Tag Archives: Alternative/Indie Rock

Hailing from Orlando, Florida, Anberlin shaped through the ashes of varied other area tasks. Led with the soaring vocals of Stephen Christian, the positive-thinking Anberlin also included Joseph Milligan (electric guitar), Nathan Youthful (drums), Joey Bruce (electric guitar), and Deon Rexroat (bass), and shown an alternative solution pop/rock audio that, …

Tribe of Benjamin are most widely known as the support group for urban gospel/jazz musician Ben Tankard, with whom they appeared over the 1997 record Git Yo’ Prayze On. In 1999 they released their initial record independently, Raize Da Praize.

Vocalist/songwriter Paul Kelly catches Australia in his tracks just how Bruce Springsteen or the Kinks’ Ray Davies possess encapsulated their homelands, and he can it using the music energy and variety of Elvis Costello. The 6th of nine kids, Kelly was created in Adelaide in 1955. After college he wandered …

Like lots of the garage rock and roll revivalists within the ’90s (the Unband, the Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs, the Gaza Strippers), Montreal, Canada’s Tricky Woo take the MC5/Stooges guitar rock and roll sound from the ’70s and rework it for future generations. Tricky Woo produced in 1996, with frontman Andrew Dickson, …

Virgil Moorefield was created in NEW YORK and raised in Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. He started his career being a composer, settling in NY after getting his B.A. and M.A. in 1979 from Columbia University or college. Moorefield’s first recording, Transformations, was documented with his music group, Equal Character, and …

A bright new sound in U.K. substitute rock within the ’90s and in to the brand-new millennium, Stereophonics had been made up of vocalist/guitarist Kelly Jones, bassist Richard Jones, guitarist Adam Zindani, and drummer Jamie Morrison. These were shaped in Cwmaman, South Wales, originally because the teenage cover music group …

When Alejandro Escovedo asked Amy Farris to become listed on him about tour, the young fiddler told everyone at regulations workplace she was functioning at that she’d never be returning. An Austin, TX indigenous who was simply classically qualified on violin, Amy Farris discovered early into her lessons that she …

Electronic primitivist project Amps for Christ was primarily the task of Claremont, California-based Henry Barnes, formerly of sludge metallic/hardcore legends Man May be the Bastard and severe noise offshoot Bastard Sound. An store for Barnes’ desire for polyethnic folk customs and faux-Celtic mysticism, Amps for Christ demonstrated equally distinctive because …

Australian singer Stephen Cummings is definitely among Australia’s esteemed and critically acclaimed artists despite too little chart-topping hits during his lengthy and effective career. Cummings started with Melbourne’s the Pelaco Brothers through the mid-’70s. Then fronted the Sports activities for six years before they disbanded in 1981. Cummings’ debut solitary, …

British singer/songwriter Sheila Nicholls 1st attracted attention in the first ’90s, when she performed with the brand new York City-based group Sheila Nicholls as well as the Marvelous Frock. Over time with the music group she shifted to L.A. to pursue a single career and begin her personal record label, …