Recent Posts from HearYa: An Indie Music Blog

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — The other night I was having a couple beers with my friend SafariMan, and we got to talking about how excited we were for SXSW this year. We probably spent an hour reminiscing about last year and all of the great acts we saw. At one point, Safari... read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — Strand Of Oaks (Tim Showalter) put out Leave Ruin in 2009 and it has become a favorite album of mine.  We’re pleased to share the news that he’s about to hit the road and has offered a second track for free to the fans. “Two Kids” is my favorite ... read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — Hello, everyone. It’s the shortest, and quite possibly worst, month of the year. But let’s look on the bright side – the days are getting longer, we’ve got the Super Bowl to look forward to, college basketball is heating up, Kings of Leon’s cloth... read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — Leonard Mynx is following up his debut EP with another free album entitled Le Petit Mort. Offering free music to find your fanbase was a marketing tactic also used by Joe Pug and it undoubtedly helped him in with ticket sales as he started tourin... read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — I’ve been down with pink eye for a couple days, so we lost some momentum at the end of the week. Here are the tracks we discussed last week prior to the sickness. First, from our live session with A.A. Bondy: A.A. Bondy – Introduction Exclusive: A... read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — I first caught wind of the Athens, GA based Futurebirds courtesy of Aquarium Drunkard. Their write-up went something along the lines of this – blah, blah, blah sounds like Tennessee Fire. Comparing any band to My Morning Jacket will get me intere... read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — Drive-By Truckers will be releasing The Big To Do on March 16th via the fabulous ATO Records. They’ll be touring in support of the album with a stop in Austin at SxSW 2010. The band and label were generous to release the first single as a free do... read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — A.A. Bondy first visited us for a live session in December of 2008 while on a solo tour in support of his debut, American Hearts. While the solo acoustic Bondy is quite alright with me, I was excited to hear that his sophomore effort, When The De... read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — The Tallest Man On Earth emerged in 2008 with one of my favorite records of the year, Shallow Grave. I described his sound as follows: The Tallest Man On Earth’s fingers dance along the guitar strings and, without pretense or arrogance, he delive... read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — Justin Townes Earle and Dawn Landes recently collaborated on a song called “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind.” He’s also getting some unexpected attention as one of GQ’s most stylish men in the world, up against the likes of Johnny Depp and LeBron James... read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — Here are the tracks we discussed last week. Real Estate – Fake Blues Seabear – Lion Face Boy Eels – Little Bird Left Lane Cruiser – Crackalacka April Smith – Terrible Things Dawes – When My Time Comes read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — By now, hopefully everyone has heard of Dawes. If you haven’t, I feel really guilty for not letting you know about them sooner. This is a band I was first exposed to last year at SXSW, when they played a great set right after The Love Language an... read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — HearYa favorite, Langhorne Slim, is hitting the road with his high energy show and he’s bringing along April Smith and The Great Picture Show. She seems to be a natural fit as her music embodies music from a different time. Here’s what their EPK ... read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — I’m trying to get better at reading other blogs and music websites to share posts I wish I’d written. Gapers Block posted a fantastic feature on Chicago’s tunnel musicians complete with images, audio recordings and interviews. Really amazing stuf... read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — The musical tornado known as Left Lane Cruiser are back. And like a tornado, you better get the hell out of the way or risk finding yourself flat on your ass three miles down the road. The duo of Freddy J. IV and Brenn Beck are back and the formu... read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — It had been four years between Eels’ 2005 release Blinking Lights And Other Revelations and 2009’s Hombre Lobo. Mark Oliver Everett had taken some time to write a book, travel the globe (a few times) and make a documentary about his father. Six s... read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — Icelandic 7-piece Seabear is releasing their sophomore album, We Built a Fire, this March via Morr Music and is celebrating with a tour and SxSW appearance. What started out as the lo-fi solo project of Icelandic singer/multi-instrumentalist Sind... read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — I became a fringe fan of Cornershop, as many people did, with the release of When I Was Born for the 7th Time – the album that carried the catchy tune “Brimful of Asha” along with a bunch of other great tracks. I’d recently heard they released th... read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — This year, like every other one for the past four or five, I sat down in mid December and began to compile a force-ranked list of my favorite of the many albums that I purchased over the preceding 12 months.  The ranking is influenced heavily by ... read more »

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog — Here are the mp3’s we discussed this past week. First from our live session with The Mother Hips: The Mother Hips band intro Exclusive: The Mother Hips – Esmerelda Exclusive: The Mother Hips – White Falcon Fuzz (video) Exclusive: The Mother Hips –... read more »