92-3 WTTS, Indianapolis’ local, independent radio station is proud to present Indy Underground, a weekly program highlighting the best new music from the local, indie and underground scene. Catch Indy Underground Monday nights at 8pm with an encore presentation each Saturday night at 9pm.
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To submit music for airplay consideration on Indy Underground, please send a non-MP3 CD copy of your best and most recent material, along with a brief summary of your band, to:
92.3 WTTS
Attn: Indy Underground
400 One City Centre
Bloomington, IN 47404
Songs must be FCC-compliant (meaning no “F” bombs or other questionable words – you get the idea … ). If there’s a bad word, send us an edit suitable for airplay. No calls, please.
In addition, please print and sign the attached waiver. Submissions without waivers will not be considered.
Indy Underground Supports The Pitchfork Music Festival
Since 2006, Pitchfork Media has annually presented the Pitchfork Music Festival held in Union Park in Chicago. Past performances have included Spoon, Vampire Weekend, Built To Spill, Yo La Tengo, Band Of Horses, Animal Collective, !!!, The Flaming Lips and Grizzly Bear among many others. This three-day festival begins Friday July 16 and continues through Sunday July 18 in 2010.
Playlists
What We Played – July 26, 2010
The Arcade Fire “Ready To Start”
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. “Vocal Chords”
Deer Tick “Choir Of Angels”
Deerhunter “Revival”
Department Of Eagles “Brightest Minds”
The Grip Weeds “Speed Of Life”
Mont Lyons “Company”
Mumford & Sons “The Cave”
Native Young “Dragon Job”
Ra Ra Riot “Boy”
Spoon “The Mystery Zone”
Tokyo Police Club “Wait Up (Boots Of Danger)”
The Vaselines “I Hate The 80’s”
What We Played – July 19, 2010
Special Post-Pitchfork Music Festival Show
Beach House “Zebra” (UK Radio Edit)
Bear In Heaven “Lovesick Teenager”
Beck w/ St. Vincent “Need You Tonight” (INXS Cover)
Broken Social Scene “World Sick”
Here We Go Magic “Collectors”
Local Natives “Sun Hands”
Modest Mouse “Perpetual Motion Machine”
Pavement “Cut Your Hair”
Real Estate “Beach Comber”
The Tallest Man On Earth “King Of Spain”
Why? “The Blackest Purse”
Wolf Parade “Soldier’s Grin”
To see the playlist in the order in which it was played click here.
Indy Underground Artist Bios
The Arcade Fire
The Arcade Fire formed in 2003 in Montreal. The band is comprised of numerous multi-instrumentalists that change instruments during live performances. The band released their debut album, Funeral, in 2004. The album received critical acclaim and helped the band to amass a large following. The band followed up with, Neon Bible, in 2007 and began a viral marketing campaign consisting of cryptic images and messages on websites leading up to the release of the album. The band will release their new album, The Suburbs, on August 3rd.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. is a project that Joshua Epstein and Daniel Zott began in Michigan. The band first received some attention for a remix of Moby’s “Wait for Me” in early 2010. They recorded their debut Horse Power EP in a bedroom using samplers and synthesizers and released the recording on July 13th. They are currently finishing a full-length album they hope to release in the fall.
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Deer Tick
Deer Tick is John Joseph McCauley III, Andrew Grant Tobiassen, Christopher Dale Ryan, and Dennis Michael Ryan. The name for the band was inspired while McCauley was in a park in Bloomington and found a deer tick on his head after hiking. The project began as a two-piece guitar and drums duo in Providence, RI, but eventually developed into the current quartet where three members share singing and all four contribute to writing duties. The band released their third album, The Black Dirt Sessions, on June 8th. Deer Tick also contributed to a recent compilation of John Prine covers.
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Deerhunter
Deerhunter is a band founded in Atlanta in 2001 that is fronted by Bradford Cox, a slender 6’4 lead singer with Marfan Syndrome, the same condition Joey Ramone was afflicted with. Cox tends to use his appearance to the band’s benefit in live settings by wearing unusual clothing and engaging in Iggy Pop-style stage routines. Deerhunter released their first album in 2005. Through the course of two more albums and Cox’s work with his other project, Atlas Sound, the band began to move away from the aggression and noise-based rock and embrace pop melodies. The band will released Halcyon Digest on September 28th.
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Department of Eagles
Department of Eagles formed in 2001 by NYU college roommates Daniel Rossen (of Grizzly Bear) and Fred Nicolaus. Originally the duo was going to record in their dorm room and release their songs only to their friends. However, after their music was produced by their friend’s father (who later produced The Killers debut album), the band released their songs as limited edition vinyl singles. Some of their songs ended up being recorded by Grizzly Bear for their album Yellow House in 2006. In Ear Park is the title of the Department of Eagles’ most recent full-length effort released in October of 2008 on the 4AD record label. The band released Archive 2003-2006, a collection of songs recorded before In Ear Park, on July 20th.
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Karen Elson
Karen Elson began a modeling career when she was only sixteen years old. While her career blossomed, she began to explore her interest in music and taught herself to play guitar. She started a salsa band in Manchester and in 2003 provided vocals to a remix of Robert Plant’s “Last Time I Saw Her.” In 2005, she appeared in a White Stripes video and met Jack White, who she would marry a few months later. Her first official solo release, The Ghost Who Walks, was released in May 2010.
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The Grip Weeds
The Grip Weeds, from New Brunswick, New Jersey, took their name from John Lennon’s Private Gripweed character in 1967’s How I Won the War. In the late 80’s Kurt Reil and his brother Rick began playing East Coast clubs with Kristin Pinell and Michael Nattboy. In the 90’s, the band released a series of 60’s-influeced EPs and albums and Kurt spent time in a side band called Jim Babjak’s Buzzed Meg with Dennis Diken and Jim Babjak of Smithereens. The band released their double album, Strange Change Machine, in June
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Mont Lyons
Mont Lyons from Austin, TX create indie-folk music influenced by the likes of Fleet Foxes and Band of Horses. Two of the band’s members, Brandon Crews and Bryan Oliver, grew up singing in an acapella church choir, which informed their choice to utilize harmonies in their music. Mont Lyons released their debut EP, Sleep Talk, in June.
Mumford & Sons
Mumford & Sons formed in 2007 in London. They have often supported fellow British folk artist Laura Marling at her concerts. The band spent 2008 touring the UK and released three EPs before their debut album, Sigh No More, was released in the UK in 2009. Their debut was released in the United States in February. The band is currently on a tour of the US and plans to release an EP before the end of the year.
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Native Young
The Native Young project began when one of the members was in Beijing and another was in Indiana. The members of the band traded song ideas back and forth until the band could be fully realized in Bloomington with the addition of a drummer. The band is currently working on their debut album.
Ra Ra Riot
Ra Ra Riot formed in 2006 and began playing around the Syracuse University campus. Their first major performance was six months after they formed at the CMJ Music Marathon in New York. Their debut album The Rhumb Line was released on Barsuk Records in 2008. Lead singer, Wes Miles, teamed up with Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend after the first album’s release to work on their electro-R&B project, Discovery. Ra Ra Riot will release the Orchard on August 24th.
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Spoon
Spoon formed in 1994 in Austin, Texas. The band began as project featuring Britt Daniel and Jim Eno with a rotating cast of supporting members. The band released 2 EPs and one full-length before signing to Elektra records for the release of Series of Sneaks. The band was dropped from the label and released a series of 7” records and continued to release music on the Merge label, where they still reside. Their latest album, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, was met with critical acclaim and the band recently followed up with an EP titled, Got Nuffin’. The band’s 7th album, Transference, was released on January 26th, 2010.
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Tokyo Police Club
Tokyo Police Club is a four-piece band from Ontario, Canada. Formed in 2005, the band started by playing in a basement for fun. However after playing several shows around the Toronto area, they started to receive some buzz. The group was then asked to be part of the Montreal Pop Festival, which acted as the tipping point for the band. After releasing only two EPs the band was asked to play numerous festivals around the US, Canada and Europe including Coachella, Lollapalooza and the Reading Festival in England. Elephant Shell, their first full-length album, was released in early 2008. The band’s latest album, Champ, was released on June 8th. The band decided on the album’s title by opening a dictionary to a random page. Tokyo Police Club will be appearing at the Vogue on July 29th.
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The Vaselines
The Vaselines originally formed as a duo by Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee in Scotland in 1986. They added James Seenan and Eugene’s brother, Charlie, to the band later. They were relatively obscure, even to Scottish audiences, until Kurt Cobain of Nirvana praised their work in the press. Cobain even named his daughter Frances after Frances McKee. The band released two EPs, which contained three songs that would eventually be covered by Nirvana on the Incesticide and Unplugged releases. They recorded their debut album, Dum-Dum, in 1989 and broke up after the release. They reformed for a short time in 1990 when they were asked to open for Nirvana in Edinburgh. The band reformed again in 2008 for a series of shows and a small US tour before the release of their first album in 20 years, Sex with an X.
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