, Set Fire to Flames, Shalabi Effect, Soft Canyon, Tanakh, Think About Life and The Unicorns. 

link
]]></description><author>steph@indieworkshop.com (Stephanie Haselman)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=397#comments</comments><pubDate>09.26.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>FilmThreat reviews American Hardcore</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=395</link><description><![CDATA[Yep, another FilmThreat link. 

This time the site's Sally Foster reviews American Hardcore. She says "Much like the hardcore scene itself, this film is more about facts and the ideas behind the movement than looking nice". Uh, has she been to a hardcore show in the last five years? 

link
]]></description><author>steph@indieworkshop.com (Stephanie Haselman)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=395#comments</comments><pubDate>09.19.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>Can the net make or break a band?</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=394</link><description><![CDATA[Here's another article about the influence of the good old internet on the music industry. This one questions whether or not the net can make or break a band.

link
]]></description><author>steph@indieworkshop.com (Stephanie Haselman)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=394#comments</comments><pubDate>09.19.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>Elliott Smith demos online</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=393</link><description><![CDATA[Four previously unheard Elliot Smith demos are now online for your consumption. The tracks are called:

Let's Turn The Record Over
True Love
Talking To Mary
From A Poisoned Wall

and are rumored to be just the beginning of about fifty that will eventually surface.  

link
]]></description><author>steph@indieworkshop.com (Stephanie Haselman)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=393#comments</comments><pubDate>09.19.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>Interview with maker of Donnie Darko online</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=392</link><description><![CDATA[Film Threat's Mark Bell caught up with filmmaker Richard Kelly at Kevin Smith's Movies Askew Film Festival and asked him a few questions about his upcoming film, Southland Tales. The movie is the long awaited follow up to Bell's beloved Donnie Darko. 

Here's the brief interview and article:

link
]]></description><author>steph@indieworkshop.com (Stephanie Haselman)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=392#comments</comments><pubDate>09.18.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>Four! new Xiu Xiu videos online</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=391</link><description><![CDATA[Last week there were two new videos from Xiu Xiu's just released new album The Air Force. This week...two more!

Hello From Eau Claire (version 1): Directed by Corey Smith
Quicktime: link
YouTube: link

Hello From Eau Claire (version 2): Shot by Jamie and Caralee
Quicktime: link
YouTube: link

Boy Soprano: Directed by Jose Perez II
Quicktime: link
YouTube: link

Bishop, CA: Directed by David Horvitz
Quicktime: link
YouTube: link
]]></description><author>steph@indieworkshop.com (Stephanie Haselman)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=391#comments</comments><pubDate>09.18.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>opera and shrooms?</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=390</link><description><![CDATA[Fans of hip hop have more sexual partners than indie kids or metal heads?

Classical music fans smoke a lot of weed?

These are some bits of info from a new research project coming from the University Of Leicester who are currently compiling data to track people's lifestyles to their music tastes.

The man behind the project is psychologist Adrian North. He recently told reporters that "Surprisingly there have been very few studies on how people's age, sex, socio-economic status and personality relate to the music they enjoy listening to". 

The survey has now been opened up wider and North is asking people to take part by answering questions online.

Link to the online test
]]></description><author>steph@indieworkshop.com (Stephanie Haselman)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=390#comments</comments><pubDate>09.14.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>Kayo Dot tour journal</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=389</link><description><![CDATA[Kayo Dot's Forbes Graham is touring the band's current journal in his blog.

link

Tour Dates
]]></description><author>steph@indieworkshop.com (Stephanie Haselman)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=389#comments</comments><pubDate>09.14.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>Is there a Pitchfork effect?</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=388</link><description><![CDATA[There's a pretty good article up on Wired about the so-called "Pitchfork Effect".  Good read, I say. 

Poor Travis Morrison...

link
]]></description><author>steph@indieworkshop.com (Stephanie Haselman)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=388#comments</comments><pubDate>09.11.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>CSS get robbed of fancy dress</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=387</link><description><![CDATA[Man, folks are robbing bands left and right lately. Now, a dress was stolen from Brazilian band CSS. The dress, belonging to the band's frontwoman Lovefoxxx, was stolen during a Manchester performance on September 5th and the band has offered a reward for its return. Read more on their MySpace page.

link
]]></description><author>steph@indieworkshop.com (Stephanie Haselman)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=387#comments</comments><pubDate>09.11.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>New political networking site</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=386</link><description><![CDATA[Yes, yes.  networking sites seem all the rage these days, i know.  but this time our friend Eric Morse over at TrampolineHouse.com has started one with an actual purpose.  

theblocparty.org is a networking site centered around politics.  The site features a user video section and tons of voter resources.  the site itself is bipartisan, calling for discussion and respectful debate.  

the US is coming up on one of it's most important elections and this might be a good place to share ideas and get informed.  


]]></description><author>jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=386#comments</comments><pubDate>09.08.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>Douche of the Day</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=385</link><description><![CDATA[As if she could get any more fucking attention, it was just reported that Paris Hilton got a DUI a little after midnight last night.  Her publicist said she had one margarita on an empty stomach (empty stomach?! Not Paris!) after "working" all day on a video for the monstrosity of an album, "Paris".  Really, when will this fad of a human being be gone?  

Wagerweb.com, a website for compulsive betters recently held an odds pool for which celebrity would be the next to get a DUI, on the list along with this, one of the world's worst human beings, was Tara Reid, Jenna Bush, Mary Kate Olsen, and Kid Rock.  Paris had 2 to 1.  Mel Gibson had 21 to 1 odds, wish I would have taken that bet. 

Along with poker, horse racing and anything else that you and I foolishly bet on with your friends, Wagerweb also has bets and odds on which characters will die in the next Harry Potter Book, Whether or not John Mark Karr killed Jon Benet Ramsey, and who will win the trainwreck of the race-segregated Survivor.

Linkies:

 Drunky Paris
 Wagerweb
]]></description><author>burlyphil@yahoo.com (Philip Del Costello)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=385#comments</comments><pubDate>09.07.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>IW: Abridged - The Lonesome Heroes</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=384</link><description><![CDATA[IW Abridged - The Lonesome Heroes
Don't Play to Lose - EP
Floodwater Records

A beautiful collection of five slightly twisted country songs, dipped in a lysergic bath, and swathed in heavenly lap-steel, "Don't Play to Lose" is an encouraging look at the future of Country music, rebuilt from the parts of the past.  

Singer/songwriter Rich Russell delivers a slightly deadpan lead over very simple acoustic guitar strums.  But then the addition of singer/songwriter/lap steelist (?) Landry McMeans' many tones takes this solid and somewhat traditional musical base to another, more psychedelic level.

For fans of the Handsome Family, Little Wings, the Cowboy Junkies, and junky cowboys everywhere, Don't Play to Lose is hopefully a sign of good things and more sad songs to come from the Lonesome Heroes.

Myspace 

The Lonesome Heroes - Don't Play to Lose - MP3
]]></description><author>gcapes@hotmail.com (Grant Capes)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=384#comments</comments><pubDate>09.06.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>Marie Antoinette trailer online</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=383</link><description><![CDATA[The trailer for the new Sofia Coppola film, Marie Antoinette, is online. The film stars Kirsten Dunst and Jason Schwartzmann and is a biographical movie about the life of Marie Antoinette, the French Queen who was married at 15, became queen at 19, and then was sent to the guillotine during the French Revolution. 

So does that mean Kirsten Dunst gets beheaded? Hmmmm. That might be very smart casting indeed. Not quite as clever as killing off Paris Hilton in that one movie but good enough. Good enough. 

The trailer features music from Gang of Four and Joy Division as the film apparantly has a "rock and roll twist". Like as in  Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet? So many questions with obvious answers...

Check it out: 

here 

or

here
 ]]></description><author>steph@indieworkshop.com (Stephanie Haselman)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=383#comments</comments><pubDate>09.06.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>Did he say box?</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=382</link><description><![CDATA[Not news but interesting enough to blog:

Taking Back Sunday's bassist, Matt Rubano has officially named his band "not emo". 

Here's what he said: "As far as emo is concerned we don't fancy ourselves an emo band. I don't think anyone does. I mean it's great, it's a genre, it's a description, it's a box. But we've never thought of our band as being in a box, even though it's evident where we come from. But punk, hardcore, rock - we have influences of all those things. I think our goals are to write good
music and whoever perceives it as good music if it's emo fans or rock fans or pop music fans, so be it, who cares?"

Fair enough. I mean, I guess I'd probably say that too...if I was in an emo band.
]]></description><author>steph@indieworkshop.com (Stephanie Haselman)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=382#comments</comments><pubDate>09.05.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>Splogs?  Really?</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=381</link><description><![CDATA[i had never heard of this until i read this article over at Wired this morning.  

Spam + Blogs = Trouble

i guess with spam filters becoming more and more exact, people looking to make a buck or people just looking to mess with people had to find a new way to go about it.  there are times when i hate the internet.  
]]></description><author>jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=381#comments</comments><pubDate>09.05.2006</pubDate></item><item><title>Short T&amp;G documentary</title><link>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=380</link><description><![CDATA[next weekend there will be one heck of a show in Chicago.  the Touch & Go 25th anniversary party will bring a whole host of amazing bands together for a three day party... the line up is just nuts -

Friday, September 8
9:00pm !!!
8:00pm Ted Leo + Pharmacists
7:00pm Girls Against Boys
6:00pm Supersystem
5:00pm The Shipping News

Saturday, September 9
9:00pm Shellac
8:40pm Big Black
7:45pm Man…or Astroman?
6:50pm Scratch Acid
6:30pm Sally Timms
6:00pm Negative Approach
5:40pm PW Long
4:55pm Didjits
4:35pm Jon & Kat (Mekons/The Ex)
3:50pm Killdozer
2:55pm The Ex
2:35pm Tim & Andy (Silkworm)
1:50pm Pegboy
12:55pm Uzeda
12:00pm The New Year

Sunday, September 10
9:00pm Calexico
8:00pm Pinback
7:00pm CocoRosie
6:05pm The Black Heart Procession
5:45pm Brick Layer Cake
5:00pm Seam
4:40pm Tara Jane O'Neil
3:55pm Three Mile Pilot
3:00pm Enon
2:00pm The Monorchid
1:00pm Quasi
12:00pm Arcwelder

but that's not what i'm posting this for.  if you haven't had enough T&G talk, you can watch this short documentary to feed your fix... or... just to feed your brain with more information.

T&G: Video
]]></description><author>jake@indieworkshop.com (Jake Haselman)</author><comments>http://www.indieworkshop.com/blog.php?id=380#comments</comments><pubDate>08.31.2006</pubDate></item></channel>
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