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
Alela, chip, wine – what more do you need? Click to play.
The last thing I heard/saw last night was Alela Diane, accompanied by her dad, playing a beautiful set. Here’s a clip.
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incredible video, Alela is so amazing.
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August 27th, 2007 at 10:38 am[...] With her fragile female voice accompanied only by an acoustic guitar, new-folk songstress Alela Diane offers us a brand new take on what I would call Gothic Folk; her story-telling lyrics are so American and especially West Coast that they remind me of Richard Brautigan’s novels. In comparison it’s then fair to say that San Francisco-based singer/songwriter Emily Jane White, a new-comer, offers us a similar take on female blues singers of yore. On her new CD Dark Undercoat, [that’s an evokative title by the way, does she mean clothing or paint? Or merely the idea of something lurking, dangerous, hidden?,] White offers complex tales of melancholy and isolation and aside from the Alela comparison she also offers us a nod and a wink to Cat Power. And I mention blues singers as White’s music owes a clear debt to classic female jazz and blues singers such as Billie Holiday. I posted a cut below from White’s album Dark Undercoat, it’s entitled Bessie Smith and ruminates upon the life of one of the 1920’s-period blues legends of the same name. This website calls Smith “a rough, crude, violent woman” and such was her public persona but it goes on to say that “she was also the greatest of the classic Blues singers”. White is more restrained than her subject matter but nonetheless delivers in her work a feeling of melancholy that evokes a pathos that’s akin to Smith and Holiday’s painful lamentations. Just like Alela Diane, Smith has delivered a memorable work that we may well look back on one day wistfully. [...]
October 24th, 2007 at 9:57 pm