And we’re back! This is Episode 2 and it is entitled Acousticality, (Don’t ask me where that name came from, I don’t know) featuring some of the best Indie Acoustic/Folk artists on the web.
They include:
Nate Maingard, an Acoustic/Folk artist from I don’t know where. His music is rough and full of passion. You can feel the emotions he is trying to convey with his music, the only problem is the playing isn’t always of the highest quality, I can tell that he’s a pretty good guitarist, but only after listening to most of his songs. He is good, he just needs a little polish.
Josh Woodward, a livewire acoustic rock musician from Ohio. Taking the musical road less traveled, he’s chosen to freely offer his entire collection of over 100 songs on his website. Without pressure to write music that sells, he writes energetic and passionate songs featuring vivid stories and dark humor.
Josh is awesome, he is definitely one of my favorite acoustic/folk artists. He is probably one of most polished and professional of this sort of indie artist that I’ve ever come across, his music sounds awesome, it really does.
Dan Masquelier is the more polished version of Nate Maingard. His passion is evident, his songs beautiful, and his musical skill evident. I really like his music, it’s all quite soft but very well preformed. His bio says that he is a a/v geek, a musician, and a zen inspired nice guy who you should probably be friends with. He certainly looks the part and his music definately sould like a zen-inspired nice guy made it, doesn’t it?
Brooke Miller is a young artist in her twenties (with a lot of skills). For her full bio (which is rather long), can be read at her website and on myspace. She’s from Canada, Prince Edwards Island, where she was raised by musician parents, grew up with music all around her and went on at the age of ten to form a a band to play gigs in the surrounding area.
Scott Andrew is a performing songwriter and guitarist from Seattle WA. He began his music career playing in rock bands in Cleveland OH before moving to the Bay Area and finally to Seattle where he began a solo career. He was also an early participant in the Creative Commons “free culture” movement and continues to release music for free on his website.
Zack David sounds quite a bit like Brad Sucks, if Brad Sucks was an acoustic artist, that is. His music is rather simple but it’s still really good. He appears to be combining electronic musical styles into his acoustic music much like the way Brad Sucks combines some components of electronic music into his rock style music.
Don Ross is a Canadian fingerstyle guitarist noted for the emotion and intensity of his playing as well as his use of extended technique.
get some david byrne on here!
Hey, thanks Carlos!
Hey, Carlos. Ever thought of setting up some kind of podcast-feed so that people could subscribe to your show via iTunes? That would be cool. Since it’s Creative-Commons music, it’d be perfectly legal, too, and many podcasts on iTunes feature less-than-legal content, so they couldn’t come down hard on you. Plus, it’d add ease and accessibility to your show and the featured artists, as well as streamlining the RSS approach a little bit more.
@Jordan Riley: I added Indie Invasion to iTunes a few months ago, I don’t really know if its there or even if its easy to find because I don’t have iTunes so I can’t really check. There are some links at the top of the page so subscribe via iTunes, there not really that fancy but I’d assume that they work.
You have a great music blog here! I’ve added you to my mp3blog list and custom search, check it out.
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The newest mp3blogs
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You can search your blog and all the others in my custom google search:
Chewbone MP3blog search
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I add new blogs to the alpha lists once a week, but your site is immediately added to the custom google search engine.
Gotta be honest, I’m totally over the moon to be reviewed AT ALL! My name i Nate Maingard and I’ve come a LONG way since the recording you heard, haha. This year is my year to play, record and enjoy my music to the fullest, so WATCHTHISSPACE!
Just wanted to say thanks for the good word and I agree, I used to be helluva rough, haha!
All the best guys, take care!
Peace
Nate Maingard