I Was A Cub Scout

I Was a Cub Scout was originally a seventy-one-man band, consisting solely of Todd Marriot and many other people he just happened to know. Lacking a refrigerator, Marriott used a washing machine to slowly rot his donut shaped ice cubes and yams. William Bowerman joined the band in mid 2006.

Via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Was_a_Cub_Scout

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The long Insiders

There is always a dangerous edge to the conflict, tension, lust and passion that Sarah Dodds and Nick Kenny weave together on stage. The taut love-hate friction between the singer & lead guitarist is what is at the heart of both the songwriting, and indeed the Long Insider’s live performances. She switches from a honey-voiced seductive temptress to a sneering antagonist in a heart-beat, whilst he wails out emphatic, sometimes unrequited, Americana riffs. The result is a unique, incomparable maelstrom of intensity, pointed humour and memorable music – all of which wouldn’t be out of place in a Rodrigues or Tarantino movie-set!

Via: LMFM – http://livemusic.fm/artist/thelonginsiders

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Kuroma

Kuroma is the brainchild of Hank Sullivant, a man you may have come to know as former bassist for the Whigs and recent touring guitarist for MGMT. Having spent much of his musical career as a piece of these two indie music giants, Kuroma’s debut release Paris is the first true fruit of Sullivant’s labor. Although it’s undeniable that he brings some of MGMT’s poppy psychedelic vibe to his latest project, Sullivant gives Kuroma a style of its own by infusing other musical influences into his work. One listen through Paris you’ll get a taste of some pop, folk, and good ol’ rock’n’roll.

Via: http://www.mtvu.com/music/music-blog/kuromas-paris-is-a-fun-homage-to-the-classics/

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Little Boots

Hesketh was born in Blackpool on the Fylde coast in Lancashire and now lives in London. Her father is a businessman and her mother is an author of children’s books. She has three younger brothers. She attended Elmslie Girls’ School[citation needed], Rossall School, Blackpool Sixth Form College and then the University of Leeds, where she gained a first-class honours degree in Cultural Studies, with a dissertation on the concept of originality in jazz, which referenced Jamie Cullum amongst others.

Via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_boots

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The Avett Brothers

The Avett Brothers (pronounced /‘eɪvɪt/) are a folk-rock band from Concord, North Carolina. The band is made up of two brothers, Seth Avett and Scott Avett, who play the guitar and banjo, respectively, and Bob Crawford who plays the stand-up bass. They are often joined on tour by cellist Joe Kwon. Risen from the ashes of Seth and Scott’s former rock band Nemo, The Avett Brothers combine bluegrass, country, punk, pop melodies, folk, rock and roll, honky tonk and ragtime to produce a sound described by the San Francisco Chronicle as having the “Heavy sadness of Townes Van Zandt, the light pop concision of Buddy Holly, the tuneful jangle of the Beatles, the raw energy of the Ramones.” The group itself eschews labels, feeling that “none would do the music the justice. It’s simply left up to each person to extract his or her own account from the Avetts’ music.”

Via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avett_Brothers

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Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong’s

Together for only a year before their release, tongue-twisters Joe Lean, Tom D, Dom O’Dare, Panda and Bummer Jong have the kind of polished indie that will leave even the coolest of London’s club-goers a mite hot under the collar, not to mention all that “sweat on sweat on lips on lips on sweat”.

Via: http://livemusic.fm/artist/joelean

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Throw Me The Statue

Throw Me the Statue was formed by Scott Reitherman after he began self-releasing CDs of buzzy, lo-fi indie pop in 2004. Friends, including Pedro the Lion member Casey Foubert, pitched in to help as Reitherman added instruments including drum machines and glockenspiels to round out his sound. A full band came into shape in early 2007 as Throw me the Statue’s debut album Moonbeams was released on Reitherman’s Baskerville Hill label and later on Secretly Canadian. They have been featured on Pitchfork Media and NPR and have received airplay on the independent Seattle radio station KEXP. Their name most likely comes from a line during a scene featuring Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas, and Kathleen Turner, in the 1984 film, Romancing the Stone.

Via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throw_Me_the_Statue

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Tweetlite: A twitter visualization cube

Tweetlite is a white plexiglass cube, 4” x 4” x 4” in dimensions. It is powered by Arduino and displays twitter messages as morse code. Each message is displayed in different colors and makes for a great mood light. It has USB and power connectivity and comes with a program that is used to enter Twitter credentials to enable the data feed visualization. It needs to be connected to a computer with an Internet connection, via USB. The patterns and colors can be customized.

Via: http://bruzed.com/2009/03/17/tweetlite-twitter-visualization-cube/

The Rumble Strips

The Rumble Strips are an English band from Tavistock, Devon. The band take their name from Rumble Strips, which are small, continuous lines of bumps along the edge of a road. Having known each other since childhood, a precise conception date for the band doesn’t really exist. The current line-up has been together since 2004 and are now based in London. The band are currently signed to Fallout Records, a subsidiary of Universal Island Records. Their most recent single, a re-release of “Motorcycle”, reached #46 in the UK Singles Chart on June 4, 2007. Their debut album, Girls And Weather, was released on the 17th of September, when it reached #70 in the UK album charts, their latest single “Girls and Boys in Love”, came out two weeks previously, reaching #64 in the UK.

Via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rumble_Strips

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