http://www.candiedpop.com Reviews and news about independent artists and labels. Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:44:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Add The White Stripes to this list: Amy Winehouse, Rodrigo y Gabriela and Jon Dee Graham. According to Austin 360 and the ACL message boards The White Stripes have canceled their performances at ACL and Stubb's due to an illness. Now I am really happy I have Dylan tickets for ... http://www.candiedpop.com/2007/09/11/white-stripes-cancel-acl-stubbs/ If you were following me here, I am sure you thought I had disappeared forever. As I mentioned in one of my last posts, I had horrible back pain after attending (and jumping around at) a Spearhead concert last November. Well all is great now! I had back surgery and ... http://www.candiedpop.com/2007/09/10/austin-city-limits-festival-2007/ Good news! After three years of legal battles, Kindercore Records is back. You can read today's official announcement here. The Athens-centric label put out some great albums by the likes of Japancakes, Dressy Bessy, Of Montreal, and Masters of the Hemisphere, as well as a few killer compilations. Kindercore Records ... http://www.candiedpop.com/2007/07/02/kindercore-rises-from-the-ashes/ I saw a review for the new Minus Story album, My Ion Truss, at Pitchfork this morning and immediately checked over at eMusic to see if it was available. I like those guys and had downloaded their other stuff through that service. Sure enough they had it. I guess I ... http://www.candiedpop.com/2007/06/27/a-minus-story-compendium/ I checked out Drive-By Truckers last night at Athfest. They closed out the festival on the free outdoor stage. I went in barely knowing the band and left quite impressed. They put on a really good show. Seriously, I had had hardly any exposure to their work although I was aware ... http://www.candiedpop.com/2007/06/25/drive-by-truckers-athfest-52507/ Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? It has been nearly two months since I've shown my face around here but in that time I've stumbled across some real gems like Pirats Sound Sistema. Contrary to popular myth I'm not as worldly some might lead you to believe and am no ... http://www.candiedpop.com/2007/06/20/pirats-sound-sistema-pirats-sound-system-vol-ii/ James has been holding down the fort for months but Yancey's post at the "unofficial" eMusic blog 17 dots has spurred me back into action. I have of course been listening to music all this time, just not writing about it. One not so little project I've been working on ... http://www.candiedpop.com/2007/06/13/mp3-house-cleaning/ Manic, quirky, odd, fun, funky, strutting, nerdy are all adjectives that stick very well to Deerhoof's latest, Friend Opportunity. The problem is that I really wanted to like this album for all the positive things I have read and heard from friends about the band as it appeared ... http://www.candiedpop.com/2007/05/03/deerhoof-friend-opportunity/ There was a time when I was deep into Ambient--thanks to an introduction to the genre via Future Sound of London, Aphex Twin, Thom Brennan, and Robert Rich--but had drifted away from the genre in the past years for one reason or another. Recently, I picked up Stars of ... http://www.candiedpop.com/2007/04/16/stars-of-the-lid-and-their-refinement-of-the-decline/ Fanfare Ciocarlia are new to me and I'm left scratching my head wonder why in the hell I have not heard of this band before. They are billed as a Romanian Gypsy Brass Band but their music has wider roots that tap into many different cultures from Turkey, Macedonia, ... http://www.candiedpop.com/2007/04/09/fanfare-ciocarlia-queens-and-kings/