The Ugly Club
The Ugly Club is a psychedelic indie band from New Jersey in the USA. With a couple of EPs behind them, most recently Visions of Tall Girl, Ryan Egan, Taylor Mandel, Rick Sue-Poi, Ryan McNulty and Joey Stasio are currently working on a debut LP scheduled for release in the summer of 2012. (that’ll be a Northern Hemisphere Summer [...]
Shelley Miller and the Salt Trucks
Shelley Miller and the Salt Trucks is from Chicago in the USA. This is one of those reviews which will focus specifically on the singer songwriter as Shelley Miller (vocal / guitar / banjo / keys) is known both as a solo artist and as part of the band which was originally called The Shelley [...]
Trabajo
Trabajo formed in March 2011 is from Brooklyn in the USA and comprises TJ Richards and Yuchen Lin. Electronic pulses of experimental sounds slosh out of the speakers and cavort in the open air bouncing against each other in a lazy loop. This is a great way to start the week. It is Monday as I write [...]
Mr. Meeble
Mr. Meeble from Phoenix in the USA is the trio of Devin Fleenor, Michael Plaster and Rick Heins together with a plethora of technology. If you ever wondered what Jean Michel Jarre would have sounded like were he now at the early stage of his career, Mr. Meeble provide the answer. They scoop up refrains from ’70s psychedelia [...]
Underwater Tiger
Underwater Tiger is an alternative rock band from New York in the USA. Two sets of brothers Matt Furstoss (Vocal / Drums), Nate Miner (Vocals / Piano / Guitar), Ron Furstoss (Bass), Andy Miner (Guitar) and Anthony Furstoss (Guitar) got together in 2010 and decided to unveil their take on the world. With little time for sibling rivalry they have [...]
Lucid Fool
Lucid Fool is a lo-fi psychedelic rock band from Vancouver in the USA. The trio of Cody Railey (Guitar / Lead Vocals), Brandon Clark (Drums / Backing Vocals) and Oliver Godson (Bass) have been around since the turn of the decade and are building up a back-catalogue of material. I often find my-self garnering information of a [...]
Friday Avenue
Alyx (Bass), Omar (Drums), Dave (Guitar)and Morris (vocal) make up the alternative indie band Friday Avenue from Brownsville in the USA. With an eponymous EP and an LP – Shallow Pockets behind them, the members of Friday Avenue are currently working on a follow-up LP, whilst they continue to hit the road. Good old rock guitar [...]
The Mean Season
The Mean Season is an indie folk/rock trio from Washington D.C. in the USA. CP, GiGi, and Mathias are set to release their eponymous EP today – 24th April 2012. Unlike the band name would suggest, The Mean Season actually deliver a sound which is more akin to that of late spring evenings. The material is [...]
Sun Hotel
Sun Hotel is an indie-rock band from New Orleans in the USA. The quartet of Tyler Scurlock (Vocal / Guitar), Alex Hertz (guitar), John St. Cyr (bass) and Ross “Goldenface” Farbe (drums) after releases in 2009 and 2010 jointly set up a record label Chinquapin Records which has steadily grown with like minded musicians. Atmospherics is the hall-mark of Sun [...]
