Brian Mackey
Brian Mackey is a singer songwriter based in New York in the USA, though originally from the Northern Florida/Georgia borders. He has encapsulated his life experiences, which adds a different dimension to a musician based in New York. Americana, country-blues and indie-pop all waft out of the speakers as the listener is given an insight in to the […]
Laura By Spruke
Laura By Spruke is a collaboration between the Buffalo in the USA based Laura Grace and Bill Boulden who have come together for an interesting retro-electronic experimental twist. The moment I clicked – Play – my life felt better. The duo from very different backgrounds have engaged and created a superb soundspace. Invective and challenge roar out of […]
We Have Band
We Have Band from Manchester in England is a three piece electro-pop outfit comprising Thomas Wegg-Prosser, Dede Wegg-Prosser and Darren Bancroft. The interesting fact for me is that I received contact from Tell all your friends PR - based in the USA whilst their three so called UK promoters, couldn’t be bothered to lift hand to keyboard, but […]
Singleton
Singleton is an indie rock band from Kiev in the Ukraine, with eight years behind them Alina Fedorova -(vocals), Jim Walt (guitar), Dmitriy “Choochoon” Chudakov (bass) and Vitaliy Yermak (drums) have taken a while to gain a broader recognition, well I can’t say I have fared too well on Ukrainian bands, as this is just my second dip in to the […]
Jack Jeffery
Jack Jeffery is a solo artist from Virginia in the USA who has just released his follow up LP The Constant That Remains to the successful release of Passage to Agadir. Sunday seems to be the day I alight upon an ambience of calmness, so here again I arrive, snow has fallen on the ground, it is Sunday as […]
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 […]
Band of the week 29th January to 4th February 2012
The Band of the week for the week 29th January to 4th February 2012, is Audiogold from England. I recall first meeting the guys from Audiogold (at that time known as Audigold) a couple of years ago while they were hunting for food pre-gig while the opening support for The Steepwater Band at Bush Hall. They have […]
The Vex
A slew of names which will be familiar comprise The Vex a new band from London, just formed last month from the ashes of Krakatoa. Josh Schwegler (Guitar / Vocal), Jack O’Shea (Guitar / Vocal), Andrew Atari (Bass) and Joshua De Facto (Drums) - who the indie bands blog recalls as Josh Boulton - felt that the old entity which had been […]
Stairs to Korea
Stairs to Korea is - Will Vaughan – based in London, England producing heartfelt experimental indie-pop. I could waffle for hours about Will Vaughan, but I am unsure that it would add much to the jot of the experience of a solo artist who has a sound which explains it’s own roots. website That said, 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, […]
