Tag: indie

  • Taiwan’s Sunset Rollercoaster on Taking Inspirational Scooter Rides

    Taiwan’s Sunset Rollercoaster on Taking Inspirational Scooter Rides

    Welcome back to our interview series, Incorrect Music, curated by guitarist, singer, and composer Lora-Faye Åshuvud (of the band Arthur Moon). In this series, we present intimate conversations with artists who are striving to push the boundaries of their process and craft. Join our weekly email newsletter to get more insights like this into how professional artists are making music,…

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  • L’Rain on Making ‘Not Jazz’ and Being in a ‘Dead Marriage’ with Music

    L’Rain on Making ‘Not Jazz’ and Being in a ‘Dead Marriage’ with Music

    Welcome back to our interview series, Incorrect Music, curated by guitarist, singer, and composer Lora-Faye Åshuvud (of the band Arthur Moon). In this series, we present intimate conversations with artists who are striving to push the boundaries of their process and craft. Join our weekly email newsletter to get more insights like this into how professional artists are making music, and…

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  • The Cradle’s Paco Cathcart on Making ‘Momentous Music’

    The Cradle’s Paco Cathcart on Making ‘Momentous Music’

    Welcome back to our interview series, Incorrect Music, curated by guitarist, singer, and composer Lora-Faye Åshuvud (of the band Arthur Moon). In this series, we present intimate conversations with artists who are striving to push the boundaries of their process and craft. Join our weekly email newsletter to get notified whenever we publish our latest interviews and articles! Brooklyn’s Paco…

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  • Mexico’s New Wave: 10 Artists Poised to Break Out this Year

    Mexico’s New Wave: 10 Artists Poised to Break Out this Year

    + Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. Mexico has as long a history as any other place of churning out remarkable rock ‘n’ roll, pop, electronic, and even symphonic composers. But today, stellar independent…

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  • How to Use 7th Chords in Indie Pop Music

    How to Use 7th Chords in Indie Pop Music

    What may be institutionally indefinable, the obscure genre term “indie pop” is considered an umbrella for most of the accessible-yet-alternative pop music being made today by predominantly young, western songwriters. Indie pop is hard to define because it covers an enormous range of sounds, from electronic synth-driven voyages to jangly and reverby guitar-based music, to warm harmonies…

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  • Ora Cogan on Why She’s the Luckiest Weirdo in the World

    Ora Cogan on Why She’s the Luckiest Weirdo in the World

    Welcome back to Soundfly’s weekly interview series, Incorrect Music, curated by guitarist, singer, and composer Lora-Faye Åshuvud (of the band Arthur Moon). In this series, we present intimate conversations with artists who are striving to push the boundaries of their process and craft. Often compared to the mystical Karen Dalton, Montreal’s Ora Cogan makes experimental folk music that draws from…

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  • Jaime Fennelly of Mind Over Mirrors on Approaching Art Practice as Environment

    Jaime Fennelly of Mind Over Mirrors on Approaching Art Practice as Environment

    Welcome back to Soundfly’s weekly interview series, Incorrect Music, curated by guitarist, singer, and composer Lora-Faye Åshuvud (of the band Arthur Moon). In this series, we present intimate conversations with artists who are striving to push the boundaries of their process and craft. Jaime Fennelly is the prolific composer, synthesist, and harmoniumist behind Chicago’s Mind Over Mirrors, a project which…

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  • Tennis on How There Are No Shortcuts to Writing Great, Personal Songs

    Tennis on How There Are No Shortcuts to Writing Great, Personal Songs

    Welcome back to Soundfly’s weekly interview series, Incorrect Music, curated by guitarist, singer, and composer Lora-Faye Åshuvud (of the band Arthur Moon). In this series, we present intimate conversations with artists who are striving to push the boundaries of their process and craft. Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley make up Denver, Colorado’s indie-pop duo, Tennis. The married couple had a prolific…

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  • Cale Hawkins on the Art of the Single, and the Wacky Joy of the Therevox

    Cale Hawkins on the Art of the Single, and the Wacky Joy of the Therevox

    Welcome back to Soundfly’s weekly interview series, Incorrect Music, curated by guitarist, singer, and composer Lora-Faye Åshuvud (of the band Arthur Moon). In this series, we present intimate conversations with artists who are striving to push the boundaries of their process and craft. The multi-instrumentalist and composer Cale Hawkins has been steadily releasing a stream of unusual and elegant avant-pop…

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  • How to Make the Most of Your Time at SXSW

    How to Make the Most of Your Time at SXSW

    South by Southwest (SXSW) is one of the most exciting, chaotic times in the music industry. For emerging artists, it’s a time to connect with new fans, other bands, and industry professionals in an effort to widen your network and overall clout. It’s also a week filled with free alcohol, concerts, food, and more parties than…

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Ryan Lott: Designing Sample-Based Instruments