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 collaborative effort by producer Hans-Peter Lindstrøm and Christabelle Sandoo is steeped in the sounds of the past. Take a cursory spin through the album and the attuned ear will hear references to the work of Giorgio Moroder, Afrika Bambaata and Michael Jackson wafting off the tracks like steam trails.
It seems to me those [...]
Matt Haimovitz – Thursday @ Doug Fir Lounge
This world-class cellist’s schedule for the year includes performances of Shostakovitch’s Concerto No. 1 and a concert at New York’s famed Alice Tully Hall. And a stop at Sam Bond’s Garage in Eugene. No, this isn’t your typical classical performance; it’s in-your-face classical fare, in a perfectly in-your-face [...]
Crookers – We Love Animals [feat. Soulwax and Mixhell]
Amanda Blank – DJ [Viking Remix]
Body Language – Work This City [Shuttle Remix]
Uffie – Pop The Glock [Felix Da Housecat's Pink Enemy Remix]
Xiu Xiu – Gray Death
Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore – Something, Somewhere, Sometime
Retribution Gospel Choir – Hide It Away
Talib Kweli & Mos Def – [...]
This British nine-piece announces its intentions early on this, their debut album. It starts with “Variation”, a short instrumental that could easily have been the main theme of a Michael Cimino or Brian DePalma film from the ’70s. This is a band with a penchant for the artifice of the silver screen and the theater [...]
Lymbyc Systym – Friday @ Mississippi Studios
For a two-man band, Lymbyc Systym can sure make a noise like they are being backed up by a phalanx of musicians and personalities. But, on stage and on record, it is just Jared and Mike Bell, brothers raised in Arizona and now splitting their time between the music [...]
Recently signed to Rough Trade, LA’s Warpaint are in the studio recording their first LP with producer Tom Biller who has produced Beck, Karen O, and Liars. They have also solidified their line-up with new drummer, Stella Mozgawa. You can catch the band on tour with Akron/Family this February across the US. Check out their [...]
The weight of expectations could do some damage to cursory listeners of Vampire Weekend‘s second album. Likely the band expects this though, considering the heaps of praise and press laid upon them following the release of their 2008 self-titled debut. And truth be told, that album was always going to be a hard act to [...]
