At least eight people are dead after being crushed during the Astroworld music festival in Houston on Friday.  More than 300 people were treated throughout the event Friday at an on-site field hospital.

Approximately 50,000 people were at the event which was hosted by rapper Travis Scott and kicked off Friday.

Fire Chief Samuel Peña told a news “the crowd began to compress toward the front of the stage” at around 9:15 p.m. local time (10:15 p.m. ET).

“That caused some panic, and it started causing some injuries. People began to fall out, become unconscious, and it created additional panic,” he said, adding that a cause of death was not yet known for the eight victims but would be determined.

“It was scary, like, genuinely,” one festivalgoer, Alleighya Odom, 21, told NBC News, adding that the tightly packed crowd “was like this force on my back, this continuous force.”

“I started looking around, and there’s people on the ground. There’s people looking at me, like, scared, eyes wild, like, ‘Please help me,'” she said. “There’s people behind me crying because they’re being stepped on.”

The rest of the festival has now been scrapped

Look out for Joey Verskotzi aka Verskotzi and the new EP ‘ARC 003‘. You’ll love if you want atmospheric earthy indie rock like James Blake, Bon Iver, and Cherub.

The Minnesota native says “ARC 003 is about my move from MN to LA in 2017. Along the way, my wife and I’s UHaul trailer was stolen off the back of our car and we arrived in LA with only the clothes on our backs. This incident brought me closer to my wife than ever and we realized just how much new, beautiful life ahead of us we had yet to live”

The LA based artist and producer garnered praise from The Fader, We Found New Music, Celeb Mix, and has also been spotted in Rolling Stone and The Guardian.

Before working on his solo material, Verskotzi wrote music for Film & TV – landing placements with Chevy, ABC, NBC, Volvo, and MTV. He also collaborated with a slew artist including Dylan Dunlap, Myles Costello, and Shana Halligan.

Connemara folk singer-songwriter, Me Auld Flower drops Girl In The Gloaming. You’ll love if you like atmospheric indie rock. I had to google Connemara. It’s a wilderness in western Ireland, and it seems like the place to get inspired.

“Making the videos for these songs was a labour of love” says the singer songwriter. “It allowed me to be present in these magical spaces in a way I had never really been before. I was getting up at four in the morning for sunrises, and tracking the light throughout the day as it dipped behind clouds and mountains. It was a joy to spend that time getting to know this land more intimately, particularly as there were very few people around due to the lockdown. It was like having Disneyland to myself. I felt blessed to be living in a place with such splendour and solitude on my doorstep.”

The track comes off The Vaults of Consciousness, Vol. II which will release on November 26th.

Is it the rise of the indie acts? Music is gaining edge again. Italian rock band Måneskin is the hottest thing out today and indie acts like The Technicolors only make the landscape more colorful and thriving. Check out their new track Howl that comes off their album ‘Cinema Sublimina’. You’ll like if you love 90’s Britpop like Oasis.

The Arizona  performed alongside Matt Maeson, The Maine, Turnover, The Wrecks and Psychedelic Furs. The band has garnered support from CLASH, Paste, doNYC, Audiotree, and have found themselves on Spotify playlists “All New Rock” and “Modern Rock”

Don’t overlook Valley Boy and the track Disgusting, especially if you love electropop, art pop, and indie rock. The track easy fits in the ranks of Spotify’s Indie Rock Club.

“Disgusting” is a love story about being embraced for the parts of ourselves that we generally hide from the world. It starts with “I’ll let you in on a secret, One I been keeping since I was five years old I pick my nose, and I eat it I tell you and you still wanna kiss me”.

Lyrically, it’s reminiscent of Twenty One Pilots Blurryface, but more dark and dirty, and yes disgusting.

The duo is made up of best friends James Ghaleb and Ian Meltzer. They draw from their experiences from addiction to attempted suicide which supply fuel to their creative journey. Give it a stream on KOAR’s Indie Invaders Playlist.