Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Cincinnati-based indie rockers Mixtapes recently embarked on a journey across the Eastern Seaboard and Midwest in support of the band’s latest release, A Short Collection of Short Songs, a power-packed 6-track EP on the Animal Style Records label.
The band describes their formation as “a long, strange and uninteresting turn of events” on their label’s Web site. The group draws inspiration from the 90s, a decade that was all about casual style and simplistic recording techniques with artists like Beck, Elliott Smith and Pavement, who put a lower premium on recording quality and a greater emphasis on individuality. Growing up with this kind of music blasting from the stereo ...
Cincinnati-based indie rockers Mixtapes recently embarked on a journey across the Eastern Seaboard and Midwest in support of the band’s latest release, A Short Collection of Short Songs, a power-packed 6-track EP on the Animal Style Records label.
The band describes their formation as “a long, strange and uninteresting turn of events” on their label’s Web site. The group draws inspiration from the 90s, a decade that was all about casual style and simplistic recording techniques with artists like Beck, Elliott Smith and Pavement, who put a lower premium on recording quality and a greater emphasis on individuality. Growing up with this kind of music blasting from the stereo ...