Tag Archives: Alternative Singer/Songwriter

In 2005, a long time before Justin Vernon started building recordings beneath the name of Bon Iver — and before his earlier band, DeYarmond Edison, had sometimes split — he collaborated with Selections of Colonies of Bees’ Jon Mueller, Chris Rosenau, Jim Schoenecker, Daniel Spack, and Thomas Wincek on the …

The Prayers & Tears of Arthur Digby Retailers was a stage name adopted by indie pop artist Perry Wright in 2003. The name was extracted from the Coen Brothers film THE BEST Lebowski, and was originally meant as the name for an idea album predicated on an iron lung-bound personality …

The Bony King of Nowhere may be the musical project of critically acclaimed alternative singer/songwriter Bram Vanparys from Belgium. A multi-instrumentalist who performs the majority of his very own music, Vanparys initial produced a name for himself using a demonstration documenting that was broadly circulated due to being highlighted with …

Vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist D. Charles Speer may be the followed moniker of Dave Shuford, an associate from the infamous No-Neck Blues Music group from Brooklyn, NY. He writes root base Americana songs in the weird aspect of American lifestyle, causing the past, representing today’s, and predicting the near future …

Orba Squara may be the indie pop brainchild of Mitch Davis, a fresh York-based singer/songwriter with an ear for basic, uncluttered melodies. The task premiered in the middle-2000s, when Davis made a decision to substitute his former method of music — which included the heavy usage of consumer electronics and …

The alias of Dutch singer/songwriter Johannes Sigmond, Blaudzun specializes in rousing, open-road indie pop that skillfully blends the expansiveness of bands like Arcade Fire and Frightened Rabbit using the rural, country-folk charm from the Lumineers and MEDICAL Kit. Located in Utrecht, Sigmond released his eponymous debut record in 2008. His …

Equipped with an classical guitar and an indie folk sensibility, Sophie Craving for food is definitely a Swiss singer/songwriter from Zurich whose independently released studio album debut, Monday’s Ghost (2008), was a critically acclaimed chart-topping success in her homeland. Given birth to Emilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti Food cravings on March 31, …

Adrian Stern is normally a Swiss pop singer/songwriter/guitarist who writes and sings in the schwiizerdüütsch dialect usual from the Züwealthy region. Located in Baden, a city of approximately 15,000 people in the Aargau canton about 25 kilometers northwest of Züwealthy, Stern produced his independent documenting debut in 2003 using a …

Philadelphia songwriter Kurt Vile had been recording himself in the home by age group 14, soon after his bluegrass-loving dad purchased him a banjo to encourage his youthful imagination. By age group 17, Vile was self-releasing cassettes of his house recordings, which in the initial days were highly influenced with …

Emily Wells’ songwriting combines consumer electronics, orchestral strings, jazz buildings, pop sensibilities, and vibrato-laden vocals into a single eclectic bundle. A former kid prodigy, she started fielding presents from record brands during her teenage years. Wells balked at the thought of relinquishing innovative control to a group of producers, nevertheless, …