indie scent

Great songs from indie bands and labels that don't mind sharing the occasional song online, in four categories:

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Clutch -- Burning Beard

Neil sent me this today, some seriously earnest heavy rockers. Shades of Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger. I love the energy and intensity of this stuff:

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

SXSW 2008 -- 20 Songs

Oh, this poor neglected song blog. Since the demise of Webjay, I've lost my mojo for finding great new music and wanting to share it. But somewhere I saw a reference to the new SxSW site being launched, and every year it's got piles of amazing new (and free) music from the bands playing and promoting themselves at the festival. I poked around a bit and found 20 songs I really liked, cutting across some genres, but mostly with good melodies and some interesting experimentation:Oh, and you can just grab the playlist if you want to stream them all online.