A couple of weeks ago I received an email newsletter from Joe and Vicky Price that made mention that they were nominated for an Independent Music Award in the Best Blues Album category. Wanting to support my favorite Iowa Bluesman I went and checked it out. What I found was a smorgasbord of Independent Recording Artists to discover.

From the IMA site:

Discover an eclectic mix of self-released & independent label talent culled from six continents. The Independent Music Awards celebrates artists that follow their own muse – with over 250 Nominees there’s plenty to please the most discerning music fans.

So do your part to support independent music. Listen, discover & champion your favorites.

It’s easy to get lost going through the different categories and artists. I have already found several bands whose material I have downloaded and will later give a quick profile on MusicLee Inclined. Go check it out and if you find something oters should hear please leave it in the comments or post it on our Facebook page.

Links:

Independent Music Awards

Nominees:Once here you can check out the different categories, join in the fun and register and vote.

Yeah, that is all I have for a working title right now.  I kinda like it though.  Like, “Space Balls: The Toothpaste…”

My friends and I were always trying to one up each other by showing off new bands we discovered.  Many a $10 bill was lost by buying something that had a cool cover to find the music sucked.  These days we don’t have to do that.  We can sample music online and choose to only buy single songs if we want.  There is also a lot of great music out there available for free.  Which gets me thinking…why not do a present day version of showing off things I discover by doing a Podcast?

The original intentions of adding a Podcast to MusicLee Inclined was to explore the Blues side of Independent Music.  There are so many excellent unsigned bands out there that are putting their work out independently that really should be brought to the attention of others.  The more I got to thinking about it though, it wouldn’t be fair to back myself into a Blues only corner.  I’m a Hard Rock guy at heart and there is a lot of great Indie work out there on the Hard Rock side as well.

So at the risk of not getting into a certain niche, The Podcast will vary from Acoustic, to Hard Rock, to the Blues.  I guess the one thing you could use to tie them together is that they are Guitar driven, which fits in with the rest of MLI.  If you would like to give this a listen, Bookmark me now and subscribe to the sites RSS Feed to find out when it hits the cyber air waves!