Turvy Organ, our featured artist of this week, is not only a fantastic band when it comes to songwriting. No, they also take care of their visuals and shoot their music videos themselves. A great inspiration for other independent musicians, for sure.
This week’s featured artist is the Denver based band Turvy Organ. They declare themselves being mostly influenced by Conor Oberst and the Bright Eyes. But it is undeniable, that their roots go back to the British Indie-Pop of the 80s. Bands like Echo & the Bunnymen, Edwyn Collins’ Scritti Politti and the Pastells come to mind quickly.
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Sorry men, the music year 2018 belongs to the women. At least when you look at this year’s line-up of Eurosonic Noorderslag. Probably the first festival of the year, the trendsetting happening in Groningen, Netherlands, offers a stage for more than 100 emerging bands from all over Europe. And surprisingly many artists were women.
One of our favorite tracks of the year is La Chienne by Montreal’s La Fièvre, our Artist of the Week #9 in July.
A subgenre of indie rock, shoegaze has its origin in the late 80’s and early 90’s in the United Kingdom, and is now in its second or already third wave and very popular these days. One of these bands is Czech Republic’s DIV I DED, one of our Artists of the Week in June.
This week’s featured artist (#26) Ghost Wave sound finds itself somewhere between the Flying Nun bands of the 80s, like the Clean, the Chills, and the Bats, the British explosion of the 1960s and the wayfaring dubs of Lee “Scratch” Perry…
Our newest Artist of the Week is Will Connolly, an actor, writer and musician originally from Montclair, New Jersey, now living in Brooklyn.
Our featured artist for this week is the indie diverse/dreampop band DIV I DED from the Czech Republic.
PRIMA QUEEN, our featured artist of this week, is an energetic and quirky indie-rock band fronted by Louise Macphail (Bristol, England) and Kristin McFadden (Chicago, USA) whose influences range from performers as diverse as Rilo Kiley, The Killers, Fleet Foxes and Alanis Morissette.