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News, sessions, and oddities from the Indaba community. Written and curated by Streeter Seidell.
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Streeter

Streeter Seidell is a comedy writer and (mediocre) drummer living in Brooklyn, NY. During the day he edits the front page of CollegeHumor.com but when the sun goes down he takes his place at the helm of the Indablog. He maintains a personal blog at StreeterSeidell.com and wants to make sure you know he once wrote something for the New York Times and that it was, in the words of his mother, "Amazing! You're so talented!"

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Sessions To Keep An Eye On

Thursday April 17, 2008 at 11:00 AM

I've been hanging out on Indaba, listening to sessions again. I must say, I'm consistently impressed by the level of musicianship I find on here.  And that's coming from someone who is at once a decent musician and a better fan.  Anyway, here are a few sessions that I was particularly into...

Dave Rand: 80's Dance Rock Song - Not the most creative title but a good start to something.  I found the loose guitar work a little too loose, but the bass/drum track was solid.  All this needs to really be a fun song seems to be appropriate vocals and a synth track.  If you're going to call it an 80's dance song, you better have a pretty bitching synth track to go along with the heavy guitars and driving drums.  I'm looking forward to seeing what happens with this one a lot. 

Max T.: My Reggae Song - Again, we're not going to win any awards for creative song naming here, but that's not what matters.  I've listened to this a few times now and each time I'm a little more drawn in.  There are big gaps here - no vocals, no lead instrument - but listening to this steady, reggae jam is like seeing a great painting when only the background has been completed.  With the right vocal track and some accent instrumentation I can see a really great song emerging from this. 

Baltimore Wiggins: Got 'Til June - I came across this indie rock outline and was instantly intrigued.  I didn't 'like' it, per se, but I was drawn to listen to it a few times.  I saw in the discussion on the page that there had been some drums and bass added at one point and later deleted which bummed me out.  I wanted to hear the track with a fuller sound than it has now.  That being said, it's a pretty ethereal, interesting little number.  The guitar track sounds reggae-ish while the vocals and everything else sounds like pure indie bliss.  Hopefully Baltimore will finish this up because while it may not be my favorite kind of music, I'm certainly interested in seeing what becomes of it. 

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