A Weather is releasing their sophomore album tomorrow, March 2nd, 2009, and Everday Balloons is one that I’m certain you’ll really get into. Released on Conor Oberst’s Team Love Records and Bad Panda Records, Everyday Balloons is a gentle indie-folk album that has an intimate and mellow...
Toronto is home to a new independent record label called Hi-Scores Recording Library, managed by James Trauzzi. Knowing that vinyl+digital is the future, Trauzzi is only releasing Hi-Scores’ music on vinyl and digital. They have already secured distribution in Canada, US and Japan, so their goal...
Most of us are trying to make sense of the many tools the Internet and digital technology has brought to music, wondering how to use web applications and figuring out which website to promote our music. These swift changes we’re experiencing seem to draw our attention to the technology, away from...
A few months ago we wrote about SoundCloud, a website where artists can upload their music to the cloud and allow people to stream, comment, follow, and download the song (if the artist chooses). I added a ‘dropbox‘ on Puddlegum which artists could use to privately share music with Puddlegum…...
The internet has opened up ways for artists to find creative ways to explore the art of songwriting, mixed with other art forms. If you read Puddlegum you may have noticed that we can’t resist writing about projects that think beyond the structure of chords. So when we find out about a band writing...
Puddlegum began in 1997 as one of the first online music magazines. It is managed by Flick, and has gained respect from many in the recording industry.
Over the years Puddlegum has accomplished quite a few things we are proud of:
Being mentioned by Thom Yorke during a BBC Radio interview (concerning our Tens Theory), and being written about in Rolling Stone. We have also made the front page of TUAW, Digg, and VH1’s Best Week Ever, and have been featured on USA Today, and Reuters.
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