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
For her second full-length, Tania Bowers doesn’t mess with the captivating formula that made her an underground success story. She and her collaborators stick with a lush backdrop of reverberating downtempo beats and electronically-processed atmospherics that comfortably cushion her warm kitten’s tongue of a singing voice.
The audible shifts are more for clarity and volume, amping [...]
To paraphrase what I wrote in my 2009 Best of.. List a few days ago, “here’s a list of Portland artists that I spent the most time with in 2009. This is not meant to be a ranked list..” Portland never ceases to delight, with fresh new music popping up every month or so. Here’s [...]
Previous Valuable and Timeless Post
I’ll put to one side my puzzle over why, in 2009, people remain fascinated with lists. That said, if you’re into them there is a phenomenal amount of best of music, best of a decade in music etc, lists spinning around out there. Simon Reynolds writes in the Guardian of “The musically fragmented decade” where [...]
Melt-Banana – Saturday @ Dantes
Japan boasts many a musical act that tears asunder the strictures of rock and pop music, piecing the remaining shards back together in a colorful collage of sound, akin to Christian Marclay’s reconstructions of vinyl LPs. Melt-Banana has stood firmly in that grand tradition for nearly two decades, giving punk and [...]
Blurb from manufacturer – “This Internet radio features an exclusive NPR menu that lets you easily find, search and bookmark NPR stations, podcasts and content, by topic or by program. It also lets you connect to more than 800 public radio Internet stations across the country plus 15,000 Internet stations worldwide. You can record and [...]
After building up a healthy amount of cred among jazz, indie, funk and jam band aficionados, Medeski Martin & Wood have spent the last decade dabbling in various ways to reshape their already well-formed funk/jazz fusion, as well as stretching their own muscles as players and composers. They’ve pulled in vocalists and turntablists, knocked out [...]
In discussions I’ve had with different friends about the essay, talk has always turned to my point about musicians creating something “valuable and timeless.”
Here’s the actual line – “… a few examples of musicians currently providing what I feel is valuable and timeless work; I consider valuable and timeless as ‘worth spending time in [...]
