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Arcade Fire Streams Live
Montréal’s Arcade Fire has been known for its extreme secrecy: releasing only the artwork for their new album The Suburbs (now revealing that there are in fact 8 different randomly chosen options), then they release only snippets of songs from the new record as a teaser for the fans, but now, they want to let [...]
Continue ReadingWTTS Indy Underground — July 26, 2010
Arcade Fire recently put up 30 second snippets of each song from their new album The Suburbs on the band’s website only to take them down a handful of days later. Lucky for you, we’ve got the latest from that album (in full) on tonight’s WTTS Indy Underground. Here they are performing the title track [...]
Continue ReadingKings Of Leon Bombed
Of all the reasons a band has walked away from performing, pigeons may be the strangest. But that’s exactly the reason Kings of Leon walked offstage prematurely at the Verizon Amphitheater in St. Louis last week. Even after seeing the number the pigeons did to the group’s opening bands, The Postelles and The Stills, Kings [...]
Continue ReadingWTTS New Music Monday — July 26, 2010
This week on WTTS New Music Monday, KT Tunstall returns with a selection from her upcoming release Tiger Suit. Seasoned veterans Heart are back, too. We’ll have your first listen. We’ll continue to sample new albums from John Mellencamp, David Gray, and Guster, a yet-to-be-released album from Plain White T’s (remember “Hey There, Delilah?”), and an excellent [...]
Continue ReadingPaul and The Doobie Brothers
In advance of their concert with Chicago and stop by Studio 92, Paul chats with Tom Johnston, John McFee and Pat Simmons of The Doobie Brothers. They talk about the early years, the current tour, and Paul’s small role in making their career.
Continue ReadingSome New Slices of Apple for iTunes
In addition to being home to The Beatles for the latter part of their history, Apple Records released albums from Badfinger, Billy Preston and James Taylor. Now, EMI plans to reissue 15 of those albums remastered for CD and digital download. That means you’ll be able to buy them from iTunes. Of course, that [...]
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Fork in the Road – St. Vincent
WTTS Indy Underground producer, Craig Shank, caught up with Annie Clark, better known as St. Vincent, at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago. Annie followed up on her recent Tweets, talked about working with Beck on his Record Club project, and discussed filming a video with Saturday Night Live’s Fred Armisen. Here’s Annie, Fred Armisen, and [...]
Continue ReadingThe Weezer Color Wheel
It was just last November that Weezer released their last album with radical attitude, titled Raditude. Now, they’ve set the date for their next album. September 13th we will receive the follow up to Raditude which includes a track with Ryan Adams. The only thing left to do the band says, is name the currently [...]
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Fork in the Road — Here We Go Magic
WTTS Indy Underground Producer, Craig Shank, had a chance to catch up with Jennifer Turner from Here We Go Magic backstage at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago. Before their performance she discussed their latest album, Pigeons, their Indiana connection, performing at home and overseas, and their most famous fan, Thom Yorke.
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Fork in the Road — Bear in Heaven
WTTS Indy Underground Producer, George Drake Jr., spoke with Jon Philpot from Bear in Heaven at the Pitchfork Music Festival In Chicago. Jon discussed the band’s shrinking lineup, their perception to festivals, their songwriting process, and he attempted to pin down the band’s genre.
Continue ReadingGeorge’s Pitchfork Day 3 Photo Recap
Day 3 Day 3 had promise from the beginning — clouds peppered the sky for some much appreciated shade and overall the temperature was set to remain in the low 80’s. Then it started to rain, and we were back at square 1 — soaking wet. After about half an hour, the rain let up and [...]
Continue ReadingGeorge’s Pitchfork Day 2 Photo Recap
Day 2 Day 2 was not unlike Day 1 — unbearably hot. The day was even longer, the number of acts has multiplied and the photo pits were even more hectic, packed and hotter than the day before. (On a side note, on average, the sun-drenched photo pit is about 20-30° hotter than sitting in the [...]
Continue ReadingGeorge’s Pitchfork Day 1 Photo Recap
Day 1 Craig and I walked through the familiar gates at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago and already there were people sitting by the front of the A (Aluminum) Stage set and ready to see Modest Mouse that night. It was an extremely hot day, and by extremely I mean uninhabitable. Everyone was miserable on [...]
Continue ReadingVampire Weekend Sued
Indie artists love all things vintage. When Vampire Weekend went looking for an image for their sophomore release, Contra, they chose a 1983 photo of a young woman wearing a Polo shirt with a popped collar. Photographer Tod Brody captured the shot, but the subject says he did not get her permission to use it. [...]
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