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
No, it’s not April 1st 2010. This gave me pause. Lou Reed, he of the The Velvet Underground, of Metal Machine Music, of Andy Warhol’s Factory, Nico collaborator, of Transformer, bi-pal of David Bowie, the list goes on… has delivered an iPhone app, the Lou Zoom!
no more squinting..
It’s a strange step, and here’s why. [...]
Before we get into the festivities worth your while this coming Thursday night, I wanted to include a quick pick for the night before:
Holidang! – Wednesday @ Mississippi Studios
This fun, festive, and most importantly, free event is being sponsored by the good folks at Riot Act Media. It will feature four of their roster of [...]
Eight months after this video hit YouTube, Danny MacAskill, the all around crazy, street/stunt/extreme/mountain/BMX rider, has become a superstar amongst 9 to 11 year olds in his native Scotland according to this sweet profile in the New York Times SportsTuesday. The video, set to the song ‘The Funeral’ by Band of Horses, has been viewed [...]
Radiohead: Kid A – Album of The Decade
In the fractured music business, everyone is searching for the magic bullet. After roughly fifteen years of online access, musicians and labels still struggle with the amorphous, asymmetrical world of the web. Because they haven’t taken time to research how music fans want to receive their music, they [...]
We talk a lot on this site about the difficulties bands face trying to traverse the unsteady ground that is the current music industry but it’s high time we actually talked to someone actually in the trenches. Someone like Chantal Claret.
Claret’s band Morningwood has maintained an appreciable level of success, thanks to a decent [...]
So Sony got my email address, link was sent to download MP3, link is broken. It’s 2009, how hard is this stuff? The grammer is awesome too.
[Update] Kudos to Sony for reaching out to me just now and fixing the link. MP3 is in hand. And here’s a link to the Broken Bells store.
Thrones – Saturday, December 19th @ ArtisteryBassist extraordinaire Joe Preston has amassed a resume as mighty as the sound he ekes out of his amplifiers. The Salem resident has worked with some of the titans of heavy rock and drone, including a stint with Melvins and session/tour work with High On Fire, Harvey Milk, Sunn [...]
