Children! To your keyboards!

Here's a band that impressed me a long time ago... We'll like 3 months ago, when they were supporting of Montreal, but seeing them at Oxegen jogged my memory.

Casiokids are a Norwegian indie-something band. Not quite pop, or as last.fm might describe them electronic. Whatever it is it's very experimental.



They're something different to see live. There's lots of things going on, on stage. People on keyboards, guitars, extra drums, and shaking little maracas and the likes. I can't really describe their music properly with words. It's a mix of rock, pop, electro, shoegaze. I'd just call them a Scandinavian Explosions In The Sky.

Check their stuff out on Myspace and Last.fm. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. Thanks to Jon Reksten for the awesome photo

Autumn Hibernation leads to...

Pick a style of indie... Let's go with Rock. Then Pick an indie country. In this case, we'll go with Canada. Then pick the indiest city in Canada. A contentious topic I know, but we'll go with Halifax. If you put all that together you get my new favorite band.



Wintersleep are all of the above and more. Together since 2001 (a good year for music), they've been making albums just as long. And they're even part of an indie label/collective. Oh, and they make good music too. I saw them at Oxegen, and I was pretty impressed. From Rock, to shoegaze and back, these guys will take you on a lovely musical adventure, and you'll be pleasantly surprised methinks. They're supporting Editors on their UK tour at the moment, so if you can get out and see them.

I needed to listen to some good music, since U2 are playing in Croke Park, just down the road from my house (where the streets have no name?) and it's pretty much all I can hear right now. Today's photo is courtesy of Labwork Music. Making Canada an indier place...

Indie Jesus!

I found this thing in some back room on the internet.. guess it means that Sam Beam is going to need to find some apostles fast!



not sure, but I'm willing to bet he's wearing sandals:

A Story For Little Indie Folk

i've always objected to fairy tails that encourages children to accept other people's differences in some sort of mutual respect thing.
Why not a story where one idiot.. let's call him Colin the mango. Gets talking to Kevin the microwave. Colin says
"hey there, have you heard of Lady GaGa, she's makes great music". "nope your confusing music with contrived bullshit" says Kevin who walks away never to have to listen to Colin's shit ever again.

it may need some fleshing out, but the content is probably about right. anyway for people who are interested in a story with a lovely indie life lession, one that perhaps isn't quite harsh enough, but it's a good start, take a gander at this:



it was created by an american guy called Dimitri Frazao, who has other stuff to watch here. keep up the good work