Sure, the indie rocker lifestyle is great. But you have to get practical at some point. For a musician, no matter what kind of music you play or even what instrument you play, your instruments are your tools of the trade—like a basketball player with a ball, a doctor with a stethoscope and a carpenter [...]
There has to be a point where touring gets a little tiring. The same songs, night after night, and the vague discomfort that comes with knowing you might say “I love you, Chicago!” to a crowd in Dallas. We’ve seen plenty of bands that treat their shows like your Average Joe would treat a day [...]
There seems to be a formula for some bands – lead singer, guitarist, bassist, drummer. Sometimes one person does more than one of those things, and sometimes there’s more than one of each. But at least half of the time, that’s just about what you’re going to get. Indie music, though, seems to be about [...]
Ah, the Dodos. When last we met, I was, let’s just say… not impressed. Your performance’s energy level matched that of a sloth on a Sunday afternoon after a late, late night at the Black Swan Saloon. The amount of attention you paid to the crowd was roughly equal to the service a vegetarian gets [...]
Claiming inspiration from a range of musical talents like The Nationals and Neil Young, The North Decade, a five-piece indie rock band from Springfield, MO, is trying to achieve something a lot of bands overlook these days: to create a statement about the culture they live in while connecting with fans on a personal level. [...]
Austin’s, The Warm Guns play exactly the type of music you might associate with the city of Austin. Fun, laid back, a little bit country, and a lot of rock and roll. Fronted by singer Ricky Stein, The Warm Guns began when Stein, after playing solo shows, recruited bassist Phil Morris, guitarist Stuart Burns and [...]
I’d say that, for every 5 shows we go to, there are another 5 we attend where I haven’t given an active listen to the band at all. I may have heard them on the radio, or ignored their tunes during my forced music education, but about 50% of the time, I couldn’t tell you [...]
Amidst the insanity that was Dallas during Super Bowl weekend, we found a haven. That haven was the Sons of Hermann Hall, and our gracious hosts were Abe Vigoda (the band, not the actor, and, no, he’s not dead.) No celebrities, no lines, no “lists,” just two great indie bands rocking out in, well… a [...]