review of Music Makes Me Think of You by Ron Davies
BUY
Some of Tara Emelye's records, including Music Makes Me Think of You are available from the following find indie vendors:
www.tonevendor.com
www.insound.com
www.darla.com
www.clairecords.com
www.parasol.com
www.insound.com
www.tweekitten.com
LISTEN
RC: Listen to a full solo set that Tara Emelye performed live on WFMU as part of Douglas Wolk's Rhubarb Cake show. Scroll down the page past all of the other great acts to find her link! Then go back and listen to them
LABELS
Heartcore
Records L.A.based indie label. Home to winterbrief, addicted
to fiction and soon the reverse! Queercore, electro-clash, punk
rock, no wave, and more.
www.shelflife.com
Ed and Jill’s awesome San Francisco-based indie-pop label.
One of the best, definitely check them out!
www.darkbelovedcloud.com
Douglas Wolk’s delightfully eclectic label
www.morganleahrecords.com
Seattle-based indie-pop label of the highest order
www.doubleagentrecords.com
Home to my favorite and more.
BANDS
www.garlands.com
New Yorks best jangly shoe gaze.
www.boygonewrong.com
Pete Galub, supremely talented New York City Pop musician and
songwriter, whose music has just the right touch of Lloyd Cole
in it
www.lostdetective.com
The on-line diary and website for those wonderful next-wavers,
the one and only ‘my favorite’.
www.fourvolts.com
They used to be Bunsen Honeydew, until Henson’s henchman
made them change their names.
the
amazing plaid Thomas
from The Amazing Plaid and I work together at the SUNY Albany
Writing Center, and this is his noisy band.
LES FEMMES EXTROIDINAIRE
www.tamarama.com
My friend Tami’s blog. Tami is a great songsmith who used
to be in the Poconos
www.todolistmagazine.com
Cupsize co-creatrix Sasha Cagen & co.’s new magazine,
which launched the national QuirkyAlone movement.
www.hillaryjohnson.com
Hillary Johnson-sound engineer, dj, musician and more. Check
out this renaissance woman.
www.spiraling.com
Photography by Lisa Gidley. Features her Station to Station
series, an amazing photo project of all of NYC’s subway
stations. (p.s. you also can find a portrait of Tara Emelye
on her site!)
http://www.lunaseabooks.com/
Book artist Jen Savran’s wonderful press specializing
in beautiful handmade editions of feminist works
http://www.brilliantshop.net
Urban glamour galore at independent clothing designer Elena
Humphrey’s fab on-line store.
www.jillbliss.com
Home to the original and fascinating art, design and graphics
of Jill Bliss (also of Shelflife Records fame).
INDIE-LITERATURE AND POETRY
www.clmp.org Council
of Literary Magazines and Presses. Search their member directory
for contact info and website for hundreds of mags and presses.
www.goodfootmagazine.com
Fine nyc-based poetry magazine
www.bigsmallpressmall.com
Connects you to Fence magazine, Open City, Verse Press and McSweeney’s,
as well as a variety of literary happenings
www.uglyducklingpresse.org
Books arts and contemporary poetry and prose, stamped with love,
held together with rubberbands and twine
www.papyribooks.com
Great used bookstore in North Adams, MA. Search for gems on
their on-line store.
POLITICS
www.aclu.org
www.moveon.org
www.commoncause.org
NON-PROFIT JOB SEARCH
