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Songs Of Her's
''Songs of Her's'' is the debut compilation album by English indie pop band Her's. The nine-track album was released on 12 May 2017 through Heist or Hit Records. The compilation album consists of all of the band's recorded material up to that point, along with four new songs. Background In April 2016, Her's released their debut single "Dorothy". It was well received: Jamie Milton of ''DIY'' compared them to Wild Nothing, Beach Fossils and Ariel Pink. The next single, "What Once Was", was released the following month. In October, they released the single "Marcel", inspired by a lost ID card found in a wallet from a vintage shop. A review in ''The Line of Best Fit'' described the sound as a combination of British indie, tropical beach wave, and slacker rock. The next single, released in February 2017, was also reviewed in ''DIY.'' "I'll Try", the final single to be included on the album, was released in April 2017, and positively received in an ''NME'' review. Release and receptio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her's
Her's were an indie rock band from Liverpool, England, composed of Stephen Fitzpatrick and Audun Laading. The band's debut full-length LP ''Invitation to Her's'' was released in August 2018, following the compilation LP ''Songs of Her's'' which had been released in May 2017. The duo were killed in the early hours of 27 March 2019 in a road traffic collision in Arizona, while on tour in the United States. Members The band's line-up consisted of Stephen Fitzpatrick, from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, who sang lead vocals and played guitar, and Audun Laading, from Flekkerøy, Kristiansand, Norway, who played bass guitar and sang backing vocals. Fitzpatrick was also a drummer, but the band used a drum machine, which both members contributed to the programming of. Career Fitzpatrick and Laading met at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, (from which they both graduated in 2016 after three-year music degrees, being presented with their certificates by Paul McCar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beach Fossils
Beach Fossils is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2009. They are currently signed to Bayonet Records, having previously been signed to indie label Captured Tracks. The group's live band currently includes founder Dustin Payseur (vocals, guitar), Jack Doyle Smith (bass), Tommy Davidson (guitar), and Anton Hochheim (drums). They are known for their lo-fi, atmospheric sound, confessional and nostalgic lyrics, and Payseur's laid back vocal style. Payseur originally conceived the project in late 2008 when he moved to New York City after leaving school in his home state of North Carolina. To date they have released three studio albums, including their eponymous debut album (2010), ''Clash the Truth'' (2013), and ''Somersault'' (2017), and one EP titled ''What A Pleasure'' (2011). Beach Fossils, along with fellow Captured Tracks label mates DIIV, Wild Nothing, and Mac DeMarco, are considered forerunners in the lo-fi dream pop sound that grew out of the un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London In Stereo
''London in Stereo'' was a print and online magazine offering gig listings, interviews, reviews, and live music listings for London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo .... Founded in February 2013 they produced a monthly print guide and weekly gig guides. The magazine went on hiatus in 2019 and announced its closure in October 2022 References External links * Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom Local mass media in London Magazines established in 2013 Online magazines published in the United Kingdom Listings magazines {{UK-culture-mag-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mac DeMarco
MacBriare Samuel Lanyon DeMarco (born Vernor Winfield MacBriare Smith IV; April 30, 1990) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. DeMarco has released six full-length studio albums, his debut ''Rock and Roll Night Club'' (2012), '' 2'' (2012), ''Salad Days'' (2014), '' Another One'' (2015), ''This Old Dog'' (2017), and ''Here Comes the Cowboy'' (2019). His style of music has been described as "blue wave" and "slacker rock", or, by DeMarco himself, "jizz jazz". Life and career 1990–2008: Early life and education DeMarco was born in Duncan, British Columbia on Vancouver Island, and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. His great-grandfather is Vernor Smith, Alberta's former Minister of Railways and Telephones, for whom DeMarco was named, and his grandfather (also named Vernor Winfield McBriare Smith) was a judge of the Court of King's Bench of Alberta. His mother, Agnes DeMarco, later changed his name to McBriare Samuel Lanyon DeMarco, after his father left w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Skinny (magazine)
''The Skinny'' is a 72-page monthly and bi-monthly publication distributed in approximately 1,450 establishments throughout the cities of Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow in Scotland and, from 2013 to 2017, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds in the north of England. Founded in 2005, the magazine features interviews and articles on music, art, film, comedy and other aspects of culture. History ''The Skinny'' was founded and launched in 2005 as a free Edinburgh and Glasgow listings magazine. From the outset, the magazine secured interviews with high-profile music acts, including Mogwai, Pearl Jam, Wu-Tang Clan, DJ Shadow and Muse as well as becoming early champions for Scottish bands such as Frightened Rabbit and The Twilight Sad. In August 2006, ''The Skinny'' formed a partnership with established Edinburgh Festival magazine '' Fest''. The first year of this partnership saw the publication renamed ''SkinnyFest'', before it reverted to the title ''Fest'' in 2007. In May 2007, ''The S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slacker Rock
Slacker rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music and lo-fi music that originated in the United States in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Definition The term typically refers to a style that is more laid back and relaxed when compared to regular and contemporary rock in order to make it more "authentic" when compared to other rock. History Slacker rock is closely related to "slacker" culture that arose in the 1980s and 1990s with Generation X and can be seen in the way the music is composed with less emphasis on playing certain notes correctly, having slightly out of tune instruments, and having lyrics be sung in a form that was more relaxed similar to the slacker style. The image of the genre is that of a cool laziness or mellow swagger which came as a result from artists in the genre wanted to detached themselves from the "sellout" culture of other rock genres. Taking influence from 1980s lo-fi bands like Beat Happening and Tall Dwarfs, slacker rock was pioneered by indie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Line Of Best Fit
''The Line of Best Fit'' is an independent online magazine based in London, concentrating on new music. It publishes independent music reviews, features, interview, and media. Founded by Richard Thane in February 2007 and currently edited by Paul Bridgewater, the webzine's name derives from a song on Death Cab For Cutie's ''You Can Play These Songs with Chords''. Album reviews by the webzine are used for music review aggregate sites AnyDecentMusic? and Metacritic. ''The Line of Best Fit'' also publishes music premieres, exclusive live performances, podcast A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosing ...s, and playlists. The webzine has its own record label, Best Fit Recordings, and since 2015, has hosted its own annual music festival in London, the Five Day Forecast. It also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Pink
Ariel Marcus Rosenberg ( ; born June 24, 1978), professionally known as Ariel Pink, is an American musician, singer, and songwriter whose work draws heavily from the popular music of the 1960s–1980s. His lo-fi music, lo-fi aesthetic and home recording, home-recorded albums proved influential to many indie musicians starting in the late 2000s. He is frequently cited as "godfather" of the hypnagogic pop and chillwave movements, and he is credited with galvanizing a larger trend involving the evocation of the media, sounds, and outmoded technologies of prior decades, as well as an equal appreciation for high art, high and low art in independent music. A native of Los Angeles, Pink began experimenting with recording songs on an Stem mixing and mastering, eight-track Portastudio as a teenager. His early influences were artists such as Michael Jackson, the Cure (band), the Cure, and R. Stevie Moore. The majority of Ariel Pink discography, his recorded output stems from a prolific ei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Nothing
Wild Nothing is an American indie rock/dream pop band from Blacksburg, Virginia, formed in late 2009 by Jack Tatum. During live performances, Tatum is joined by additional musicians, currently Nic Hessler (guitar), Jeff Haley (bass), Joshua Sushman (keyboards, saxophone) and Cameron Allen (drums). To date, Wild Nothing has released four studio albums, ''Gemini'' (2010), ''Nocturne'' (2012), '' Life of Pause'' (2016) and ''Indigo'' (2018), and three EPs, '' Golden Haze'' (2010), '' Empty Estate'' (2013) and ''Laughing Gas'' (2020). History John Alexander Tatum (born June 10, 1988) previously played in bands Jack and the Whale and FACEPAINT in the college town of Blacksburg. He began recording under the name Wild Nothing in the summer of 2009. Emerging at a time when a handful of C86-esque groups were in vogue, Tatum's demos garnered attention in indie music circles with a cover of Kate Bush's "Cloudbusting". Tatum signed with the Captured Tracks record label after the success of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock or "Pop rock, guitar pop rock". One of the primary scenes of the movement was Dunedin, where Dunedin sound, a cultural scene based around a convergence of noise pop and jangle became popular among the city's University of Otago, large student population. Independent labels such as Flying Nun Records, Flying Nun began to promote the scene across New Zealand, inspiring key college rock bands in the United States such as Pavement (band), Pavement, Pixies (band), Pixies and R.E.M. Other notable scenes grew in Madchester, Manchester and Hamburger Schule, Hamburg, with many others thriving thereafter. In the 1980s, the use of the term "independent music, indie" (or " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DIY (magazine)
''DIY'' is a United Kingdom-based music publication, in print and online. Its free print edition is released monthly with a physical circulation of 40,000 in UK venues, clubs and shops. DIY Magazine ''DIY'' was launched in 2002 by then-editor Stephen Ackroyd & Emma Swann as an online-only publication called This Is Fake DIY, named after a song by Scottish indie pop band Bis and staffed largely by a freelance writing team from around the globe. The website features news, reviews and features. In September 2007, DIY was nominated for Best Music Magazine at the annual BT Digital Music Awards, where it was described as "a great mix of humour and pop culture that has become the envy of the internet." In April 2011, ''DIY'' started a free monthly music magazine. Cover acts have included Paramore, Mumford and Sons, Biffy Clyro, Jamie xx, Years & Years, Wolf Alice, LCD Soundsystem, Fall Out Boy, and Bastille (full list below). On 11 March 2013, ''DIY'' started a weekly magazin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her's (band)
Her's were an indie rock band from Liverpool, England, composed of Stephen Fitzpatrick and Audun Laading. The band's debut full-length LP ''Invitation to Her's'' was released in August 2018, following the compilation LP ''Songs of Her's'' which had been released in May 2017. The duo were killed in the early hours of 27 March 2019 in a road traffic collision in Arizona, while on tour in the United States. Members The band's line-up consisted of Stephen Fitzpatrick, from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, who sang lead vocals and played guitar, and Audun Laading, from Flekkerøy, Kristiansand, Norway, who played bass guitar and sang backing vocals. Fitzpatrick was also a drummer, but the band used a drum machine, which both members contributed to the programming of. Career Fitzpatrick and Laading met at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, (from which they both graduated in 2016 after three-year music degrees, being presented with their certificates by Paul McCar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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