Lamont James
Lamont James, played some music, got a B.Sc moved back to the home-space of Toronto in Canada and now plays more music. A multi-instrumentalist, classically trained musician, Lamont James is un-ashamed to add other musicians as and where it makes sense, though ever insistent it is his vocal. Heading back to the late ’60s and British rock, I [...]
Grande
Grande is the indie bands blog first wander in to Hungary and appropriately enough the material is sung in Hungarian, though back in 2009 they used to sing in English. 2008 saw the formation of the indie rock band from Budapest in Hungary and after a few changes of personnel now consists of Tomi Pal (vocals, [...]
Band of the Month January 2012
The English band – Talk to Angels – take the Band of the Month for January 2012. For more on Talk to Angels. Join the indie bands blog on twitter for the best music from around the world.
Rugosa Nevada
Rugosa Nevada an indie rock band from Derby in England comprises of Dan Holdsworth (Vocals), Dan Burchell (Guitar), Drew Davis (Bass) and John Bullock (Drums) and they have a new release Verona, due out on 17th March 2012. I have had the opportunity to listen to the new release, which finds the band has grown in composition and sound [...]
Take One Car
Take One Car is based in Millerton in the USA, after four years of hard graft - Tyler Irish (vocals/guitar), Pete Scholes (guitar), Branden Waite (bass) and Ryan Saldariagga (drums) are well known on the travelling circuit as a genre defying – so let’s go with the generic – indie rock band. For some reason, I thought Pea and [...]
Longbeach Single review of Take Me Away
Longbeach an indie rock band based in the UK have have recently released the single Take Me Away. Taken from the Album, Seven Streets Ahead, Take Me Away is 5 minutes of glorious indie rock. Rather than merely rehashing the genre, Longbeach add some layered echoed vocal that adds an interesting depth to the single. [...]
The Blind Hearts
The Blind Hearts is a London – England based indie folk rock band made up of Andy Gyves (Vocals), Dan Clark (Guitar, backing vocals, keys, harmonica), Tom Smith (Guitar), Simon Julian (Bass) and J Hirano (Drums). All experienced musicians with a ‘signed’ background, they have melded together to set their own direction and are making a decent fist of it. The racing tempo is [...]
Huff This!
Huff This! a musical collaboration - Alison Clancy (Vocal / piano / guitar), Chris Lancaster, (Cello), Tony Long (Drums), Sonny Ratcliff (Bass) and Molly Bearcub Allis (drums / Vocal) is from New York in the USA. Alison Clancy is a Dancer by training who graces the indie music turntable from time to time and on this occasion, she is reincarnated [...]
The Drop
The Drop a roots reggae band from London in England comprise Dandelion (Daniel Collier) (Vocals), Ryan Stanford (Keys), Leon King (Guitar), Chaz Blinstrub (Bass), Ed West (Drums), Jason Ballard (Percussion) , Jo Henwood (Saxophone) and Jonny Murray (Trumpet) How can the world live without reggae? Can it live without The Drop? An interesting twist on the genre is offered by the band [...]
