They pack a punch with their hardcore thrash punk.  Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (D.R.I.) have been singing songs about dry heaving, moshing, and getting revenge since their formation in the early ‘80s.  The band, originally from Houston, TX, are aggressive with their in-your-face style.  Catch them rocking as hard…

Besnard Lakes puts a modern spin on the Beach Boys’ sound.  The band, formed by the husband and wife team of Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas in 2003, are Canadian indie psychedelic rock.  The group recently released their fourth album, Albatross, putting more melodic spacey goodness out for people to…

Sometimes to uplift your mood, an upbeat album is all you need. Houston mellow rockers Alpha Rev have succeeded in creating just that with New Morning. The band’s second album covers the subject of breaking up and moving on in a lot of their songs, but doing it in a…

If Randy Newman started singing over John Mayer-style guitar riffs, you would get the music of Noam Weinstein.  The New York-based singer/songwriter has released four studio albums, Enough About You, Above The Music, Probably Human and We’re All Going There, gaining attention for his unique mix of indie…

Alternative rap at its finest.  Anti Pop Consortium from New York City have been making music since the quintet met at a poetry slam in 1997.  Their stream-of-consciousness lyrics and experimental electronic music have kept them avant-garde and underground.  Although they broke up over creative differences in 2002,…

Sleigh Bells don’t only represent Christmas time.  The words stand for a musical oddity, a weird mix of catchy pop melodies and electronica mixed with grungy guitar.  The Sleigh Bells duo of Derek Miller and Alexis Kraus create experimental pop very reminiscent of artist MIA.  They are about to drop…

Zigmat is a band where ambient indie and electronica collide.  Fronted by vocalist Monica Rodriguez and bassist Stephen Yonkin, the band’s sound has softer, mellow vocals backed by swells of musical effects.   The Brooklyn-based band formed in 2006, and signed to Ultra Records in Brazil and Actua Music in Spain…

Time warp back to an era where big hair and squealies dominated rock music! Holy Grail, a quintet from Los Angeles, is back the type of metal that used to exist, before all the kids in fitted baseball hats and basketball shorts took it over.  Their music has a lot…

It’s like a weird poem that you can’t figure out exactly what it’s about, sung over really mellow progressive rock music.  The Church has been creating this obscure psychedelic prog rock since their formation in 1980.  The band, form Sydney, Australia, has been through various line-up changes and put out…

Slow tempo chugs and raw growls with no sign of singing in sight is what Disembodied, a Minnesota-based metalcore band, has been sticking with since their formation in 1995.  After two full-lengths and a slew of EPs, the band took a nine-year hiatus before making a comeback in 2009.  The…