With a style rooted on six-string distortion, electronic manipulation, loud rhythms and strange lyrics, the raucous indie rock quartet Gilla Band became well-known. Less daring listeners might recoil in horror at the intensity of their assault, but there are glimmers of humor hidden behind the abrasive surfaces that soften the blow and the band's fiercely uncompromising music has gained them a strong... read full bio
Geese is a Brooklyn-based band that was founded as a basement home studio construction project amongst friends. Their shared goal of creating music through any methods required gives birth to each of their tracks. They started recording together in the afternoon after a school day, using sneakers as mic stands and blankets to cover the amps, until they started to... read full bio
Ecca Vandal is a true original because she is loud, genre-defying and unafraid to stand out. Ecca was up in a musical home and was exposed to a wide variety of art and music from an early age because her family had immigrated to Australia from Sri Lanka via South Africa. Her ability to effortlessly balance between soulful melodies and raw,... read full bio
The subject of escape runs throughout Django Django's latest album Glowing in the Dark: from limitations, from hopelessness, from small-town life and in dreams, even from the Earth. The band's entire career has essentially been about avoiding, eluding and evolving beyond things, including situations, sounds, expectations, influences and even their own perspective of themselves. However, that is not something new. The goals may... read full bio
Clinic, one of indie music's most distinctive and enigmatic acts, combines decades' worth of well-known sounds in unexpected ways. It's conceivable to detect traces of the Velvet Underground's chugging cool, the Seeds' churning garage rock, Suicide's cold pulse, Ennio Morricone's spaghetti Western drama or Augustus Pablo's brooding dub in their music at any given time. The Liverpool-based band's distinctive appearance and... read full bio
The Black Queen, a kind of power synth pop trio, started off simply and eventually became a full-fledged band that its members considered as much more than a recreational endeavor. Greg Puciato, the singer for Dillinger Escape Plan and Steven Alexander, a seasoned producer (DEP, Nine Inch Nails, Ke$ha), started collaborating on songs that differed greatly from the former's primary band.... read full bio
By transforming a New Orleans brass band into a punked-out hip-hop giant of groove and purpose, Youngblood Brass Band defies convention in an exuberant, loud and fiery way. The ten-person band, which has its roots in Madison, Wisconsin, has been spreading its crash course in genre-bending all over the world. What other band can boast that their music has been played... read full bio
Thirsty Merc is an Australian indie rock band that was founded in Sydney. The original line-up included singer/guitarist Rai Thistlethwayte, lead guitarist Matt Baker, bassist Phil Stack and drummer Karl Robertson. The band released its debut EP, First Work and scored hits with the songs "Wasting Time" and "Emancipate Myself." The band's subsequent self-titled full-length, which featured the songs "My Completeness" and... read full bio
When they first appeared in the early '90s, Stereolab quickly established themselves as one of indie music's most distinctive and influential acts with their hypnotic rhythms and seductive vocals. The ensemble, which was led by Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier, honored pop music genres that were typically excluded from the history of rock, such as bossa nova, lounge-pop and movie soundtracks.... read full bio
Silvertwin is the new band you desperately need in your life, created by Isaac Shalam. Shalam grew up listening to classic albums from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in the family car and he had a desire to replicate those sounds as soon as he entered high school. Shalam founded Silvertwin while attending college in London. The group consists of five like-minded... read full bio
Apocalyptic music is produced by Lunch Money Life, a band willing to portray the deteriorating face of our failing surroundings. They are becoming more and more essential as the end draws closer. Jagged guitars, belligerent percussion and gloomy low-end whisper are mangled together with dated electronics, submerging the listener in a world of loathing and need. The musicians have spent years operating on... read full bio
La Dispute, a post-hardcore band from Grand Rapids, Michigan, has undergone many abrupt changes throughout its years-long artistic development. During their formative years, the five-piece transitioned from dissonant blasts with poetic lyrics to music that integrated a wider range of musical influences. The band experimented with jazz, progressive and dynamic changes as they went along. They were interested from the start... read full bio
The ambitious sights and sounds of Andy Black's debut album combine timeless American iconography with broadminded arena bravado of sophisticated pop, devilishly intimate seduction of dark-wave dedication and the biting style of music's sharp-tongued and best-dressed paramours. These elements are combined with crisp leather jackets, vintage Hollywood, teen idols and rebels of every stripe. Andy's music fires a melodic adrenaline shot across the... read full bio
They claim that writers who write about what they are knowledgeable about are at their best. Nate Barnes, a recent signing to Quartz Hill Records, is no different. A young blue-collar power plant worker from South Haven, Michigan, writes and sings about his job and daily life there. Barnes sings of God, family, adversity, love, the straightforward way of life and... read full bio
Producer Na'el Shehade's sleek Chicago house-infused production style and vocalist Via Rosa's soulful delivery, which is influenced by jazz's improvisational nature and the playful patterns of hip-hop and bossa nova, came together to create the multicultural partnership known as DRAMA. The two blur the distinctions between R&B and dance-pop, heartbreak and ecstasy, in order to capitalize on the complimentary dynamics... read full bio
The artist Dora Jar rejects categorization. She has only shared a small number of songs, yet each one of them has stood out, been endlessly fascinating and, quite honestly, been fantastic. They represent an artist with a strong aesthetic vision: to be as expansive, honest and unmistakably herself as humanly possible, from the hammering guitars on "Multiply" to the sinister "Did I... read full bio
The simplest way to characterize Donny Benét, who has been praised and derided by critics as "Prince on a significant budget cut," is that he is the favorite nephew of Giorgio Moroder, Alan Vega and Michael McDonald. Australian-born Benét's debut album Don't Hold Back rapidly made him a cult figure in the country's music scene by perplexing and enthralling many listeners.... read full bio
The musician known as DJ Seinfeld, Rimbaudian and Birds of Sweden is Armand Jakobsson. You can get expansive emotional cuts, lush dancefloor workouts and deft forays into jungle and breaks under these names. Releases have appeared on reputable labels like Meda Fury, Ectotherm, UN.T.O and Lobster Fury, a joint venture between Lobster Theremin and Meda Fury that was formed specifically to release his... read full bio
Curse Your Branches and Strange Negotiations, David Bazan's first two solo albums, were deeply rooted in queries. Questions about religion, relationships, politics and addiction. Bazan is not the place to go if you're searching for art to dispel your doubt. His songs are the tiniest speck of light, the first breath coming up for air and the rest stop on a journey with... read full bio
Dan Lancaster is a London-based artist, producer, mixer and songwriter who has received two Grammy nominations. In the previous three years, he has been engaged in songs with over 1.3 billion Spotify streams and has written, produced and mixed a number of Radio 1 A-listed songs. At the Heavy Music Awards, he has been nominated for Producer of the Year twice. With the releases... read full bio
