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
El Guincho. Photo by Chad Simcox
I always have a fun time playing “spot the sample,” but I typically only play that game with hip-hop. Indie samples are rarer and normally so obscure I don’t even recognize them as such. Case in point: El Guincho and his song “Antillas.” However while dancing around to the Spaniard’s [...]
Pic ©Annene Kaye
After Mickey Moonlight’s mix for Ed Banger‘s iTunes podcast channel dropped this summer I kinda swore off of mixes. It was just so good and all too easy to put on repeat that my ears had no desire to listen to any of the latest mixes on the scene. Because of this, I [...]
All photos ©Nilina Mason-Campbell
After numerous recommendations from friends and bands alike, I finally caught Explode into Colors live on New Year’s Eve at Holocene. While the sound of the trio definitely has some retro tones to it, never has a band seemed so refreshing. Seriously. For weeks and months I’ve been hearing about the group’s [...]
Franz pic ©Nilina Mason-Campbell
After taking over the playlist at an afterparty the other night in an attempt to dance-it up a bit more, I cued up Franz Ferdinand‘s latest single “Ulysses,” expecting its disco-fied decadence to go down a storm. It did, but only so much. See I’d forgotten that its verses don’t only [...]
Well, the ante has officially been upped for rotoscoped music videos. This clip for Ladyhawke‘s “My Delirium” makes Kanye West’s video for “Heartless” look like child’s play. “My Delirium” starts out innocently enough with shots of Miss Pip Brown moping around a motel room in live action before her storyline goes on to play out [...]
©Nilina Mason-Campbell
So did Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band live up to the hype when they played the Doug Fir on Tuesday night? Well, if you weren’t there to witness the performance yourself, you can wipe your brow with relief because the quintet most definitely did.
I stepped into the underground venue having heard oh so much [...]
Pic ©Nilina Mason-Campbell
Finally a Yeasayer song that captures just how danceable the Brooklyn based band is when in the live arena! Leave it to fellow Brooklyn dweller and remix extraordinaire Pocketknife to make the leap. Propping up “Sunrise” with additional percussion while leaving the vocals and original flow of the song intact, he’s succeeded in [...]
All Pictures ©Nilina Mason-Campbell
Sometimes the only words are those to say that there simply are none. Still, I’ll try to give a basic overview of last night’s Of Montreal show at the Roseland. I’d gotten a glimpse of what might be in store by way of photo heavy reviews, but nothing could’ve prepared me for [...]
