The Indies is very pleased to present the Brighton U.K. based band known as The Heavy Heavy, fronted by Will Turner and Georgie Fuller, and the music video for their song titled Happiness, directed by Alec Basse.
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The Indies is very pleased to present Oliver Forest, a Montreal Canada based indie band fronted by Josh Cunningham on guitar & vocals, Megan Griffin on keyboards & vocals. Below is the music video to their song titled Shadows.
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The Indies is very pleased to present Heartless Bastards and the music video for the song titled Revolution, written by frontwoman Erika Wennerstrom. The music video was directed by Sam Wainwright Douglas and David Hartstein.
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The Indies is very pleased to present the artist known as Omarion and the music video for his song titled Do You Well, produced by Smash David from Omarion's album titled The Kinection.
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The Indies is very pleased to present this excellent music video by Jay Nemor and Electrified for the song that is rich with soul titled Break Free.
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Jay Nemor and Electrified - Break Free (Music Video)
The Indies is very pleased to present Matt Andersen and the music video for his song titled Take Me Back from his album titled Halfway Home By Morning.
The video is by Mel Stone and was captured when Matt Anderson was on tour through the US with Steve Miller Band and Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives.
Matt stated the following about his video: "Sharing the road with two of my heroes was an amazing experience. I grew up listening to both Steve and Marty, playing along to their albums cranked on the stereo. We drove 20,000 miles over the summer and I loved every minute of it. Here's a little peek at what our days were like as the tour came to a close.”
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Jess Bishop is a songwriter, singer and guitarist from Brighton, England.
Even though this is a rough/raw and under-produced recording, shot by a single camera on a tripod with no operator, the beauty of the music written by this artist and the musical spell she can cast is apparent and transcends any lack of production.
Jess Bishop wrote this song and she is accompanied by Max Rafferty (formerly of The Kooks) on guitar. It was filmed in Port Isaac, a fishing village in Cornwall, England.
The Indies presents The Kills and the music video directed by Ben Strebel, to a their rendition of the song titled List of Demands (Reparations), originally written by rapper, singer-songwriter, musician, slam poet, writer, and actor, Saul Williams. In reference to The Kills covering the song, Saul Williams wrote the following letter:
The entirety of my creative career has been bent towards disrupting the dumb-down of the listener. As a kid, growing up in NY in the 80's & 90's, I was a dedicated rapper and a dancer. It was on the dancefloor that I learned that music with a political bent made me dance harder. When I felt like the music spoke to me and to the times, and if the beat was right, I could pull off the moves and acrobatics that i found impossible without. So given the opportunity to record my goal was always to make hardcore dance music using the formula that inspired me: punk energy, mind-fucked beats, & political courage. Even in poetry, I've been driven by the desire to disrupt and engage the reader or listener on the same grounds. "List of Demands (Reparations)" was written with these direct intentions. Fuck up the dancefloor & open a mind. I've always been a huge fan of covers & re-interpretations. I always felt envious of the way the 60's generation shared songs and ideologies. Jimi singing Dylan. Rotary Connection singing Otis Redding. The Stones singing the blues. This is all part of the beauty & power of music and it reverberates deeply in me. All this to say, I'm honored. The times are divisive, particularly under poor leadership, yet the voices of the politically disenfranchised are louder than ever. The amplification of these voices gives rise to new insights and a chance to break away from the normative thinking and behavior that has held women, people of color, and the poor, in a holding pattern for centuries. The role of the artist in these times is crystal clear: be present, be courageous, put your heart on the line.There's a passage in a Maya Angelou book which says, "Anything an artist writes should be written with the urgency of what they would write if someone were holding a gun in their mouth." That gun is every divisive tool that politicians, lobbyists, nationalists, and their short-sighted followers use to silence us and thwart human, female, & ecological progress. Progressive music, on the other hand, disarms, uplifts, & harmonizes. That Bob Marley refrain, "Hit me with music" is straight from the trenches and exemplifies the kind of energy and sound we need to disrupt the dumb-down. I liked The Kills before they chose to cover LOD. If they can feel themselves in that song it's because they are as much a part of it as I am.
SYCDVK, pronounced sik-duhk, is a Denver-Colorado based indie rock band with a soulful psychedelic/jazz edge. The band weaves in an out of genres and may remind listeners of Blood Sweat and Tears, meets Frank Zappa, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Chicago and at other times, obscure, but great guitarists like Frank Gambale and/or Carl Verheyen.
This band is seems to presently be way under the radar, but is very worthy of a bigger audience, especially people who like new music with integrity and an old soul.
The video featured below is for SYCDVK's song titled Pie. It was directed by Peter Warekois and stars Hellen Boyer French. Enjoy!
Director: Peter Warekois
Actress: Hellen Boyer French.
Alien 1: Nic Jay
Alien 2: Tony Milano
Key Grips: Nick Milano and Chris Geary
Editors: Michael Potts and Peter Warekois
Produced by SYCDVK in conjunction with Image of Colorado
Location and Props provided by Nico Pisani and Jenny Filipetti
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The Indies is pleased to present somethig a little bit different.
Just below is a nice one shot home video made approximately six years ago of a young musician named Macyn Taylor on her next door neighbors front porch. We like everything about it down to the back country feel of the porch and her bare feet keeping tempo. She performs the banjo with excellent picking style and sings a cover of the song titled Candy Man the way Taj Mahal released it in 1969. Enjoy!
Just below is Taj Mahal's interpretation of Candy Man for his 1969 album titled Giant Step/De Ole Folks at Home, which was a unique double album in that one of the vinyl's, Giant Step is electric, while the other vinyl record, De Ole Folks at Home, is acoustic.
The song was originally written and performed by Reverend Gary Davis as "Candyman". Davis, who was born on April 30, 1896 and died on May 5, 1972, was a gospel and blues singer who also played guitar, banjo and the harmonica. His unique picking style has influenced many other guitarists and banjo players.
Reverend Gary Davis - Candyman
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Miraa May is a stellar emerging songwriter and recording artist from Tottenham, England.
The Indies is very pleased to present a music video for the title track of the song that Miraa May wrote and performed for her second EP titled N15. The song grooves under her unique staccato/soul rap that blends beautifully with the soulful R&B voice that comes out of her colorful personality. She's got something in her rap/soul blend that reminds us of a modern day Melaaz, which is a good thing.
The track was produced by Salaam Remi. The music video was directed by WVRSONLY and shot and edited by R+B.
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Since this post was originally created on February 9, 2018 (On TheIndies.Com 18th Birthday) Miraa May has gone from indie artist status to major label status, as she is now signed to the Island Records imprint of Universal Music Group. Watch her latest music videos on our sister site, MusicTelevision.Com, here: MusicTelevision.Com/2019/01/miraa-may-nobody-sad-music-videos.html
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The Indies is proud to present, Elise Trouw, a inspired emerging 18 year old drummer who has a lovely voice, with additional skills as an arranger, one girl band as a looper, multi-instrumentalist and technical/gear geek who proudly to offers up lists of what electronics and gear she used to make her recordings.
Nonchalant or laid back best describes her style. Her music is never rushed and maintains a certain stillness to it, such as in her most recent viral music video of a mashup of a FooFighters song titled Everlong meets Bobby Caldwell's song titled What You Won't Do, (listen/view here at TheQuietStorm.Com). That smooth groove mashup recording she made may just be what landed her debut network television appearance and two song performance on ABC-TV's Jimmy Kimmel Live on January 30th, 2018.
Outside of the viral cover song mashup referenced above, she is a very good original songwriter who musters up talented people to help her make well done audio recordings, music videos and filmed live performances.
The two videos featured below are different versions of the same song titled Awake. Awake is track #10 on her independent debut album titled Unraveling.
It is a tossup between which version is The-Indies favorite, so a flip of a quarter picked the minimalist piano/voice version first and the studio version of Awake and it's conceptual music video next. Enjoy!
Elise Trouw - Awake - Official Music Video Production Credits
Produced by GKC - Connect direct at GKC.media
Directed by Dewald Brand - Connect direct at DewaldBrand.com, Facebook.com/mrdewaldbrand and Instagram.com/dewald_brand
DOP : Daniel Walsh
Producer : Chase Musslewhite
Gaffer: Thomas Klopfner
Editor: Jess Viljoen
Colorist: Josh Borrill
Creative Director: Herman Du Toit
1st AC: George Kirkinis and Joshua Rijneke
Production Assistant : Dylan Der Kinderen
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