Listen! The Darcys – The River
The Darcys are one of those bands for me that we all have in our existence – we definitely know the name, but we don’t know much about them. I saw several announcements of their new song and their new...
Category: Indie
Watch! London Grammar – Strong
London Grammar have slowly been assaulting our ears (the good kind of assaulting) over the past year with releases of sounds and videos to the Internet. We’ve heard Hey Now, Metal & Dust, and Wasting My Young Years. As the...
Watch! Chris Velan – Hang On Tightly
We have a beautiful and mellow acoustic track for you on this Thursday. Two days ago, Chris Velan dropped his new album, The Long Goodbye. Off of this album comes the video for the track, Hang On Tightly (which is...
Watch! Family of the Year – St. Croix
It was just over a year ago that we posted the entire album by Family of the Year on PHM, noting how much we liked it. Now, one year later, we have a video for the excellent track St. Croix....
Listen! The Orwells – Who Needs You
I suppose when you’re a teenage, you have nothing but time on your hands. As such, we have more stuff from those Chicago teenagers The Orwells. They have already dropped one EP this year, and just around the corner is...
Listen! Paper Lions – My Friend
Paper Lions are hoping their friends are lioning lining up for their upcoming second album, My Friends. They have a great new single called My Friend, so that’s a good start. Good old P.E.I. – for such a small province,...
Listen! Basia Bulat – Tall Tall Shadow (plus album announcement)
After seeing Toronto’s Basia Bulat perform at the AGO back in January, we were anxiously awaiting a follow up to the lovely 2010 album, Heart of My Own. Apparently making wishes when my clock hits 11:11 finally worked (although I’m...
Listen! Troumaca – Layou (plus B-side Sanctify)
Late last year, we featured Birmingham band Troumaca and their warm track, Lady Colour. They are following up that track and the Virgin Island EP with their debut album, The Grace, out August 26. Our first listen is the single...
Listen! Cut Copy – Let Me Show You (live vinyl playback)
Aussie electronic act Cut Copy are prepping their new album. By the sounds of their new track, they still want to make you dance. The track is called Let Me Show You and will be on their album, expected to...
Listen! Silver Swans – Sea of Love
We have a new, synth-ladened track by Silver Swans. The song is called Sea of Love, and is their first single from their second album. The track has great vocals and a beat that’ll make you put down your Archie...
Listen! Forest Swords – The Weight of Gold
Last month, we posted the excellent beats of Forest Swords and their track Thor’s Stone, which due to a mix up, I thought was the beat to a new Kanye West track. Now, we have a follow up by the...
Listen! Arctic Monkeys – 2013
Disclaimer: I love pretty much all things Arctic Monkeys. There’s a B-side to Do I Wanna Know? that is floating around. It’s called 2013 and HEY – that’s this year! This September 10, the band will also release their 5th...
Listen! Polarsets – Just Don’t Open Your Eyes Yet
Although this song is a couple of years old (or at least the demo is), it just appeared on my SoundCloud stream. The track is from Newcastle trio Polarsets. We’ve featured Polarsets before and their excellent track Tropics from 2012....
Listen! Swim Deep – Crush
We’re fast approaching OUR DEATH BEDS! the August 5/6 release date of Swim Deep’s debut album, Where The Heaven Are We. The Birmingham, UK group have released a series of sun-soaked slices of indie pop goodness, all of which can...
Listen! St. Lucia – Elevate
He might be from Brooklyn, but St. Lucia is his name, and sun-soaked pop tracks are his game. It seems like he might have a few albums out by now, given the space between the tracks that have been trickling...
