From the Matador Records act known as Car Seat Headrest, this is their music video to their song titled Vincent from their album titled Teens of Denial
Dani King is a young up & coming independent recording artist whose unique voice has a strong ability to sing in a sultry lower range. Originally from Chicago, she attended music school in Nashville and then headed for Los Angeles.
Her music video below is to an original song she wrote titled Up All Night. She takes 50 seconds to set up the sexy theme of desire before the music comes in. Turn it up!
Video Credits
Actors: Dani King and Zach Mcgovern
Director: Tom Gault of Tom Gault Productions
Director of Photography and Second Shooter: Shelby Carol
Hair and Makeup: Lucy Mendoza
Rosa Pullman is a stellar songwriter, guitarist pianist, vocalist and beautiful person who was featured on our network before, here.
Just below is one of our favorite takes of Ready For You that was filmed in August of 2015. She was performing for The Intersection LA, a magical little house in Los Feliz/Silverlake, California, where resident and transient Los Angeles artists meet and play music at a new crossroads for musicians and their audience.
Rosa Pullman - Ready For You
And, here is another tasty song titled Walk On, also filmed at The Intersection LA. She is accompanied by the talented musicians Shiben Bhattacharya on guitar, Jason Hiller on bass, and Michael Jerome Moore on drums.
Delphi Freeman is a 17 year old songwriter who, since 2014, has been paying her dues busking with her brothers, Luke (Cajon) and James (bass, guitar & production), in the famous San Francisco Bay Area spot known as Ghirardelli Square. She just released her debut album titled Audio Cinema. Just below is her first official music video with her song titled Digital Throwback.
Delphi Freeman - Digital Throwback
On March 22, she will perform live at Silo's, which is at the Napa River Inn, 530 Main St., Napa, California 94559. There is no cover charge for the show!
Nobody ever said autistic girls cannot become music stars. Wish we had posted this in time for Christmas, but the story is worthy of a post holiday plug.
A 10 year old autistic girl named Kaylee Rogers sang lead vocals to Leonard Cohen's song titled Hallelujah, backed up by the a school choir of other kids from the special needs school they all attend with each other in Northern Ireland called Killard House. Billy McAuley filmed the event and posted it to his Facebook page and it went viral, and still is. Enjoy!
A collaboration of indie labels and assorted gurus including but not limited to Milk! Records, House Anxiety, Marathon Artists and Mom+Pop has worked hard for a real deal Australian indie artist named Courtney Barnett who has great pop songs with some excellent music videos.
Her debut album released last year titled “Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit”, had a strong initial reception in the indie marketplace and still has strong legs. Just below, in reverse order of their release date, are all of the music videos associated with her debut album.
Courtney Barnett - Elevator Operator
Courtney Barnett - Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go To The Party
A new LA rock trio known as The Secret Things has made it's recent debut with the release of the song and music video below.
The group consists of Steve Giles on bass, Dan Nelles on drums and Cynthia Catania on guitar and lead vocals. We know Giles and Catania from an act they play in together called Saucy Monky that is presently on Hiatus as a key Saucy member Annmarie Cullen is presently living in Spain.
The Secret Things has a gig at Boardners at 1725 N. Cherokee Avenue in Hollywood California on August 18, 2016 at 9PM.
A long time favorite on this site and other Indies Network sites is Strong Blood Records recording artist Trixie Whitley. The video below is to her song titled Closer from her latest album titled Porta Bohemica. The video was directed by Anders Malmberg.
Below are the two most recently released Darwin Deez music videos from his new record titled Double Down. The first song below is titled The Mess She Made
Featured below is a retro funk/soul mix by former Detroit based digital-artist/remixer known as Recloose. He once moved to live life in the New Zealand music scene, but recently moved to NYC for yet, another change. Recloose's real name is Matt Chicoine. This song below is titled Danger Zone.
Back in April 2012, we wrote about and featured the music and videos of Sting's daughter, Eliot Sumner. At that time her act was known as I Blame Coco. Click here to view that post. A lot has happened since then.
Eliot Sumner has been paying her music dues the old fashioned way, through trial and error. In Part I, below, Eliot explains that with her previous I Blame Coco material, after it was released and she listened to it, she felt "no relation to it". That is part of the trial and error music journey she joined before her adult life began.
But if you were ever a fan of her father and his band The Police, you will see and hear a bit of the Sting gene in Eliot. But, she is all original and not copping someone else's groove, including her father's. And it's a real delight to listen to, both that material she has moved on from, as well as the present.
Most recently, director John Lindquist, in association with legendary i-D Magazine which is now part of the growing & influential Vice media network, followed Eliot in Europe where she is the supporting act for Lykke Li's tour.
Tracks featured in the three candid videos below include Come Friday, Halfway to Hell, Wobbler and Information. All are originals written by Eliot Sumner.
Eliot Sumner's bandmates are Nick Benton (guitar), Jan Blumentrath (keys) and Adam Gammage (drums). We don't have links on the first two bandmates, yet, but you can connect direct with Adam Gammage at facebook.com/AdamGammageDrummer and at adamgammage.blogspot.co.uk where he has all sorts of great music links.
Those who were part of the production with Director/DP/Editor John Lindquist include:
Director of Photography: Isaac Eastgate
First Assistant Camera: Joe Bird
B camera: Liboni Munnings
Editor: Tom Chick
Sound mix: Ania Przygoda
Additional dialogue interview: Scott Normand
Associate producer: Shabana Mansuri
Special thanks to Ellie Shaw, Gavin Maxwell (Backline tech) and Sarah Boardman.
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Vitek is a very under the radar act out of Nashville, that has a good feel with real players that includes a horn section. The groups leader is Gabrahm Vitek, who also has been known as Gabe Vitek, on vocals & keyboards that includes a Fender Rhodes, an old Wurlitzer and other assorted pianos and keyboards that are featured in his videos.
When I say under the radar, I mean it. The various sites that link from Vitek's official YouTube page have all disappeared. I am talking about no more Facebook account, no more Twitter account and the domain name the band used is no longer.
Vitek recorded a song and made a conceptual video that has something about it. The video, directed by Annie Miller, might be better than the song, but the song is still all right. I came upon that video because of another a pretty interesting film take of them performing live in a studio environment. So here are both of those and one more, just below.
Vitek - Sunbird
The next one below is titled Devil, Don't You
And, here is one more from a bit further back, in 2010, titled No Look Dancing
UPDATE: WE JUST FOUND VITEK: He is now in a band in Nashville that is named "Kind". Connect direct with Vitek on Twitter.Com/GabrahmVitek and Connect with his new band, Kind, at facebook.com/kindnashville
Here is a great find out of Glasgow, England. The band is known as Casual Sex. Their members are Sam Smith, Ed Wood, Peter Masson & Chris McCrory. Just below is their music video to their song titled A Perfect Storm.
The-Indies is proud to present a sweet 2011 video of artist Benjamin Clementine busking in a subway station in Paris. It was filmed by Corinne Damas Sandiford with a Blackberry with no editing. (Since we first added this post to The Indes in 2015, Mr. Clementine's music career has received widespread acclaim).
Please click the play button of the video below and choose the
high-resolution & full screen options. When this music video
ends, it will automatically be followed by many more excellent curated music videos. Press forward to
skip any video or click the reverse button to replay or return to
previous songs. Or, exit full screen mode to pick a new video.
Benjamin Clementine - No Woman, No Cry (Bob Marley Cover)
The first Jonah Smith song I heard was titled "Tone of Your Voice" that he offered up for free on the old MP3.Com in anut 2000 or 2001. That song has a great feel that was sort of like Steely Dan meets Van Morrison. Have been following Jonah ever since and he constantly puts out great music.
This first video below is one of a vast series of live recordings dubbed the Cumberland Loft Sessions, shot in Brooklyn, NY in his apartment in front of a live audience way back in 2009. It features Jonah Smith, Carrie Rodriguez, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Doug Wamble, Leah Siegel, Andy Stack, Lucius, Maya Azucena, Rich Hinman, Christian Ver Halen and Ben Rubin. (production credits listed at bottom of post)
The second video below is a bit more recent,from a May 2014 post to his YouTube page. Jonah wrote this song titled The Umbrella for his album named In The Kitchen, which he made with fellow artist, Andy Stack. It was filmed, recorded and edited by Neil Fennel.
Jonah Smith with Carrie Rodriguez - "Stay Awhile" (from the Cumberland Loft Sessions)
Production Credits for Stay Awhile
Produced by Jonah Smith
Video by Nestor Rivera Jr., Mike Mongulla and Darryal Dashiell
Edited by Mike Mongulla
Audio by Dan Mechanic and Sean O'Brien
Mixed by Matt Agoglia, Kyle Ford, Zach McNees and Sean O'Brien
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Here is a obscure, but cool indie rock band out of Capriolo in Lombardia, Italy, known as The Credo. The group appears to have only been active for a short period in 2009, and then disappeared.... poof, gone.
Off the prolific U.K. based indie label Mr. Bongo is a tasty groove artist named Hollie Cook who self describes her music as tropical pop.
Cook is of extremely credible music industry lineage. Her father is Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook. Her mother, Jeni, was a back up singer in Boy George's Culture Club, one of the most grooving soulful pop bands of all time. To top it off, Boy George is Hollie Cook's godfather.
Since about 2006, when she stepped into the music business, she has collaborated with a wide range of people, paid her dues and covered a lot of ground.
As a solo artist, she has released three albums on the Mr. Bongo imprint. The most recent release is titled Twice. The tracks featured below include the music video for the song titled Postman which is track #5 on the album, the music video to Looking For Real Love which is track #6 on the album. Featured last is the title track to the album, Twice, which happens to be track #8. There is no video for that one yet.
