Posts by Chris

Well, this band sounds like good fun.  Loud guitars, bouncing rhythms, good time lyrics and an overall “don’t step on my cloud” approach to modern rock and roll usually leaves a crowd smiling, but these guys [...]

Category Funk rock, Hard rock, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, Rock, rock and roll · Tags Atlanta, Avenues, JK & The Lost Boys, Rock, Soul, Street Lights, Time Is Trouble

Beastie Boys MC Adam Yauch, also known as MCA, passed away earlier today due to cancer.  He was 47 years old. Yauch and the Beastie Boys released several classic hip-hop albums in the 1980s and 1990s [...]

Category Featured, Music · Tags adam yauch, beastie boys, licensed to ill, paul's boutique, rip

So reading through this band’s bio, the first few sentences throw around words like “scuzz rock n’ roll” and “junkyard folk”…and yeah that’s totally what this band sounds like.  They sound like dumpster diving, scrappy young [...]

Category Folk, Music, New Music, rock and roll · Tags From Dad, junkyard rock, Pinball City Crimefighter, Punk, scuzz, The Heart Pills, To Paul, Wisconsin

Wanderdusk is one of those elusive groups whose imagination extends far and beyond the normal span of the human ear’s attention yet still keeps listeners in line with tight, pop songcraft.  The band’s three members – [...]

Category Hip-hop, indie pop, Music, New Music · Tags denver, looptronics, Psychedelic, wanderdusk

Shit did I luck out tonight.  I was just minding my own business, sipping on scotch, going through the new music in my inbox and BAM out of nowhere, I’m greeted by vintage soul samples and [...]

Category Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, Soul · Tags hip hop, Isaiahthe3rd, Soul, the perfect game

Fans of Silversun Pickups should listen up.  Modern Time Machines is a California-based shoegaze outfit with boy-girl vocals, heavy bass, swirling guitar samples and waves of fuzzy distortion.  So yeah… No, in all seriousness, that’s a [...]

Category Indie Artists, indie pop, Indie rock, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags fuzz, modern time machines, shoegaze, silversun pickups

Seattle’s VibraGun drench themselves in fuzz and reverb.  The music is dense and heavy, an all encompassing mood that whirls steadily around the ears and seeps into your bones.  Voices whisper, guitars screech, and the effects [...]

Category Featured, Indie Artists, Indie rock, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags drone, indie bands, noise, seattle, shoegaze, VibraGun

Sarah Donner is the indie-folk songstress you wish you could be. She’s got badass fingerpickin’ skills, stunning vocal harmonies, sharp lyrics, classical training and a small army of foster kittens. Sarah’s been featured on NPR’s You [...]

Category Indie Artists, Indie folk, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags catster, Dodgeball, indie-folk, new music, princeton, Sarah Donner, singer, songwriter, westminster

The Hummingbirds are five young “scousers” from Liverpool with mind-blowing vocal harmonies and a penchant old-school rock n’ roll with a little British twist known as skiffle.  They’re blowing up in England (Wayne Rooney counts himself [...]

Category Featured, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, rock and roll · Tags Liverpool, nu-skiffle, Pete Doherty, scouser, The Hummingbirds, Wayne Rooney