Posts by Trevor

For quite a while now, mainstream hip hop has been growing through an identity crisis.  As the most popular music today has been getting more and more rooted in club and dance culture, hip hop has [...]

Category Featured, Hip-hop, Indie Artists, Music, Music Industry, New Media, New Music, News, Pop, Rap · Tags

The lead voice for so many of New England’s eclectic world, jazz, and funk groups, Rajdulari is a recent transplant to New York from Boston and is a ten year veteran of the local performance scene. [...]

Category Funk, hypetree, Indie Artists, jazz, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, New York City, World · Tags Berklee, berklee college of music, Boston, funk, honeywine, jazz, new england, new music, new york, rajdulari, singers

This week we have one of the south’s hottest and most talented new emcees, Mario Farrow, a.k.a SkyBlew.  SkyBlew represents an excitingly elevated lyricism and varied production style that will hit you hard with lyrical power [...]

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“We’re just four guys doing what we love any way we can.” With that kind of sincerity, it’s hard not to fall in love with the subtle charm and catchy choruses of Orlando indie band Posterra. [...]

Category Folk, hypetree, Indie Artists, Indie rock, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags

Formed in Brooklyn, NY in 2007, indie rockers The Clox possess a unique credibility that has the potential to bridge the gap between indie rock, alternative rock, and pop.  With a starkness and euro flair that [...]

Category alternative pop, Alternative Rock, hypetree, Indie Artists, indie pop, Indie rock, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, New York City · Tags alt, Brooklyn, Denis Orynbekov, Igor Reznik, indie rock, Kazakhstan, new music, new york, pop, soccer, the clox

Bringing the hard rock smack-down this week for seeds is the ever passionate and intense BETA.  Hailing from the small town of Puebla, Mexico, BETA has since left their home country in search of success and opportunity, and [...]

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While Day Sailor may not be your go to band for a spring break party rave, these Houston, TX indie newcomers bring a breath of fresh air to the Houston music scene with a tranquil, emotional, [...]

Category Indie Artists, Indie rock, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags Houston, indie, Music discovery, new music, texas

This band is…uncanny.  The first time I played a song by Canadian indie rockers, the AUTOMATiON, an image of David Bowie playing a set with Joy Division popped into my head.  Part new wave punk, part [...]

Category Featured, Indie Artists, Indie rock, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags canada, indie rock, new music, new wave, Punk, science fiction, the AUTOMATiON

Remember the 90′s?  All that fuzz and angst?  Well, Chicago natives Geronimo! sure do, and they bring with them a van, a kitten named Mowgli, and a powerful arena-ready sound.  Taking cues from legends such as Fugazi [...]

Category Indie Artists, Indie rock, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags 90's, alternative, brit-pop, Built to Spill, fugazi, Geronimo!, grunge, Guided by Voices, into the sun, melvins, post-punk