Indie Music Room
56 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe Indie Music Room is a showcase for artists to share their original songs, explain the thoughts behind their music, and play their most recent recordings. Hosted by Heather Kelly, she knows what it's like to be an Independent artist and all the things that go on behind-the-scenes to create an album of original music.
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Episodes
Indie Music Room - # 56 Jeremy Frey
April 05, 2024 16:39 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBHeather Kelly talks with Jeremy Frey. Songs include The Thoughts, Turtle, and The Future In Reverse.
Indie Music Room - # 55 Homeless Radio
March 14, 2024 16:38 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBHeather Kelly talks with Andrew Yampolskyi from Homeless Radio, an independent band from Ukraine. Songs include About You, I Don't Care, and Submarine.
Indie Music Room - # 54 Graice Kay
February 28, 2024 17:39 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBHeather Kelly talks with Graice Kay. Songs include Waiting for Love to Come Back Around, Spoilers, Til Death Do Us Part.
Indie Music Room - # 53 Weary Ramblers
January 30, 2024 18:15 - 38 minutes - 35 MBHeather Kelly talks with Kathryn Severing Fox and Chad Elliott from the Weary Ramblers. Songs include Medicine Creek, Sweet Hazel Green, and Tall Virginia Tree.
Indie Music Room - # 52 Iris Pope
November 29, 2023 18:10 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBHeather Kelly talks with Iris Pope. Songs include Far From Holy, Back to Today, and 7 AM.
Indie Music Room - # 51 The Parker Story
October 30, 2023 17:54 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBHeather Kelly talks with Anastasia and Parker from The Parker Story. Songs include FYBF, Tonite, and Airplanes Go.
Indie Music Room - # 50 Owen Hamlin
September 28, 2023 16:02 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBHeather Kelly talks with Owen Hamlin from Los Angeles. Songs include Old Things, And It Was Gone, and Swimming In Your Sea.
Indie Music Room - # 49 Henry Mansfield
August 31, 2023 16:11 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBHeather Kelly talks with Henry Mansfield from Seattle. Songs include Gumball, Let's Make a Movie, and String Theory.
Indie Music Room - # 48 Carlos Rising
July 31, 2023 16:49 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBHeather Kelly talks with Carlos Rising, a past contestant from The Voice. Songs include Simply in Love, Peacemaker, and Money.
Indie Music Room - # 47 Tim Stout
June 30, 2023 15:14 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBHeather Kelly talks with Tim Stout. Songs include Live To Serve, Speak Up, and Make Me Wanna Move.
Indie Music Room - # 46 Feez Da Popstar
May 31, 2023 16:04 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBHeather Kelly talks with Feez Da Popstar. Songs include Hard Candy, All I Need Is, Down For You (Party Get Lit), and It's The Summer.
Indie Music Room - # 45 Unfamiliar Things
April 28, 2023 16:45 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBHeather Kelly talks with Matt Levy from Unfamiliar Things. Songs include Alternate Worlds, Most People, and North Wind.
Indie Music Room - # 44 Gain Altitude
March 31, 2023 16:48 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBHeather Kelly talks with members of the group Gain Altitude, a London based indie band from Italy. Songs include Ms Routine, To The Moon, and Animal City.
Indie Music Room - # 43 Talkradio
March 01, 2023 21:54 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBHeather Kelly talks with Australian artist Talkradio. Songs include No Replay, Down, and My Time.
Indie Music Room - # 42 Blame It On Cain
January 30, 2023 17:12 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBHeather Kelly talks with Sam and Steve from the band Blame It On Cain. Songs include Blush, Atuna, and Your Freedom.
Indie Music Room - # 41 The High Crest
November 29, 2022 17:28 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBHeather Kelly talks with Aaron and Kat Short from the band The High Crest. Songs include All the Time in the World, Belong, and Something in the Wind.
Indie Music Room - # 40 Chlsy
October 28, 2022 16:02 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBHeather Kelly talks with Chelsea Gilliland from the band Chlsy. Songs include 555, No (Hard) Feelings, and Vancouver.
Indie Music Room - # 39 Mikee Cusack (Part 1)
September 30, 2022 16:36 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBHeather Kelly talks with Mikee Cusack about his career in music in the first of a 2 part interview. Songs include Take a Likin' to Me and Neanderthal Beauty..
Indie Music Room - # 38 The Phat Jammerz
August 29, 2022 20:58 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBHeather Kelly talks with Amarun Johal from The Phat Jammerz. Songs include Mr Free, Senorita, and Inside My Dreams.
Indie Music Room - # 37 Saturday Saints
July 29, 2022 16:05 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBHeather Kelly talks with members of Saturday Saints from Yonkers, New York. Songs include Coffin, You, and Crash.
Indie Music Room - # 36 Neil Anders
June 29, 2022 16:25 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBHeather Kelly talks with Neil Anders, a singer songwriter from northwest Iowa. Songs include Fruitdrop, Crooked Homes, and I Know.
Indie Music Room - # 35 Jason Waggoner
May 27, 2022 15:49 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBHeather Kelly talks with Flint, Michigan singer songwriter Jason Waggoner. Songs include Best Week Ever, Lovely To Say, and Laughing All The Time.
Indie Music Room - # 34 Michael Rockert
April 28, 2022 15:40 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBHeather Kelly talks with Kankakee native Michael Rockert. Songs include Colorblind, For A Time Like This, and God Save Me.
Indie Music Room - # 33 Bryon Dudley
March 31, 2022 15:47 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBHeather Kelly talks with Bryon Dudley from the band Strong Like Bear. Songs include Days Gone Sour, Three Wizards, and Alone At Sea.
Indie Music Room - # 32 Lauryn Peacock
February 28, 2022 16:40 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBHeather Kelly talks with singer/songwriter Lauryn Peacock from Nashville. Songs include Camus Blues, Anything Once, and John Prine's Ghost.
Indie Music Room - # 31 Jeremy Ober
January 27, 2022 17:03 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBHeather Kelly talks with Jeremy Ober from Fort Dodge, Iowa. Heather and Jeremy talk about his career as a local performer and song writer. Songs include East Side Window, We're Going to Hell, and Broken Crown.
Indie Music Room - # 30 Townsend
December 30, 2021 16:54 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBHeather Kelly talks with songwriter and performer Townsend about recording in Nashville. Townsend talks about the process of writing and recording her music in the studio with seasoned musicians and producers. Songs include Stay, Whisper, and Sunrise.
Indie Music Room - # 29 Krozover
November 29, 2021 15:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBHeather Kelly talks with members of Krozover, a US/Canada Indie Band that does all their recording virtually. Band members Nyx and Andy Shredz tell how they create and record via the Internet. Songs include A Thousand Times, Stranger, and The World We Live.
Indie Music Room - # 28 Gabe Kubanda
October 29, 2021 16:40 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBHeather Kelly talks with Gabe Kubanda. Gabe talks about growing up and listening to classic rock radio stations, and his time on VH1 Rock N Roll Fantasy Camp. Songs include Back on Track, Dancing On The Edge, and Let's Ride.
Indie Music Room - # 27 Emma Elsbecker
September 30, 2021 14:54 - 32 minutes - 30 MBHeather Kelly talks with Emma Elsbecker, a songwriter and performer from Algona, Iowa. Emma talks about her songwriting style and process. Songs include Pick Me Up, Over Dramatic, and Never Really Truly.
Indie Music Room - # 26 J Jeffrey Messerole
August 30, 2021 17:21 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBHeather Kelly talks with multi-award winning songwriter J. Jeffrey Messerole. Heather and J. Jeffrey talk about his recording experiences, and how he composes over 200 songs a year. Songs include Henrietta Queen of the Highway, Rumble Strips, Post Show Blues, and Stock-in-trade.
Indie Music Room - # 25 Andrew Chris
July 29, 2021 21:21 - 37 minutes - 34 MBHeather Kelly talks with singer/songwriter Andrew Chris. Andrew describes his full creative process from writing, recording, and producing his music. Songs include Bike, Daydream, and The Groove.
Indie Music Room - # 24 Hold For Swank
June 30, 2021 16:09 - 37 minutes - 34 MBHeather Kelly talks with Eric Nelson from Hold For Swank, a 90's styled pop rock band. Eric talks about his early musical influences, including country music. Songs include Tip of My Tongue, Little Chi Girl, and This Old Honky Tonk.
Indie Music Room - # 23 August Ubeda
May 27, 2021 15:36 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBHeather Kelly talks with August Ubeda from Norway. August talks about how he got started writing and recording his hip hop-influenced pop music, inspired by everything and anything. Songs include Dutchie, Down On Our Luck, and Run It Back.
Indie Music Room - # 22 Kimble Crane
April 28, 2021 21:38 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBHeather Kelly talks with Kimble Crane from Georgia with his brother Michael. Kimble talks about his process for writing, recording, and how they distribute their music. Songs include In The Gray, Self Aware, and Vigilante.
Indie Music Room - # 21 Connor Frost
March 29, 2021 16:25 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBHeather Kelly talks with Connor Frost from the New York based power pop band Dizzy Bats. Connor and Heather talk about writing, recording, and performing in the age of COVID-19. Songs include Alone, Cut Me Loose, and That Night.
Indie Music Room - # 20 Shadric Smith
February 25, 2021 16:52 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBHeather Kelly talks with singer/songwriter Shadric Smith. Shadric tells about writing and recording his style of music which includes Country-swing, folk, and blues. Songs include Diamonds Don't Mean a Thing, Yankee Cowboy, Rollin' Down That Lincoln Highway, and a bonus song, Underneath the Lilac Tree, featuring Heather Kelly.
Indie Music Room - # 19 Brandon Scott Sellner
February 04, 2021 18:36 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBHeather Kelly talks with guitarist and songwriter Brandon Scott Sellner. Brandon talks about the early days of his career and describes his home studio, and how recording at home differs from laying down tracks at a contract studio. Songs include The Journey, Still Dreaming, and Everlasting Lullaby.
Indie Music Room - # 18 Annual Christmas Show 2020
December 09, 2020 17:54 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBIt's Heather Kelly's annual Christmas show, featuring holiday music by Scott Dorman, Melvin James, Brandon Scott Sellner, Kirk Kaufman, Jack Gallup, Dave Hearn, and Tim Kelly.
Indie Music Room - # 17 Scott Dorman
November 13, 2020 16:36 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBHeather Kelly talks with Nashville songwriter Scott Dorman about his career in music. Scott talks about all the things he's done, from jingle writing to writing and performing in Nashville. Songs include One Thing, The Rest of My Life, and Trampoline.
Indie Music Room - # 16 Joshua Sinclair
September 23, 2020 17:27 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBHeather Kelly talks with Joshua Sinclair about how his career has evolved over the past 20 years. Joshua talks about signing multiple record deals to the music biz in general, and all the things that go along with it. Songs include Hank, Silicone and Wine, She's Got It All, and Stitches.
Indie Music Room - # 15 Podcasting and Indie Music
July 31, 2020 18:00 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBHeather Kelly talks with Bill Grady about the early days of podcasting and it's connection with independent artists and their music. Bill tells how Podcasters used to connect with independent artists through Adam Curry's PodShow PodSafe Music Network. Songs include Summertime by Brother Love, Say What You Will by Chance, and Dear Cheri by Road Trip. Music provided from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network.
Indie Music Room - # 14 Tim Kelly
May 20, 2020 16:41 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBHeather Kelly’s guest is her biggest musical influence, her father Tim Kelly. Tim talks about his journey as teen in starting a band, to a weekend musician with a family, and now writing and recording in his home studio. From appearing on KVFD’s Barn Dance as a teen to being inducted into the Iowa Rock ‘n Roll Music Hall of Fame, Tim has done it all. Songs include South 22nd Street Bar, On My Way, and Ain’t Gonna Be the Blame.
Indie Music Room - # 13 Kirk Kaufman
April 16, 2020 15:22 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBHeather Kelly talks with Kirk Kaufman about his many collaborations over the years. Kirk tells about how he writes his songs, and shares a story about meeting Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. Songs include End of Time, Little Bit Of, Cars Don't Rust in Outer Space, Space Cadet, and Bomber.
Indie Music Room - # 12 Brook Hoover
March 18, 2020 18:17 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBHeather Kelly talks with Brook Hoover about the playing in the Surf Zombies, and the Flamin' Camaros. Brook talks about recording at Paisley Park Studios and gives the back stories of his songs. Songs include I'm a Lucky Guy, Beer Guzzling Swine, He Rides His Bike, and Impressed.
Indie Music Room - # 11 Todd Partridge
February 20, 2020 16:27 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBHeather Kelly talks with Todd Partridge from King of the Tramps about writing, recording, touring in Europe, and how the band's style has an Iowa influence. Songs include Wandering Kind, Last Man Standing, Old Crow, and a live version of Hard Times.
Indie Music Room - # 10 Jeff Banks
January 08, 2020 21:52 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBHeather Kelly talks with Jeff Banks about his music and playing as a session musician. Heather and Jeff talk about a recent show in Texas, his writing style, and how a dream helped him write a song. Songs include Big Dreams, Stirred Not Shaken, and High and Goodbye.
Indie Music Room - # 9 Christmas Show Part 2
December 11, 2019 16:54 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBIn part 2 of our Christmas show, Heather Kelly talks with Kirk Kaufman about one of his Christmas music projects featuring artsits he's worked with. Music includes Merry Christmas by Melvin James, O Holy Night by Brandon Scott Sellner, It Won't Be Christmas by Dave Hearn, It's Christmas by Kirk Kaufman, and Christmas Time by Jack Gallup.
Indie Music Room - # 8 Christmas Show Part 1
December 11, 2019 16:49 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBIn part 1 of our Christmas show, Heather Kelly features holiday music by Dave Hearn and Tim Kelly. Dave is also in the studio with Heather and talks about each of the tracks. Music includes Deck The Halls, Pat a Pan, Coventry Carol, and Greensleeves by Dave Hearn, and The Christmas Song by Tim Kelly.
Indie Music Room - # 7 Larry Myer
November 12, 2019 19:04 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBHeather Kelly talks to singer and songwriter Larry Myer. Larry has played in more than 200 towns around Iowa and over half of the U.S., and is a winner of the Branson Songwriting Contest. Heather and Larry talk about working his way up from being a street performer to playing large concert venues, life on the road and studio projects. Songs include Flatlands, Take a Look at These Blues, and Hanging On.