As it frequently happens, a publicist or some other music industry type will send me an email about a band playing somewhere in town, and the email typically will have a heading along the lines […]
Tag: indie rock
Since their formation in 2007, the Mantles have developed a reputation within the Bay Area’s garage rock/lo-fi/pop scene. Their earliest shows were loose and loud bashing with strange chord changes – all while managing to […]
Northside Festival Day 1: BMI Creators Kickoff Event featuring Beast Patrol
Northside Festival Day 1 BMI Creators Kickoff Event featuring Beast Patrol Mabel’s Smokehouse June 13, 2013 After covering the New Music Seminar New York Festival, I followed that up with covering the Northside Festival across […]
The Gainesville, FL-based quartet of Morningbell, has developed a reputation for being one of the more prolific, inventive and perhaps eccentric bands in the country. Since their founding in 2001, the band has released 5 full-length albums, […]
Singer and vocalist Chris Kittrell with the assistance of guitarist, Zach McMillan records and performs under the moniker of Baby Alpaca. And as as a duo, they’ve received quite a bi tof attention across the blogosphere for […]
Pickwick’s self-releaesd debut, Can’t Talk Medicine landed at 36 on Billboard’s Heatseeeker Chart, about a week after it’s March digital release. The band will be touring with Neko Case and Black Joe Lewis for a series of […]
Kid Karate, the duo of vocalist/guitarist Kevin Breen and drummer Steven Gannon have a loud, bluesy power chord and thundering drumming sound that should sound familiar to you – think of the Black Keys, the […]
Since their founding 2004, the Chicago, IL-based band Walking Bicycles will be releasing a 7" on July 30th – titled So/Badada, the material on the 7" will be a teaser for the band’s fourth full-length […]
The Leftover Cuties, a Los Angeles, CA-based quartet, will be releasing their sophomore effort The Spark and the Fire on July 23rd. Thanks in part to Shirli McAllen’s gorgeously silky voice, backed by a sound that employs the […]
The Texas singer/songwriter Teresa Maldonado, writes, records and performs under the moniker Georgia’s Horse. And as Georgia’s Horse, Maldonado’s debut effort The Mammoth Sessions was well-received critically across the blogosphere and other sources. Fire Records will be […]
VPI Harmony is the debut effort from the Atlanta, GA-based quintet Mood Rings. And the album bears a similarity to Cut Copy’s incredible In Ghost Colours in the fact that it reveals a band with a sound that’s […]
The trio of Blue and Gold consists of Chloe Raynes (vocals, guitar); GG Gonzalez (drums); and Alex Kapelman (vocals, guitar), and the band has received a little bit of love through the blogosphere, including here, […]
Last month marked the domestic release of Shelly Bhushan’s latest full-length effort, Something Out of Nothing (the album saw a much larger release this past month), and the album reveals an artist who has grown remarkably over […]
I caught the Los Angeles, CA-based trio the Vim Dicta at Piano’s on Monday night, and from this live footage that I shot, their sound owes a debt to Soundgarden, Led Zeppelin and the like […]
Dent May, a Mississippi-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist will have his third full-length effort, Warm Blanket released through Paw Tracks on August 27th. Although May had recorded most of the album’s instruments by himself, he enlisted some local […]