2015 was an all-around amazing year for music. There were some astounding debuts, great surprises by bands that hadn’t been heard from in years, and high-quality albums by artists that have yet to let us down. There were also a number of good-but-not great albums by indie heavyweights (The Decemberists, Belle and Sebastian, Modest Mouse) […]
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Indie music fans had a lot to be thankful for in 2015, with some amazing albums released this year. This is not the list for those albums. Instead, this list is for great songs that were on otherwise good-but-not great albums from 2015. Modest Mouse – The Ground Walks, With Time In A Box
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From the mild Coldplay to the stadium-filling Muse to the ever-changing Beck, it seems like music labeled “alternative” is everywhere. “Alternative” is usually known to be short for “alternative rock,” but there’s also alternative country (frequently abbreviated “alt-country”), alternative hip-hop, and alternative metal. In these latter cases one, can deduce that “alternative” means “different from
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When Halloween rolls around, there are very few songs that seem appropriate for the holiday. It’s not like Christmas, where every other band has released a song or album for the occasion. Sure there’s “Monster Mash,” but that’s a novelty song that gets old after exactly one listen. As far as music videos, yes, there’s
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Alright, let’s first admit that you’re not going to see a discussion of Neon Indian without seeing the word “chillwave,” so let’s get this out of the way. For those that don’t know, “chillwave” is a loosely-defined and ridiculously named electronic music subgenre marked by looped samples and heavy distortion, often evocative of the 1980s.
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You’ve probably noticed that the synthesizer has gone from being a quirky 80s throwback instrument to something nearly every band utilizes over the past decade. As electronic-based music has come to occupy a larger and larger share of the indie scene, a plethora of bands have emerged to try their hand at music that attracts
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As controversial as they are, musical genres help us better express what we listen to and find artists similar to those we already enjoy. In general terms, you can say you enjoy “rock” or “hip-hop” or “country.” With indie music, you might say “this has a folk sound” or “this is garage rock” or “this
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It’s a strange feeling listening to the third Libertines album in 2015, since it’s a moment few thought would actually happen. Between their debut Up the Bracket in 2002 and their second self-titled album in 2004, the band were known as much for the dispute between frontmen Carl Barât and Pete Doherty as they were
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Foals have never been just another British indie rock band. They avoided being grouped in with the cookie-cutter indie bands that came out of the UK in the late 2000s while never feeling the need to try anything too out of the ordinary for attention. Their debut album Antidotes skirted math rock with its jarring
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Better Know a Genre: Indie I thought that since I’m mostly going to be writing about music that is considered “indie” here, that it might be a good first step to examine what exactly what “indie music” means. The short answer is that the “indie” in “indie music” is short for independent. The actual definition
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