10000 Hours of Indie

Sans Froid are a Bristol based art rock 4-piece. Formed originally as a duo in 2019, they grew into their current form quickly and have played festivals including ArcTanGent and Strangeforms, had BBC radio airplay and have so far released an album and EP and several singles too. They recently released news of their 2nd album “Back Into The Womb”, due for release in June and the first single from i...

As their Bandcamp page claims, Sky Valley Mistress are a rock and roll Duel-Drumming Duo from Blackburn, Lancashire featuring Kayley "Hell Kitten" Davies and Max "Leather Messiah" Newsome. Signed to New Heavy Sounds, the duo released their second full-length “Luna Mausoleum” back in January. I was a little late to the party, but now that I’ve found their music I wanted to find...

Headphone Jacks are a Finnish band based in Helsinki. Although they are an alternative rock band, their influences are multi-genre, everything from desert rock to 70’s prog and grunge, you get the idea. Writing winding and intricate songs, the 4-piece released their debut album - Discipline - in April last year and have already followed up with a new single The Emperor which came out at the end of...

Ten years into their time together, math rock duo Bicurious are still proving their name is apt. Having released 2 albums (the first almost solely instrumental math rock and the second filled with vocal hooks to entice listeners further), they are about to release an EP - Afterthoughts - which includes 3 songs which didn’t fit their last album and 4 acoustic versions of tracks which were on that a...

In this episode I’m speaking to Henrik Schmidt, the composer behind Norwegian band  bladverk. Plugged as lightly proggish soundscapes meets silk-soft double vocals, their debut album “Monumental Thrill, Monumental Chill” has just been released and I’m really enjoying it. Photo: Emilie Sandberg Click follow to discover more amazing independent music and give a follow via your ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠soc...

2 more bands in the 80 Bands Around the World project, and continuing my trawl through London, this time in Camden. An amazing all day music festival with bands from Ireland ( God Alone. ) and Portugal ( dUAS sEMIcOLCHEIAS iNVERTIDAS ). This episode is part of the 2026 Podcastathon , the world’s largest podcast charity initiative, bringing together podcasters globally to raise awareness for charit...

Bristol based Sugar Horse are an experimental rock band who venture from soft riffs to an all out assault on the ears in seconds! Made up of Ashley Tubb (vocals, guitar), Chris Howarth (bass), Jake Healy (baritone guitar, keyboards), and Martin Savage (drums), the band are due to release their third album “Not A Sound In Heaven” on 10th April and I wanted to find out more… Click follow to discover...

After a month I’m back on the 80 Bands Around the World project, and this time I was headed to London for a couple of nights and found Soviet Underground from Russia. The episode includes a review of the show and an interview with some members of Soviet Underground. I would also like to give a nod to the opening band Epileptic Lizards , a band I’m sure you’ll hear more from. Come and give 10000 Ho...

What can I say about Dodgy ? A band that was very much one of the major players during Britpop and went platinum in the UK with their third album “Free Peace Sweet”. There have been a few line-up changes through the years, but Dodgy are still with us and are just about to release their 7th album 'Hello Beautiful', due on 1st May. Click follow to discover more amazing independent music and...

The Neurophonic Temple are a heavy psychedelic noise rock trio from Osnabrück, Germany consisting of David (drums/vocals), Marcus (guitar/vocals), and Peter (bass). Formed in 2023, they released an EP the following year and have just released the first single “Nuance of Bizarre" from their upcoming debut album, “Transgressive Sonic Stimuli” due for release in April. It’s pretty epic, so I wan...

The Deadmans are a London based band playing alternative pop. Comprised of Harry Deadman (British/Australian musician and filmmaker), LaurenSage Browning (American playwright and artist), Nikki DeParis (American singer and actress) and Jake Black (drums) they have just released the second song “If Arizona Didn’t Exist” taken from their debut self-titled album, The Deadmans, which is due for releas...

Leto Grand is Carl Davies, a London-based independent funk-pop artist and multi-instrumentalist. Performing as a 7-piece band, Leto Grand fuses funk, indie, house, and ska, creating a sound reminiscent of Talking Heads and Ian Dury. After 6 years, the debut album is ready for release, and with the current single Lovely Walk Grace Edit released earlier in the month I wanted to quiz the brain behind...

Kaleidobolt are a Finnish power trio who blend proto-metal, psychedelic rock, and progressive rock. Consisting of Sampo Kääriäinen (guitar/vocals), Marco Menestrina (bass/vocals/keys), and Mårten Gustafsson (drums), the band formed in 2014 and are just about to release their 5th studio album “Karakuchi”. Click follow to discover more amazing independent music and give a follow via your ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

BAMBEES are an alternative rock/punk band from Merthyr Tydfil, Wales formed in 2022. The band consists of Rhys Davies (vocals), Ainslee Ree (lead guitar), Jamie Thomas (rhythm guitar), Sofia Reffell (bass), and Owen Evans (drums) and have been consistently releasing and playing shows since they formed. Last Friday saw the release of their first tune this year, the riff driven, in your face “NOEYES...

Another country has been ticked off of the 80 Bands Around the World project and this time it's Ivo Dimchev from Bulgaria. This time was a little different as it was a film and live show as part of a film festival and no interview, but still a memorable show as you'll hear... Come and give 10000 Hours of Indie a follow via your ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠social media of choice⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Alongside the 80 Bands Ar...

Greg Weeks is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer based in Philadelphia, known as a leading figure in the psychedelic folk scene. His work is a blend of folk, acoustic, and experimental, often featuring intricate acoustic guitar and at times, chamber-pop arrangements with cello and mellotron. Aside from his solo work, he is also known for his work with the bands Esper...

I'm back and this episode of the 80 Bands Around the World project features two African artists from the Helsinki afrojazz scene, Baraka Issabu and Dickson Uthui . A review of what was a great show and interviews with both artists continues my journey on the quest to find bands and artists from 80 countries... Come and give 10000 Hours of Indie a follow via your ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠social media of choice⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Rifle are a proper punk band. The 5-piece hail from London, and their press release quite rightly states: “Rifle is the sound of revenge yelled by the damned sons of London's borderlands.” The self-titled debut album came out on January the 16th and it’s a real in-your-face statement of intent which Kerrang! magazine has compared to Gallows and said “This is very much an album for our times…”....

Flesh Cherub is Melbourne based Liam McVay whose new 6-track EP “Drowning in the Expanse of Looking Up” was released on January 16th. As the press release states “In the same manner that personal history haunts and loops, the songs are ghostly, cyclical lamentations…” and partly for that reason it’s hard to define a genre. The emotion within the songs seems to define if the track is punk, folk, co...

Truckfighters are a 2-man fuzzy stoner rock band from Örebro, Sweden. Comprising Oskar "Ozo" Cedermalm and Niklas "Dango" Källgren, and currently Joel "Jolo" Alex on drums, the bands’ best known song “Desert Cruiser” has streamed over 15 million times on Spotify alone. This is a band that epitomises the independent ethic that I’m such a fan of, self-releasing, booking...

Tram 92 are a new jazz/world duo based in Brussels. Comprising Chris Bestwick, a guitarist from the UK and Anthony Barilla, an accordion player originally from the US, the duo have created something quite unique. Their Bandcamp says “When mixing this EP, we couldn’t find any reference tracks with the same instrumentation in a similar style. This means there must be a lucrative gap in the market fo...

Founded in 2005, The Grownup Noise are a 4 piece indie folk band from Boston, Massachusetts. Their music has appeared on NPR, MTV, Netflix and in independent films, and the band have shared a stage with Counting Crows and Aimee Mann amongst others. Comprising of Paul Hansen on lead vocals, guitar & keyboards, Adam Sankowski on bass and backing vocals, Katie Franich on cello and backing vocals...

YOU GUITARPRAYER are a Cologne-based psychedelic noise rock trio. Soheyl Nassary: guitar and vocals, Spiro Kotsomitopoulos: drums & percussion and Scharco: bass - make up the band - who make a much bigger sound than their 3 instruments would suggest! They released their 2nd album “I Am The Light, The Light I Am“ on Worst Bassist Records in October and claim it delves deeper than noise rock, to...

And so it begins. The 80 Bands Around the World project kicks off with a show featuring Swedish veteran indie-rockers Slim Loris . A brief review and an interview with Slim Loris singer Mattias Cederstam kicks off a journey to goodness knows where in the quest to find bands from 80 countries... Come and give 10000 Hours of Indie a follow via your ⁠⁠⁠⁠social media of choice⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Alongside the 80 B...

Zoe Hayter is a half Czech, half English singer songwriter who has lived in Czechia, France and Ireland. Beginning her musical journey at a very young age, she busked to raise the money to make her first album “Only Breathing” when she was just 14 years old. I spoke to Zoe last year, shortly after the release of her single “Je te veux” and with the release of her latest single, “Hope is the One” o...