If you’re looking for a new band to get into, I would recommend the Indyns and their awesome self-titled EP. Their music is extremely enjoyable, and it has just enough of an electronic vibe, but not so much that you feel like you are in annoying dance club. It also has good instrumentals, and I love the vocals. The songs are on their EP are just depressing enough to make you feel good, and not so depressing that you lable the Indyns as another stupid emo band.

Favorite songs: Anniversary and Champagne Girls

Also check out their songs Annual and…

What is so appealing about sterile (and ridiculously non-dangerous) looking people singing about danger and such? I don’t the answer, but whatever, I’m addicted, and I found a new source of such entertainment. I came across Tune-Yards and their song Gangsta and I think I will be listening to it for awhile. The good news is you can get their new ”Gangsta,” EP on iTunes. It features the single with a few cool remixes, and includes an acapella version for people who like their music that weird—I’m right there with you.

GangstaAllThatIndieNoise:TuneYardshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFHuTXJMgOk

Divide by Design is a alternative rock (think 90’s), band from San Diego. I came across them this past week and found myself forming a fondness for them. I would say that what I like most about them is that they sound as if they are actually a band, not a one man act (as so many so called “bands,” are now days). Their music is intensely emotional, which they make clear through their melodies as well as lyrics. My favorite song of theirs is most likely, “Tummy Pencils,” (pretty cool title).

Check out their website http://www.dividedbydesign.com/index.html, where you can…

For those of you have followed Say Hi’s musical career (formerly Say Hi to Your Mom), you know well that his sound has, “matured,” along the way. Personally, I don’t believe this is a bad or good thing. I love his older, raw, sounding stuff as much as his newer, more professional, sounding music. I have yet to find a Say Hi album I don’t like, and I thoroughly enjoy his latest one Um, Uh Oh.

My favorite tracks on the album are track 1, 3, 9, 10, and 11. The 1st one, “Dots On Maps,” is the perfect angsty…

Let us just say that Camera Obscura is wonderful. But like every band they have their bests and their worsts. In my humble (not) opinion, I believe that Underachievers is their best. The entire album holds true to what I think to be their “sound.” The songs are pleasing yet subduing—happy and depressing—at the same time. It’s a good chill album, good background music in the most entertaining way (background music can be horrible, this is not the case). Best song on the album? “Before You Cry,” but most of you listeners will probably go with, “Number One Son,” which…

Yael Naïm got my attention, as well as many others’, in 2007 with her song “New Soul,” from her album self-titled, Yael Naïm. “New Soul,” as well as many other songs from that album, was highly enjoyable. The melody and vocals were sweet, and the lyrics were charming. I expected similar things in the future from her; however her new album, She Was a Boy, is rather different. I’m not going to say that this album was a fail, because it will definitely appeal to certain people. On the other hand, those who identified with Yael Naïm through her song…

Sweden’s Shout Out Louds is a band that is quite hard to place in a category. Not two of their albums sound alike. In my opinion, this is a good thing, because while they their “style” or “sound” may change from album to album it doesn’t go from good to bad, or for that matter, from bad to worse, and you don’t get the feeling that you’re listening to the same album over and over again. But, while none of their albums are bad, I must say that “Our Ill Wills” is my favorite. Though this is not a detailed…