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Louden Swain
Louden Swain is an American indie rock band from Los Angeles. The band was formed in 1997 when lead singer and guitarist Rob Benedict and bassist Michael Borja, met drummer Stephen Norton through a mutual friend at a party in Los Angeles. Guitarist Billy Moran later joined the band in 2006, after his previous band disbanded. The band was named after the main character in the 1985 film ''Vision Quest (film), Vision Quest''. Louden Swain has released eleven albums, the first being ''Able-Legged Heroes'' in 2001, followed by ''Overachiever'', ''Suit and Tie'', ''A Brand New Hurt'', ''Eskimo'', and ''Sky Alive''. Their seventh album, entitled ''No Time Like the Present'', was released on January 13, 2017, and their eighth album, and first live album, ''Saturday Night Special'' in August 2017. Their ninth album ''Splitting the Seams'' was released in October 2018. During 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, their album process was delayed and the band released several singles. The band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent record labels, by the 1990s it became more widely associated with the music such bands produced. The sound of indie rock has its origins in the New Zealand Dunedin sound of the Chills, Tall Dwarfs, the Clean and the Verlaines, and early 1980s college rock radio stations who would frequently play jangle pop bands like the Smiths and R.E.M. The genre solidified itself during the mid–1980s with ''NME''s ''C86'' cassette in the United Kingdom and the underground success of Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and Unrest (band), Unrest in the United States. During the 1990s, indie rock bands like Sonic Youth, the Pixies and Radiohead all released albums on major labels and subgenres like slowcore, Midwest emo, slacker rock and space rock began. By this time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
