Indie Sounds NY & Austin

Spinning On Harris Radio: The Blue Hit

The Harris Radio podcast #7 includes the song Five-Cent Fare from Austin's The Blue Hit, taken from their Move In album.



Buy the album at CD Baby or download it from iTunes.

Final S.E.G. Showcase of 2009 At Ella Tomorrow

Brooklyn Songwriters Exchange Releases Compilation

The Brooklyn Songwriters Exchange - a music series curated by Rebecca Pronsky - has released a compilation CD of some of the artists that have played their nights.



The CD will be available - free - at future BSX nights and can also be purchased online.

p.s. Rebecca's playing Austin just after Christmas ... check her out at The Hole in the Wall and at Momo's.

Kendall's Hit List: The Vanguard

Photo by Sylvester Zawadski. Wall art and Shirts by Ryoga Katsuma.

Kendall's Hit Tip: Both Sides

www.thevanguardband.com
www.myspace.com/thevanguardatmyspace

Stop by the Rockwood tonight and do the right thing by Kendall.

Kendall's Hit List will return on January 6th, 2010!

Five Minutes With Casey Chandler Of Galapaghost

A couple of weeks ago, I didn't know of NYCer-soon-to-be-Austinite Casey, but an intriguing email mentioning his ukulele tendencies fixed that. And there was also a weird stage name to ask about ...



Indie Sounds: So what is Galapaghost?

Casey Chandler: Galapaghost is my solo project. I had always gone by the 'Casey Chandler Experience' as a joke because I couldn't come up with a good stage name, but once I started taking my solo project seriously, I came up with the name Galapaghost. I originally wanted to call myself either 'ghost' or 'galapagos' ... but I couldn't decide on either so I figured why not just combine them!

Banjo Jim's Celebrates Four Years Tonight

Cross Pollination Tonight = The Fancy + The Vanguard

Earnest song writing meets gigantic map of the world.  At Piano's.  And more info is here. This is the final cross-pollination of the year.

GigApple Alert: Scott Stein @ The Bitter End of Saturday

Photo by Tim Ryan Smith

Scott is at The Bitter End on Saturday as part of a double bill with The Shells, who'll he will also be playing with, lucky him.  It all starts at 9pm.

And Scott will also be playing with The Ramblers at Don Hill's earlier in the evening at 7pm.

Weekend Bonus ... Alejandro Escovedo @ Waterloo Records

Live performance of Alejandro Escovedo and his band from July 2008, celebrating the release of Real Animal at Waterloo Records, performing Sister Lost Soul.  Recording of the next Alejandro album begins in January, once again with Tony Visconti producing.

Pete'e Weekend Picks: Sarah, Susan

For Austin:



On Sunday (and Monday) at The Parish, Grammy nominee Sarah Jarosz is opening for the Dave Rawlings Machine (Dave plus wife Gillian Welch). 7pm.

For NYC:



Not a Grammy nominee but she should be, Susan Enan is at Rockwood Music Hall on Saturday at 8pm.  Nate Campany follows.