Articles about uk indie bands (0-50 of 285)

  • Kids In Glass Houses T Shirts
    By: LauraWat | - Popular Kids in Glass Houses t shirts have been on the market for a number of years, and their first collection came shortly after the bands success after the release of their debut album Smart Casual in 2008. Further to the release of their debut album the indie rock band from Cardiff have now launched another two albums which have also both grabbed them spots in the UK Album Charts. Taking the underground music scene by storm, the band is now one of the most successful indie rock bands t ...
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  • Top Class Of Indie Bands
    By: Indiebands | - In the past decade or so the music industry has dreadfully declined; the popular, mainstream music seems to all be created simply for commercial, financial means and not for great music. The search is tough, but if one looks deep enough good music can be uncovered. There are ample indie bands that produce incredibly pleasing music. Indie Bands such as Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, The Shins, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros [among others] are a few key examples of outstanding independently-created mu ...
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  • Find The Finest Bands For Entertainment And Entertainers In Uk
    By: Jonny Aderson | - Bands for weddings and party events can be quite tricky to arrange. With the best will in the world, quite a lot of cover bands and wedding bands can leave a lot to be desired when it comes to the admin side of running a band and booking events. Organising contracts, providing strong customer service, being on hand at all hours to speak to customers... it can prove quite difficult. But, thats not to run them down. The live music bands are going to be amazing musicians and will give you and yo ...
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  • All The Fun Of The Fair! With Warble Entertainment...
    By: Jonny Aderson | - Wedding entertainment is one of the most difficult things to get right for your special day. There are so many different bands and entertainers to choose from: cover bands, wedding bands, wedding music in the form of string quartets, harpists, pianist, mariachi bands, party bands, tribute bands and more! This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to hiring music for a wedding! You could also look at jazz bands, Latin bands, salsa bands, Irish bands, ceilidh bands... the list goes on!

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  • Wedding Entertainment: A Bride"s Worst Nightmare
    By: Jonny Aderson | - So, its the biggest day of your life... your wedding! Of course you want everything perfect from the very beginning to the end. Also, you want to put your own personal stamp on this day so that it isnt the same as every other wedding youve ever been to. A perfect way of doing this is through your choice of wedding entertainment, cover bands or wedding music.

    Wedding music is an essential part to any wedding and from the ceremony to the evening reception you can add your own ...

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  • How To Select Wedding Bands For Wedding Entertainment
    By: Jonny Aderson | - There is no doubt about it marriage is one of the hardest occasions to plan. There are so many things that need to be considered. To make your wedding entertainment more exciting, one thing that will play a very important part is the use of wedding bands. There are a lot of cover bands for weddings that are available in any city and with a little basic research you will easily find the best live music band to suit your tastes. With the advent of the internet, this will make the job particularly ...
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  • Indie: The Influencer Of Today
    By: Ralph Kelvin | - No one can really deny the huge impact of the indie fashion especially in this 21st Century. This kind of evident influence began to surface in the early seventies and eighties, when music bands tried to differentiate themselves from others, through a stylish and trendy image. Today Indie fashion is about having the freedom to express, to be comfortable in your own style and to have an individual touch. A lot of styles and other fashion trends have gone into making Indie fashion what it is today ...
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  • Boise, Idaho's Fetish 37
    By: John Mahoney | - Fetish 37 is a dedicated rock band with a violin, a unique contemporary sound that draws inspiration mainly from classic hard rock, metal, and classical music. Band members include Singer/Songwriter/Founder China aka "Velvet Chainsaw;" Lead Guitarist/Songwriter/Founder Christian aka "The Axe Man;" Bassist Manny aka "The Behemoth;" Drummer JR. aka "The Dominator" and violinist Lincoln aka "The Lincolnator."

    The name Fetish 37 was chosen when the band discovered that according to an e ...

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  • The Yarrow's Charitable Take On Indie Rock
    By: John Mahoney | - Riding an intrepid wave of charismatic indie rock throughout the musical stratosphere, The Yarrow is proving themselves to be one of Utah's hottest commodities around. This six piece powerhouse isn't only garnering the attention of press throughout their local community, but drawing statewide support from radio, television, and newspapers. As if this weren't enough, the band is utilizing their socially conscious musical skills to work with charities and make significant differences throughout th ...
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  • Sean Russell's Mystery Of The New
    By: John Mahoney | - Laying the foundation for his musical career brick by brick, Fort Worth, Texas' Sean Russell is building himself from the ground up to reach towering new heights as time moves on. Blending a soothing, catchy, and inspired form of indie, rock, and pop, Russell is an incredibly determined and motivated songwriter, musician, promoter, and manager, who serves as a veritable jack-of-all-trades capable of handling every aspect of his profession. With international tours and fresh tunes on the horizon, ...
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  • Wake Up To The Sunny Sounds Of Sand Section
    By: John Mahoney | - SAND SECTION takes its name from the area of Manhattan Beach, California where the band's three members grew up. In recent years, "sand section" has become a term used by real estate agents to denote the primo lots that abut the town's vast sandy beaches, but in the case of this ambitious three-piece band, the sand section is the border -- Where the suburban sprawl of greater Los Angeles gets pounded every moment by the deep blue Pacific Ocean-- Where a relaxed sun-soaked lifestyle collides with ...
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  • Retro Style Dresses Are Back Thanks To Amc's Mad Men
    By: Mark Etinger | - Fashion can be influenced from a lot of different places, but more often than not, those influences seem to come from whatever's hot in pop culture.

    We've seen this happen time and time again, where a cultural phenomenon plays a major role in what trendy dresses and outfits become popular. This can occur when celebrities are seen wearing something, and it can also occur with the right kind of marketing campaign.

    However, as seen at this Fall's Fashion Week in New York C ...

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  • The Coming Of Rock Music
    By: jaspade | - Rock music, in the field of individual form before a different, has been around in favour of years. Many pin thing the 1950s in the role of the arrival of shock with the surfacing of Elvis Presley. Though not performing rock in the role of we know it, Presley is credited in the role of being a pioneer in the role of rock and roll.

    Presleys new music caused a stir amongst the music industry and outrage amongst a little parents in the role of his risqu dance moves go ...

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  • Powderfinger - An Australian Band Walks Down Memory Lane
    By: Sam Burton | - Powderfinger is an indie and alternative rock band, which formed in Brisbane, Australia in 1989, as a classic rock inspired school formed band. They played oldies but goodies, such as Neil Young, who's 1975 song "Powderfinger", inspired the band's name.

    After 1992, the band's line-up consisted of Bernard Fanning on vocals and harmonica, Darren Middleton on guitar and keyboard, along with Ian Haug on back up guitar (with contributions to back up vocals as well), John Collins o ...

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  • A Battle Of The Bands With "a Fight For Fame"
    By: mantu sing | - Inspired by the successes of previous years A Fight for Fame once again is all set to set the stage on fire. You might have heard or even attended our music shows- the Battle of the Bands and we are once again ready to repeat the history. A fight for Fame once again invites all the Music Bands to take part in our Battle of the Bands and see what the future has got for them in its pockets.

    Usually it is seen that a Battle of the Bands is a stage performance where a group ...

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  • Imradio Caters Fresh, New Music To Listeners
    By: Clayton Junkins | - You will totally understand once you hear why I admit I am addicted to the Internet and spend way too much online. You yourself might even get addicted too!

    Have you ever listened to an Internet radio? It is the ability to listen to music online through an Internet radio station. My favorite is IMRadio.com. Regardless of what I have going on in my life - homework, chores around the house, snuggling with my dog or flopping across my bed just to daydream, I always have it on in the back ...

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  • The Journey Of A Music Artist
    By: mantu sing | - Music is something that is beyond human characteristic likings and dislikings. It is liked by every one though its genre can be different. Some may like the classical music style or to some hip hop and rock style would be worth making a choice. Besides these there are several genres available with the music like the Indie music, band stars, jazz etc. Several Music Artists have been involved with the music who have been rocking the earth with their talent.

    There always remains a des ...

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  • A Music Fan Site With A Difference
    By: Ranju Kumar | - For a true fan in the indie rock music industry, there is no greater accomplishment than finding a group that you know will succeed in the future. This feeling is generated from having enough knowledge of the music industry to identify what a band needs in order to succeed in this highly competitive market.

    When an unknown band that you support finds success in a large scale atmosphere you build a sense of unity with the band for having known it at such an early stage. This buildi ...

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  • Want To Create Income Through Your Music? Read On...
    By: Ranju Kumar | - It is extremely difficult for a group or individual to be identified on a large scale in the music industry. Quite often a good musical entity can generate a small fan base but the marketing capabilities are difficult due to regional limitations. These opportunities are growing as bands are moving onto the internet with the generation of large online profiles and the creation of band websites. Although these internet opportunities have increased the abilities for a band to be found online, ther ...
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  • A Music Fan Site With A Difference
    By: Ged Brockie | - There is no greater achievement than finding a group that you know will be successful in the future for a genuine fan in the indie rock music. This feeling is generated from having enough knowledge of the music industry to identify what a band needs in order to succeed in this highly competitive market. When an unknown band that you support finds success in a large scale atmosphere you build a sense of unity with the band for having known it at such an early stage. Conscious of the fans th ...
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  • Is Your Music Creating Any Income
    By: Ged Brockie | - It is extremely difficult for a group or individual to be identified on a large scale in the music industry. Marketing ability is hard with local limitations, but often a good musical entity can create a minor fan base. With the production of huge online profiles and the formation of band websites, these prospects are growing as bands continue moving onto the internet. Although these internet opportunities have increased the abilities for a band to be found online, there is still a lack of ...
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  • Looking At Mac Mccaughan's Audio Journal -portastatic
    By: Karina Daniel | - Side projects can be odd entities; you will never know where a band's career can go. Take a look at Portastatic - an excellent example of how underestimated greatness could surface from the periphery.

    Mac McCaughan began his lo-fi project back in the 1990's to respond to his soaring indie rock act Superchunk. It has been a full time career for sometime now with nearly twelve full-length albums to brag. Researching about McCaughan will convince anyone of his great musical genius ...

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  • The Hardy Souls: From An Unsigned Band To A Modern Indie Star
    By: Karina Daniel | - Contrary to their name, The Hardy Souls can actually melt the heart with their modern indie. From the heart of Glasgow music scene, the band is one of the great Scottish bands in the small country who can compete musics from anywhere in the world and who continue to bring fresh and innovative sounds to the indie scene.

    Starting from its formation in 2008, The Hardy Souls have gained a status as one of the newest bands in Glasgow. The band comprises of music fanatics who also are g ...

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  • Uk Indie Rock Band: Getting Frank With The Franks
    By: Karina Daniel | - Conveying real sentiments and emotions in a new and revitalizing way, The Franks is one of the great and top UK indie bands. Their towering vocals pooled with sharp and powerful riffs leave a feeling of lightheadedness and uplifted spirit. Indeed, this is what the band is all about - true emotions behind human life!

    Unlike some bands that play all-too-often, cheery songs, the theme of the band is more on their forward pessimism. Take it from the lyrics of their vocalist Jamie Fran ...

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  • Youth Group: More Than Average Indie Act
    By: Karina Daniel | - The Youth Group were implicitly known to Australia when the American teen television drama, "The O.C." selected it and started playing the band's cover of "Forever Young" by Alphaville constantly for the entire season. It is a real embarrassment if you throw them into the emo dumpster or if you grasp this against them because this group got more things working for them than the other bands within the O.C. soundtrack.

    At last, the indie rockers are getting much-deserved recognitio ...

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  • Uk Indie Rock Band: Getting Frank With The Franks
    By: Lara Nadezda | - Conveying real sentiments and emotions in a new and revitalizing way, The Franks is one of the great and top UK indie bands. Their towering vocals pooled with sharp and powerful riffs leave a feeling of lightheadedness and uplifted spirit. Indeed, this is what the band is all about true emotions behind human life!

    Unlike some bands that play all-too-often, cheery songs, the theme of the band is more on their forward pessimism. Take it from the lyrics of their vocalist Jamie Fran ...

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  • Looking At Mac Mccaughan"s Audio Journal ""portastatic
    By: Lara Nadezda | - Side projects can be odd entities; you will never know where a bands career can go. Take a look at Portastatic an excellent example of how underestimated greatness could surface from the periphery.

    Mac McCaughan began his lo-fi project back in the 1990s to respond to his soaring indie rock act Superchunk. It has been a full time career for sometime now with nearly twelve full-length albums to brag. Researching about McCaughan will convince anyone of his great musical gen ...

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  • Youth Group: More Than Average Indie Act
    By: Lara Nadezda | - The Youth Group were implicitly known to Australia when the American teen television drama, The O.C. selected it and started playing the bands cover of Forever Young by Alphaville constantly for the entire season. It is a real embarrassment if you throw them into the emo dumpster or if you grasp this against them because this group got more things working for them than the other bands within the O.C. soundtrack.

    At last, the indie rockers are getting much-deserved re ...

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  • Rise Against: Not Just A One Trick Band
    By: Jimmy Cox | - If you have not already heard of the punk rockers that create the band Rise Against you have been out of touch with the American music scene. This band got their start as Transistor Revolt in Chicago during 1999 and changed their name in 2000 shortly before inking a record deal with Fat Wreck Chords operated by Fat Mike of NOFX. Today the members continue recording under the Geffen label that is part of the Universal Music Group.

    The band lineup consists of Tim McIlrath handles le ...

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  • Is It A Good Time To Start Record Label?
    By: Jack Chapman | - The other night I was I met several MDS of major labels and wondered, "Why would anyone do this?"".


    I began to consider: it would be exciting to develop a new record label, one which could become a leader in the music industry as it promoted new and "niche" artists.

    What makes a label viable these days?

    A few of these label owners were discussing recent deals -- primarily of the 360 or 270 kind.
    (The numbers 270 and 360 here refer to degrees of ...

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  • How To Buy Vinyl Records By Beat Happening
    By: Kevin Hawkins | - Beat Happening is an American indie rock band which was formed in Olympia, Washington in 1982. The members who have been with the band along the whole way are Calvin Johnson, Heather Lewis and Bret Lunsford. Beat Happening were early leaders in the American indie rock and lo-fi movements and well-known for their use of primitive recording techniques, disregard for the technical aspects of musicianship and songs with a childish and coy nature.

    The members of the band met while atte ...

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  • How To Get Promote Your Unsigned Rock Bands And Metal Bands.
    By: Netgeek Mamun | - Welcome to Myspacedotcom - the online directory for artists around the county. All styles provided for - from house to hardcore, and grunge to metal. With our Record Scout publication going to hundreds of music and record shops around the country it is a great place for exposure for your group, productions to get reviewed and noticed.

    Whether they're into punk music, grunge bands, vintage music, or hard rock and roll music, fans want more from their favorites and want to hear the ...

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  • How To Get Your Promote You Band And Myspace Band.
    By: Netgeek Mamun | - Our company is the world's leading Independent Artist & Repertoire Company. An opportunity to promote original MP3 music and solicit recording contract offers. Our music resource provides unsigned artists and independent bands with an opportunity to promote original music and solicit recording contract offers.

    There are lot of ways to promote your band, both good and bad. Listed below are the methods we have determined to be the most effective at getting your band noticed. But don ...

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  • Myspacedotcom Is An Online Entertainment Media Company For Band Reviews And Myspace Band Reviews.
    By: Netgeek Mamun | - An unsigned band is a band that has not been signed to a record label. Bands that release their own material on self-published CDs can also be considered unsigned bands. Often unsigned bands primarily exist to perform at concerts. In more recent years, the internet has helped promote the music of unsigned bands.

    Getting reviews can be one of the toughest things for any new band. It's not just trying to figure out who the best people to send your CD to, it's making sure they listen ...

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  • This History Of No Age
    By: Kevin Hawkins | - No Age is an indie rock group consisting of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer Dean Allen Spunt. The band is based in Los Angeles and is signed to Sub Pop records. The name is taken from the title of a SST Records instrumental compilation from 1987, which was discovered by Spunt while he worked at Aron, a record store in Los Angeles. They have been listed as the foundation of The Smell, HEALTH, Mika Miko, Silver Daggers, Abe Vigoda, BARR, and David Scott Stone. No Age has strong bonds with the ...
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  • A Look At The Magic Of Deerhunter
    By: Kevin Hawkins | - Deerhunter is an American band made up of Bradford Cox, Moses Archuleta, Josh Fauver, Lockett Pundt and Whitney Petty, which originates from Atlanta. The band describes themselves as ambient punk although their music spans across a wide range of genres such as noise rock, art rock, ambient, and post-punk. The line-up has varied over the years, due to among several things the death of one of the members.

    The band was co-founded in 2001 by vocalist Bradford Cox and Moses Archuleta a ...

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  • Role Of Music Managers
    By: Marcia Henin | - Music industry covers numerous music related activities and businesses. It includes recording studios, labels, singers, musicians, live organizers and so on. Apart from this, the role of music managers is also a thing to boast of because these managers have sculpted the careers of several artists, songwriters and musicians.

    Therefore, here we are going to understand the importance and role of different types of music managers. There are six types of managers and first one among i ...

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  • Indie Musicians
    By: Marcia Henin | - The crashing of so many big music labels has started the Indie musician's movement.
    It's really a movement, but I refer to it this way because I look at it as a way of beating the system and the big giants that used to tell music artists what to do and used to take almost all of these artists money.

    They still exist, but the internet and the illegal downloading phenomenon has made them smaller and made the artists realize that maybe taking unreasonable fee on their CD is n ...

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  • All About Indie Artists
    By: Marcia Henin | - Indie or pop artists are somewhat independent artists, whose music does not comply with the trends of the common commercial music industry. Their music genre is thus, what makes them stand unique from the rest of the music fraternity.

    To understand in better way, let us explore as how and why this trend of pop artists started. Indie artists started as aggressive bands during 1970s. They made music and songs for people, who shared similar ideology as theirs. The trend passed on an ...

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  • Myspace Music Marketing:creating A Loyal Fan Base Using Myspace
    By: Clive Calvin | - Creating a loyal fan base on MySpace will help your music career in many ways. If you generate enough fan enthusiasm, record labels will check out your page to see what all the buzz is about. Another reason fans are important is that they are the ones who pay to see your shows. If you have a loyal following, more invites for gigs will start rolling in - record labels will definitely take notice then.

    While you have probably done all of the usual MySpace marketing like register yo ...

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  • Why Independent Artists And Musicians Should Podcast
    By: S. Housley | - Why Independent Artists and Musicians Should Podcast

    By Sharon Housley


    Independent artists have long struggled to gain recognition and attract an audience. Without the backing of a major label it can be very difficult for independent artists to obtain radio play time, that is, until now. Podcasting a revolutionary new medium, has opened new distribution channels for independent artists. Podcasting is the process of distributing audio files using the RSS format and h ...

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  • What Do Musicians And Businesses Have In Common?
    By: Fred Hueston | - We are a local band that is trying to get a wider audience. We have been around for two years playing local clubs and we have a small following. After listening to several of your shows we have gotten some great ideas; but we were wondering if you have any fast ways we can get our band more exposure?
    The Lightning Bugs


    Fred: You are not alone. According to Myspace there are nearly one million Indie bands in the world and I am sure there are a lot more. ...

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