Tag Archives: Alternative/Indie Rock

Prolific indie singer/songwriter Josh Woodward represents the quintessential self-made artist of the web age. Since 2004, the Findley, Ohio indigenous provides documented and released almost twelve albums of thoughtful, well-crafted folk pop, providing everything free of charge from his internet site. Now located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the talented multi-instrumentalist …

A common fascination with performing Tex-Mex-style music led Fabio Mora (tone of voice) and Marco Ligabue (electric guitar, songwriter) to start out Rio in 2001. Shortly they were became a member of by Tony Farinelli (bass), Cesare Barbi (drums), and Alle Bartoli (DJ, development), checking the band’s palette to support …

Rhythm Fantasy includes performers/songwriters Marylin Lo and Reiko Nishida. Lo, an American of Taiwanese/Japanese descent, fulfilled Nishida in 1998 while she was functioning as an British instructor in Japan. The duo after that contacted manufacturer/instrumentalist Tatsuhiko Watanabe, who acquired placed a categorized ad for feminine singers. They started collaborating on …

In 2008, while San Francisco’s the new & Onlys were active readying Grey-Eyed Young ladies and Play It Unusual, the garage-psych group’s guitarist, Wymond Mls, was writing music privately using his eight-track Tascam residential recorder. Motivated by performers like Scott Walker, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Robert Wyatt, though Mls’ …

Dismissing power-driven appear creations affected by alternative metallic selections and punk rock and roll sources, Taken’s compositions combine both muscular-sounding music and steaming rhythms, ultimately discharging a distinctive combination of hardcore design and melodious metallic features. Gathering in 1997 in Orange Region, CA, Taken mixed the attempts of Ray Harkins …

Offering up savvy, edgy, and dynamic post-punk guitar music with out a bassist to pull them down, Heros Severum created in Athens, GA, in mid-2000. Guitarist/vocalist Eric Friar and drummer Jeff Cummings had been former members from the Athens-based music group Wunderkind, while guitarist and vocalist Sherryl A. Branch utilized …

Ben Davis established fact from the variety of incredible indie rings he previously been associated with, especially the renowned Sleepytime Trio and early function of Jade Tree signees, Milemarker. After departing Milemarker because of his admittance into fatherhood, Davis begun to come up with slower and even more melodic pieces …

Although Jeroen Vehicle Der Growth (given birth to Nijmegen on June 22, 1972) gained pop stardom in his indigenous Netherlands using the 2007 hit solitary “Jij Bent Zo,” it had been television where in fact the long term icon would help to make his 1st impact, like a presenter of …

Twelve Cents for Marvin was shaped by several Colorado State College or university students in Foot. Collins, CO, in past due 1996 and early 1997. Based on the liner records of their debut record, the music group got its uncommon name if they visited Denver to visit a concert and …

NJ punk rockers Evening Birds focus on traditional fast ‘n’ noisy sounds in the SoCal design, with equal stocks of hooks and energy, and a obvious surf influence. Called after a ’70s horror film from oddball cult filmmaker Andy Milligan, Evening Birds were produced in the springtime of 2009 on …