Up-and-coming indie bands for interview

[scott]

Kickball

They're totally awesome

and totally unknown.

I bet they'd do an interview.

They're still in the

"We are in awe of every scrap of publicity we receive" stage.

myspace page= http://www.myspace.com/kickballl

[Shawna]

taking notes... thanks for the input, guys! I'll look 'em up and let you know if/when anything develops.

[Shawna]

I've sent out feelers to the publicists for: Okkervil River,

Martin, I've finally gotten through to someone in their camp, who is following up with this for me. In fact, he's sending me their new CD. Hopefully I will be hearing something soon...

[Farin]

[Shawna]

Sia Furler--"Breathe Me" and a few others have received recognition.

Our fearless leader (Carl) had elected to take this one, so when something comes of it, I'll let you know...

[Shawna]

Shawna, has this interview (with Broken Family Ban) happened? Just wondering ....

B-F and Lucky... I sent them another follow-up, and no word. I'm thinking they have been swallowed up by the earth.

[Shawna]

how about "We are Scientists"?

Farin - I'm scheduled to talk with Keith tomorrow at 2 p.m. PST. Any particular questions you'd like asked?

[Farin]

woohoo

I don't have many questions though

I would like to know how they got to their name - even wikipedia doesn't have any good explanation for that...

oh, and you could ask them what inspired them to do the song "After Hours"... I think Keith ones said it's about "death"?

woohoo again

[Levis]

You could ask them how they thought of covering Hoppipola by sigur ros and if they had any professional help with the pronunciation of lyrics

[Farin]

oh, I didn't even know they covered that

[Shawna]

I am listening to that song as I type this. It's beautiful. But I don't eve know how to pronounce sigur ros, or hippipola.

[Farin]

I would say "seegure ross" ('gure' like 'sure')

and "hop-ee-polla" (I think that means 'jumping through puddles')

[Shawna]

Thanks! I'm watching youtubes on these guys - they are hysterical.

and oh, the musics great!

I had to share this little advert. It's too good to keep it to myself.

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Edited October 22, 2008 by Guest

[Farin]

[Shawna]

Keith was right in the middle of explaining to me how they came up with their band name, and the call was dropped. I'm hoping I'll get a call back from his rep here pretty quick...

[Farin]

oh no

[Shawna]

no worries. He's gonna call me back today around 3:30 when they pull into Denver and the signal's better.

[Shawna]

things are coming together with these suggestions, people! Remember I said it takes time...

I was able to finish up my interview with Keith Murray (We Are Scientists), and now, thanks to some recon work by my beloved Blind-Fitter, I have scheduled Steve (the Broken Family Band) for Sunday. Seems their e-mail has been the recipient of hundreds of spam mails a day, and my e-mails had been erroneously relegated to the bucket.

Upcoming is Okkervil River... TBA...

[Farin]

thanks for all the effort you put into this Shawna

[TheLizard]

^What he said. We Are Scientists AND Okkervil River! Yay!

[Shawna]

[Shawna]

okay, the first interview from one of these suggested bands is now up. Check out Keith Murray of We Are Scientists

[Farin]

woohoo

just one thing, from the headlines:

"Here, lead singer Keith Murray talks about Letterman, the unique band name that causes foreheads to wrinkle, and the finer points of ignoring what's right in front of his eyes."

my first thought was: since when are they named "Letterman"?

[Levis]

Maybe change it to 'David Letterman' and remove the italics?

[Shawna]

yeah... the show is actually "The Late Show with David Letterman," so I can see the confusion. I will tell the Big Guy it needs fixing for you foreigner types who don't know who *gasp* David Letterman is! :horrified graemlin: