Blog: Soundhype

Female Vocalist, Folk, Indie, Singer-Songwriter - Mieka Pauley is a Boston singer-songwriter. In 2008, Mieka won the grand prize in both Cosmopolitan's StarLaunch and the New York Songwriters Circle. She plays Pittsburgh's Hard Rock Cafe on Sunday 6-22-12. http://www.mieka.com Sample & Buy Music From Amazon!Help Support SoundHype! Follow @soundhype

Alternative, Indie Rock, Indie Pop - Nada Surf is celebrating twenty years together, while touring to promote their latest release "The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy.” Although the band achieved their greatest commercial success in 1996 with the MTV hit "Popular", Nada Surf has released some mighty fine albums since then. Here's a live version [...]

The Oxygen Thieves From: Cape Town, South Africa The third, and presumably final, helping of bands called Oxygen Thieves. Today we're leaving the shores of blighty behind in our search for and head over to Sout Africa Cape Town's own fresh air robbers. Under The Sky is a refreshing blast of old school indie that [...]

Oxygen Thieves Brighton This week's blog is rapidly becoming the go to site for band's called Oxygen Thieves. After the Liverpool entry in the battle of the Oxygen Thieves bands tonight I bring you the south coast's entry. This gang of breath stealers are a trio who sound like a clean living Libertines which, when [...]

Indie, Indie Rock, Female Vocalist, Canadian - Metric’s new album "Synthetica" dropped this week on Metric Music International/Mom + Pop. To mark the release, Metric premiered a music video on Tuesday for the album’s leadoff single, “Youth Without Youth’. The song takes a bit to build at the start but effectively gets in your brain [...]

Female Vocalists, Jazz, Cabaret, Indie, Singer-Songwriter - Miss Li is a Swedish singer/songwriter with a cool sound that mixes elements of indie, jazz, cabaret and the blues. Here's the video for the latest Miss Li single "My Heart Goes Boom". Sample & Buy Music From Amazon!Help Support SoundHype! Follow @soundhype

Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Alternative - of Montreal's latest recordings have a way darker edge than the the party tunes that their fan base is accustomed to. Early reviews of the new live show suggest that we can leave our glow sticks at home. of Montreal is on a slowed down, more melancholy, and serious [...]

Indie, Shoegaze, Ambient, Psychedelic - Shana Falana is is an experimental pysch-pop band from the vast shoegaze scene in Brooklyn. Shana's music mixes various genres ranging from psychedelic and shoegaze to 90s grunge/alternative and ambient. See them Tuesday 6-19-12 at Garfield Artworks with Shadynasty and The Fuggies. Follow @soundhype

Oxygen Thieves From: Liverpool, United Kingdom Scouse glum rockers Oxygen Thieves (not to be confused with Brighton's brilliant Oxygen Thieves or Cape Town's cool The Oxygen Thieves more of whom later this week) are the best Liverpool band since Echo & The Bunnymen. The dark, deep, neo psych of I Sat In On A Freakshow [...]

Progressive Rock, Experimental, Indie Rock, Alternative- The Dear Hunter is a project of Casey Crescenzo, formerly of The Receiving End of Sirens. The band's sound has more elements of indie and progressive rock, with a wider variety of instrumentation, than Sirens' post-hardcore tendencies. The band returns to Pittsburgh on 6/20/12 at Mr. Smalls with Anthony [...]

Indie, Blues, Indie Rock - The Floorwalkers open the Friday night Red Wanting Blue show at Pittsburgh's Club Cafe. The band's live energy show and funk and blues-infused style of dance oriented rock is sure to get people grooving. Sample & Buy Music From Amazon!Help Support SoundHype! Follow @soundhype

Indie, Electronic, Dubstep, R&B - The Weeknd is Toronto-based R&B singer named Abel Tesfaye. He started in 2010 with some YouTube uploads and has been been dropping mixtapes since 2011, sampling artists ranging from Siouxise and the Banshees to Beach House. See him perform at Mr. Smalls Theatre on Tuesday 6-19-12. Here's the Mikael Colombu [...]

Indie Rock, Americana - The Pines come from Minneapolis and blend indie-rock and Americana. Their live shows and and records have earned them a faithful and growing following. See them at Club Cafe on Pittsburgh's South Side on Tuesday 6-19-12 with Ghost Estate. http://thepinesmusic.com Sample & Buy Music From Amazon!Help Support SoundHype! Follow @soundhype

Indie Pop - Boston's The Bynars play the Smiling Moose on Pittsburgh's South Side Sunday night 6-17-12. The band plays catchy indie pop with hooks, jangly guitars, and synths. Here is the video for their track Party All Nite. Sample & Buy Music From Amazon!Help Support SoundHype! Follow @soundhype

Indie, Indie Rock, Alternative - Columbus, Ohio's Red Wanting Blue are always a hit in Pittsburgh. They return this weekend for two shows at the South Side's Club Cafe. Scott Terry's booming and passionate voice lead this rocking brigade, always getting the crowd into a frenzy. Club Cafe's tiny stage seems like a restricting venue [...]

Fraud Freud From: Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom Fraud Freud are as close to invisible as it's possible to get in a world of witter feeds, facebook envy and tumblr ubiquity. Apart from their Soundcloud site there is almost no trace of them/him in cyberspace. There are just three tracks on the site; the stunning, spooky, [...]

Female Vocalist, Electronic, Dub, Indie - Philadelphia's Santigold hits Pittsburgh in support of her latest album Master of My Make Believe, which came out in April. See her Saturday at Stage AE. Here's the video for Disparate Youth. http://santigold.com Sample & Buy Music From Amazon!Help Support SoundHype! Follow @soundhype

This week's round up of the tracks that I haven't had the space to post. Bad For Lazarus From: Brighton, United Kingdom Rock 'n roll hasn't sounded this dirty for a long time. Go Try Bad For Lazarus - I Told You Child by Strummerville Plant PlantsFrom: London, United Kingdom Lush sampletronica from Plant Plants [...]

Savages From: London, United Kingdom Look at the camera girls and smile. Glum rock doesn't come much glummer, or more frightening, than the sound eminating from the soul of London foursome Savages. The urgent, yelping post punk of Husbands is scarier than babysitting a fully armed Chucky in the Overlook Hotel. The pulsing, dark and [...]

Fast YearsFrom: Brooklyn, New York, United States Fast Years are the latest band to poke their heads above the parapet and enter the increasingly crowded sugar coated surf tinged indie pop scene. It's almost impossible to stand out in a market heavily dominated by The Drums, Surfer Blood, Best Coast, Beach House, Surf City, Howler [...]