Indie, Rock & Alternative

Newsflash! The Horrors are good shocker

Of all the musically-challenged groups to appear over the last few years, The Horrors were…

Animal Collective – My Girls (Nice unofficial video)

This unofficial ‘My Girls’ video by Rob Chestnutt certainly exceeds the original in syncopation and…

Introducing: Ume

File under “another-SXSW-band-I-didn’t-see-but-were-apparently-awesome”, Ume are from Austin themselves and will rock yer face. Their Sunshower…

Introducing: Ribbons

You know the way Myspace has those genre descriptions on the band pages? Well Ribbons‘…

Introducing: The Big Pink

I was pleased a couple of weeks ago when a previous tip of mine The…

Video: Rainbow Arabia – Omar K

Welcome to the Hipster Supermarket where women have beards, epileptic pixie children wreak havoc with…

New Villager – Rich Doors

‘Rich Doors’ is one of those weird, shapeshifters that sounds like a tune morphing from…

Video: Cryptacize – Blue Tears

So, Cryptacize are two guys and a girl signed to Asthmatic Kitty and are the…

The 12 best bands I loved @ SXSW 2009

Little Boots, pre-show at Sup Magazine/ IamSound SXSW party taken by Dan. Now that the…

Heavy Metal band names

Mr. T-Woc sent this on. Hours of fun with Metal band names especially useful if…

Weekend Jukebox #6: SXSW artists

On Monday, I’ll be heading towards independent music heaven in Austin, Texas where roughly 1800…

Video: Cashier no. 9 – When Jackie Shone

I went down to Whelan’s a couple of weekends ago to catch the Nordie double…

Dark Room Notes – Let’s Light Fires

Having been impressed with the quality of the first two releases from Dark Room Notes…

Introducing: DM Stith

All of a sudden, I’m feeling a bit of a buzz around David Michael Stith…

Metric’s Fantasies

While Emily Haines is one of the most singular vocalists in indie thanks to her…

Kaboom! Dub and other stories

In this week’s D&N update: Kaboom Dub, Freestyle rap explained, a look at the wonderful…

OMG! Jape wins Choice Music Prize

Jape with his Choice music Prize trophy by Loreana Rushe. A deserved winner in Jape…

Heartless Bastards – The Mountain

I rarely post any kind of bluesy number up here but I mentioned this title…

Giveaway: Bats, Jenny & The Deadites, Wounds, Squarehead – this Sat

More Richter Collective tickets to giveaway this week, this time for Bats last show before…

New Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero

From the forthcoming album It’s Blitz! out in April, comes a fresh sounding Yeah Yeah…