independent thoughts on indie rock, alternative, and indie pop music
Blog favorite indie rock band The Pressure Kids have released a new single, "Catherine In Moonlight", a staple of their live shows, for your listening pleasure. The Pressure Kids have been busy touring and making new music--if you're in the Music City on August 27th, the band will perform for the Local Music Experience show series at... Continue Reading →
Philadelphia’s Hop Along, riding the wave of acclaim from their latest release, Painted Shut, out last year via Saddle Creek, are currently on a co-headlining tour with Boston rockers Speedy Ortiz—together, a fiery combination of raw talent and verve that should not be missed. Painted Shut is ten songs of shimmering, straight-up, alternative rock n’... Continue Reading →
When he was younger, Zack Smith, multi-instrumentalist and one-half of Nashville-based Americana duo Smooth Hound Smith, got tattoos on his fingers to insure that he would never get hired to work in an office.  He walked a series of vocational paths, but music was the only thing that he never stopped doing.  Fate took its course, and Smith... Continue Reading →
Nashville alt-pop duo Apollo LTD (comprised of songwriting/producing/performer Svengalis Jordan Phillips and Adam Stark) is performing at Exit/In tomorrow evening, December 11th, with fellow Nashville pop-rockers Trenton and Lovedrug. Surrounded by the city of Nashville, the duo have, like most with their talent and positions, co-written and produced hundreds of compositions but have recently swivelled... Continue Reading →
Hold onto your hats, y'all.  Nashville alt-pop songstress Daniella Mason is playing her first hometown show in over a year! The artist, who has been called an "American Ellie Goulding", had quite a busy year--she self-released some singles that garnered major media attention, and Demi Lovato hand-selected Mason has an opener on her Neon Lights tour after discovering... Continue Reading →
Progressive rock band The Dear Hunter has recently released Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise, the fourth of a six-album series about the birth, life, and death of a character called "The Dear Hunter;" Act III was released in 2009, and there was constant inquiry and speculation from fans about when, and if, Act IV would be released.... Continue Reading →
The Pressure Kids, an up-and-coming force of anthemic indie rock to be reckoned with, will be celebrating the release of their debut EP, Tiger, with a show at legendary local venue Exit/In on October 8th. The band members, who met and began playing music together a couple of years ago in the dorms of Nashville's... Continue Reading →
I'm such a fangirl of Richmond, Virginia-based psychedelic shoegaze-y garage pop six-piece supergroup Avers; when I found out they were coming to the Music City to open for J. Roddy Walston & The Business, I jumped up and down and squealed out loud. Â Believe it. The band is made of members of The Head and... Continue Reading →
If you haven't been introduced to Coasts, please allow me the honor!  This amazing British band has captured my heart and enraptured my ears...part Two Door Cinema Club indie-dance pop, part passionately anthemic U2-style rock, I honestly just can't get enough. Coasts was on tour with Bad Suns this year, which luckily brought them to Nashville... Continue Reading →
South Carolina's Toro y Moi appeared at Exit/In recently, with Los Angeles-based Vinyl Williams providing opening support; if you missed the festivities, never fear! Â We've got photographic highlights just for you! Photographs are courtesy of the incomparable Samuel Katz on behalf of East of 8th (IG portfolio: @samuel_katz).
