Hooray For Earth is a band that perfectly defines the east coast’s love for danceable indie tracks. Their up tempo, high spirited songs radiate through your body with the greatest of pop music induced ease. Their latest EP, Momo, is a well preserved collection of body-moving and mind-bending, electronically fused songs that are as highly intellectual as they are just plain fun to listen to. Read More »Hooray For Earth: Momo EP [Album Review]
It’s not every day that a simple 4 song EP can blow your mind faster than a shotgun in a grunge musician’s double wide trailer. The Ambience Affair‘s sophomore EP, Patterns, does just that. Unless you have been well in the loop since their first EP, Fragile Things, this is sure to be the group that will be leaving you with questions such as, “where the hell have I been?” or “should I cut the world apart because I didn’t hear these guys earlier?” These guys could easily be your favorite indie rocker’s favorite indie rockers. Read More »The Ambience Affair: Patterns EP [Album Review]
The butterfly is always the easiest and most admired insect to ingest the world of indie rock/pop/whatever with great reason. A butterfly begins its stages as just another creepy, crawly tree dweller before it bursts into the world as a multi-colored miracle floating amidst the very trees it once depended upon to slowly push its existence around. Cue the beautiful girl that strikes her heart and makes an obvious comparison, and you have British songwriter Simon Bish and his wonderfully derived song “Butterfly Girlâ€. Bish’s tremendously soft and sweet pop melody is at its most tender moments when the violins join the chorus from the fires of simplistic hell and whirl the Brit pop goodness faster than the wings of a, well….butterfly! Read More »Simon Bish: Butterfly Girl [Track Review]
Seaspin is an L.A. based shoe gaze group with a very impressive style that invokes the spirit of both The Stone Roses and The Cranberries in a single 4 minutes. Frontwoman Jennifer Goodridge has a set of pipes that can make your ears bleed with delight. The title track from their latest release, Reverser EP, is as dreamy as it is passionate about something obviously very personal to Goodridge and her crew. This is a tale of love and loss set over dark and heavy barbiturate guitar licks and extremely haunting lyrical mass murder. This is the sort of group you may find yourself using to drain away the misery, while just as easily using them to garner inspiration and high hopes of a better tomorrow. Read More »Seaspin: Reverser [mp3]
It’s been about ten months since Jeremy Burk was featured on Fensepost. Since then, he has officially released his debut album I Hope You Find What You’re Looking For via West Advocate Recordings and has been riding the coat tail of it’s modest appeal ever since. After hooking up with first time director Brent Anderson for his first video for “The Clapping Song”, our dance along folk friend is back on the Post to show us what exactly he has been up to. Read More »Jeremy Burk: Clapping Song [Video]
A chorus is a terrible thing to waste. The Other 49 obviously think this as well. Their debut EP, A Cold Open, is a definitive collection of the build ups leading to a systematic and tectonic shifting collection of balls-to-the-walls hooks and ladders. This is not to say the rest is all filler, but the focus is obviously on beating the hearts much like “And as we wind on down the road…” did for us on “Stairway to Heaven”. In retrospect, this might be exactly what they accomplished. Read More »The Other 49: A Cold Open EP [Album Review]
Sharing is caring. Home is where the heart is. These are two very cliché sayings we have been hearing our entire lives. But in the realm of independent music, they have taken on whole new purposes. The fine folks at Rash Records greatly understand this new purpose. So many artists are spreading their beautiful words almost entirely from home and sending it out on the super information highway for the entire world to hear. The days of peddling cassette tapes at your local harbor or public park and depending on direct word of mouth are over. Rash’s compilation, Home, is a wonderful collection of living quarters-based folk and acoustic-based artists wishing to share with you a fresh cup of coffee in the figurative living room recording studio.
Read More »Home Compilation Vol. 1 [Album Review] 
Rocky Votolato has that voice; the voice that can haunt your dreams, but at the same time bring so much joy to your heart that it runs risk of imploding. He has been known to bring his original southern spirit and intermingle it with the Elliot Smith-like aura of the Northwest indie folk scene. Read More »Rocky Votolato: Red River [mp3]
Some Beans, aka Andy Fonda, aka ¼ of Noise Annoys Simon, is a pretty soulful cat. It’s a bit spooky at times, but it is always funky. His debut album, Fear and Loathing in Tipton St. John, might actually be a very well-planned dance track tribute to the honorable Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Or not. Either way, this is electronica at its very finest. And that is perfectly alright. Read More »Some Beans: Fear and Loathing in Tipton St. John [Album Review]
For those of you fortunate enough to catch Andrew Thiboldeaux and Chris Ward, the Philadelphia based duo better known as Pattern Is Movement, on their recent tour and appearance at SXSW, you may recognize this track. As well as being the title track for their upcoming album, out later this year, it was offered up on their tour E.P. “Light Of The World” is another wonderful example of this band’s eccentric hip hop style that is fused with a healthy dose of indie rock and folk, especially on the aforementioned track. Read More »Pattern Is Movement: Light Of The World [mp3]
