Heavy songs | Indie Shuffle

Sounds like: Metric, NOTS, Belle-Skinner

Citris' single "Little Scars" is keeping early millennia indie rock alive, and thank goodness for that. Their unapologetic ode to what started this w...

Zakii

Make Moves

Sounds like: Zomby, Nech N9ne, Havok Roth

trap heavy bass dance-trap heavy zomby

I haven't tried posting something this intense since that time I wrote about Bjork when my appendix had just burst. Albeit these two posts are jarring...

Violent Soho

Covered in Chrome

Sounds like: Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Japandroids, Dinosaur Jr.

indie rock alternative rock garage rock grunge

I, like many of my generation, used to listen to plenty of heavy rock growing up. Over the years, I've fallen away from the genre, but from time to ti...

Death Grips

Birds

Sounds like: Danny Brown, Shabazz Palaces,

hip-hop rap experimental male vocalist experimental hip-hop

Death Grips is certainly an acquired taste. Making sounds that sit somewhere between experimental hip-hop and heavy noise-rock, the Californian trio a...

SHE REX

P.O.W.E.R.

Sounds like: Rage Against the Machine, M.I.A., Blakroc

female vocalist hip-hop alternative Sydney indie rock hip-hop

Reviewing Aussie hip-hop is not something I do very often, so when I do you'd be correct in assuming I was pretty impressed. Sydney all-girl band SHE ...

Tame Impala

Lucidity (Pilooski Remix)

Sounds like: The Black Keys, Jimmi Hendrix, The Stones, Cream

indie rock rock psychedelic tame impala the black keys

Last Sunday, Tame Impala played their first show ever in Philly in the First Unitarian Church's basement, and I'm pretty sure that it was the best way...