Having played at Glastonbury, Isle of Wight Festival, Bestival and Cambridge folk festival Noble Jacks are garnered as one of the country’s ‘good time’ bands and they are back with the release of their second album Stay Awake on the 29th March – a perfect alternative to take your mind off the Brexit gloom. Preceding the album, this Friday…
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*Drum Roll* Please welcome this week’s Indie Crush of the Week – Rasha Jay. Billed as ‘bringing soul to modern rock’ we were immediately taken with her music – and promptly set about arguing whether she was indie enough to be our indie crush (it’s an issue close to our hearts!) https://soundcloud.com/rashajay/sets/high-dive-ep-by-rasha-jay/s-ncb7x What we could…
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Fresh on our desks in the first few days of 2019 we found gem of a track from Japanese British-based artist, Rie Fu. Take a listen below: https://soundcloud.com/rie-music/06-mirror Having already released a video late last year for the track ‘Ripples’, ‘Mirror‘ is the second release from Rie’s upcoming album. An art school graduate from St…
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This week’s Indie Crush of the Week is a band that hail from the Italian city of Milan – Bright Garden! Formed of Fabio Migliavacca (guitars and vocals), Stefano Romay (bass), Claudio Sitta (drums) their sound is at once retro but modern – reminiscent of the brilliant 2000s British band, Milburn. Check out their track addicted…
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When an artist lists Virginia Woolf, Lana De Rey, Buddha, David Lynch, Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar among their influence, you just know that their music is going to be something. You don’t know what the specifics of that something might be, but it is going to be something nonetheless. It turns out that in…
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Among all the new music that comes our way at Indie Crush, there is sometimes nothing we want more than a classic song with a classic sound – simple as. With all that pressure on musicians to remain original and sound ‘fresh,’ it seems many forget the simple art of just making a great song……
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The latter-half of the 2010s has been characterized, among other things, by an unprecedented nostalgia for the 1980s. The Duffer Brothers’ sleeper smash ‘Stanger Things’ is perhaps the best example of this appetite for synth-tinged, neon entertainment, and the real strange thing is that the desire for all things 80s is strongest among millennials, the…
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The decision this week to make SAZ our Indie Crush of the Week was something of an easy one – considering firstly, they made pretty great indie-influenced tracks, and secondly, they’re both models… Hailing from North London SAZ have just dropped their EP Dread Full with reports of a full length album already in the works. The…
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Over here at Indie Crush we’ve been given a tip off that Bexatron are soon to release a new single. It’s been pretty hard to miss them on the rock gigging circuit recently, and we’ve been allowed a sneak listen to their new single. These guys have been up to a lot recently, supporting for…
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Unashamedly uncool, the members of MASK would no doubt feel surprised to discover they are our latest Indie Crush of the Week – but that they are. With their first album under their belt and their latest single just premiered on Louder Than War, a lot is happening quickly for these guys. Their lead single,…
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The Australian Harp Samuels released his latest single, ‘Breathe’. After suffering with the loss of his father last year, his heartbreak drew him closer to music where he could not only escape from his thoughts and feelings but control them and express them to influence others. His unfortunate grief inspired him to write this new…
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I was in a lifeguard’s garage in a tiny seaside town the first time I saw Her’s live. It was in August last year and I’d taken the cutter to Isle of Wight for Ventnor International Festival. The pocket-size festival took place in three makeshift venues across Ventnor’s hilly terrain. The venue in question for Her’s…
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