10000 Hours of Indie

Keoma are a Helsinki based Finnish hybrid metal 6-piece formed in 2008 whom I’ve known for many, many years. Blending heavy riffs, soaring vocals, catchy melodies and synths they create dark yet hopef...

9 Jan 26min

2025 has been an excellent first year for the 10000 Hours of Indie podcast, so I thought I'd give a little rundown on my favourite albums of the year, the passing of 2 highly influential musicians and...

31 Dec 20255min

Destrends are a 4-piece Australian post punk/garage rock band consisting of Matt Savage (vocals) and Angus Ingram (bass), Liam Burgan (drums), and Billy Watts (guitar). I’ve been following the band si...

22 Dec 202517min

Wooden Tape is Tim Maycox, a UK artist who creates haunting, ambient folk music. The second album “Wool” has just been released and is “...a sonic photo album of childhood memories of Liverpool in the...

19 Dec 202521min

Son Iris are a Finnish indie rock duo consisting of Sam Weckman on vocals and guitar and Mikko Kaakkuriniemi on drums. In October the duo released their first album, “I”, which crosses genres and musi...

15 Dec 202522min

Ed Harcourt is a Mercury Music Prize nominated singer/songwriter/pianist who has just released his 12th solo album. He has written and/or produced for numerous artists including Sophie Ellis-Bexter, P...

12 Dec 202524min

Youth Killed It are a Norwich based garage rock 4-piece who you really should have heard of by now if you haven’t! Having played a host of festivals including Isle of Wight and shared the stage with T...

8 Dec 202523min

Tiger Balme are 4-piece Toronto based Yang Chen, Estyr, Danielle Sum, and Anda Zeng. They all take vocal duties and write together and are influenced by disco, indie, math rock, and ’90s acoustic pop ...

5 Dec 202531min