Category: Indie Vibes
Den Edie Turns a Song He Wrote in 1986 Into “Holding On”
Some songs get written for a moment. Den Edie’s “Holding On,” was written for an entire life. The idea goes back to 1986, when Edie was a young sailor in…
DJ Thommek Finds a Gentle Groove on “Falling Back In Love”
DJ Thommek didn’t start out behind a laptop. The Düsseldorf-based producer’s roots are in guitar and double bass, recording early ideas onto cassette long before he ever touched digital production,…
Peningo Riders Pay Tribute to a Legendary NY Venue on “High Street Roadhouse”
Peningo Riders didn’t start out as a band. They started as a guitar lesson. Eddie Pellon signed up to learn from Russ Davis, and somewhere along the way the lesson…
KaiserKillers Trade Volume for Restraint on “Isolation”
Colchester’s KaiserKillers usually work in a different register than this. Their catalog runs on what the band themselves call PowerPopPunk, stacked guitars, tight harmonies, and an energy that nods back…
Sweet Mess Turns Recurring Dread Into Sound on “The Warning”
Sweet Mess doesn’t spend much time setting the scene on “The Warning.” The song drops straight into an uneasy headspace, thoughts that won’t quit looping and a sense that something…
BLØSMM Debut With “Poser,” the Opening Chapter of “Archer and Ego”
BLØSMM is a new name but not a new partnership. Jordan White and Brian Dellis spent more than a decade working together in Jane N’ The Jungle before starting this…
Bloomfield Machine Faces Life Under Algorithms on “Algorithm & Blues”
Bloomfield Machine is the work of multi-instrumentalist Brian Kassan, a determinedly DIY project that’s now spent nine albums poking around the murkier corners of the subconscious. “Algorithm & Blues” is…
Adonys Fallz Pays Tribute to Small-Town Life on “Wilding Out S.T.B.Q”
Adonys Fallz took a winding route to country music. He works out of his own studio in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with ties to Nashville, and before landing where he is now,…
Sean MacLeod Confronts Modern Alienation on “Inside Out (Radio Edit)”
Sean MacLeod has an unusual resume for a singer-songwriter. The Irish artist is also a composer and an author, he was a founding member of the Dublin band Cisco early…
Gideon Unna and Naomi Shapira Locate Paradise in the Present on “Heaven Is Here”
Gideon Unna is an Israeli singer-songwriter whose catalog keeps circling the same handful of questions, how spirituality, love, and the connections between people all fit together. He works independently, and…
