http://www.confabulators.com Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:05:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Snow Patrol and Chasing Cars Well Snow Patrol hasn't stopped gaining new fans around the globe and today a new amazing forum has opened in order to honour the increasingly more famous UK indie rock band. The new forum is titled Chasing Cars just like the famous single from the ... http://www.confabulators.com/2006/209 Most everyone these days knows Confabulators is made up from the decemberist message board best of. So yes, we made rad shirts for our own awesomeness. The surplus will be handed on to you at a zero profit price. This is just how we roll, sort of ... http://www.confabulators.com/2006/comrades-come-and-buy-some-shirts-for-you Moon has an affinity for vintage rock and roll. From the cleverly placed 'stereo' on the cover, to the numerous pictures of vintage amplifiers and guitars, it's not hard to guess that these guys listened to bands like the Byrds or the Beatles. However, while their influences may ... http://www.confabulators.com/2006/energetic-60s-revival-rock Luca may not be a familiar name, but the guest artists on this album are among some of the more recognizable names in independent alt-country music.  M. Ward, Howe Gelb, and Joey Burns and John Convertino all make contributions to this album.  But despite the impressive guest list Sick of ... http://www.confabulators.com/2006/207 A metric shitton of Scottish indie talent, including folks from Belle and Sebastian, Del Amitri, Teenage Fanclub and the Proclaimers, descend on a small new group to help them cut their new CD. The results are far from the sort of chamber-pop bliss you'd expect, but it manages ... http://www.confabulators.com/2006/review-of-the-poems-young-america-2006 Amy Phillips' 44 word article posted thursday linking to a podcast in which the band explains themselves was a little too cookie cutter for my tastes. Let's see the checklist: Open with a question? Check. Indie band mentioned(regardless of whether or not it's about an indie band at the core ... http://www.confabulators.com/2006/review-of-pitchforks-news-article-tv-on-the-radio-explain-themselves-sorta The internet is full of new music. No doubt about it, websites like garageband.com, myspace.com, and numerous blogs have allowed completely independent musicians to put out their music to a wider audience (at least theoretically) and with much more ease than ever before. But honestly it's overwhelming, and ... http://www.confabulators.com/2006/consider-this Another flash animation by Allie. This time Jon Crocker is losing weight spending time as a stick figure. Again, view it after the break. http://www.confabulators.com/2006/jon-crocker-home-repairs-flash-animation My brother's gilfriend works a co-op and generally is a jerk off all day. So she made this kind of nice flash animation for the world to enjoy instead. Made with flash 8, kinf od funny people, kind of lazy animations. Still totally awesome. View it after the ... http://www.confabulators.com/2006/a-fun-flash-animation-of-the-mariners-revenge I consider myself a pretty friendly person. I go out, occasionally, when the sun has disappeared behind the mountains and the magic trolls have gone to sleep. I hang out with my friends, I imbibe some alcoholic beverages, I run around with no pants on, etc and so ... http://www.confabulators.com/2006/internet-cohabitation-or-should-i-friend-everyone-everywhere