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
Stay away from the record labels, kids..
Extract – “An even more striking thing, perhaps, emerges in this second graph, namely that revenues accrued by artists themselves have in fact risen over the past 5 years, despite the fall in record sales.”
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The Whigs – Sunday November 15th @ Doug Fir LoungeThese young Georgians are your quintessential American rock band. They are a power trio fronted by a gruffly handsome young man in tattered jeans and they play terse, ripping blues-tinged jams that takes full advantage of their thick Southern accents and love of power chords. Their [...]
United Snakes from United Visual Artists on Vimeo.
UPDATE: The winner of the tickets is Lara Messersmith!! Your name will be on the guest list + 1. Enjoy the show!! Thanks to everyone who entered.
America’s finest hip-hop/soul/industrial poet Saul Williams is taking his “Niggy Tardust Experience” on the road this November, stopping by the Aladdin Theater this coming Sunday and we want to [...]
Ramona Falls “I Say Fever” from Barsuk Records on Vimeo.
“I Say Fever” – the first video from the Ramona Falls debut album Intuit. Directed by the ridiculously talented Stefan Nadelman, winner of a 2003 Sundance prize for his 22 minute film ‘Terminal Bar’, a prolific animator in the commericial field and the mastermind behind the [...]
Like many of the artists signed to the venerable Thrill Jockey label, the Austrian trio known as Radian have, since 1996, carved out a comfortable place for themselves in the music world. Their five albums, including this one, have found them cobbling together roughly constructed songs out of shards of sonic ephemera, with the end [...]
Grillo
Here’s ten more free and legal MP3s from the Pampelmoose inbox to kick start your week. I got a note from Grillo [pictured] who sent me his whole new album, Fireworks. It’s a great piece of work, definitely worth picking up. Another favorite this week is Pathetic Magic from Thank You on Thrill Jockey. Enjoy!
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Loch Lomond – Tuesday, November 10th @ The WoodsThey will have a new album coming out in Spring of 2010, but to whet our hungry appetites for more music, Portland’s finest chamber pop quintet have put together an incredible five-song EP, entitled Night Bats, that features some of their most anxious and intense material to [...]
