Pampelmoose is a music and MP3 web site covering the eclectic independent music scene. We stay clear of major labels and their artists to avoid having the Web Sheriff gallop through our offices. We are indie at heart so we support all things indie – in all its shapes and forms.
Dave walloped the bass strings and is a founding member of the highly influential, post-punk band, Gang of Four. With his business partner, Ned Failing, he started Pampelmoose in 2005. We love music and we love the way the internet leveled the playing field for all artists.
Josh Kneedler is a highly experienced interactive designer. He began working in online media in 1997 at the birth of the interactive world, a world we now take for granted, one that has become as common as the utilities we use at home. His skills consist of design, programming, and creative direction. It’s an eclectic mix, but one that is vital to pursuing new ventures where traditional broadcast media rules do not apply. Josh understands that music artists no longer need traditional record labels. A consumer in Japan may never have heard of our local Northwest music scene so local bands need a different way to promote their independently produced CDs. Josh has the necessary skills and experience that highlight innovation over imitation to tackle contemporary challenges in the world of interactive programming, design and creative marketing. Some of Josh’s work can be seen on his web site: http://www.joshkneedler.net
This will be a longer post than usual because inevitably there comes a time in Blogland when you have to cover your best friends’ problems and travails. In this case, Naomi and Michael who with their Ripe Family Supper empire, have brought to Portland a whole new way of looking at what a restaurant ought [...]
The Blood Brothers release an EP as it heads into the studio to record a new album. The Seattle band’s Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck EP hits stores May 23. The seven-song ep contains a mixture of live tracks including an alternate version of “Crimes� and a remix/rework of the Gang of Four track [...]
Now here’s an idea…gather together some of the biggest DJ’s around, ask them to do a cover of their favorite Radiohead songs and then release the mixes as a compilation cd. Well, good idea, strange end result. The cd has already received a drubbing at PopMatters and Pitchfork.
I’m not sure why those two rags’ reviewers [...]
Pampelmoose invites you to spend an evening with acclaimed guitarist-songwriter and recent Portland transplant, Tony Furtado. Furtado’s unique blend of folk and Americana is augmented by his deft skill on the guitar and banjo, as evidenced by live apperances with the likes of Gregg Allman, Taj Mahal, and String Cheese Incident and many others. He’s [...]
After the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s rather phenomenal Roseland show last night, the Moose ended up backstage chatting with guitarist Nick and Karen O. It seems that the band was a little nervous prior to going on as they felt that Portland had never really taken them to their collective bosom. Apparently in all their shows [...]
I have renewed faith in rock music. Just as local boy Copy gave me renewed faith in the sublime use of the keytar in amongst his positively cool electro beats, The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s proved tonight that there is hope for new horizons in rock. Karen O has such an inescapebly magnetic presence that all [...]
The Kingdom have a fabulous new cd in the can; Chuck let me hear it, it’ll be out on Arena Rock later this year. Tonight they opened for Dungen and did a great job of warming up a crowd that were enduring a room that was as cold as a meat locker, I kid you [...]
The first time I came across Luomo was when I downloaded his remix of Special Cases by Massive Attack featuring Sinead O’Connor, back in 2003; a rather smooth and sublime mix that offset the sometimes bulky mixes that Massive Attack are prone to deliver. This weekend I actually went into a record store; Music Millennium’s [...]
