Tag Archives: Alternative/Indie Rock

The greatly popular visual kei music group Ayabie were among the first acts to apply the style that was afterwards to become referred to as oshare kei (“fashionable type”). With pretty, garishly colored clothes and cheerful, summery lyrical designs, their music ranged via an extremely wide selection of designs, from …

Founded in 1998 like a collaboration task for Techno Animal (Kevin Martin, Justin K. Broadrick) and Alec Empire, Curse from the Fantastic Vampire debuted with an eponymous LP of fiery industrial-strength breakbeat, released on Empire’s Digital Hardcore label beneath the name Pet Empire. Five years later on, Mass Destruction made …

While Davye Hawk’s otherworldly and anachronistic electronic compositions seemingly cover behind such utilitarian monikers as Weird Tapes, Memory space Tapes, and Memory space Cassette, the onetime frontman for Philly indie rockers Hail Social statements to be not willfully anonymous. When Hawk was still a teenager, his compositions captured the hearing …

Austin-based power pop/emo/punk band Failsafe shaped in January 1996 in San Angelo, TX. Close friends Dustin Aylor, who performed bass for the music group, Sam Affluent (on drums), and Run after Lindemann (guitarist and vocalist) met up to play an assortment of hardcore and quick pop-punk, eventually developing into a …

After getting her begin as an 11-year-old bassist/vocalist in the Canadian teen pop-punk group Lillix, Louise Uses up shifted when the band splintered in the mid-2000s. She started working being a single artist and in addition joined up with the alt-rock trio the Blue Violets. Her initial single record, Mellow …

The LA trio A.we. mixes traditional rock and roll buildings with synthesizers, consumer electronics, and designed percussion. Made up of brothers Nick (vocals/electric guitar) and Zack Youthful (drums/percussion) and bassist/keyboardist Milen Kirov, the trio’s root base date back again to the associates’ childhood times. Nick Teen received a electric guitar …

Shorty was officially given birth to in 1991 beneath the guise of vocalist Al Johnson and guitarist Tag Shippy. Along with drummer Todd Lamparelli and bassist Luke Frantom, they released three singles and two albums. Their backgrounds had been diverse, which added to their exclusive sound. Shippy got formal teaching …

An atmospheric rock-band led by singer/songwriter Kristian Leontiou, One eskimO released its self-titled debut in ’09 2009. Hailing from London, Leontiou got started his documenting career many years earlier being a single artist. After putting your signature on a major-label documenting cope with Polydor, he produced his full-length solo record …

Tennessee vocalist and guitarist Jeffrey Novak started performing in punk rings in his teenagers. His groupings included Jeffrey Novak’s One Guy Band as well as the ultra-raw Rat Traps; when Rat Traps retired in 2006, Novak shaped Cheap Period. The group began being a Redd Kross-inspired hard rock-band, but after …

The Dublin-based indie band Joan of Arse came together in 1996. Made up of Shane McGrath, Joss “Joskuld the Delicious chocolate” Morkens, Greg “Gumbo” Barrett, and Greg “The Bearded Female” Hackett, Joan of Arse became well-known around the U.K. indie picture using their debut one “Le Remusement Triste et Lent …