Indie – Page 4 – Rocknerd

Reviews: Massenhysterie (2015), The Big Sun, Dyan (2016).

24 August, 201621 September, 2016 Goth, Indie, Industrial, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

Shouty electropunk, indie pop and cinematic folk.

Reviews: Deerful, Brandy Kills, Milan (2016).

14 August, 201619 August, 2016 Goth, Indie, Pop, Record 0

Political indie pop, goth rock with tunes and perfect synthpop.

Reviews: Optiphonal Wonder Machine, Coupons, Lich (2016).

11 August, 201619 August, 2016 Indie, Record 0

Art collective synthpop, ’90s-style indie rock and a remarkable instrumental album.

Electronic reviews: Boy Harsher, Syrian, Kuoko, Metroland (2016).

9 August, 201619 August, 2016 Indie, Industrial, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

Post-punk synth, futurepop and synthpop.

Reviews: Vanguard, Dark Narrows, Navvi (2016).

5 August, 201619 August, 2016 Goth, Indie, Industrial, Record 0

EBM, goth-aspiring new wave and dreampop.

Synthpop: BOO (Battery Operated Orchestra), Zürich ’81, Deerful (2016).

2 August, 201624 October, 2017 Indie, Industrial, Pop, Record 0

Three stone winners today. A pleasing selection.

Reviews: Dark Colour, The War Between, The Nursery, Selves (2016).

29 July, 201628 August, 2016 Indie, Record 1

’90s-style sample-ridden indie dance rock, catchy amateur punkish indie pop, melodic pop songs in an indie band with synths, American Britpop.

Reviews: nTTx, Foot Spa, Kites With Lights, Stars Crusaders, Kepler.

12 July, 201614 October, 2016 Indie, Industrial, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

Two industrial, one post-punk, one synthpop, one indiest indie.

Reviews: Növö, Stop The Wheel, Binaural Silence (2016).

6 July, 201628 August, 2016 Indie 0

The new release pile on Bandcamp is more work than it looks.

An ’80s Australian indie rock band you should have heard of: the Arctic Circles.

5 July, 20164 October, 2016 Indie 0

Australian ‘80s indie rock band the Arctic Circles never made a huge impact and remain mired in obscurity, but their two records (the single “Angel” in 1985, the mini-LP Time in 1987 featuring “Wasp”) were well-received, did okay on an indie level and you couldn’t get away from them on public radio. The style is the ‘60s garage punk stuff popular in Australia at the time. Still sounds pretty fresh in 2016.

Bandcamp synthpop: Tentacles, Mimus, Bestman (2016).

29 June, 201626 August, 2016 Indie, Pop, Record 1

Scooped from the new releases pile on Bandcamp, where independent music seems to happen these days. Go on, spend five quid.

Reviews: Amy’s Arms, Foster Body, Uranium Club (2016).

18 June, 201623 June, 2017 Goth, Indie, Punk, Record 0

Today we hit the Bandcamp for various recommendations of mates’ mates’ bands. Send yours in! At worst it’ll be ignored.

Links.

16 June, 201625 August, 2016 Indie, Links, Post-Punk 0

“If you think it’s about the music, you’ve already failed.” The pop culture legacy business, and why Kurt Cobain is still a huge star.

I was right at the time. Nineties indie rock sucked. Except Dave Graney, of course.

4 June, 201613 October, 2017 Indie, Opinion, Rock 0

Just rereading the Dave Graney interview I did in late 1992 for Party Fears. This was when no fucker cared about Dave Graney, after his indie hipness fronting the Moodists in the 1980s and his artier cowboy rock’n’roll in the late ’80s and early ’90s.

George Matzkov’s tracks from lost 1980s Perth alternative bands.

12 April, 201624 August, 2016 Indie 1

George Matzkov, Perth scenester, Stems roadie and founder of Zero Hour Records, is putting out a book, to be released soonish: Way Out West: The West Australian Alternative Music Scene 1976-1989. To accompany it, he’s got a Soundcloud of tracks from cassettes and records of the day. If you’re from those times you’ll delight in this.

Jesus and Mary Chain “Psychocandy” 30th Anniversary

29 March, 201625 August, 2016 Goth, Indie, Live 0

It is rather frightening to think that it’s now over thirty years since Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain graced the airwaves. Well, frightening to people of a certain age such as this reviewer.

The Charlatans: Modern Nature (2015).

30 December, 201528 August, 2016 Indie, Record 0

As one of the great British indie synth-rock bands (hey, just call it “Madchester”) of the 90s, The Charlatans, left an indelible impression on

Last Words (EP) by Muzzle

24 December, 201514 October, 2016 Indie, Record, Rock 0

“Last Words” (2014), is the debut EP for young Fremantle independent rock band, Muzzle, with three-piece Daniel Panizza on bass, Daniel Prince on drums,

Radio Birdman Boxed Set (2014)

4 November, 201428 August, 2016 Indie, Record, Rock 0

Courtesy of our friends at The Dwarf your author had the opportunity to see the legendary Radio Birdman as long as finger was put

Pop Will Eat Itself, Hi-Fi Bar (Melbourne Australia), September 07, 2014

8 September, 201415 December, 2016 Indie, Live 0

(PWEI at Fortitude Valley, image by Jeff Ram Photographer) After three years of a band having a ‘new’ lineup one would think that they’re

Pop Will Eat Itself – New Noise Designed By A Sadist (2011)

5 September, 201414 October, 2016 Indie, Record 0

With their last and most successful general release album released in 1994 (Dos Dedos Mis Amigos), it is a long time between releases for

Keeping up with the kids.

19 February, 20127 May, 2017 Indie 0

Now listening to The Quietus Radio. Like the magazine, it’s actually decent and worth your time. God help me if I start following popular

Laura MacFarlane, Hong Kong In The Sixties, Hissing At Swans – Betsey Trotswood, Tue 7 Dec 2010

9 December, 201011 October, 2016 Indie, Live 1

The Betsey Trotswood is a tiny little pub in Farringdon that sells actual beer instead of the fizzy piss found most places basement indie

John Peel’s Festive Sixty-Four.

24 November, 201015 November, 2016 Indie, mp3 0

Now here’s a remarkable work of cultural preservation: 64 gigabytes of Peel Sessions and shows as BitTorrent. That’s about twenty days’ music solid. You