UTG’S 9 ARTISTS TO WATCH IN 2015

UTG’S 9 ARTISTS TO WATCH IN 2015

We don’t keep many traditions around UTG, but one column we look forward to piecing together every year is our annual Artists To Watch list.

We have highlighted several bands in recent years who later went on to make big impacts on music, including Tiny Moving Parts, Dangerkids, and Bad Rabbits.

This year we could not settle on only choosing five so, in hopes of keeping our editors from violently assaulting one another in the name of promoting good music, we decided to include nine fantastic artists on the rise that we feel you need to watch in the year ahead. Some are punk, others are far more indie/rock, but every artist mentioned deserves at least a few minutes of your time. Good music is good music, after all. Forget genres. It’s 2015 – grow up and listen to whatever the hell you want. You’ll be a lot happier in the long run.

LAVOLA (Orlando, FL)

It’s not quite rock ‘n’ roll, it’s not ambient, it’s not quite experimental. LAVOLA hits this balanced middle ground music lovers haven’t seen since the likes of Seattle’s post hardcore poster child, The Blood Brothers. The band’s latest LP, This Book is My Cowardice, is a vibrant display of all of the above mentioned genres. Songs like “Show Your Face, Motherfucker,” harness a blast of uncontrolled energy, while tracks like “Watch Your Step” and “Please Excuse The Blood” are so fittingly strange that no other up-and-coming band in the scene could come close to duplicating. It is a truly unique sound no fan of alternative music should sit on. This Book Is My Cowardice was released independently in early 2014, with a vinyl pressing to come later in the year.

Source: http://www.underthegunreview.net/2015/01/05/utgs-9-artists-to-watch-in-2015/

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