Being part of a band is an amazing experience. You get to create music with people that will often end up being your closest friends. The thoughts and emotions that you share will make an unbreakable bond. Your skills improve too as you open your mind to the ideas and talents of your bandmates. As […]
Music is an ever-evolving creature. There will always be your standard genres like Rock, Rap, and even Zydego. The musicians out there with real creativity will find a way to blend pieces of these different genres to make something new and original. A great recent example is the music of GREYE. The five-piece band based […]
Many artists grow up yearning for a successful solo career. It will always be hard to get everything going on your own and build up an energy that can transfer to the audience. We have seen many artists that thought they would go it alone until they finally hooked up with a full band and […]
Tornado Rose is one of those sort of oxymoron combinations of words that doesn’t quite make sense, but catches your attention anyway. Being that this rather large Americana group from Kansas chose to combine a word that inflicts a sense of chaos and another that brings peaceful thoughts to mind, I’d say that there’s quite […]
Cowboy hats, banjos, and denim shirts are all part of the stereotypical aesthetic of Americana music. With roots in country, folk and blues, the Americana movement is a conglomerate genre that blends both the cultural and musical aspects of the South, a place that is famously known for its pickup trucks and heartbroken cowboys. Almost […]
When an artist pours his heart and soul into music it becomes a lifelong mission to continually create and share. We recently came across Shaman Juan who is a music industry veteran who continues to share with the world. The lifelong odyssey into the word of music began in the mid 1960’s when Shaman Juan […]
When you think of “true American music,” what do you think of? What images come to mind? For me, it’s blue jeans, amazing guitar solos, and something a lot like “American Pie” by Don McLean. I may have been born in the 1990s, but I would have to say that the 1970s out of all decades had […]
Music is music. It doesn’t matter what genres you grew up on. Your tastes and styles are allowed to change with age and in fact you are allowed to like many genres that may not particularly go together. At Indie Band Guru we love all music and especially the development of an artist. A great […]
