Chances are you’ve heard of Ha Ha Tonka, but you probably couldn’t name a song of theirs. Their name shows up everywhere, they’ve been on “No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain”, they’ve toured with Cory Chisel and The Wandering Sons and have played at …
Category: Indie Rock
Mary Broome on Jessie Baylin
Mary Broome is a good friend of ours from Nashville. She traded a French literature PhD for the music industry in 2010. She has been working with Sideways Media since, doing online PR and marketing for bands and music-related brands. If she were a …
YouTube Gems: Matthew Mayfield – You Oughta Know (Alanis Morissette cover)
I have said that I love covers. Well, I also love Matthew Mayfield (Thanks, Greg!) and Alanis Morissette (so what?). This video combines all three of those wonderful things in an incredible video. During the recording of Mayfield’s last album, he used Kickstarter …
The Devil Whale – Room125 Productions Recording and Interview
I’ve written about Room125 Productions before. They are a video production group from a high school in Lawrence, Kansas. Their advisor apparently has some pull in the music industry, as they’ve had some pretty amazing talent (including the Civil Wars) on the show. …
YouTube Gem: Langhorne Slim and The Law – Bad Luck
The best artists take a little from many different artists and make something unique. A prime example is Langhorne Slim and The Law, a singer-songwriter and his band, and their honest, emotional songs. We’ll be featuring a review of “The Way We Move” …
Youtube Gem: Green River Ordinance – “Where the West Wind Blows”
Every once and a while, we hear a song that leaves nothing to be desired. It is, in its entirety, a perfect song. It accomplishes exactly what it sets out to. Even more rare, we’re on hand for one such song. Today’s YouTube …
Two Gallants – The Bloom and the Blight
Anyone who attended festivals across America in 2012 (or at least saw the lineups) knows that a couple of the biggest themes have been simple folks bands laced with vocal harmonies and old dirty guitar garage rock. With a certain savvy, Two Gallants …
Field Report – Field Report
Sometimes there are bands that don’t have success, fall apart, and find all of their members go on to varying degrees of, but undoubtedly, success. When you find out, 10 years later, that these guys all played together, you wonder why in the …
Scars on 45 – Scars on 45
A few days agao, I featured a YouTube gem by a band called Scars on 45, a quintet from Leeds, England. We’re all well aware of what it means to be a rock band from England, and while they aren’t the Beatles or …
Youtube Gem: Scars on 45 – “Give Me Something”
This YouTube Gem comes to us courtesy of British rock band Scars on 45. I’ll be doing a review of their debut album next week, sneak peek: it’s really good, but until then, here’s one of the best on the album, “Give Me …
