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Indie Rock Juliana Hatfield

Twenty years ago, if you listened to alternative rock, then you more than likely knew the name Juliana Hatfield. Either by her own merits or through some sort of fandom through The Lemonheads, Hatfield quickly became a fixture of the decade while releasing some of the better albums of the time. So when she dropped...More Please

January 10, 2019

Amsterdam’s Pip Blom is Hard Not to Love

Indie Rock Pip Blom

You may have never heard of Amsterdam’s Pip Blom, but her music has grown by leaps in bounds in just a couple of years. In a short time frame she’s honed a set of songs that touch on a mix of indie rock, post-punk, and straight rock with ease. On their latest E.P. Paycheck, the...More Please

January 4, 2019

Stream the New Single From JAWS

The indie rock that Birmingham’s JAWS makes is full of heavy drums and dream pop touches that you can’t help but fall for. While the band has been around since 2012, their more recent stream of work has grown the trio by leaps and bounds. With their new album The Ceiling due on April 5,...More Please

January 3, 2019

This Pine Box Wows With Debut Album

Alt Rock Indie Rock This Pine Box

by Lauren Halliday

Dayton, Ohio rockers This Pine Box may be new to the scene, but they play with the polish of a band that’s been creating music together for years. Recorded by John Curley of The Afghan Whigs at his Ultrasuede Studios in Cincinnati, the band’s debut album The Way Out, dropping on vinyl on January 5...More Please

December 27, 2018

You Should Catch The Beths on Their Upcoming Tour

New Zealand is known for so many things, and thanks to three piece The Beths, you can add indie rock perfection. on their latest full length Future Me Hates Me, they craft a sound that’s part indie fuzz, part alterna rock and indie pop that’s hard not to love. Now with a new run of...More Please

December 19, 2018

Drew Beskin Gives You Warmth on Nostalgia Porn

Drew Beskin Indie Rock

If you’ve ever met someone from Athens, Georgia then you’ve met one of the kindest people in the South. There’s something genuine and relaxed about everyone who claims the city as their home. When we first heard the album Nostalgia Porn by Drew Beskin, we realized that of course he’s an Athens resident. There’s a...More Please

December 18, 2018

Steve Gunn’s New Album May Be a Game Changer

Indie Rock Steve Gunn

For a minute now, we’ve been all over the music of Brooklyn’s Steve Gunn. With his last solo release Eyes On The Lines, he had us from the opening notes. Gunn isn’t typical, which may be what makes him so interesting. His music is like if John Fahey was channeling Magazine songs in his breathy...More Please

December 17, 2018

Hop Along’s Offbeat Sound Has Staying Power

Hop Along Indie Rock

For a while now, we’ve been fans of Philadelphia’s Hop Along. Their sound has always bee a bit off-center, which is why we love them so. When bands are often different from the herd, their music doesn’t always hold up. However after eight months with their latest release, this year’s Bark Your Head Off, Dog,...More Please

December 12, 2018

Moves Debuts A Dazzling New Sound

Indie Pop Indie Rock Moves

by Lauren Halliday

Formerly known as Holy Ghost Tent Revival, North Carolina band Moves is shaking things up with both a new name and an inspired new sound. On Moves’ upcoming self-titled album, out December 14 via Soul Step Records, the group has bid farewell to the banjo and its bluegrass/ragtime infused sound, and transformed into a dazzling,...More Please

December 6, 2018

Guided By Voices Release New Single & It’s Wonderful

Guided By Voices Indie Rock

It seems that Guided By Voices is going to be like a public utility, in that they’ll always be around. Easily the most prolific band to come out in the past thirty years, Robert Pollard is ready to drop another new record, and from what we’ve heard, it’s pretty darn great. Their latest single, “My...More Please

November 26, 2018

A Black Mile to the Surface Holds Up

Indie Rock Manchester Orchestra

Very few albums can last much further than their release time frame. It’s a factor that makes us wonder why we write about them at all sometimes, only because what moves you today may not move you tomorrow, and there’s so much music coming at you, that some records feel stale a month after they’ve...More Please

November 16, 2018

Superchunk Drop New 7″ For Charity

Charity Indie Rock Superchunk

Superchunk seem to have covered their bases in 2018. A politically charged full length with What a Time to Be Alive, a solid tour, and now the third in a rare and limited 7″ series for charity. Like the 7 inch singles for “I Got Cut” for Planned Parenthood South Atlantic and “Break The Glass”...More Please

November 14, 2018

The Wheel Workers Mature on Post-Truth

Indie Rock The Wheel Workers

There was a time when bands weren’t attempting to drop an album full of potential singles, when bands stood up against their oppressors, and when artistry was about the way you crafted a song and not how many followers you had on social media. For about eight years, Houston’s The Wheel Workers have clawed their...More Please

November 9, 2018

Retirement Party is The Indie Rock Band You Didn’t Know You Needed

Indie Rock Retirement Party

Indie rock seems to be growing as a genre daily. There’s seemingly a new mix of bands entering the world of what gets called indie rock all the time, which has made the genre grow in ways larger than anyone could ever imagine. There’s a couple of indie rock bands that have entered the world...More Please

October 23, 2018

Rose Ette Gives All The Feels on Latest Album

If you’re making actual indie rock-you know, the type of an independent label-not what marketing from a major label says, then it had better be catchy. We’ve had Houston’s Rose Ette on our radar for a good while now, and their latest release Ignore The Feeling has us glad they were. Mixing bedroom pop with...More Please

October 9, 2018

Young Jesus Make Enlightening Music

Indie Rock Young Jesus

You more than likely don’t know of the Los Angeles four piece Young Jesus, but that’s understandable in today’s crowded music world. The easiest way to describe what they do is to call it art rock-but in so many ways, their music is much more than that simple moniker. Crazed directions and rhythm changes fall...More Please

October 4, 2018

Subcultural Wanderers: An Interview with Joe Stevens of Peel Dream Magazine

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by Trish Connelly

A reference to BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, Brooklyn-based musician Joe Stevens conjures abstract memories of the past, reminiscent of lo-fi and underground sounds of the 90’s in his latest project for Peel Dream Magazine. Written and recorded by Stevens over a period of four weeks last fall in New York, his debut album...More Please

September 26, 2018

We’re Crushing on Historian

Indie Rock Lucy Dacus