Everything Team Clermont indie rock from 2022 & 2023 in 1 #indiepop Playlist!

Team Clermont indie rock 2022-2023 Playlist

After two successful albums Brother Dege (AKA Dege Legg) is one of the best kept secrets in Louisiana; a musician, writer, and heir to a long line of eccentric characters born and raised in the Deep South. Hailing from the Cajun swamplands and raging like the mad lovechild of Son House and Faulkner, Legg has burned a crooked trail to the Promised Land. Avoiding traditional career paths, he’s spent decades exploring the backwoods weirdness of the southern U.S, working odd jobs and forging his own brand of southern/psyouthern music. Since the mid 90s, Dege has pushed slide guitar, resonators, and roots music, kicking and screaming into the 21st century, recording self-released albums in trailer parks, sheds, and other low rent environments that meld trance-folk, Delta blues, punk, rock, metal, hippie ragas, and avant-outlaw country into one blasted whole. 

In 2010, Brother Dege reinvented the Delta blues for future generations on "Folk Songs of the American Longhair" (2010) with 10 blazing tracks that howled like the field recordings of Alan Lomax and tunneled into the ancient mysteries of pre-war blues. In 2012, Quentin Tarantino tapped Brother Dege’s “Too Old to Die Young” for the movie & soundtrack to Django Unchained, stating that every track on American Longhair could’ve been in the movie...”it’s like a greatest hits album.” 

With his latest album, Brother Dege returns to “reinvent the steel” with the slide-Dobro riff-o-rama of How to Kill a Horse. Recorded at night in an empty warehouse (while Legg worked at a men’s homeless shelter during the day), the album is a tour de force artwork that ranges from barn burners to ancient Delta meditations to Babylonian junkyard jams that explore the dark underbelly of what it is to be a man in the modern world. 

Influences include: Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Conrad, Ry Cooder, Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Sonic Youth, Black Sabbath, Blind Willie Johnson, Einstürzende Neubauten, Jackson Pollock and Don Quixote. Like Hemingway at his finest, How to Kill a Horse goes deep into the prison rodeo of man’s heart, confronting the darker, flawed side of the self while going full-aggro in the existential blast furnace of the modern world, wrestling with men's roles as providers, protectors, partners, lovers, warriors, peacekeepers, whatever.
Full of cinematic slabs of biblical noir, dusty heat, haunted redemption, and bell towers of emotion, Brother Dege's How to Kill a Horse is a massive shot across the bow to riff heads, songwriters, and Americana enthusiasts around the world. Anyone expecting an album of retro-roots singer/songwriter schmaltz has got another thing coming. Horse is a game changer that launches the whole mess of roots music out of the vinyl dustbins and into the 21st century. Recorded with cheap Dobros, junked acoustic guitars, and ragged percussion instruments on a zero dollar budget, the album teems with world-class songwriting, Ouija board melodies, double helix slides, swampland soliloquies, Hendrix-like reverse resonators, and a gang of twang - all howling into the colossal echo chamber of the reality.


Brother Dege - "The Darker Side of Me"

Brother Dege - "How to Kill a Horse"

KaiL Baxley grew up in the small backwater town of Williston in Barnwell County, South Carolina, the birthplace and stomping grounds of the late great soul legend James Brown, with whom KaiL shared an unlikely friendship as a child. “Yeah, James used to say, ‘Boy you bein’ good?’ I’d say, ‘Yes sir.’ He’d say, ‘You know you doin’ wrong! Nah, show me your moves lil’ man!’ And we’d have a little dance off. I’m pretty sure he always won, ha, ha. There’s something about the groove of James Brown that has always stayed with me.”
 
 An accomplished athlete in his youth, winning many amateur boxing titles including, Golden Gloves and The Junior Olympic Regional Championships, the idea of playing music only arrived to KaiL after his godfather, a former band director, bought him a guitar for high school graduation. He never put it down. After years of singing for his supper across the South, Europe and parts of Africa, KaiL found himself in California with hopes of composing music for film scores. A chance meeting with engineer/ producer Eric Corne convinced him to write a record of his own. Within a few months, the two were in the late Elliott Smith’s New Monkey Studio with some of LA’s finest musicians. The result is his debut effort, a double EP drawing heavily on both the literary and musical influences of his Irish/Southern roots.

It’s quite a ride all the way through.

Praise for KaiL Baxley:
 
“Baxley’s made a fantastic record that draws on soul and country and acoustic music. The first “side” showcases his more soulful chops; the flip side is a singer-songwriter fan’s wet dream. Seriously. I’m stuck on this one." - Bruce Warren, Some Velvet Blog

"'Legend of the Western Hills,' a swirling ballad filled with strings, vibrato and waltzing percussion, is one of the highlights from the folk disc." - Andrew Leahey, American Songwriter

"Baxley’s music should please anyone who has fallen fleetingly for bands like The Black Keys. His focused approach to folk and blues outstrips those superstars in terms of melodic complexity and emotional impact. Heatstroke finds him laying down a trio of instantly attractive rock singles. The title track, for instance, pairs the clanging repetition of baroque piano with driving delta blues, a thrilling juxtaposition that makes two very old styles seem suddenly brand new. The second EP is filled out with deliberate, acoustic-leaning fair, Baxley’s warming baritone paired with understated picking and rich string swells. Together, the two records constitute an impressive debut, proving Baxley’s stylistic breadth by showcasing two very different aesthetics." - Jordan Lawrence, Shuffle

“This music is best appreciated loud. Baxley imbued his pieces with a stealthy strength, one that hits up front and on the back end as well. Don't miss.” - Aiding & Abetting
 
“'Say Goodbye To The Night' is a perfect soulful snack for a cold winter evening.” - Beats Per Minute

KaiL Baxley - "Boy Got It Bad"

The Slims - "Only A Part, Not The Whole"

As winter approaches and the days grow shorter, dusk comes earlier, and homes are dimly lit, three of todays most unique songwriters come together to create a rare release of emotionally beautiful singles. 
Jason Lytle ~ Drop That Hero
Kramies ~ She's Low Tide
Tyler Ramsey ~ Arrow To Bow

Jason Lytle ~ DROP THAT HERO

Beetle Bee,
You know the muscle eats the brain sometimes
Tried to replicate a photo are you satisfied
Is it knowing that makes you mine
Or the knowing that we were running out of time

Well, hold that pose you're looking like a fatal frame
Paid a penny out of way to make a picture last in time and
Took a polaroid just to make you stay the same
Dont move, Dont move

Who are you to say
That time don't move any other other way and
Who are you to look the other way
When time don't move any other other way

Beetle bee you swing the bat and swing away
Dont move don't move
Swing the bat and swing away 
Like a picture in a frame
At least we'll always look the same inside a fatal looking frame

Don't you move, don't you move, don't you move
Don't you move, don't you move, don't you move

Watch the muscles that are moving you
Pretending I could move you too
Only you, and only you
I wish I could be 
The photograph you left me
Only you, and only you

Beetle bee you swing the bat and swing away
Dont move don't move
Swing the bat and swing away 
Like a picture in a frame
At least we'll always look the same inside a fatal looking frame

All the sentimental pain
Of a picture of a game
At least we'll always look the same 
Inside a fatal looking frame 

Who are you to say
That time don't move any other other way and
Who are you to look the other way
When time don't move any other other way

Ghost Party

Dont Move

Found Yourself A Lady


Kimberly Morgan York "Real Thing"

Harbor

Recalls The Flaming Lips and Stereolab with lyrics that represent a desperate call out to alien life for a little help out of all the problems we've created for ourselves. Also includes some fun easter eggs: cover art design and percussion parts arranged in the "S.O.S." Morse code pattern; samples of greetings to alien life in different languages taken from the famous “Golden Record” included on board NASA’s 1977 Voyager mission.

S.O.S.

Omen

Fox Apts. "Stars of the 10-32"

Blueburst "Senseless"

Release Date: May 12
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Self-Released
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Pavo Pavo - "Ran Ran Run"

Duane Hoover "All Over Again"

Brought to you by http://TeamClermont.com and Roundhill Records, the original "Ruby Vroom" remastered for this 30th Anniversary Edition + PLUS + 3 never-before released tracks! Team Clermont sent to college radio, alt radio, and NPR radio stations. Please add asap! Thanks! More at http://teamclermont.com

09 - Soul Coughing - Supra Genius

14 - Soul Coughing - Janine

15 - Soul Coughing - Buddha Rhubarb Butter

17 - Soul Coughing - Amy Fisher (new)

10 - Soul Coughing - CIty Of Motors

04 - Soul Coughing - Blueeyed Devil

The newest from NY's Hide and Shine, single #2, go listen and love. Alternative Rock, indie, Brit Rock, Shoegaze

HIDE AND SHINE - Look Terrified

Release Date: December 11
Catskills Records

Husky Rescue "Far From The Storm"

After building a devoted online following as a solo artist, Del Cid teamed up with talented musicians Toni Lindgren, Zach Schmidt, and Andrew Foreman to develop a sophisticated sound with broad appeal, drawing in mixed crowds from jamheads to college students to white haired intelligentsia.

Reina del Cid and her band cut their teeth in 2013 with a weekly residency at the Amsterdam Bar and Hall in downtown St. Paul, which they held for nearly two years before moving on to tour nationally and release their 2015 album, The Cooling. In January, Del Cid released a music video for the song “Death Cap,” filmed in Iceland and directed by the band’s longtime creative collaborator, Jason Ho. Their music has recently been featured by Paste Magazine, NPR, and Baeble Music, and they plan to release their next full-length record in 2017.

Reina del Cid - "Lover, Be Mine"

Release Date: April 28, 2017
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The grey inconclusive nature of life felt paralyzing at times this year. In the midst of liminal spaces, fidelity was a reoccurring hope where there weren’t conclusions. And though we often operated out of a grey area of knowledge, it became an ongoing observation that fidelity to hope seemed more important than having answers. Fidelity to our marriages seemed more important than being right or getting our way. Fidelity to vulnerability seemed more important than protecting ourselves from the inevitable pain of community. Fidelity to social justice and human rights seemed more important than protecting our image or privilege.
Our hope for these songs is to invite you not into certainty, but into devotion to hope. A place we tried to operate in despite not being able to know or see the full outcome of that devotion.
These are the poems of our year of Grey Fidelity.

Grey Fidelity

Tow'rs - "Liminal"

In Other Words

Paul Jacks "Too Emotional"

You know him as Prince. Certain musicians new him as their own personal song writer! Check out the ORIGINALS from Prince, starting with Sheila E.'s hit "The Glamorous Life.  Share & like!

Originals

Prince - The Glamorous Life (Originals)

Challenger - The World Is Too Much For Me 
Release date: November 27, 2012
Challenger is John Ross, Devyn Waitt, and John Frank. 

Life in the Paint

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Artist: Lapland
Album: Lapland
Release date: March 26, 2013
Record label: Hundred Pockets Records

About: 
The beginning of Lapland started before it even had a name. It was born in a tiny half-bedroom in Brooklyn, where songwriter Josh Mease began recording a new batch of songs in early 2011. Mease has always found comfort in the solitude of his own thoughts, often preferring the landscapes within his mind’s eye over the bustle of the city that surrounds him. So it seems fitting that in making Lapland’s self-titled debut, he worked alone using whatever was within reach – only rarely using other musicians.

Perhaps this self-imposed isolation is why Lapland has such an introspective tone. Themes of separation and loss are woven throughout the album, as Lapland moves fluently through different styles and genres while maintaining a uniquely personal sound.  From the percolating electronic gallop of the opening track, “Unwise”, to the blue-eyed soul of “Aeroplane”, to the acoustic haze and layered harmonies of “Overboard”, Mease always keeps things interesting.  One can hear the effect of the myriad of music styles and genres that informed Lapland – Early synth pioneers of the 60′s and 70′s, French Impressionists like Ravel and Debussy, and 1970′s staples like Fleetwood Mac.

Mixing styles is not new for Mease. He grew up in Texas where his childhood love of rock and country evolved into studying jazz guitar. After moving to New York, he eventually shifted his focus from playing jazz to singing and writing songs. This transformation gives Mease a unique approach to songwriting, and his work has earned him fans not only in indie circles but also in jazz, R&B, and classical music as well.

The name Lapland only presented itself after the album was completed, when Mease picked up a book from the $2 stacks at a used bookstore called “Lappland Wanderland.” The book contained photos of other-worldly landscapes and vast open spaces which seemed to connect with Mease’s new recording. It was not a difficult decision to adopt the name Lapland for this new phase of Mease’s career. The scope of his work deserves a moniker of symbolic significance. And so, Lapland began.

Lapland - "Unwise"

Midlake - "Roscoe"

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Artist: Dizzy
Album: You Feelin Dizzy Yet?
Release date: April 23, 2013
Label: self-release

http://itsdizzy.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/itsdizzy1
https://twitter.com/ItsDizzy1

About: 
From Calgary Alberta Canada, Dizzy has always had an interest in music. From an early age he would sing along with his favorite movies and songs on the radio. Naturally, as he got older his taste in music matured with him and by junior high he had honed his voice and learned to play guitar. It was when he heard Tupac’s “California Love” for the first time, however, that he fell in love with hip hop. Over the years he branched out to find inspiration in other artists like Nas, T.I., J.Cole, Eminem, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Dr. Dre, and many more. It wasn’t until he reached the age of 17, however, that he started writing his own rhymes. What started off as a hobby soon became an obsession… and Dizzy was born.

Feeling unable to pursue his passion with any success at home, Dizzy moved to Edmonton, Alberta where he hooked up with fellow rap hopeful Boogie (aka Chris Brownlow). Dizzy and Boogie worked on countless tracks together under the name Royalties. They performed in Edmonton many times with local artists from the same genre but always felt that the sound they produced was distinct and unique.
After three years, two mixtapes and countless shows together, Royalties disbanded. Dizzy, however, decided to continue to pursue his dream of making music, although he felt unsure of his ability to go it alone. He managed to make two trips to Canadian hip hop mecca Toronto, Ontario to work with former Sony BMG recording artist Esthero’s touring MC, Oz. While there, he impressed Oz with his creativity and ability to turn out full-length songs in short periods of time.

With a new found sense of confidence in his capabilities he headed back to Edmonton and began working on what would become the foundation for his first solo EP G5 Dreams.

Using producers such as White Hot Productions, Royal Audio, Diamondstyle Productions and Anno Domini Beats he quickly compiled a solid list of singles to put towards G5 Dreams.

Dizzy quickly landed several opening spots for major-labeled artists performing in Edmonton including Juvenile, Joe Budden, M.I.M.S, D12, Common, Bone Thugs N Harmony, MGK, E40, and more.

After releasing two videos off G5 Dreams, Dizzy immediately started working on his first solo mixtape In The Meantime. After dropping In The Meantime, along came the Bone Thugs N Harmony tour that took Dizzy and his sound from one coast to the other.

Inspired by all that was going on with his music, he began laying the groundwork for what would become his first full-length album U Feelin Dizzy Yet?. He acquired talents such as Ace Hood, Krayzie Bone, and Kevin Cossom to assist with the singles off of the project.

With the album complete, the first single coming out on the next DJ Noize mixtape, and a list of possible tours coming up…its best you take a seat… You’re about to be feelin’ Dizzy.

Dizzy - Live Life (ft Sonik & K-Blitz)

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