Look out for the track Love to Cry by Ola Village. A cool indie track that could find itself on a variety of playlists . Ola Village takes cues from Bon Iver, Frank Ocean, Radiohead and Tyler, The Creator. He won the Norway’s new-music competition ‘Urørt’ with previous winners and nominees including girl in red, Pom Poko and Sløtface. Give it a stream on KOAR’s Indie Invaders.
Look out for Stockholm-based artist Amanda Cygnaeus aka CY and the new track Next To Yours. I love it. Think indie-pop mixed with alt 90’s guitars – Phoebe Bridgers and girl in red.
CY shares: “I wrote it after my first real heartbreak, back when me and my ex-girlfriend broke up. I have a tendency to either romanticize the past or worry about the future, so this was a way of reminding myself of what the relationship was really like and the fact that she ditched me. Kind of “how dare you?” but at the same time feeling okay cause you know that you just weren’t right for each other. I had built up those emotions for a while, so the song literally flew out of me.”
Give it a stream on KOAR’s Indie Invaders Playlist.
Fort Collins indie act Pandas & People are making some noise with their latest release Bad Honey. You’ll like if you love big anthemic indie radio rock. The song was added to the station KTCL by Nerf – the largest iHeart Alt station. The Dan Friedman repped act broke into the top 10 Denver-metro Shazam charts and shared the stage with Twenty One Pilots, Judah & the Lion, and American Authors.
Watch out for CHERITON and the new feel good track My Reverie. You’ll love if you like Vampire Weekend and HAIM. It can’t get more timely than a good vibes track, because that’s what the world needs..a big dose of positivity. London based Nick Harrison aka as CHERITON is working with collaborator, and producer Andy Hall Hall (Bastille, Fickle Friends, James Gillespie). He’s garnered support from EarMilk, BBC Radio 1 Jack Saunders, BBC Introducing Abbie McCarthy, & Clash. Give it a stream on KOAR’s Indie Invaders.
Rock n Roll lost impact on popular culture to pop. Now pop lost its impact, and who has impact anyway? I think culture lost to culture. But rock still exists and its alive and hopefully will make a resurgence when live venues open again because rock thrives off line whereas make up artists thrive online.
Speaking of rock many continue to push the rock boundaries like Los Angeles alt-rock band Rivals that just dropped their sophomore release, Sad Looks Pretty on Me. The band has released new music video for “Change Things” which is really good. You’ll like if you have some roots in rock and maybe it could attract some new ears.
Rivals made waves with the twenty one pilotsʼ track, “Heathens,” which clocked over 1 Million streams. In 2018, the band released their debut album Damned Soul via Smartpunk Records and has garnered over 5 million listens.
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