Mates of State are an indie-pop duo from the US, and consist of husband and wife, Kori Gardner (vocals/keys) and Jason Hammel (vocals/drums). The band have a long and wide back catalogue, flitting between emo, indie and pure pop. They kicked things off at the Scholar Bar in Leicester with the dark and brooding “So Many Ways”, […]
Arizona’s Lydia are used to change. They started out as a rocky emo band with their debut, This December; It’s One More and I’m Free which set them up perfectly for the follow-up: the cult classic, swelling winter record, Illuminate. In 2010, backing vocalist and keyboardist Mindy White, who now fronts States, decided to leave […]
Our second stream of the evening comes from Indiana’s We Love You. Stream “I’m Fine, You Okay Over There?” below! Their new EP, I’ll Go it Alone From Here, will be released on the 20th of October via NDE Records.
We’ve teamed up with NDE Records again to bring you two more exclusive streams! The first is “Campfires” by Sunglasses on a Plane from the forthcoming EP Excess Company The EPs will be released on the 20th of October via NDE. Stream the song below!
Lydia are best-known for their 2008 cult classic Illuminate, an incredible album which weaves pop, emo and ambience to create the perfect winter sound. After an EP, a brief split, and a new record, the band returned with a brand new sound on the vastly underrated Devil [2013]. On Devil, the band moved towards a […]
Local Colour Records are a DIY label from the South of England putting out emo/punk bands, but mainly “any bands [they] like and think are cool.” The label is run by twin brothers Alex and Charlie Flowers who grew up and live in a tiny town, suffering the struggles a lot of us face: a […]
Like a true child of the mid-Nineties, I grew up discovering music on MTV. Gone were the days of stumbling upon and shuffling through boxes of your parent’s records, growing up on Jimi Hendrix and The Doors to Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, just like your parents may tell you how they fell in love […]
We’re happy to be exclusively premiering Second Wind‘s new single, “New Years”, which is taken from their forthcoming release Wicked Helmet. The EP will be released via NDE Records on the 13th of October. Stream the song here!
Hailing from Charlotte NC, It Looks Sad. are an intriguing new take on indie-post-punk. With a strong summertime feel; this North Carolina four piece are following close in the footsteps of surfer blood and to a lesser extent; Foals, whilst adding an edgy almost melancholy angst to the mix. Kaiju was released digitally on Tiny Engines on 26th June. […]
Have you heard of NDE? No? How often does a Facebook group become a record label? Not very often. Non-Denominational Emo was started last year by Craig Lindholm to combat the toxicity of other similar Facebook groups which were plagued by genre battles and negativity. Now, the group, simple referred to as NDE, has transformed into […]