Hello Hopeless is a 3-piece rock band from Waterloo region, in Ontario, Canada. Their music is fairly eclectic, absorbing a number of influences from different styles of music, but I think it is fair to call it energetic, to say the least. With a band name like Hello Hopeless, you might not expect that much…
Before I get to my talk with Some Dude's Pesopicks creator, Stuart Brady, I want to say a few words about the humble guitar pick. If you play guitar, you probably know there are picks of all shapes, sizes, colors, thicknesses, designs, etc. You might even keep several guitar picks handy, and stop by the…
Wow! That’s a tall order. How am I going to narrow done the vast sea of indie bands in the last 50 years and choose only 5? Well, I’m going to try. After giving it a lot of thought, I hope I've arrived at a list that mentions the most important names in indie music. …
At one point, the term “indie rock” seemed like it actually meant something. Does it still? Did it ever? These are the questions that we shout into the void today! Why, some of us probably remember a time when “indie” type bands in the '90's used to actually make their own cassette mix tapes full of original music,…
