While reading the album review for Passion Pit’s debut album “Manners” from Rolling Stone, I found Will Hermes’s description of the progression of the indie music world spot on.

From Animal Collective’s psychedelic collages to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ punk disco, electronic music has been invading the indie-rock world lately, as bands mix dance-floor science with do-it-yourself hooks and histrionics. [Will Hermes - Rolling Stone]

One of my favorite things about indie music is the uniqueness of every band. Unlike music genres like Country or Hip-hop where the majority of artists sound very similar, it is impossible to find two indie bands that sound the same. I am always stumped when my friends ask me to describe bands that I like with the question “Who do they sound like?” Even with the expansion of the indie music world from more folk rock bands like: The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, and Andrew Bird to electronic bands like: Phoenix, Peter Bjorn and John, and Crystal Castle. The new wave of bands still carry the essence of indie music in the fact that although they use more electronic styles there is still a large amount uniqueness making each one different. Passion Pit, January’s band of the month, is no exception to the rule.

[Passion Pit - Sleepyhead]

Howdy to all of my 4 readers out there!

Sorry I haven’t written in a while, alot has been going on these days. Those darn college applications and this whole senior year thing keeps taking up all of my free time. But as you can see I am back and hopefully the useless knowledge of my interests will continue to be updated on this webpage on a consistent basis. Anyways off to the post!

One thing that I’ve noticed alot is when people ask me about my taste in music 99.9% people have no idea about who the bands I like are and how amazing they are. So while working on my college applications a genius idea came along to post a new band every month that I like on my blog that needs to be shared with the world around me. All the bands I will be posting are indie bands and  are one’s that can’t be found on your local radio station. Anywho for November:

Bon Iver

(link to his myspace music page: http://www.myspace.com/boniver)

it wasn’t planned. The goal was to hibernate.

Justin Vernon moved to a remote cabin in the woods of Northwestern Wisconsin at the onset of winter. Tailing from the swirling breakup of his long time band, he escaped to the property and surrounded himself with simple work, quiet, and space. He lived there alone for three months, filling his days with wood splitting and other chores around the land. This special time slowly began feeding a bold, uninhibited new musical focus.

This slowly evolved into days filled with twelve-hour recording blocks, breaking only for trips on the tractor into the pines to saw and haul firewood, or for frozen sunrises high up a deer stand. All of his personal trouble, lack of perspective, heartache, longing, love, loss and guilt that had been stock piled over the course of the past six years, was suddenly purged into the form of song. The end result is, For Emma, Forever Ago, a nine-song album comprised of what’s been dubbed a striking debut by critics and fans alike… [To continue reading you can go to the source article bio listed on his  myspace music page http://www.mysapce.com/boniver]

I heard Bon Iver for the first time on my favorite Sirius Satellite station XMU (Formally Left of Center) channel 26. Normally when I’m listening to Sirius it is when I have no clue what to listen to but when I heard Bon Iver’s song “Skinny Love” it instantly caught my ear and got me interested in the band. You can be the judge for yourself by checking out his myspace music page. Stay tuned for December’s Band of the Month.