Posts Tagged as ‘Indie’
We’ve been grooving pretty hard to UMO lately, shifting steadily from our #3 spot last week to the top of the charts this week. Moxi and Jamie Lidell premiered in the top 10 this week, so it should be interesting to see if they’ll stay in high rotation in the »
Brace yourselves, because the Mildly, Enigmatic, and Mysteriously Energetic Mr. E is coming to Granada this March. Eels, E’s band, have a discography stretching back to 1991, and all of it has been almost literally mind-blowing. Rife with sweet beats, an unreproducible indie-rock sound and a completely sweet beard, Eels »
Los Angeles based Local Natives have been quiet since their 2010 debut, Gorilla Manor. In the likes of their late 2000s indie band counterparts, Local Natives’ style has been compared to that of Fleet Foxes and Vampire Weekend, sometimes referred to as “the West Coast’s Grizzly Bear.” Live, Local Natives’ »
Dallas native Jana Hunter has been making solo albums since 2005, releasing projects off Devendra Banhart’s label Gnomonsong. Since then, Hunter has taken on Lower Dens, fronting and releasing Twin-Hand Movement in 2010. Lower Dens isn’t solely Hunter’s, the band has came together citing influences everywhere from Kraftwerk to Iggy »
When Alex Schaaf, a singer/songwriter who needed a creative outlet, released the critically-lauded The Mistress in 2010, Yellow Ostrich was merely his pseudonym. But when he joined forces with drummer Michael Tapper later that year and then multi-instrumentalist Jon Natchez soon after, the name became more than just that. Yellow »
Islands is an indie rock band hailing all the way from Canada and now based in Los Angeles. Active since 2005, the band has released three albums (with 2012’s A Sleep & a Forgetting on the way), and cycled through a plethora of members before reaching its current lineup. Originally »
Backed by only a drum machine, They Might Be Giants started their 29 year career in 1982 and with a quirky, out-of-the-box style. Best known for their experimental approach to alternative music, the band has released fifteen albums (their 1990 effort, Flood, went platinum and their children’s music album, Here »
What a way to kick off the new decade. To wrap-up the end of a great year in music, Radio UTD’s team of DJs picked out our favorite 25 albums of this year. Everything from The Weeknd to Annie Clark to Wild Flag, we had quite the time this year »
Coming from Portland, Oregon, Blind Pilot consists Israel Nebeker and Ryan Dobrowski. A wonderful acoustic indie-folk duo that sounds a bit like newer Avett Brothers or Fleet Foxes. They’ve done it all including playing fests like Lollapalooza and Sasquatch! Music Festival, opening for Counting Crows, The Hold Steady, and The »
