"Song of the Week" SWAN Day CT ~ Real Bad Voodoo by: The Grimm Generation

In Celebration of SWAN Day CT.
Sat Mar. 26, 2011

The "Song of the Week" 

for 03-16-11 is: 

Real Bad Voodoo* by: The Grimm Generation

SWAN Day CT. Organizer Jennifer Hill
will be interviewed by DJ: G.Gone
on Radio IndepenDisc Wed. 3-16-11.
She’ll talk about the up coming
SWAN Day
and the artists appearing, which includes:
The Grimm Generation, Jennifer Hill and Co., 
She Eats Planets, Sarah LeMieux, SisterFunk, Canyon, Addie Brownlee, The And Band,
Kellee Maize, Laura Ganci, Waking Elliot,
and live painting by: Kerry Kozaczuk,
serpent belly dancing by: Nikki LeVillian,
burlesque performance by: Lily LaVamp,
also: Olde Burnside Brewing Co. & Pin-Up Girl Catering.

Support Women Artists Now Day CT
Sat Mar. 26, 2011
East Hartford Community Cultural Center 6pm-11pm. 
More Info HERE.

Leave a comment to be entered for a chance to win a pair of FREE Passes to SWAN Day CT.

Drawing to be held live & announced on Radio IndepenDisc Wed. 03-23-11 

*Link is a direct .mp3 audio stream.

"Song of the Week" SWAN Day CT ~ Stay by: Jennifer Hill & Co.

In Celebration of SWAN Day CT.

The IndepenDisc "Song of the Week"
for 03-09-11 is:
Stay* by: Jennifer Hill & Co.

off the CD: Fifteen Minute Long Sentence

**On Saturday, March 26th, 2011, Jennifer Hill will be hosting the CT chapter of a world-wide commemoration of women artists titled, SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now). The CT chapter of the international event will take place at the East Hartford Community Cultural Center from 6pm-11pm. ($12)
SWAN Day is a celebration facilitated by the Fund for Women Artists, a non-profit art service organization which is devoted to help women artists receive the resources that are needed to accomplish their creative endeavors. Over the past decade, this foundation has risen over $4 million and has built a website (http://www.WomenHYPERLINK "http://arts.org"arts.org) that offers art resources such as, networking, fundraising and advocacy services to over 500,000 visitors a year. This holiday is meant to give recognition to female artists all over the globe by having them come together to support one another. SWAN DAY CT is the only SWAN event in CT and is also one of SWAN day’s most successful events.
SWAN DAY CT’S organizer, Jennifer Hill, front woman of local band Jennifer Hill & Co. (also Hartford Advocate’s Grand Band Slam Best Female Vocalist winner of 2009) has been arranging SWAN Day CT since 2008 and has blossomed into one of SWAN Day’s most successful events. Through Hill’s hard work and devotion to the arts, this day has not only formed a fantastic alliance of creative and artistic women in the east coast region, but has given recognition to female media and empowerment.
For More Info. Click HERE.

To be continued next week...

Leave a comment to be entered for a chance to win a pair of FREE Passes to SWAN Day CT.

*Link is a direct .mp3 audio stream.

**From the SWAN Day CT press release.

"Song of the Week" ~ Sleep Alone by: Mollycoddle

The IndepenDisc "Song of the Week"
for 03-02-11 is:
Sleep Alone*
by: Mollycoddle

off the CD: Lucky

In Tribute to Swan Day 2011

Over the next couple of weeks I will be telling you about Swan Day 2011 – Support Woman Artists Now Day. And I couldn’t think of a better way to kick off the month of March with what was the 1^st Female fronted band from New Haven, CT that was Featured on IndepenDisc. Mollycoddle, and their CD: Lucky
was the March 2001 Feature.

Heather Orser (McDonald) and Ralna Ramse
the first of many CT SWANs on IndepenDisc.

©Kathleen Cei photo

This year Swan Day CT will be held on Sat Mar. 26, 2011 at
The East Hartford Community Cultural Center  6pm-11pm.  Get more info HERE.

*Link is a direct .mp3 audio stream.

"Song of the Week" ~ I Can't Add You To My List by: Saint Bernadette

The "Song of the Week"
for 02-23-11 is:
I Can’t Add You To My List
by: Saint Bernadette

off the CD: Word To The Lourdes

Featured on IndepenDisc in Jun. of '09

and here's what I (G.Gone) had to say about it then...

...Not many independent bands in this day and age have this belief in their convictions. The true love and spirit of the music gets lost in translation due to the greed of the business. Too many sheep fall by the wayside and are lost. Yet every now and then, a teacher comes forth to shepherd the flock. With Word To The Lourdes, Saint Bernadette continues to fulfill the prophecy as the ones chosen to spread the gospel of Rock. The power of the word can be found in the hell-bent deliverance of Meredith’s angelic vocals rolling over the heavenly intensity of this hammer of the gods outfit.

Have you suffered at the hands of the false idols of Rock-n-Roll?
Then let Saint Bernadette’s Word To The Lourdes be your saving grace...

Read the entire review HERE.

*Link is a direct .mp3 audio stream.

"Song of the Week" ~ above the weather by: Eula

The "Song of the Week"
for 02-16-11 is: above the weather*
by: Eula off the CD: language of threat

Featured on IndepenDisc in Jun. of '09

and here's what I (G.Gone) had to say about it then...

...Equivalent to a Mythical Beast, New Haven’s Eula uses the gigantic rhythm section of Jeff and Nate to lumber in with intense grooves that are the body of this beast. Thick and heavy, these guys have a cosmic awareness of how to slam their “in-your-face” punk attitude across the soundscape with a very knowledgeable, polished, and raw feeling that is unique in today’s modern music. While Jeff and Nate keep this beast crunching forward, it’s Alyse’s innocent, yet experienced, sharp-edged vocals and guitar that are the teeth of this beast... Read the entire review HERE.

*Link is a direct .mp3 audio stream.

"Song of the Week" ~ Riffy by: Jellyshirts

The "Song of the Week"
for 01-26-11 is: Riffy* by: Jellyshirts

off the CD: Sail On Sally

Featured on IndepenDisc in May of '09

and here's what I (G.Gone) had to say about it then...

... Riffy takes the pick-n-soar guitar rock, combines it with a vintage 20’s microphone style vocal and angelic harmonizing to extol the virtue of spontaneous love and the glorious benefits of pursuing a euphoric Shangri-la within ones conscious life efforts. When Jellyshirts hit the soaring vocal homily of “Heaven… Heaven… Heaven… Heaven,” we truly understand that Heaven can be found within a lifetime. That it can be experienced in multiple lifetimes, or whatever it may account for in accordance to your spiritual beliefs, if you allow it to… Read the entire review HERE.

*Link is a direct .mp3 audio stream.

(New Haven) "Song of the Week" ~ The Royal Heart, by: The Ivory Bills

In response to the NH Register's new entertainment editor Jordan Fenster's call for songs about New Haven...

"Song of the Week" for 11-17-10 is: The Royal Heart*
by: The Ivory Bills off the CD: Rhythmic Jet Ear Games

Featured on IndepenDisc in Mar. '09

Here's what I (G.Gone) had to say about it then...

~snip~...Once again, New Haven, CT’s heart beats proudly as it delivers loud original Rock-n-Roll to the masses who sometimes think of it as extinct. The Ivory Bills debut album is a hip-shakin’, bone-rattlin’, Boogie-Woogie inspired throw down of an amazing good time. This trio of New Haven music stalwarts, James Velvet (bass, vocals), Johnny Java (drums, percussion) and John L. (guitars, vocals), lays down songs of huge guitar licks with a hot-stompin’ Rhythm that has a pulse of nonstop fun matched with excellent vocal interpretations of classic Rock subjects, and then some...~snip~

Read the entire review HERE.

So, how's that for a New Haven song?

*Link is a direct .mp3 audio stream.

"Song of the Week" ~ You Be You by: The Down-Fi

The Down-Fi will be appearing at Cafe` 9
Sat. 10-23-10 with The Manchurians.

"Song of the Week" for 10-20-10 is: You Be You*
by: The Down-Fi off the CD: America Now

I'm on the Cafe` 9 mailing list, this week's show announcements included this description of the upcoming show:

Oct. 23
Saturday 9pm

The Down-Fi (feat. Craig Willis Bell); w/ Whiskey Tango Foxtrot; The Manchurians • Look no further than Craig Willis Bell. The man is '70s punk personified. Every artist who wishes to understand old school punk should familiarize themselves with and study Craig Willis Bell – original member of Rocket From The Tombs, Saucers, The Plan, The Bell System, and more. $6

It seemed to me to be a little familiar.
IndepenDisc featured America Now by The Down-Fi in Nov. '09.
So I went and reread my review, Here's what I (G.Gone) had to say about it then...

~snip~...The Down-Fi is Old School Punk.

Look no further than Craig Willis Bell. The man is 70s Punk personified. Every Artist who wishes to understand Old School Punk should familiarize themselves with and study Craig Willis Bell – I suggest here, that you Google him, as well as Rocket From The Tombs (sub categories: Pere Ubu and The Dead Boys), Saucers, The Plan, The Bell System, and possibly others that this reviewer is unaware of...~snip~
Read the entire review HERE.

I didn't know whether to be flattered that they used my words, or upset that I wasn't credited.
I'm still not sure.
What do you think?

*Link is a direct .mp3 audio stream.

"Song of the Week" ~ Moons of Jupiter by: Sky Picnic

After Featuring Synesthesia in Apr. of '09, we invited NYC's "PsychProg" band, Sky Picnic, to play the IndepenDisc 11th B'day Bash at Cafe` 9 that year. It was a sort of homecoming for Shelton native Chris Sherman, so he & the band we're "psyched" to play. They melted our faces. We're going to see them when they return to CT this Sat. 10-16 at Two Boots in Bridgeport were they will be appearing with: Like Trains & Taxis.

Want to know more about them? Check the links, tune into Radio IndepenDisc, read this blog and of course listen to the:

"Song of the Week" for 10-13-10: Moons of Jupiter* by: Sky Picnic off the CD: Synesthesia.

Featured on IndepenDisc in Apr. of '09 - Here's what I (G.Gone) had to say about it then...

~snip~ Here Sky Picnic sends us on a universal journey outside the mind and the body – the spirit is being lifted into outer and inner space. All the echo, reverb, Wah Wahs, and whatever else they’ve got going on here is just mind blowing. Dig the drums, subtle, laying back, playing an important role as the guitar’s high notes are picked about and carried by a droning and thumping bass to create a song that parallels The Who’s “Sparks” from Tommy. So trippy, so cool. This song accentuates it’s Moons of Jupiter title perfectly as it gives off stratospheric sensations that tingle the mind and soul.~snip~ Read the entire review HERE.

*Link is a direct .mp3 audio stream.

"Song of the Week" ~ Mr. Midnight by: deena

‎"Song of the Week" for 09-29-10 is: Mr. Midnight* by: deena. off the CD: somewhere in BLUE.

Featured on IndepenDisc in Dec. '08 ~ here's what I (G.Gone) had to say about it then...

~snip~...somewhere in BLUE is a powerful statement from a Rock-n-Roll adult. Deena has taken her sweetness, evidenced through some of the most versatile vocals of pure innocence, and crafted a gem of an album. This album becomes a classic for every mid-life rocker whose roots drink deeply from the country/southern rock/rockabilly influences of the 50s, carried through the 60s, and 70s, right on up to where this huge demographic of music listeners is today. This album is a history lesson tied around Mid-life and it gives back the love/music that has gone missing in our lives. It metaphorically updates our love affair(s) with music by taking to task a story of a lonely, loving, isolated, caring soul committed to a long term relationship with many ties and obligations. But, there is something missing – while committed enough to understand the scope of her world and how much rests and relies on her, she has convinced herself content with her situation – Yet, she seeks solace in a semi-dreamlike state, or as the narrator calls it: somewhere in BLUE. A story arc develops through several different perspectives and scenarios as she begins, not to abandon her state, but to explore the possibilities of all the stages she needs to fulfill, in order to validate her existence, in regard to what cannot be found or fulfilled within the limited reaches of her everyday life – a life which grows shorter with each year – a Mid-life crisis? A Love crisis? A music crisis? Or simply a crisis? Well Deena, with somewhere in BLUE, has made it all a celebration....~snip~ Read the entire review HERE.

*Link is a direct audio stream.

HAPPY 12th BIRTHDAY INDEPENDISC ~ "Song of the Week"

HAPPY 12th BIRTHDAY INDEPENDISC! "Song of the Week" for 09-01-10 is: My Birthday by: The Cucumbers. Listen to it now: http://www.independisc.com/sotw/sotw007.m3u

On Sept. 1st 1998, IndepenDisc was born.
 
The Manifesto
"I tell ya Bob, I'm sick of what's on the radio, it's all the same. I love music so much, but I'm tired of what the radio has to offer. I just don't know what to do."

"The next time you're in the record store buy something you never heard before."

"But, what if I don't like it?"

"But, What if you do?"
It's hard to believe that conversation took place in 1977, yet it is still relevant today.

I regard music in the highest order, along side that of love. Without music there is no life. Everyone needs music in order to survive. Try to imagine a day with no music, that includes the singing of the birds, the idle of car engines, the whispering of the breeze, the murmur of far off conversations, the rhythm of your own breathing. All those sounds are in themselves music. Music is all-encompassing of sound. Sound equals music, music equals life.

What of those who can not hear sound? It is known that the deaf (I never claimed to be Politically Correct) can experience sound/music on higher sensual levels than most, thus at times sharing with us, sometimes exceeding, the pleasures we know and derive from it.

Music, like love (therefore the love of music/the music of love) can be the highest emotional level that we achieve. It presents itself in so many forms over the course of a lifetime, how can we not reach out and attempt to hold, feel, live and love it in as many of it's personifications as we can within the course of our own lifetime? There is no limit on how much music/love we can possess, but life tends to limit us to how much time we have to experience/enjoy it.

Since founding IndepenDisc in Sept. of '98 I have once again rediscovered the love of music by breaking away from the established criteria set forth upon us by preprogrammed (to sell advertising) radio. I did it in '77 when I blindly purchased "My Aim Is True" by Elvis Costello. I did it in '91 with "Gish" by Smashing Pumpkins (pre "The") and again in '97 with "Burner" a compilation disc by Home Office Records.

I walked into the record store and bought something I never heard before. It didn't always work, there were Artists/Albums that I didn't like (not to say there was anything wrong with them, if anything they helped to expand my knowledge just as much as the ones I did like), but the Artists/Albums I did like led me to others, that in turn led to changes in my life that still bring smiles to my face.

My passion and love of life through music, is sustained by the rediscovery and rebirth of ideals which are fed by the uncovering of obscure musical gems delivered to my ears by an Artist(s) who knows not of corporate dollars to produce, but only to produce through that of the love of music, the love of life.

These feelings, these emotions that can be brought forth through an Artists musical vision, I have always striven to share with those around me. With the birth of the internet I have been able to realize this calling all the more so, to share this music/love/life with anyone who is willing to listen, with anyone who is willing to walk into the record store and buy something they've never heard before. I created IndepenDisc for anyone/everyone for this reason.

IndepenDisc is the record store that stocks only the music you have never heard before.

"But, what if I don't like it?"

"But, What if you do?"

"Song of the Week" ~ Atrina (+ gig info!)

Is it a coincidence that as I was prepping this week's "Song of the Week" by Atrina, the band announces a huge gig? On September 26, 2010 Connecticut's own Manic Productions is presenting Bettie Serveert, from The Netherlands along with New London, CT's Fatal Film and Atrina at Daniel Street in Milford CT.
I've loved Atrina since their '02 release “searching for a better way…” and Bettie Serveert since I found their '97 release "Dust Bunnies" in a cutout bin of a long defunct big box electronics store. I have only read many positive reviews on Fatal Film, and must say I'm anxious to see them play. All in all, this is a great bill that shouldn't be missed. I'll post more on this as we get closer to the show, in the meantime...

"Song of the Week" for 08-25-10 is: Seven Ways* by: Atrina. off the CD: (beautiful evidence).
Featured Oct. '08 ~ here's what I (G.Gone) had to say about it then...

~snip~...“(beautiful evidence)”…is as amazing an accomplishment of sound, style and substance as you will find in any of today’s recordings. You will be aurally hypnotized before you have a chance to realize what is going on...~snip~ Read the entire review HERE.

*Link is a direct audio stream.

"Song of the Week"

July has sure had it's share of fireworks... Since a few more KaBooms than I planned on kept me away from Blogging, I wanted to add one more KaBoom to finish off the month.

This week's IndepenDisc "Song of the Week" is a BiG KaBoom, A song I consider "One Of" the Best Local New Haven/CT songs of All-Time. Listen to it now (the song title is a direct stream link) and then tell me if you agree, or turn me on to what YOU think is "One Of" the Best local New Haven/CT songs of All-Time.

"Song of the Week" for 07-28-10 is: Rooster by: The Manchurians. off the CD: 5x4/The Minster EP.
Featured on IndepenDisc in Jun. of '08 ~ here's what I (G.Gone) had to say about it then...

~snip~... A powerful closing to a powerful disc. The Manchurians have ratcheted up the intensity by taking their blues base and committing it to the garage in a fashion that allows us to understand the beauty and power that can come from the blending of these genres, that came before, least we forget...~snip~ Read the entire review HERE.

"Song of the Week"

The IndepenDisc "Song of the Week" for 06-30-10 is: On* by: Frank Critelli. off the CD: Waltzing Through Quicksand

Featured on IndepenDisc in Feb. of '08

and here's what I (G.Gone) had to say about it then...

-snip-...The amazing part of all this is that Frank accomplishes it with a poetic flare of writing which connects each listener to the song/song cycle/album in intangible ways. For as Frank Critelli waltzes through the quicksand of the ever saddening state of the music industry, he intelligently binds the experiences of everyday real life (his, ours, and everybody else’s) to each story and relates how we are all trapped in our own quicksand. Listening to the progression of the album, the way Frank has created a flow, we slowly understand Frank’s message: Don’t fight, nor give up in the quicksand of life, but waltz through it, with as much dignity, grace, and class as you can – for that is when we can derive the joyfulness that life offers, that is how we can have a good time...-snip-

Read the entire review HERE.

*Link is a direct .mp3 stream of the song.