Formed in 1983, the Dayton, OH-based Guided by Voices has been in many ways a cult-status band – the sort of band beloved and admired by musicians and music journalists. And although the band has […]
Tag: indie rock
My Divider, Dinosaur Bones debut landed on this site’s Best of 2011 list because of complex material that possessed time signature changes and broke away from the verse-chorse-verse, bridge, chorus structure of most pop songs. And yet, […]
Bad Buka at the Olde Prague 11/9/13
As I’ve mentioned in a post last month, I first stumbled onto the Astoria, NY-based Balkan folk/punk act Bad Buka when they played at Astoria Music and Arts’ music festival at the old Wonderland Collective in Astoria. And […]
Meeting while attending art school in upstate New York, the members of These Animals began writing songs together in early 2010, and in the past three years, the band has released two EPs Extended Play and Souvenir […]
Raccoon Fighter at Cake Shop 10/4/13
Raccoon Fighter Cake Shop October 4 2013 About 72 hours before I got on a Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt am Main, Germany for the Frankfurt Book Fair, I was at Cake Shop to catch the […]
February 11th will mark the release of Someday, The Moon Will Be Gold. the third full-length effort from the 22 year-old Ottawa, ON-based singer/songwriter Kalle Mattson. As the follow up to Anchors and Lives In Between, the material on […]
Britt Teusink (vocals, programming, synthesizer), Eric Grantham (drums, programing) and Gage Gilmore (bass, synthesizer) formed deadCAT in a moldy basement in the Edgewood section of Atlanta, GA back in 2011, as a sort of weird offshoot from A. Grimes. And since […]
Although A Million Billion Dying Suns formed earlier this year, frontman Nate Mercereau and the rest of the band have been around for a while, as they’ve all collaborated with the likes of Richard Ashcroft, Lauryn Hill and the legendary Chaka […]
Guitarist Mark Smak wrote the majority of the music which appears on Haunted House’s debut EP in the basement of a home that he believes was haunted by ghosts. “Guts,” the first single off the […]
The Seattle, WA-based singer/songwriter Star Anna has received praise from the likes of Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready and Guns ‘n’ Roses and Velvet Revolver’s Duff McKagan, and after you hear her voice on “Go to Hell,” the album title track on her […]
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2585290115/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/notracklist=true/transparent=true/ Created by guitarist Kevin Serra, Cloud Seeding is a musical project that allows him to collaborate with a variety of vocalists he admired – previously, he worked with the fantastic Marissa Nadler, Greg Hatem […]
Since the quartet of Those Darlins got their start in Murfreesboro, TN their sound has increasingly turned towards sleazy but incredibly dark, seductive garage rock with a gentle bit of polish to their overall sound. […]
27 Ways is the forthcoming debut effort from the Utah Valley-baesd band Desert Noises. The album which is slated for a March 2014 release, comes on the heels of two lengthy tours, playing with the likes […]
Based out of Vancouver, BC, Weed has been a part of that city’s DIY scene for the past decade, recording a few 7 inches that got the band quite a bit of attention. And they […]
Dinosaur Bones‘ debut effort My Divider landed at number 16 on this site’s Best of 2011 list, thanks in part to indie rock songs that managed to possess a complex nature with songs comprised of several different […]