This past weekend Indie Band Guru had the opportunity to attend the 4Knots Music Festival at the Seaport in downtown Manhattan. First let me say that the festival organizers and PR for 4Knots know how to make the press feel welcome. The open bar was an extremely nice touch. There was also free Wi-Fi, a […]
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Summer is here! It is time to enjoy some live music out in the sunshine. It seems every year there are more and more summer music festivals popping up with band lineups that I would love to see. Unfortunately most of them have big ticket prices that make it hard for the everyday music lover […]
There are individuals out there that are so full of music that it sometimes seems to be bursting out of them. The man we discovered today has written over 8000 songs, most of them in the highly skilled genre of classical composition. This is no easy feat but he uses all his experiences travelling around […]
Being a struggling musician leads to trying to always find a way to save some money of everything we buy. There is no shame in that, especially when nowadays you can do most of your shopping online and never even have to see a cashier face to face. The best part of this is that […]
We were just as upset as everyone else when LCD Soundsystem announced that they were done and played their final shows in NYC this past year. But now that we see James Murphy had no intentions of slowing down, and was just planning to change his role to master collaborator and remixer, we are OK with that. […]
Indie Band Guru always appreciates a well made music video that keeps my attention. I was forwarded one today that I have already watched 5 times. Australian Indie-Pop band Hey Geronimo has just introduced the video for their brand new single, “Dreamboat Jack”. The song is very catchy and it is paired with an exciting video featuring an […]
Something I am well aware of from my time in the US Army is that there are many talented musicians hiding in the ranks. While stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina with the 82nd Airborne Division there were different bands to see each weekend full of soldiers. The mix of artists from all parts of […]
In the commercial takeover and mass mergers of mainstream radio over the last decade much of the musical freedom was lost. Playlists are structured by the large corporations and syndicated nationally to please the lowest common denominator of radio listener. It is kind of depressing to a true music lover like myself. On the opposite […]