Indie Pop

With a Transformer era street-smart croon, Dutch outfit Monthrusun’s Hans Bos sounds like a man about town by day, and musical raconteur by night. Clearly this is a fan’s lo e letter to Bowie, Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen. However, he’s playing it cool…

We live in a world of strange mixtures. Hot Damn! is out to create a strange concoction of musical styles. U up?, notice how the artist has a keen eye for knowing how the kids spell things these days, sounds like an indie-rock show tune. It’s all is she…

It’s time begins with the type of guitar murmur that would announce a religious ceremony in an unforgiving land. This could be a regular indie-rcok tune were it not for the fact that John Ward crafts mysterious sounds into frightful echoes of impending doom. By…

Who’s the second greatest James Bond? I’ll cast my virtual vote for Roger Moore. Zepet, a former film student himself, sounds about ready to soundtrack one of Mr. Moore’s turn in the iconic part. “There’s Someone for Everyone” is…

Armon Jay, of Dashboard Confessional fame, constructs a thoughtful indie-folk meditation on depression. In his story, the mental condition is not so much a consistent source of drama, but rather a nagging ache. Jay talks about wanting to call help, but feeling ashamed…

Goalkeeper – Happy There are verses of this tune where if you’d told me this was a recent Blink-182 rarity I’d believe you. Mind you, not just the vocals are worthy of comparison, but the drumming that seems to try and include as many fills as humanly…