Tag Archives: Alternative/Indie Rock

Equipped with a shambly, reverb-kissed sound that nodded to a variety of seminal indie pop works including Orange Juice, Dark Tambourine, the Field Mice, and the marriage Present, Oxnard, CA’s the ocean Lions officially got their begin in 2007 as Adrian Pillado’s single task. Pillado teamed up with Matthew Urango …

Regardless of their name, extracted from Edith Piaf’s most well-known song, japan act La Vie en Rose were always a punk band in mind, although Kyohsuke, the primary songwriter, allowed periodic influences from hardcore to techno to sneak in. The group was created in 1994 by high-schoolers Ke2 and Dairy …

Florida local Chris Farren made his name fronting the Naples-based clothing Fake Complications, whose mixture of alt-country, punk, and emo continues to be heard all over because of the band’s large touring routine and prolific result of albums, EPs, and singles. He in addition has collaborated with Bomb the Music …

Phoning out such stylistic affects as ’70s force pop, country, and folk-rock, Scottish strap the Attic Lamps created in Glasgow in the first 2000s. The group required its name (aswell as the name of its debut EP, 2005’s The Attic Lamps) from a dark attic that housed the band’s early …

London dance-rock trio Ladyfuzz includes Liz Neumayr (vocals), Matt Lord (electric guitar/bass), and Ben Esser (drums). The music group originated with Austrian indigenous Neumayr, who was simply collaborating with Tom Vek and Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke, who was simply her flatmate. The lineup became even more permanent with the help …

Formed across the talents of guitarist/vocalist Jay Gulley, guitarist/pianist/vocalist JoJo Glidewell, bassist/vocalist Phillip Brantley, and drummer John Swint, savvy, melodic Brit-rock-inspired indie pop quartet the present day Dresses infiltrated the congested Athens, GA, music scene in 2004 using their debut EP, THAT IS Being successful and Thinking. The band’s soaring …

Scottish singer/guitarist Jon Fratelli initial found prominence as frontman of unruly indie rock trio the Fratellis before getting into some side tasks in the past due noughties. Delivered John Paul Lawler in Glasgow in 1979, he separately released a Bob Dylan-esque debut record, Free of charge Urban Clown, under his …

Oakland rock-band Road to Nowhere had originally formed during senior high school. After graduation, nevertheless, the bandmembers proceeded to go their separate methods, leaving vocalist/guitarist Dave Smallen to keep under the music group name, playing solo acoustic displays. He assembled a fresh lineup that included drummer Joey Bustos (ex-Link 80, …

A versatile trio who played a wild mixture of jazz, rock and roll, funk, and punk where such uncommon instruments as duck phone calls and glide whistles hardly ever really appeared out of place, Detroit’s Twitch was formed in 1990 by guitarist and singer Rob Bullock, bassist, singer, and horn …

Co-founded by brothers John and Stephen Gomez, the summertime Arranged took shape in 2007 in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Gomez siblings curved out their lineup with guitarist John Montgomery, drummer Jess Bowen, and vocalist Brian Dales. The teenage quartet selected their name after starting an atlas and occurring upon the city …