Showing posts with label Indie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indie. Show all posts
Monday, February 22, 2010
Vampire Weekend
Contra, Vampire Weekend's second album. As good as the first one but a bit more matture.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
The Shins
"The Shins will change your life!" That kind of proclamation is loaded with expectations when it's just one friend talking up a band to another, but it's magnified a thousandfold when Natalie Portman says it in a hit movie.
The Shins were formed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but are now based in Portland, Oregon. "Wincing The Night Away" is their third studio album and they take their sound in different directions.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Plasticines
Are a female rock band from Saint-Cyr-l'Ecole, France. Listening to The Beatles, they took their name “Plastiscines” from a line in “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”. In 2006 they played as part of the young Parisian rock scene and 2 tunes were featured on the compilation “Paris Calling”. Then they signed with Virgin and began their first recording “LP1” (like “first LP”, and “Les Plastiscines”).
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Local Natives
Band from California with a new breed of energetic, percussion driven indie rock. They're one of those rare bands that have the ability to deliver live. It has been more of a challenge for the group to translate the vibrant and exciting nature of their performances to a recording.
*These are just some of their songs, as soon as i find the debut album ill post it. They are AMAZING.
Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys are an English alternative rock band. Formed in 2002 became one of the U.K.'s biggest bands of the new millennium. Their meteoric rise began in 2005, with the song "I bet that you look good on the dance floor" featuring in their debut album "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not", it became the fastest-selling debut album in British music history. Humbug is their 3rd album and its been very well recieved by the critics.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Grand National
Grand National is an indie band that consists of London duo Rupert Lyddon and Lawrence ‘La’ Rudd. Taking influence from their previous band, a Police/Sting covers outfit, Grand National manage to mix eighties pop, nineties dance, indie, electro and ska into fresh, experimental pop songs.
The Action Design
The Action Design is a rock band from California, self-described as "a refreshing mix of the band's punk rock roots infused with hard hitting dance rhythms and catchy bass lines wrought with think memorable vocal hooks".
The Strokes
Rock band from New York, formed in 1999. Equally inspired by classic tunesmiths like Buddy Holly and John Lennon as well as the attitude and angular riffs of fellow New Yorkers Television and the Velvet Underground, the Strokes were also equally blessed and cursed with an enormous amount of hype -- particularly from the U.K. music press, whose adulation for the group rivaled their fervor for Oasis in the early '90s. Their third album, First Impressions of Earth, was released in January 2006 to mixed reviews and debuted at number four in the US and number one in the UK.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
La Roux
La Roux is an English synthpop duo. Their influences are from the 80's like Depeche Mode, The Human League, Heaven 17... among others. Roux is french for redhead. This is their first album released in June.
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth, american rock band formed in New York City in 1981. Sonic Youth have expressed a wide variety of influences like Patti Smith and John Cage.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Mando Diao
Mando Diao are a rock band from Borlänge, Sweden. The band made their first public performances in the clubs of their hometown Borlänge in 1999. A local writer described them in an article as the best unsigned band he had ever seen. "Give me Fire" is their last album released in 2009.
The Gossip
Kap Bambino
Electronic musical duo from Bordeaux, France. They're known from their electronical metal mixes and for their excited live performances.
Does it offend you, yeah?
British electronic band from England. "You have no idea of wha you're getting yourself into" is their first album released in 2008. They were the most listened band on lastfm. They have been compared to The Killers and Gorillaz.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Passion Pit
Band from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Formed in 2007, they were voted the Best New Act in the Boston Phoenix's Best Music Poll. Manners is thei r first album, released on May 18, 2009. It has already been said that this might be one of the best albums of the year.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Architecture in Helsinki
Australian Band, they began playing in small gigs at the end of the 1990's. Their last album "Places Like This" has some very catchy and poppy singles like "Debbie", "Hold Music" and "Lazy".
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