Check out the new video for the lush, harmonic debut single by Australian duo HOLY HOLY. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we’ve been covering a lot of excellent Australian bands here on Gimme Indie: Cloud Control, Free Time, Rainbow Chan, Sea Legs, and Pond just to name a few… Well, now you can add HOLY HOLY to the ever-growing list […]

Preparing for their debut LP release on August 20 via Dovecote Records, NYC bred Ski Lodge share a new video for “Boy”. Since forming in 2011 the Brooklyn four-piece have caught quite an attention with their self-titled EP and a spot at this year’s SXSW Music Festival. The band’s upbeat surf-pop melodies effortlessly cover up the dark matters that possess […]

Hacienda is the second full-length album from Expensive Looks, the moniker of New York musician/producer and recent transplant to San Francisco, Alec Feld. Feld isn’t afraid to break the rules, and his sound is difficult to pin down. The record incorporates R&B, disco, house, 90s dance rock, and dream pop, but at the same time is none of those. It’s […]

Beautiful panoramas that fits their sound add an intriguing atmosphere to the song, Braids present the video for “In Kind”, new single off from their new album Flourish // Perish, on our playlist since August 3. Since keyboardist Katie Lee left the band, they’ve now become a three-piece, something, which did not affect their particular sonance. Pursuing a more electronic […]

Founder and editor in chief, Tommy Ericsson, has been recruited by Swedish public service radio to work as live producer for one of their biggest productions, Musikguiden i P3. After spending 2012 at Luger in Stockholm promoting concerts and festivals (such as Way Out West / Stockholm Music & Arts) and most of 2013 as music supervisor for in-store radio […]

Montreal-bred Born Gold is back with a new album, I am an exit, on October 8. First preview from the album, the track Hunger, is a catchy straight-forward pop tune with a lot of personality. Hunger has a softer sound than Born Gold’s songs from previous work yet Cecil Frena, the man behind Born Gold, manages to present his lyrics […]

Something between a light romantic lullaby and a hypnotic piano walzer: this is what you should expect from ARP’s brand new single “High-heeled Clouds”. Giving a taste of the album yet to come, the tune is the perfect pop song to put yourself completely in. With a catchy piano riff, this track lays on a marching bass line and an old […]

Australian music produced the goods in the form of Sydney siren, Rainbow Chan, and the release of her debut EP Long Vacation last week. Although classically trained in saxophone, piano and choral music, it it is her affinity with anime show tunes, Chinese folk music and J-Pop that has seemed to have resonated most strongly with Rainbow’s sound. Recorded in […]

Atlanta-based Dog Bite, the brainchild of musician Phil Jones, return with hypnotic new single “Cold Weather”. After stints as a touring member of Washed Out and producing a steady output of tracks on his own, Jones enlisted the help of bassist Woody Shortridge for Dog Bite’s debut full-length Velvet Changes, released earlier this year. Having now added a drummer and a lead guitarist to the […]

Canadian-born and Italian-based musician Jonathan Clancy (notice the idea behind his moniker?) is about to have his first full-length release on Fat Cat Records this fall. His new album Vicious will be out on October 7 in the UK (October 8 in the US) and Clancy himself has described it as a sassy dreamy glam rock’n’roll album. If that didn’t […]