Tag Archives: Alternative/Indie Rock

Created in 1999 by high-school friends Travis Nesbitt (vocals) and Logan Jacobs (bass), the Canadian alternative rock act Sociable Code initially managed beneath the name 5th Time of year. The group released Patiently Waiting around in 2001 before changing to its present name, the bandmembers recognizing that they distributed their …

The crashing post-hardcore of O Pioneers!!! resulted in the group of Eric Solomon (electric guitar/vocals) and Jeff Groban (drums), whose eager energy and passion evidently deserved a minimum of three exclamation factors. The duo’s music was similar to early WARM WATER Music and Against Me! crossed jointly, as well as …

Modular synthesizer enthusiast Drew McDowall is most beneficial known for his use British commercial legends Coil through the ’90s, although his career actually stretches back again to the past due ’70s. The Scottish musician began post-punk music group the Poems along with his then-wife, Rose McDowall, in 1978. The group …

A multinational (of kinds) indie pop group located in Berlin, Family pet was founded by manufacturer Andre Abshagen. An upbeat, electro-pop group focusing on a laid-back groove, Family pet released their initial album, Participant One Prepared, in 2004. Agreed upon to London structured Groenland Information, the band started work on …

Johnny “Shellhead” and Jen Shag, two halves of Brooklyn indie duo Shellshag, got their specific starts in the ’90s SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA D.I.Con. scene, while working the infamous Starcleaners Warehouse — a traditional music co-op in the Objective Region that was previously home base towards the Citizens, the Dandy …

Among the vanguard performers in the U.K.’s genre-swirling wonky pop motion, Dan Dark brought his mix of pop, rock and roll, dance, and hip-hop tastes to light in 2008 along with his strike one “Yours.” After spending four years playing electric guitar in the alt-rock music group the Servant, Dark …

Mixing queer background, performance art, a theatrical live display, and a wicked love of life within their music, Toronto’s electro-queercore group Babies on TV feature bassist/vocalist John Caffery, drummer/percussionist/vocalist Minus Smile, guitarist Wolf, and vocalist/video designer Roxanne Luchak. The group’s regular collaborators consist of Maggie MacDonald, also from the Hidden …

Melbourne, Australia’s enigmatic Witch Hats might have shaped in the mid ’00s (in fact, 2005, according to many sources), but their music scavenges all of the prior years for inspiration to forge a menacing mixture of post-punk, indie, sound, goth, and garage area rock — everything underpinned with an insidious …

Angela Aki is a Japan vocalist/songwriter who specializes in piano-based pop/rock and roll. She achieved popularity after performing a theme tune for the ultimate Fantasy XII video game in 2006, although her profession was underway for a long time before that, beginning on the far side of the Pacific — …

Although Toronto novelist Chris Eaton performed being a solo artist in the later ’90s and early 2000s beneath the name Rock and roll Plaza Central (occasionally with a variety of backing musicians), it wasn’t until 2003 that Rock and roll Plaza Central became a genuine band, recruiting Rob Carson (guitar, …