Indiana-based folk rockers Joshua Powell & the Great Train Robbery wasted little time between a three song EP (We All Say Hello) and a new full length — and while the general stylistic makeup of the group’s…
For whatever reason, during each listen of Enemy/Lover, the debut album from Indiana’s Dreamers of the Ghetto, my mind invariably references “Big,” the 1988 film starring Tom Hanks. The movie (if you’ve forgotten) centers around a boy…
You’d half expect a band with a name like Early Day Miners to be from Northern California, or some such American gold rush region. The group, however, is instead from Bloomington, Indiana. The act is also not…
Zach Melton started solo, formed a seven-piece, stripped it back down and then built it back up to seven once again. The good news? Rodeo Ruby Love is all the stronger for it.
Beginning with the sound of a lighter, water bong, and a deep sigh, Indiana-based Tiger Cub pull no punches in drawing the listener into the (literal) highs and (figurative) lows of young adulthood. John Hughes would be…
Joel Levi is not Tom Petty, but damn it if both he and his music don’t sound a bit like Mr. Petty himself on his second EP, Middle of Everywhere. From the Americana rock that is filled…
Given the glut of hyper-fuzzed bands defiantly eschewing conventional (read: clean) recording techniques, it’s tempting to dismiss Indiana’s Osteoferocious as smirking, bandwagon jumpers. All of the visual cues are there; Osteoferocious are a two-man band comprised of…
It’s hard not to admire Frank Schweikhardt’s distinct lack of showmanship. Even as I lament having to repeatedly write the name “Schweikhardt” throughout this review, I’m almost gratified that he stuck with a name so difficult to…
Wearing their Midwestern hearts on their collective sleeves, the Elms deliver The Great American Midrange. The music harkens back to simpler times when bands didn’t need bogus stage names, flamboyant clothes or manufactured images to get their…
Metavari, though certainly not easily reduced to being indebted to one influence alone, sure seem willing run the risk of being endlessly compared to the Books. Their debut full-length, Be One Of Us And Hear No Noise,…