Home // indie

Posts Tagged ‘indie’

image001

Introducing: RDGLDGRN

It seems that pretty much everyone wants a piece of Washington DC based trio RDGLDGRN (pronounced Red Gold Green) at the moment. It all started with the acclaimed release of their up-tempo indie/hip-hop single ‘I Love Lamp’ late last year, which not only caused plenty of excitement via that thing called …

Read


SD1

Video: Swim Deep – ‘She Changes the Weather’

Another solid proponent of the much-hyped Birmingham scene, Swim Deep might look like Nirvana, but their sunny indie hooks and surfer boy tracks leave a far sweeter taste.

The baggy-jeaned quartet have released the video for new single, ‘She Changes the Weather’, a dreamlike visual rendition of the trials and …

Read


SONY DSC

Introduding: Holy Esque

‘Unique’. It’s a word that’s been used and abused by pretty much everyone to describe things that in are, in fact, distinctly average. But when PlanetNotion heard the quivering, gravelly vocals of Holy Esque’s Pat Hynes, it was an adjective that immediately felt justified in its use.

Glasgow four-piece Holy Esque was born in 2011, …

Read


el1

Luke Collaborate With Andy Hopkins

Say hello to Luke: the British fashion brand for men. The online collection includes key pieces such as the casual check shirt, the smart slim fit shirt, the hooded track top and the parka. Luke is therefore a brand suitable for men of all types and wearable to any …

Read


Nigh-Engine

Introducing: Night Engine

Beckoning you not only to throw down some serious moves but also to consider just what you’re doing are London’s Night Engine. The four-piece create angular, rhythm-led dance-punk that’s good for the brain and the feet in equal measure.

With the newly unveiled ‘I’ll Make It Worth Your

Read


SunIndustriesPressShot

Premiere: Sun Industries – Shiver

So according to the press release, ‘Sun Industries was founded in the early 21st Century by a secretive alliance of individuals with an interest in deep space exploration and the research into the possibilities of interdimensional and intertemporal travel.’ Gosh. not what you normally get from a band, but there you …

Read


neighbourhood-female-robbery

BOTW Video: The Neighbourhood – Female Robbery

Introduced yesterday as our current Band of the Week, California’s The Neighbourhood trade in dark, atmospheric post-punk underpinned by crisp drums and disorienting samples. The video for ‘Female Robbery’ – taken from their I’m Sorry EP, which will be reviewed on the site later this week – perfectly complements …

Read


316827_165855560159933_8316551_n

BOTW Download: Barbarossa – Battles

Sometimes in a sea of trendy chillwave bands and poptastic anthems, it’s nice to return to something bucolic, something simpler, something indie. The poor guitar band has been puhsed aside in the rush for the new, and we’re all about brining you something that you might not normally expect. Hence …

Read


menomena-main-1024x1024

Songs for the Week #4

Menomema – Heavy is as Heavy Does

So Menomena return, one member light but still packing as idiosyncratic punch as ever. This is the first track to be taken from new record Moms, which, as the title implies, tackles the theme of surviving your family (something we can all probably …

Read


tumblr_m5e8zqXn3P1qhavaho1_500

BOTW: The Chapman Family

The Chapman Family are an edgy, angry, politically charged band from Stockton-on-Tees, formed in 2006 and onto their 2nd album the sound is defiant, northern, visceral and uncompromising; a style of British punk-rock that’s familiar to early Manic Street Preachers and The Sex Pistols.

In some parts sounding like a heavier Wedding Present, and in …

Read