If you’re in your late 20s to about late 30s, you’ll likely remember the Tiny Toons Adventures episode which featured They Might Be Giants’s playfully nerdy and lovable rendition of “Istanbul (Not Constantinople).” So for many of […]
Tag: indie rock
Originally formed in 2011, the Toronto, ON-based band HSY has gone through a few lineup changes before settling on their current lineup as a quartet. And with that lineup, the band holed themselves up in […]
The Chicago-based duo of Greta Rochelle and Jack Armando formed My Gold Mask around their mutual love of Italian Giallo cinema, a genre of cinema closely related to American pulp crime and mystery movies, and the dimly-lit warehouse district of […]
Static, the highly anticipated sophomore effort from Cults will see an October 15th release through Sony/Columbia Records. “High Road,” the first single from the album starts off with drums that seemingly have a military-styled precision, […]
The Brooklyn-based band, the Bushwick Hotel have a sound that manages to sound somewhat familiar and yet difficult to pin down. When you hear their latest single, “Take Care of My Girl” from the multidisciplinary […]
Lisa Papineau has been around as a multidisciplinary artist for quite some time – she’s been in experimental theater, narrated and produced films, written and composed songs for the soundtracks of several movies, and has […]
The Spanish based trio the Parrots have been an underground sensation i their native Madrid. With only one demo, which has been only been quietly released in the underground scene, without major promotion, the official […]
Frankie Rose has been a part of the New York for quite some time, as she’s been a member of several bands including both the Crystal Stilts and her own band Frankie Rose and the […]
The Growlers have been especially prolific as they released the Hung at Heart full-length earlier this year, and then went back into the studio to record a bunch of newly written material which will appear on […]
The Chills are considered a legendary act in their native New Zealand, and are something of a cult favorite here in the States. And since the original lineup’s split up in 1993, the band has […]
Over the winter months of late 2012 and early 2013, Chicago, IL-based band Disappears were holed up in Electrical Audio Studio writing and recording the material that wound up becoming both their impressive Kone EP, which was released earlier this year, and […]
“The River” is the first single from Warring, the Darcys third and final installation in a trilogy released by the renowned Canadian indie rock label, Arts and Crafts Records on September 17. The slow burning single is indicative of the […]
White Poppy is the solo project of the British Columbia-based Crystal Dorval, an artist who has publicly described her work as being both “experimental and therapeutic pop.” “Darkness Turns to Light” is the latest single […]
Just the other day, I had spoken to the easy-going and charming Charlie Greene about this most recent full-length release, Wildfire Music. his eclectic influences and his songwriting process (which he admits is much harder than you […]
Trouble Will Find Me, the sixth and latest full-length effort from Brooklyn based quintet the National was released back in May to critical praise among major publications and the blogosphere, and to commercial success, as […]