OK here is what the press release says “What started as an unstructured poem Joy had written during the summer of 2023 had turned into an electrifying darkpop track in the matter of a few hours. The vulnerable and stab-in-the-heart lyricism paired with “the 1975” style electric guitar in the chorus creates a daring and…
From Waterfall to Agile: How Software Developers are like kind of like Indie Film Makers Picture this: it’s 1970. The software industry is in its infancy, and engineers are building systems for government contracts, military operations, and mainframes. Their approach? The Waterfall model—borrowed from the world of construction and manufacturing. Everything is planned upfront, executed…
Escaping the Digital Stone Age is a zine by Cyan Coury promoting new ideas for what the next wave of female representation in video games could look like. I’m filing this one under games as well as print because any serious game dev these days ought to take a look at these character descriptions / educational…
Artwork by Mike Bartz Back in the eighties and nineties, the indie scene was chockablock with short-run Xerox’d ‘zines crammed with political screeds, interviews with indie bands, short stories, street poetry, comics, etc. Control takes us back to that time with its punk aesthetic and content. The mixture of typewriter fonts and scratchy handwriting laid out in…
You might discover Kaylee Marie Still’s star power on Instagram via her sultry, smoky covers of classic pop songs from the seventies and eighties. She sings directly into the camera, so you feel like the recording engineer – your phone becomes the window of the sound booth. And keeping with that metaphor, this is just…
To consider local SF Bay Area MC, singer and songwriter Ryan Greene a prolific artist would be an understatement. Since the mid-80’s, Bay Area native, Ryan Greene has devoted his life path to music and for this, has reaped the benefits of being a tenacious and charismatic staple in the Bay Area music scene. Making…
Pete, an indie shoe gaze band from the early 90s, have recently re-issued their double 7″ single “Iron On / ExStasis” on colored vinyl in the perfect color combo for a band from that era- blue and orange. Rad. https://peterecords.bandcamp.com/releases
We don’t know much about James Zero – just that he is an alternative singer-songwriter born in the late 1900s somewhere in the Eastern parts of North America and that he has just released his sophomore album “Oceans (& Other Bodies of Water)”. What we do know is that we have his song “Watermelon” on…
Our new favorite artist, Brown Brown has been making trippy, funky, spacey, deeply personal and dead-ass real music for decades. His music videos are like collages, with lots of layered imagery- so much to dig into. The place to start is his YouTube channel. though you’re gonna want to follow him on TikTok and Instagram as…
Want to know what to watch during lockdowns or while quarantining? Check out Collider.com’s list of Indie Flicks for 2020. The selections range from silly to serious and are sure to take your mind off the apocalypse for 90 minutes or so. Then you can go back to doom-scrolling.