Posts by Dave

When I say German music, what do you think of? Now that I’ve filled your mind with lederhosen and accordions, try and wrap your mind around this: electronica. That’s right, Germany played, and still plays, a [...]

Category Electro-pop, Electronic, Indie Artists, indie pop, Indie rock, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags 80s, accordians, animalistic, Berlin, canada, Django Django, electronica, emotive, Energize, energized, Europe, German, lederhosen, Rooftop Runner, trance, USA, versatile, We Are Here, Young Empires

Hey all! Seeds is back, and you know what that means? That’s right; we have some great new tunes for you. Our time apart is always so hard for me, Seeds. I spend my time looking [...]

Category Indie Artists, Indie rock, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, New York City, Pop, Punk · Tags 90's, Au Revoir Simone, Changing Modes, genres, hardcore, In Flight, indie, lables, merengue, Minor Threat, Moles, pop, pop punk, Punk, seeds, soft rock, The Offspring

It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed any hip-hop on this site. Honestly, coming up with good hip-hop is hard, so many people think they can do it because they don’t really have to hit any [...]

Category Hip-hop, hypetree, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, Rap, Vyne List · Tags academic, Animal House, beats, cerebral, creative, Cruel Winter, equation, flow, Gone in December, grimey, hip hop, interpreter, Judas, lyrics, master, musician, My Brother & Mii, net, passionate, poet, poetry, rap, rapper, sexy, T*Merk, The Cage, vivid

It’s cold and rainy today in New York, so you know what that means. Well, normally I’d say let’s pop in something sad, slow, and possibly acoustic, but not today! No, today I’m in a pretty [...]

Category Indie Artists, indie pop, Indie rock, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, New York City, Punk · Tags avant-garde, Black Flag, Bong Rips, chill, Crawl, garage, hardcore, hardcore punk, High Pop, Hip Hip Hooray, Hippie Speed Ball, indie, indie punk, Minor Threat, new york, pop, Punk, rain, stewm, The Creaky Boards, The Pixies, weird

Let’s jump into a time machine shall we? Now I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up; we aren’t traveling back to the good old days, ancient times, or even the 60s. No, we are going [...]

Category Indie Artists, Indie rock, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, New York City, Rock · Tags Active Bird Community, album, Bad Veins, catchy, Cosmonaut, download, Drive Like Your Kids Live Here, emotive, EP, fuzz rock, Hastings, Imaginary Talent Show, indie rock, Interpol, Kelly, mad geniuses, Magnum Opus, New Jersey, Ready to Go, Santos Party House, silversun pickups, Stormville, This Time, thundering, time, time machine

I never thought I’d see the day that someone would figure out the right way to do indie metal. I know indie metal bands exist, but from what I’ve heard they are only indie in name [...]

Category Indie Artists, Indie rock, Metal, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, Punk · Tags Beard of Wolves, EP, Every Time I Die, fuzz rock, hard, head-banging, heavy, hipsters, hooks, indie, indie metal, ironic, London, melodic, metal, metalhead, Muse, My Father Drives the Death Star, Queens of the Stone Age, riffs, synth, The Darkness, Tour, UK, Wales, Wet Mouth

Today we’re playing word association. I’ll say three words and you say to yourself the three first words that come to your head. Don’t worry if you’re at work or in a public place; you’re over [...]

Category Electronic, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, Soul · Tags beats, canada, Caught Up, club, Dance, electronic, emotive, EP, infectious, jazz, jazzy, Krystale, living room, Machine, modern, pumping, Reboot, relaxing, samples, Soul, soulful, The Good Fight

We live in a day where overproducing music is the norm. Any band or artist you listen to has probably been washed, tightened up, and autotuned to some extent, if not gratuitously so like in some [...]

Category Indie Artists, Indie rock, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags autotune, diamond, emotive, godfathers, gritty, hip hop, indie, indie rock, Joy Division, love, Once Mine, overproduced, pop, pop rock, Punk, rough, Superchunk, talent, The Black Keys, The Rachels, The Strokes, underproduced, youtube

We haven’t posted any new reggae music on Seeds in months! It’s criminal, I know. I suppose these days are really not the most appropriate time; I always considered reggae to be warm weather music, music [...]

Category Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags afro-carribbean, Bob Marley, change, Damian Marley, donate, gift, groovy, help, horns, jazz, Kickstarter, kiwi, northeast, On The Move, P-Funk, Parliament, Parliament Funkadelic, reggae, rewards, seeds, Steel Pulse, The Wailers