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Rumor has it that last night's Camera Obscura show at Off Broadway was in the latter camp, but while the accommodations were certainly snug, the Scottish sextet kept the mood appropriately mellow and refined.

The phrase "My Maudlin Career" could mean anything from following an exceptionally foolish path in life to being known primarily as the town drunk.

Throwing around descriptors like 'indie' and 'pop' can sometimes be to the detriment of bands they're applied to.

Why listen to a classic song when a brave/foolhardy indie artist will repackage it for you? Today, Totally Wired brings you three covers, including Lavender Diamond doing Madonna's "Like a Prayer," Camera Obscura taking on Jim Reeves' "The Blizzard," plus Parenthetical Girls and Xiu Xiu reinventing Morrissey, proving that everything old is new ...

Hometown: Sheffield, England, U.K. Album: Yeah So Band Members: Rebecca Taylor , Charles Watson For Fans Of: The White Stripes, Camera Obscura, She & Him In the land of strum-and-sing folk rock, there is a line - let's call it Too Precious For Its Own Good.

On their fourth album, My Maudlin Career , lead singer Tracyanne Campbell shoots for the chest, but hers is the kind of heartache you can dance to.

Camera Obscura played Music Hall of Williamsburg w/ Papercuts , releasing holiday single words & photos by Dominick Mastrangelo A small group huddled around Kenny McKeeve and Gavin Dunbar not long after Camera Obscura 's sold-out show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Sunday night .

Two Norfolk concerts - both featuring artists from across the pond - grabbed my attention over the last few weeks.

Scotland has a specific beauty to it. It may be in the way that nature and the works of man seem more as one than you might find in other lands.

Bottletree was filled with twee on Thursday night, Nov. 19. Scottish band Camera Obscura played a show with California band Papercuts as their openers.

Camera Obscura , a Scottish indie-pop group, delivered its trademark sweetness Saturday night at The Attucks Theatre in Norfolk.

Camera Obscura performs Wednesday at Tipitina's. Bassist James Singleton's Quartet features Garage A Trois saxophonist Skerik and vibraphonist/percussionist Mike Dillon , plus keyboardist Brian Coogan , at Snug Harbor.

It makes sense for us to be talking about Washington Irving. Not only is their name being bandied about Glasgow town, a number of them are in bands we've covered recently , and to top it all they make music in the vein of some of Scotland's best and most successful indie-pop exporters.

Not to be confused with the Boston-based jangle-pop outfit of the '90s , Canadian rapper Belly enlisted the help of Canadian video director RT! to work some movie magic for his simplistic single "Hot Girl" - featuring a guest verse by none other than Snoop Dogg .

The producers of "Grey's Anatomy" picked Michaelson's single "Keep Breathing" to air during the final six minutes of the 2007 finale.

Well, here's something I never expected to see: Brookville -- the Andy Chase-lead indie-pop band that opened for Trashcan Sinatras here in August -- and Camera Obscura/Beach House-esque indie-rockers the Postmarks just announced a show in St.

When I reported acts playing the Discovery Series this fall, I didn't have the full story.

AN eclectic mix of musicians stormed the Dean Castle at the weekend for the Kilmarnock Edition Festival.

LAST weekend saw a multitude converge on The Midland Railway Centre in Butterley for the third annual Indietracks Festival.

LAST weekend saw a multitude converge on The Midland Railway Centre in Butterley for the third annual Indietracks Festival.