{ "ok" : true, "artist" : { "name" : "Tiny Little Blackouts", "page" : "tiny_little_blackouts", "description" : "dreamy, slightly mournful indie pop", "location" : "CA, USA", "bio" : "We make music we like and we hope you will like it too.\n\nTiny Little Blackouts is both lyric based and sound based music, highly melodic and structured. Comprised of experienced San Francisco musicians, Tiny Little Blackouts makes sweet music. It's pretty, but not vacuous, slightly mournful, but not sad or dark. Elliott Smith meets the Cocteau Twins.\n\nCameron Ember (vox, extra gtr) spent 7 years in art school during which she fronted a number of bands. Michael Papenburg (lead guitar) has been playing guitar for almost a lifetime. Anthony Koutsos (drums) demanded that his parents buy him a drum kit when they asked him to play in the school band. He listened to a lot of Led Zepplin, among other things. Anthony has played with the Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon, DART and Wade. Michael also listened to Led Zepplin, but branched out to other genres that included artists like Magazine and the Cocteau Twins. Greg Merriman (bass),lives in Mill Valley and is a high-end audio expert. He and Michael like talking about equipment. Cameron Ember writes words and music. Everybody writes their own parts, though occasionally the specific efforts are collaborative (as they often are in general).\n\nTiny Little Blackouts was formed in 2009 and has released their first album in December. Damien Rasmussen engineered and produced, along with Tiny Little Blackouts. \"idea of Alice\" was recorded in a garage called the Catacombs located off Capp Street in San Francisco. Damien's thing is callled smokeandmirrorsaudio and he has recorded tons of people, including Tom Waits. Chris Mayrena at HyperRaje Productions was helpful to TLB's album production as well.\n\nSome of the recent reviews:\n\n\"Tiny Little Blackouts is what indie musicians often strive for and fail at, which has turned the genre into a cliche: delightful music with just the right amount of irony.\"\n- Abbey K. Davis of Muzikreviews.com\n\n\"This is very much a shoegazer meets Dream pop sound that Tiny Little Blackout create. The lush soft but very well sung female vocal with the droney, lazy, bluesy fuzzed out guitars a warm deep bass line and very jazz meets post rock drumming is whats going on. Think bands like Belly, Curve, The Gathering and The Cardigans is all the bands that really come to mind here. Tiny Little Blackouts have a very 60's Pop feeling to the over all sound to what there creating. I'm really impressed by what I'm hearing. The production is monstrous as well \" Idea of Alice\" as that Phil Spector production to it if you know where I'm going from. This is another label I'm not heard from before on any regular basis but if there material is all like this then more power and send more releases for review as Tiny Little Blackouts are making me fall in love with pop music for the 1st time in years. As I go through this review you know who this band most sounds like to me is when the band LOW has female vocals going on. I finally got to pinpoint the sound I was hearing. Fantastic work here.\"\n- From Absolute Zero Media Magazine 1/23/2010\n\n\"this year,.... we're recommending Tiny Little Blackouts. They're from San Francisco and they're adding beautifully disquieting touches to slick indie guitar slow burn on their debut album, Idea Of Alice.\"\n- Review from the UK's \"Unpeeled\"", "photo" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/img/tiny_little1.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/tiny_little_blackouts/", "albums" : [{ "sku" : "tiny-alicenv", "name" : "Idea of Alice (vocals removed)", "artist" : { "name" : "Tiny Little Blackouts", "page" : "tiny_little_blackouts" }, "release_date" : "2026-10-23", "genres" : ["Electro Rock","Pop"], "vocals" : "vocals removed", "moods" : ["dreamy","melancholic","reflective","nostalgic","calm","ethereal"], "uses" : ["podcast background","emotional storytelling","slideshow or memories","meditation or yoga","cafe or restaurant","study or focus"], "energy" : 2, "instrumentation" : ["jangly guitars","relaxed alt rock rhythm section","male vocals","dreamy pop textures"], "sounds_like" : [], "summary" : "Dreamy, slightly mournful indie pop with jangly relaxed alt rock—ideal for melancholic, reflective moments in podcasts, emotional storytelling, or ambient background.", "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Tiny%20Little%20Blackouts/Idea%20of%20Alice%20(vocals%20removed)/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/tiny-alicenv/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/tiny-alicenv", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=tiny-alicenv" },{ "sku" : "tiny-alice", "name" : "Idea of Alice", "artist" : { "name" : "Tiny Little Blackouts", "page" : "tiny_little_blackouts" }, "release_date" : "2010-03-12", "genres" : ["Electro Rock","Pop"], "vocals" : "vocals", "moods" : ["dreamy","melancholic","reflective","nostalgic","calm","ethereal"], "uses" : ["podcast background","emotional storytelling","slideshow or memories","meditation or yoga","cafe or restaurant","study or focus"], "energy" : 2, "instrumentation" : ["jangly guitars","relaxed alt rock rhythm section","male vocals","dreamy pop textures"], "sounds_like" : [], "summary" : "Dreamy, slightly mournful indie pop with jangly relaxed alt rock—ideal for melancholic, reflective moments in podcasts, emotional storytelling, or ambient background.", "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Tiny%20Little%20Blackouts/Idea%20of%20Alice/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/tiny-alice/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/tiny-alice", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=tiny-alice" }] }, "license" : { "music_license" : "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 1.0)", "music_license_url" : "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/", "listening" : "Stream the free previews, or buy an album for $8 to download it in MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, OGG or WAV. 100% of the price goes to the musician.", "non_commercial" : "Non-commercial projects may use the music under CC BY-NC-SA 1.0: credit the artist and Magnatune, and share alike.", "projects" : "Magnatune members may use any Magnatune music in their projects, commercial or not (videos, films, podcasts, games, apps, websites, adverts), including work for clients, under the Magnatune Project Licence. Projects released while a member stay licensed for good; new projects need an active membership. Credit is required. TV or radio broadcast, cinema, and background music in shops, restaurants or on-hold lines are not included: license those from the musician. Membership: $10/month, $99/year or $299 lifetime; agents can buy one themselves with MPP at /api/member-pass ($10 month, $99 year, $299 lifetime, one-off).", "projects_status" : "available", "projects_signup" : "https://magnatune.com/member/signup", "royalty_free" : "Membership is royalty-free licensing: no per-video, per-download or per-view fees, for every project created and released while a member.", "youtube" : "YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, podcasts: members may use the clean songs in monetized videos. Members register their YouTube channel (the set_youtube_channel MCP tool, or their account page) so YouTube's Content ID doesn't claim their videos. The free versions carry a spoken Magnatune voice and are non-commercial (CC BY-NC-SA), so they're not for monetized channels or client work.", "details" : "https://magnatune.com/info/licensing", "how_to_credit" : "Name the artist and \"Magnatune\", with a link to the album's web_url." } }