All that’s indie

The News Review:

- All that’s indie
- Deluxe Metal: Mastodon & Lamb of God
- The net helps music sing new songs
- Fifteen Albums: Part 2

All that’s indie
San Diego Union Tribune
?It’s a chance to manifest your own vision not someone else’s. ? And with this definition LoPresti and Champion created San Diego IndieFest a daylong festival that features independent music art and film. The fifth annual event which happens throughout the streets of North Park on Saturday brings together music from every genre imaginable ? bluegrass hip hop alternative even death metal. There are a few headliners like Juliette and The New Romantiques (actress Juliette Lewis’ band) as well as Si*Sé but most of the lineup is relatively obscure. Just who is Sono Clip or BlackRaven? Why should anyone spend money to see a band called NomiS when an awesome Van Halen cover band is playing the same night? But a lineup of unknowns is exactly how the organizers planned it. ?The point of IndieFest is to discover amazing artists who get overshadowed by the mainstream? Champion said. ?We’re super passionate about music.

Deluxe Metal: Mastodon & Lamb of God
Express from The Washington Post
” While the choruses are sung the tune features the most death-metal-like vocals on the album. “Divinations” is a great single but this song is the album’s best. ” This 13-minute closer is the longest song on the record. There’s a very cool production thing at the 3-minute mark with spacey delay effects added to the heavy guitar riffs letting the struck chords ring and decay into a black hole before being plucked from death with a new smack of the strings.

The net helps music sing new songs
BBC News
" While most bands still look to being signed as the main goal there are many that are following the route taken by Belladonna. Store pointThe internet allows bands to promote themselves and get the word out not just to their fans but music lovers in general. While Glenn Peoples of music blog Coolfer lamented on the loss of the small local record shop and specifically the Store Clerk with an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of music he is pleased to see an explosion of sites talking about music either on a genre basis through sites like Brutal Death Metal or the geographical basis such as Janet Timmons "ut The ther" Nashville blog.
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Fifteen Albums: Part 2
LongIslandPress.com
I instantly assumed it was not music that would appeal to me and went on to read about I don’t know Testament or Pantera or Death Angel or whatever acts in the heavy metal genre (as it is most rigidly defined) they were writing about that particular month. It was about this time though that heavy metal started changing. r maybe not heavy metal but heavy metal fans. r maybe not heavy metal fans but me. Regardless there were a handful of bands during this era that looked (a little) like heavy metal bands made music with (occasional) elements of heavy metal and even appealed to (some) heavy metal listeners but were not (quite) heavy metal themselves: Faith No More Soundgarden Voivod Alice In Chains Primus Mother Love Bone… And like Jane’s Addiction these bands advertised and were featured in places like Metal Maniacs or on shows like MTV’s Headbangers Ball or WBAB’s Fingers’ Metal Shop. As such it was K for metalheads such as myself to listen to them. And once I started listening to them I found a whole world of musical possibilities that I never knew existed (and I might contend today did not actually exist prior to this era).