I had liked David Crowder*Band for some time before I actually owned any of their albums. I had heard DC*B’s music, and fallen in love with A Collision, but I don’t think I actually owned an album of theirs until Church Music came out. John hyped it up to me, and since we usually agree […]
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Top Indie Releases of 2011
Hi. Last year, we started our first installment of the top independent albums of the year. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand we’re doing it again! This year, Samantha, Michael and myself went through and highlighted some of our favorite independent albums released in 2011. This includes artists who currently have no record label as […]
10 Years Later: Five Iron Frenzy, “Electric Boogaloo”
We never thought we’d see it happen. We all thought that the Denver, Colorado ska octet Five Iron Frenzy had gone to the grave, never to resurrect. But November 22, 2011 proved to be a glorious day for those fans who had a part of themselves die as well, for Five Iron […]
We Recommend: brave Saint Saturn, “so far from home”
Part one of the trilogy about the USS Gloria, So Far From Home was the first album from astro-rock, Five Iron Frenzy side project, brave Saint Saturn. More emotional than most Five Iron Frenzy songs, So Far From Home explored love (“Moon Burns Bright”), losing a loved one (“Two-Twenty-Nine”), as well as the personality and […]
We Recommend: Listener, “Wooden Heart”
Dan Smith, formerly known as Listener as a part of the Deepspace 5 collective, got together with guitarist Chris Nelson, and then applied the name “Listener” to the duo’s band name. Listener’s latest offering Wooden Heart is a treasure amongst indie rock albums. The music doesn’t really follow any rules of music, unless it […]
We Recommend: Heath McNease, “Straight Outta Console”
If you looked up “hard-working musician” in the dictionary, and for some reason it was actually in there, you might find Heath McNease‘s name somewhere in the definition. When he’s not touring, he’s working on his next project. He’s dropped two so far this year, and has at least one more […]
“Behold the Side Project” by Scott Fryberger
Side projects. I really like the idea of side projects. I spent a good portion of one evening going through the list of Adam Young’s projects just because I wanted to hear them all (search for “list of Adam Young projects” on Wikipedia for a nice big list; you can […]
“Ask the Easter Bunny” by Scott Fryberger
Over the past couple years, as Easter begins to roll around, I’ve begun hearing something that I don’t remember from my childhood. I wasn’t raised in the Church, so I was never actually taught the real meaning behind Easter. I just knew that on Easter Sunday, I was gonna get […]
We Recommend: Your Heart, “Autumn”
For a guy who puts out several EPs a month with six different projects, you might think that Andrew Huang goes for quantity over quality. However, the man is consistently solid with very few missteps along the way. One of his best pieces of work is his album Autumn from his indie/folk/pop […]
Top Indie Albums of 2010
If you’re an avid reader of Jesusfreakhideout.com and all it has to offer, then you know we have two different classifications for the artists we cover: major label artists and independent artists. For a little over a year, I’ve been the main “writing guy” for the indie section (aka, the […]