Comprised of Jeff Pupa (vocals, guitar and bass), James Hencken (drums, synths and keyboards), and long-time bandmate and collaborator Sabeel Azam (guitar) the trio of Vows have developed a reputation for a consistently evolving sound. Pupa […]
Tag: indie psych rock
Comprised of Joakim Åhlund, Nino Keller, Frans Johansson and Martin Ehrencrona, the Stockholm, Sweden-based shoegaze quartet Les Big Byrd may arguably one of the more accomplished contemporary indie acts in their native Sweden as members of […]
Over the past decade or so, the New York-based trio A Place to Bury Strangers have developed a reputation for a moody, atmospheric wall of sound-influenced sound that possesses elements of psych rock, shoegaze and […]
Singer/songwriter and bassist Jennie Vee grew up as “the goth girl” in a small Ontario town. And as the story goes, she Vee had pen pals, who had changed the course of her life, when they […]
Comprised of Spencer White, Jackson White, Steve Kempnich, and Lewis Stephenson, the Brisbane, Australia-based quartet Morning Harvey have developed a reputation in Brisbane for a breezy, psych pop/shoegaze sound based around shimmering reverb-y guitar lines, […]
Live Concert Photography: Shark Week, Christines, and Crocodiles at Union Pool 4/29/15
Live Concert Photography: Shark Week, Christines and Crocodiles Union Pool April 29, 2015 Last week I was at Williamsburg’s Union Pool to catch the Washington, DC-based Shark Week, the New York-based Christines and the San Diego, […]
Live Footage: RIDE on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Electric
Comprised of Andy Bell, Mark Gardener, Laurence “Loz” Colbert and Steve Queralt, the Oxford, UK-based quartet RIDE are considered by critics and fans to be among the originators of the shoegaze sound – despite the fact […]
Comprised of Pete Hughes (guitar, vocals), Ryan Northrop (drums) and Aaron Powell (bass, vocals), the Portland-based trio Sons of Huns have developed a reputation across Portland, the Pacific Northwest for a power chord-based, stoner rock, […]
Largely inspired by The Velvet Underground and The Zombies, the up-and-coming Toronto, ON-based quartet GROUNDERS, comprised of Andrew Davis (vocals, guitar), Mike Searle (bass), Daniel Bushelkin (keyboards) and Evan Lewis (guitar) have received attention across […]
Led by John Dwyer, the San Francisco-based quartet Thee Oh Sees have been insanely prolific, as they’ve released over a dozen albums since 2004 with each of those albums have managing to sound decidedly different, […]
Crocodiles’ fourth album, Crimes of Passion, was one of my favorite releases of 2013. Produced by The Raveonettes’ Sune Rose Wagner, the material on the album meshed sleazy, reckless hedonism and furiously, noisy psychedelia with […]
Forming in the middle of 2004 and deriving their name from both The Velvet Underground song “The Black Angel’s Death Song” and a quote attributed to Edvard Munch, the painter of The Scream, “Illness, insanity, and […]
Indie psych rock act, Ancient River is the brainchild of the Gainesville, FL-based singer/songwriter and guitarist James Barreto. The band can trace its origins to 200 when Barreto was a member of the DIY and […]
Comprised of Bonnie Bloomgarden (lead vocals), Rocky (bass), Laura Kelsey (drums) and Larry Schemel (guitar), the Los Angeles, CA-based quartet of Death Valley Girls have deliberately shrouded themselves in mystery; in fact, what little that is […]
The Grand Rapids, MI-based trio of HEATERS can trace their origins to when high school friends Andrew Tamlyn and Nolan Krebs relocated to Grand Rapids to start working on a music project together. And in […]