The Perth, Australia-based band, the High Learys formed in 2011 when cousins Jamie Turner (vocals, bass) and Matt Williams (guitar) met Mike Mutt (organ) in high school. They later recruited Adrian Macmillan to flesh out […]
Tag: indie rock
As a student at the Berklee College of Music, Josh Siegel told one of his professors that he was going to quit school, return back to Chicago and start a band. And this professor quickly replied: “don’t procrastinate.” […]
Although currently based in Los Angeles, CA, the singer/songwriter known as Bedouin has crafted a song that is similar to her name – it possesses a restlessly nomadic heart and sounds like it borrows influences […]
Founded in Cincinnati, OH back in 1988, the Afghan Whigs have long been a sort of cult favorite band – music journalists and musicians really in the know have loved them for a sound that […]
The Los Angeles,CA-based sibling quartet of Brown Shoe have developed a reputation over the course of four previously released albums for a sound that has pulled the band in two different directions, sometimes simultaneously – […]
The Chicago, IL-based Speck Mountain’s founding members, Marie-Claire Balabanian and Karl Briedrick are self-described “musical soul mates,” who apparently lived parallel lives in Los Angeles and Detroit respectively before they met in New York in the early 2000s. The duo […]
I have to admit that as a blogger, there is something about discovering new music and letting the world know about it, and then having others dig what I’ve dug is a unique pleasure – […]
The Brooklyn-based trio Unicycle Loves You have shown a relentless experimentalism and willingness to change things up over the course of their first three full-length albums. Their debut self-titled, full-length had the band as a […]
Comprised of bassist Nathan Lithgow (of My Brightest Diamond, Inlets and Gabriel and the Hounds) and drummer Garth Macaleavey (the former touring percussionist for the Inlets and sound engineer for the Philip Glass Ensemble, the duo of NØMADS specialize in a urgent and […]
Smith and Forge Hard Cider Presents Feats of Strength and Caveman at Brooklyn Bowl 3/5/14
As i’ve mentioned a number of times on the site, having a full-time job and running this blog essentially full-time often leads to many competing demands for my time and attention. If only i had […]
Comprised of Sinosa Micik, lead vocalist; Bobby Tamkin, drummer producer and songwriter, who was previously a member of the Warlocks; Devin Johnson, guitarist; Lisa Fendelander, keyboardist; Kyle Hines, bassist; and recently recruited Derek Muro on […]
After the 2009 release of the Honey Trees‘ Wake the Earth EP, the duo of Becky Filip and Jacob Wick spent four years writing the material that would wind up on their soon-to-be released debut full-length, Bright Fire. […]
After several years of producing and writing electronic music, the Los Angeles-based Australian duo of Aaron Shanahan and Benjamin Plant, decided to start their own project based on their love of 60s and 70s psychedelic […]
As I’ve mentioned several times, I receive about 75-100 emails a day from PR firms, labels, artists and even band managers asking me to check out their band for the site. And as I go […]
When the Chicago, IL-based psych rock band Secret Colours released their debut self-titled effort and their sophomore effort, Peach, the band was a sextet. However, within a relatively short period of time in the band’s history, the band went […]