Tag: indie rock

  • …follow the beat…follow the drum…follow the sound

    artist: Circlealbum: The Middlegenre: alternative label: Monday Records Fashion Me A Drum (Clip)Half Race Girls (Clip)Brothers (Clip)   I usually like to compare a band to other, often better known, bands. Doing so for Circle doesn’t seem fair though. Perhaps you will catch a glimpse of something like Death Cab For Cutie in a track…

  • Sick Of It All? Try Going To Venus

    “Sick Of It All”, the title track from Leaving Venus’s most recent EP made me smile right from the get go. You know the moment in the movies when a fledgling band in the late 1950’s excitedly listens to their song on the radio for the first time… and then it quickly cuts mid-stream to…

  • Grimus :: Face The Light

    artist: Grimus | genre: alternative, indie-rock | label: SpaceRay Music listen now: Face The Light iTunes: [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/grimus/id125255446?uo=4″ title=”Grimus”] My favorite band from Romania (ok…the only band I know from there) have a new single out, and once again Grimus delivers in spades. “Face The Light” draws you in from the beginning with its steady…

  • Ritalin… Ritalout… ¿qué Tejano?

    artist: Vetoes | genre: alternative, indie-rock | label: SpaceRay Music EP: Ritalin / Ritalout It’s not often we mention a producer on here, but we would not have heard the band Vetoes if it weren’t for Adam Whittaker. And his hand can be found elsewhere on Froglix too (on a few earlier tracks from Grimus…

  • Sing Music Boy, Sing

    artist: OT-musicboy album: Jump Over (a fence of electric sound) genre: Indie Rock label: unsigned listen now: Not A Song :: Did You Tell Your Mother You Knew :: Dance (with the musicboy) buy now: [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ot-musicboy/id403425750?uo=4″ title=”OT – Musicboy”] Why do I feel like OT-musicboy is a guilty pleasure? Maybe it’s because I didn’t…

  • From the Shores of San Diego

    artist: Small City Calling genre: alternative | indie-rock album: Oceanus (EP) label: unsigned listen now… Castaways :: We Are the Messengers :: My Friend the Ocean (Coming Home) Just a few short months ago, San Diego’s Small City Calling released their 2nd studio recording and follow up to 2009’s The Living Room Demo. Their latest…

  • Introducing Romania's Grimus

    artist: Grimus genre: alternative | indie rock label: Eden Music listen now: In A GlimpseStarted (will be released in Aug) When you hear the name Transylvania, often the notion of a dark, yet somehow alluring, place comes to mind. From the stories we’ve all seen and heard, this place in the heart of Romania probably…