Album Review: Secret Club – Apocalypse Meow Secret Club are a grungy rock band whose lyrics and overall vibe will make you smile. They have a kind of raucous abandon perfect for the genre of rock music. Maybe a more astute rock aficionado …
Category: Indie Rock
Five Folk Bands to Start Your 2016 Off Right
Five Folk Bands to Start Your 2016 Off Right These list articles are fun to write. They allow us to introduce our readers to multiple new and emerging artists. The great, fear, though, is that sometimes will not find the article as easily …
Greg’s Album of the Year List – #20-11
This is a beautifully difficult task every winter deciding the best albums of the year. There are so many phenomenal bands making music today. Most of what I’ve chosen for this list represents one of two styles – they are either singer songwriters …
Matt’s 2015 Song of the Year List – #10-1
Here it is. So many great songs but only ten can be the top of ’15. There is still time to check out my Spotify list if you want to check my top 30 tracks of this year. Feel free to send us …
Matt’s 2015 Song of the Year List – #20-11
Another great year in music. There are few things we at Ear to the Ground love to do more than to create our year end “Best Of” lists. This year, I decided to give more attention to the bands that I was fortunate …
Album Review: Pleasantry – Synapses
Synapses by Pleasantry Album Review by Hannah of www.rockmycommute.com Pleasantry has a sweet name that just begs you to take things lightly – but their 2014 release called Synapses is anything but trite. You’ve got 10 solid tracks with some good album art …
You Tube Gem: : : : Detroit’s Flint Eastwood Crushes Genres and Eardrums
Making music out of a historic re-purposed church in Detroit, Flint Eastwood has recently released a fantastic EP Small Victories. Balancing stirring and emotive lyrics with pop sensibilities, vocalist and mastermind Jax Anderson’s music is both abstract and accessible. Her recent release draws on the …
Album Review: Modern Diet – Self Titled
Album Review: Modern Diet – Self Titled Modern Diet’s brand of indie rock is just about as cool as possible. Jake Cheriff’s lead vocals are crisp and cutting. The layered tracks on Modern Diet’s self titled album show a sophisticated familiarity with rock’s …
Killer Single Saturday -The She’s – Ramone Style Surf Punk
San Francisco’s The She’s play breezy Ramone style punk that embodies and challenges everything the Golden Gate stands for. Strong, confident, and incendiary, the girls are more in sync than ever on their brand new track “Cherry Red” which is part of a …
Artist Interview: Highly Suspect -Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio
“M.C.I.D! M.C.I.D!” chants the ever-swelling fans of Brooklyn’s Highly Suspect. Being new to their family of supporters, I had to ask vocalist Johnny Stevens before their Cleveland show for clarification. Showing the tattoos across his knuckles he says “my crew is dope . …
