Gimme Indie

Austin based Shearwater is back in the studio recording their follow-up to 2012’s excellent Animal Joy, but along the way they thought they’d have a little fun recording some covers of bands that they have toured with over the past ten years. What was supposed to be a small project turned into a full-length album called Fellow Travelers, due to […]

Barely formed, The Sun Days are a promising quintet from Gothenburg that quickly after getting together recorded their debut single “You Can’t Make Me Make Up My Mind” whose response to it has been pretty good. Secluded from some members’ previous bands, their sound with laid-back guitars make us long for a summer that has already passed but invite us to keep […]

Next week sees the release of a great compilation that “documents the San Francisco garage rock scene (and a little bit beyond) as it exists here and now”, curated by one of its most vital members, Sonny Smith of Sonny & the Sunsets. Thanks to the good people over at Polyvinyl Records, home of Japandroids, The Dodos, Deerhoof and Stagnant Pools, we’re now […]

A little bit of Berlin, a little bit of Ireland and a whole lot of Brooklyn. Brooklyn-based Ponyhof releases first single ”Empires” off the upcoming album with the same title. After having spent a few years in Europe, Carrie Erving decided to return to her roots and settle down in Brooklyn where she gave birth to musical collective Ponyhof. The […]

The new indie up-and-comers from Latvia deliver their first ever radio single and are one step closer to releasing their debut LP. Carnival Youth consists of four young guys – brothers Emīls and Edgars, their classmate Roberts, and Aleksis. Together they form an exciting cascade of overlapping vocals while guitars, drums and keyboards create a folk inspired indie rock background. […]

Melbourne’s own The Ocean Party have created the perfect anthem for 20-somethings around Australia (if not, the world) in the form of their new single Quarter Life Crisis. Fresh off their recently released LP ‘Split’, Quarter Life Crisis laments about the vicious cycle that slacker young adults face every week. Working monotonous jobs, wasted weekends, sleeping with anons and the […]

Burn Your Fire For No Witness will be the next album from vocal powerhouse Angel Olsen and her first release on Jagjaguwar. The Chicago based singer/songwriter has been gaining notoriety over the last few years, first playing alongside Will Oldham aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy before transitioning to her own releases. Strange Cacti, a tape release recorded in her kitchen, gave […]

Filled with hypnotic sitars and 60s folk-rock beats, The Limiñanas third record Costa Blanca is out today via Trouble in Mind. With a singular mixture of English, Italian and (of course) French lyrics, Lio and Marie Limiñana assembled a patchwork of psychedelic sonorities, blinking at some of their favored artists from the sitxies (Jefferson Airplane, Os Mutantes, Velvet Underground). The […]

B – Alvvays – Adult Diversion A – BROODS – Bridges A – Carnival Youth – Never Have Enough B – Disaster In The Universe – Yugen (Telling Me All) B – Oliver Wilde – Stomach Full of Cats A – Smile – Still Waiting For My Man B – Summer Aviation – Thrust A – Superhumanoids – So Strange […]

Hear Cardiff-based quintet Joanna Gruesome‘s hugely impressive cover of the Galaxie 500 classic “Tugboat”. Back in September, the tongue-in-cheekily named Joanna Gruesome released their acclaimed debut LP, Weird Sister, a rich blend of noisy pop-punk, shoegaze, and C86 influences. They’ve now followed it up with the single for stand-out track “Sugarcrush”. But it’s the b-side that really caught our attention. Not every […]