Blog: HearYa: An Indie Music Blog

For all the hype surrounding indie supergroup Monsters of Folk (Yim Yames, M. Ward, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis), their new self-titled album does more than deliver. It exceeds my expectations and that says a lot considering how much I love Ward and Yames and that I've been anticipating this album for well over a year. What Monsters of Folk are doing to the indie music scene reminds me of what LeBron James and Kobe Bryant did to high school basketball – they're just operating on a completely different level. While everyone else was slapping [...]