Comprised of Sarah Rose (guitar, bass and vocals), Sarah Nienaber (guitar, bass and vocals) and Mara Appel DesLauriers (drums and vocals), the Portland, OR-based indie rock/shoegaze/dream pop trio Candace can trace their origins to the […]
Tag: A Storm in Heaven
New Video: The 120-Minutes Channeling Sounds and Visuals of Ulrika Spacek
Last November, I wrote about indie rock project Ulrika Spacek. Comprised of long-time friends Rhys Edwards and Rhys Williams, the duo conceptualized the project during a single night in Berlin based around their mutual influences —Television, Pavement, Sonic […]
Formed by founding member and siblings Neil and Martha Weil, the Minneapolis, MN-based indie rock act The Chambermaids have gone through a number of lineup changes in their history. When the band’s newest members Ollie Moltaji and Max Schramm were recruited, the members of the new lineup felt an immediate chemistry. And as the story goes, rather than playing a number of live gigs or setting up an extensive tour, the members of the band immediately went into the studio to work on new material, integrating Neil Weir’s studio, Old Blackberry Way into their songwriting process. Naturally some songs came together quickly while others wound up reinventing themselves with the result being a dreamy yet subtly expansive take on reverb-heavy minimalism.
Although the band is putting the finishing touches on their forthcoming and yet untitled new album, which will be released through Old Blackberry Way/Guilt Ridden Pop Records, the album’s first single “Tall Trees” is a slow-burning, dreamy and reverb-filled bit of shoegaze-leaning material that feels and sounds as though it were inspired by The Verve‘s A Storm In Heaven and A Northern Soul — in particular, “Already There” and “Stormy Clouds.”
New Video: Introducing the Dreamy Psych Rock Sound of London’s The Pacers
The London-based psych rock quartet The Pacers can trace their origins to 2013 when the band’s founding members Alexander Friedl (guitar and vocals) and Harry Stam (guitar) met under what they’ve described as “mysterious circumstances.” Bonding […]
New Audio: Spires’ Jangling, Hook-Based, Single “Parallel Lines” Reveals a New Sound
Brooklyn-based band Spires initially began as founding member, Matt Stevenson’s solo home recording project, but the project quickly grew into an actual band when Jack Collins (bass), Samuel Shea (guitar, synth) and Ethan Snyder (drums) were enlisted to […]
Live Concert Photography: Spires and The Budos Band at Brooklyn Bowl 3/27/15
Live Concert Photography: Spires and Budos Band Brooklyn Bowl March 27, 2015 March was a particularly busy month of live music and it ended with two shows at Brooklyn Bowl around my 36th birthday – […]
Over the last five or six years, i’ve found myself turning increasingly introspective around my birthday, and in some way that should only be natural. Each year is the increasingly gradual accretion of thoughts, emotions, memories […]
Brooklyn-based guitarist Kevin Serra began Cloud Seeding, as a singles project in which he could collaborate with vocalists he personally admires including up-and-coming vocalists Alexa Wilding, Kris English, Sara Syms and others. The latest single […]
Based out of North Yorkshire Moors, UK, the quartet of the Van Doos which consist of Simon Hutchinson (lead vocals, guitar), Louis Bamber (vocals, guitar), Fred Baty (bass), and Dom Antony (drums). have been praised NME, Radar and other publications […]