Tag Archives: Brooding

The brilliant juxtaposition of Sarah Tanat Jones’ vocals with brash post-punk guitar riffs and solid backbeat are what defines Edinburgh, Scotland’s Seriously Gang. Channeling the organic pop sensibility of such feminine rock and roll legends as Karen O or Chrissie Hynde, Tanat Jones, who, incredibly enough, also has drums, joins …

A bit folk, a bit shoegaze, Shane Bartell’s influences could be traced to wan Brits like Morrissey and Thom Yorke. Elevated in cowboy nation (Kerrville, a smallish city nestled in the tough hillsides of central Tx), Bartell transferred to Austin in 1992 to wait the School of Texas. It had …

Globe-trotting alt rock and roll outfit Kongos shaped in 2007 across the skills of siblings Dylan, Daniel, Jesse, and Johnny Kongos, the sons of well-known Southern African singer/songwriter John Kongos, who scored a high Ten solitary in 1971 with “He’s Gonna Stage you Again,” which served as the foundation for …

Combining NY grit with Californian pop sensibilities, Mainland crafted catchy garage area and post-punk ditties having a smart eyes toward ’80s fresh wave, ’90s alternative, as well as the sonic aesthetic from the early-aughts “The” rings. Shaped by three close friends from California — Jordan Topf on vocals and acoustic …

Ryan Stevenson is usually a singer, songwriter, and guitarist having a focus on modern Christian music with a grown-up alternative sound. Given birth to and elevated in agricultural Bonanza, Oregon, he was raised around the cathedral and cathedral music, and got his initial electric guitar in his past due teens. …

Vocalist/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Peter Silberman was raised in upstate NY and began tinkering with house saving in his past due teens. Silberman had taken particular motivation from records created by the Microphones, and followed a few of their lo-fi methods into his very own homemade sound masterpieces. In 2006, Silberman released his …

Best known seeing that the vocalist/songwriter at the rear of the mystical indie rock-band Lights — who have afterwards changed their name to Cliffie Swan — Sophia Knapp was raised in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury area and later on moved to Brooklyn. There she installed with Linnea Vedder and Alana …

Among Ukraine’s most popular, politically charged, and commercially successful rock and roll rings, Okean Elzy (it all means “Elza’s Sea”) formed in 1994 in the town of Lviv by longstanding frontman Svyatoslav Vakarchuk following the dissolution of his prior group Klan Tyshi. The music group spent their formative years building …

Detail-oriented Italian death metalists Raintime shaped in 1999. Influenced by their common like of Dream Theatre, Claudio Coassin (keyboards), Luca Michael Martina (acoustic guitar), Matteo Di Bon (acoustic guitar), and Michele Colussi (bass) shaped the primary of Raintime and documented the instrumental demonstration “Jump before.” Immediately after the demonstration sessions …

Tampa, FL-based nation vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist Can Quinlan led the rings Pagan Saints and Murder Creek before developing the Diviners (Karen Collins on bass; Steve Connelly on business lead acoustic guitar; Sean Doyle, Jimmy Grain, and Jeremy Rowland on drums; Francis French III, Rebekah Pulley, and Soraya Zaumeyer on …