Tag: Indie
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Duo Keep Shelly In Athens hail from Athens, Greece and have been releasing music since 2010. Now I’m Ready is only their second album but they’ve pumped out over a half dozen 7″s, 12″s, and cassette singles, so they’re far from being unproductive. In fact, if you add up all of the songs on those…
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hello darlings well, that happened. summer is over, school is back, and there’s that familiar feeling as the nights grow longer that we missed the chance to be who we might have been. sounds like time for a stars show, don’t you think? we’re around this fall, and we would love to see you.…
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N-A-I-V-E-S was formed in 2012 when the stars aligned perfectly and all that jazz and Marc Jacc, a super talented multi-instrumentalist and the former singer of the French band Megasushi (Paris, 2006 -2012), met Lapo Frost, a hip Italian producer and bass player (Frost, Fanny Games) who was based out of London. Together they formed…
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For me, Chelsea Wolfe’s albums have always been more about an overall vibe than specific songs taken individually. I do prefer certain songs, yes, but within the context of her albums. They’re not songs I’d necessarily take and put on a playlist. (They don’t necessarily play well with other artists.) I have to be in the…
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There’s upbeat and then there’s UPBEAT. Bleachers’ “Like a River Runs” is definitely the latter with its ferocious, hard-hitting drums that gallop along like wild horses. But it’s not horses but the “rhythm of a wild heart” that drives this indie/pop rock gem, which sounds like it could’ve been on Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the…
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Recreational Love is The Bird And The Bee’s first album in five years, following 2010’s excellent covers album Interpreting The Master’s Volume 1: A Tribute To Daryl Hall and John Oates. During recent years, I’d started to become convinced that they would never do another album, largely because Greg Kurstin has become one of the…
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It’s Of Monsters and Men, so of course it’s amazing.
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“Absolute Zero” is the second single from SIRUS’ soon to be released debut album LEAP. And what a glorious single it is. Duo Lindsey and Dave Mackie — a real life couple — have truly created something special with LEAP, which we’ll be reviewing shortly. In the meantime, we just had to turn you onto…
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Ezra Furman is a restless warrior. He well-established this on his first two solo albums and with his late band the Harpoons. One has only ever needed to hear a few of his songs to realize that he’s a guy who can’t sit still, not even inside his head. He is always brimming with manic…
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I love it when artists do covers and give them their own interpretation rather than going the paint-by-numbers route. And Australia’s Green Buzzard have totally re-envisioned Tobias Jesso Jr’s “Hollywood” here. Where the original version was a somber piano ballad, Green Buzzard’s version is uptempo and even upbeat, guitar-centric alternative rock.
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review by Barnaby Thornton Reviewing this album was no easy task. I tried to be smart. I tried to be a “music journalist”. I tried every analogy under the pale green sun; sick with responsibility as I wrote my way through reawakened volcanoes and uncaptured Polaroid with too much sweetener in my veins, yet not…
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Now, this is what I call an epic song. And what an amazing one it is, taking the listener on a thought-provoking sonic — and visual — journey. Quite the trip!
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Mew are my favorite proggy band. When I hear most prog, it seems like it’s more about being technically proficient and showing off your skills with your instruments than writing actually inspired songs. Instead of writing a heartfelt song and making it epic and allowing room for some soloing, you just write the odd music…
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We normally don’t make posts about things streaming on other sites, but we’re making an exception here because we really love Donald’s band the Virgins… The following is the official press release about the stream, etc: Donald Cumming is extremely proud to finally unveil the full extent of his debut solo LP Out Calls Only…
