The Chewers is not a band for the faint of heart. At their recent show in Nashville, recorded live as the album Live at Exit/In, they dressed up two hard-core fans as giant mouths to dance on stage as they performed. The Chewers, a self-described “off-kilter weirdo-avant-whatever rock duo” from Nashville, screamed to their fans […]
Let me start off by saying I’m not the most active person in the world. I went on a two hour hike today and it left me with a feeling of exhaustion that even coffee couldn’t fix. Prince Rama’s Infectious Energy I sat down to check out what was going on in the world of […]
By Liza Jill Meyers of Indie Band Guru If you were craving a classic cross-genre ‘80s revival, which I can personally say I have been hungering for, then Bootblacks will bring you back with their newest album Veins. And I am psyched! From first song till last, Bootblacks invents a parallel world, a contemporary past, […]
The people and musicians around you can have a huge influence on the music that you create. Whether it be the outright musical style of your co writers or just a subtle undertone of moods bubbling beneath the surface, music will come out different depending on who is in the room. Our recent find The […]
By Emma Cohen of Indie Band Guru Sailing in from San Diego, the music of John Helix has, I admit, perplexed me. Helix’s new single, “Colombiana,” is neither happy nor sad. It is, instead, a perfect example of melancholy in music and it can be difficult to know how to feel about it. The track, […]
New artists are not meant to just copy music that they like and reproduce something all too similar. An innovative artist will take parts from multiple genres that they connect with and develop their own original style by blending what works to them. Our recent find Chaos Pixel has taken years of personal music listening […]
Keeping your name and music in front of your fans faces is a vital part of this new music economy. Attention spans have become so tiny that you need to keep reminding potential fans that you are still here working hard making music for them. Our friend Sarantos just keeps churning out the hits. […]
Four or five days out of the week, I’m driving home from work constantly changing radio stations. There never seems to be one station that I can be set on for the whole ride, as I’m constantly rolling my eyes at the songs that I’m hearing. It seems almost like everything blends together and sounds […]
