Tag Archives: Alternative/Indie Rock

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 …

She Helps to keep Bees certainly are a Brooklyn-based indie rock and roll duo known because of their retro, bluesy audio. Initially the single project of vocalist/songwriter Jessica Larrabee, she recruited manufacturer Andy LaPlant in 2006 to greatly help record her music and he ultimately emerged aboard full-time as the …

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 …