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
The Rumble skipped January but returns again on February 2nd at its usual location, Holocene. For this month’s show we have Jaguar Love, about whom Pampelmoose contributor Robert Ham has great things to say here. Also on the bill are Logan Lynn and DJ A-Train. And as always it’s a FREE show.
Nomo @ Sunday @ Doug Fir Lounge
While the music writers and critics of the world try to parse out whether Vampire Weekend is honest in their approach to African pop, you should busy yourself with this fine group of gents from Michigan. Formed in the early part of the past decade, this sextet plays some [...]
Photograph: Harry Borden
Paul Morley interviews Brian Eno
Brian Eno – On the end of an era
“I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything [...]
If only all award show recipients had the strength and ingenuity of Karin Dreijer Andersson of Fever Ray, who used performance art to make a subtle dig at the complete shallowness and uselessness of award shows. In other news, Fever Ray will perform at this year’s Coachella Festival.
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Fever Ray Has Created Something Valuable
Dear Musicians, [...]
Back in the halcyon days of the music industry (the late ’80s/early ’90s), indie labels would knock out compilations like this by the dozen. They served as promotional tools for their upcoming slate of releases, benefits for important causes, or tributes to important bands, and were usually priced at bargain basement prices.
These days, most [...]
My favorite rock critic, Paul Morley, has a splendid video interview with the Mancunian musician and Warp Records artist LoneLady. [You can get a free Lonelady MP3 here.] It’s a very interesting take on one woman’s adventures in the music business and popular culture, or “The Machine” as she calls it many times during the [...]
From Case-Real. This would work well with my Technics SL-1200
In response to EMI banning their YouTube video from being embedded on other sites, OK Go, a band that found huge success [49+ million views] with this video on YouTube, has written an open letter.
Their problems with their label sort of validates this.
[Second Update 1/22/2010] I was wrong it appears – no scam. Everyone [...]
