In the past two decades – even before the time of John Mayer’s debut – there has been a slew of indie rock coming out of Atlanta, GA. In recent years especially, the genre of “indie” music has gotten a huge boost of talent from the Peach state. The city has most recently produced bands […]
In our exhaustive, yet constant search for great new independent music to introduce you to, we came across another winner. Lil Daggers, a psychadelic garage rock band from Miami, FL. They are relatively unknown as of yet, but I don’t think that will be for too much longer. And they are coming up to NYC this […]
Welcome to our newest feature, The Indie Band Guru Book Club. Let’s face it, we can’t always be listening to music. Sometimes we like to just curl up with a good book for inspiration and ideas. Granted, that curling up may be in the back of a packed tour van. Reading the books that Indie […]
I just love when I like side projects better than the music of the band that they are spun off from. Let me introduce to you Neon Indian. Alan Palomo of the band Ghosthustler, and also known as the artist VEGA has spun off some of his recordings that just weren’t right for either of […]
The Plan: Provide an Apparatus that Introduces Indie Artists’ Music to Listeners looking for new independent music — Immitter.com presented their plan for a new internet startup at the 2010 DEMO Conference in Los Angeles, CA this past weekend. Immitters’ specialty is music; its platform is the Internet. Immitter proclaims itself as the Internet Music Transmitter. […]
For this week’s Indie Flashback, we will go back to the mid-to-late 80’s. The scene is Amherst, Massachusetts, famous for being a college town but about to get a very influential band in Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur Jr. – Freak Scene Dinosaur Jr wanted nothing to do with making a scene or indie credibility, […]
Portland, Oregon based indie-folk rockers Blitzen Trapper have announced a release date for their upcoming album on Sub-Pop Records. The new album will be titled Destroyer Of The Void and is set to be released on June 8. 2010. As a teaser, they have also made available the single ‘Heaven & Earth’ for free […]
You may have noticed that we at Indie Band Guru are big fans of The Soft Pack. They played a bunch of shows at SXSW 2010 and killed it as usual. Here is some video of one of there shows at Trailer Space. It always amazes me the places that they find for bands to […]