Indie30 Pop/Rock

UPDATE: New Pop/Rock – An Independent Music Playlist on Spotify

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09 Jul 2020
Art Pop, Jangle Pop, New Music, Pop, Pop/Rock, Psych, Rock
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It could be in our Electronic Pop Playlist. It could be in our Post Punk Darkwave Coldwave Shoegaze & Post Rock Playlist. But its here in our New Pop/Rock Playlist on Spotify. Such is the crossover effect of the...

Tracks of 2020 Series: Pop/Rock – An Independent Music Playlist by Indie30 on Spotify

Our Pop/Rock edition of our Tracks of 2020 Series, currently containing the 400+ tracks featured in and removed from our constantly updated 30 track New Pop/Rock Playlist on Spotify during 2020 is now available here and below.

Kathleen Edwards Returns With New Album; Shares “Options Open”

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21 May 2020
Americana, Country, New Music, Pop/Rock, Rock, Singer-Songwriter
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“I’m an excellent barista” Kathleen Edwards to The Toronto Star, November 2014. It’s fair to say that since delivering her powerfully wry debut album Failer in 2002 Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards built quite a reputation for marching to the...

The Razor Sharp LOVE SPORT Return With New Single

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13 Apr 2020
Garage, New Music, Pop, Pop/Rock, Psych, Rock
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Helsinki pop/rock quartet LOVE SPORT return after a three year hiatus necessitated by their work in other projects with a sharply buoyant new single ‘Life’s A Joke’. It’s the first taste from their forthcoming album And Justice For All,...

Go Get Mum Find Beauty & Charm Amidst The Mundane In Adelaide

While perusing the pages of Texan independent music blog Austin Town Hall this afternoon we learnt that Adelaide, our hometown and incidentally Austin’s sister city in Australia, is the focus of the charming and sprightly new single from Melbourne...

Video: Spine Tingling Opener From New Lanterns On The Lake LP

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20 Feb 2020
Ambient, Cinematic, New Music, Orchestral Pop, Pop/Rock, Rock
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Today sees Newcastle Upon Tyne quintet Lanterns on The Lake deliver Spook The Herd, their carefully constructed fourth album, an artistic response to the divisive turbulence surrounding them and English society in general. Last week they shared the cinematic...

The Critical Grooves of Catholic Action

Glasgow art pop/rock outfit Catholic Action have shared the angular and eminently danceable ‘Another Name For Loneliness’, the third single from their upcoming second album Celebrated By Strangers, slated for release late March. It joins the two excellent singles,...

Patrick Doyle’s Final Album as Basic Plumbing Is Released

Yesterday marked the long overdue release of Keeping Up Appearances, the debut album by Basic Plumbing, the project belonging to the late Scottish singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and photographer Patrick Doyle who passed away in March 2018 at the age of...

Pet Shimmers Deliver Sixth & Final Single From Debut LP

Yesterday Bristol left field pysch-pop septet Pet Shimmers dropped the sweetly absurdist slow burning single ‘Tyson’. It’s a most agreeable albeit bittersweet effort about remembering the simple honesty of a cute and honest trick performing dog who we presume...

Sarah Harmer Shares Compact & Alluring New Single From Upcoming LP

Late last year Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah Harmer announced the impending February release of Are You Gone, her first album in ten years and shared its smart first single ‘New Low’. Last week she offered up the alluring and beguilingly...

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