A great discovery while I was listening to Blitzen Trapper related artists on Last.fm is

Coconut Records

you may click on the link to view the single off of their album I just heard.

They are a band set up by Jason Schwartzmann, the guy who used to be with Phantom Planet (Californiaaaa, californiaaaa...here we commmmeeeeeee) and he is an actor seen in fine movies such as Rushmore and more recently, The Darjeeling Limited.

edit: Just discovered through wikipedia that Schwartzmann is related to the Coppola clan, what a talented bunch!

Basically Indie is it. Forget listening to anything cool and exciting on your mainstream record labels like Sony BMG and Universal like we used to in our teens. With even the best of the lot embracing Independent modes of music distribution, we can hope to see more free music, greater ease in song transfer and accessibility and a real focus on good music being made, rather than the record label manufactured crap. Sure some genres have yet to catch up, perhaps to sustain Bling in the Hip hop industry you need the mega-bucks these big corporations provide. But with even some nice rappers coming into the fold (see Lupe Fiasco and Kanye West), that may just be changing.

Labels: Music

savoirefaire blogged at 2:10 PM



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