Andy Fenstermaker is a music lover, writer, marketing professional, and entrepreneur who has dedicated his life to sharing his passion for music with others. He is the founder of FensePost, a renowned music blog that has been sharing the latest and greatest in indie music since 2006. Andy has always been fascinated by the power of music to connect people, and he started FensePost with the aim of sharing his love of music with others. Andy developed a passion for music at a young age. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Andy grew up surrounded by a vibrant music scene that left an indelible mark on him. He attended Washington State University, where he studied Communication and Business. He holds a BA in Communication and a Masters in Business Administration. After graduating, Andy started writing about music and created FensePost as the outlet. The blog has a strong focus on indie music, but also covers a range of other genres including folk, indie pop, psychedelic, garage rock, and experimental. Andy and the blog relocated to the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in 2020.
Seattle’s Eastern Grip is fairly unknown in the world of music, but my prediction is that they won’t remain unknown very long. The wildly catchy opening tune off Griptheria is what leads me to that conclusion. It’s filled with an intense hook-filled guitar riff and various group vocals. That song is “Walking Around In A Deadman’s Shirt”, and if you were thinking the purely amazing songwriting were to end there, you’d be dead wrong. Read More »Eastern Grip [Feature]
It’s about 50 in the office and I had the brilliant idea of wearing flip-flops and a short-sleeve dress shirt today. Damn appendages are freezing off. I can think of a few cures to remove the chill. Sometimes all you need is a little folk-pop; today, I turned to Haakon Ellingsen. Read More »Haakon Ellingsen [Feature Band]
Music festivals, other than catching hot shows and partying it up with crazies from across the nation, are all about networking with industry people and discovering new artists. I had just handed out about 200 bars of Ice Cream at The Village Underground last Wednesday. Matt, also known as Ice Cream Man, hopped into his Yaris and drove down the street after thanking me for some needed assistance. I made my way downstairs for the SPECTRE + Wii + Rockstar Games party, where I met some of the folks from Apollo Heights. Read More »Apollo Heights [Feature Band]
Lie To Me, the new EP by Kingsbury (MySpace), is mysterious in all its splendor. Lacking a true genre, it resides somewhere in-between. Fitting; listening to it takes you elsewhere as too, a place undefinable, encased within the mind. It’s not quite hypnosis, but it’s not necessarily what the common person would call reality. Read More »Kingsbury: Lie To Me [Album Review]
The Dutchess is Kimberly Morrison and the Duke is Jesse Lortz. The two have been playing together for years, but it wasn’t until they struck out on their own in The Dutchess And The Duke that their creative music abilities came full circle. She’s The Dutchess And He’s The Duke is an album mixing lo-fi folk elements (but not too much so) with 70s folk melodies.
Read More »The Dutchess And The Duke: She’s The Dutchess And He’s The Duke [Album Review] 
It’s been nearly a decade since I last sat on my favorite rocky beach on Orcas Island. I worked as a day camp counselor at a YMCA camp there; a three hour ferry ride from Anacortes, Washington. I still remember the beach well, often daydreaming of the evenings my fellow counselors and I would stroll down to the waterfront and sit watching the sun drop from the sky, turning it shades of pink and purple, and listen to the waves lap the rocky shore. “Simple Chords (Intro)†by Irene opens with a similar sound, one that hits me with a pang of sad nostalgia—sad that I am no longer at that location, but happy to reminisce on it all these years later. Read More »Irene: Apple Bay [Album Review]
Preconceptions are often misleading. I always pictured Ireland’s Bell X1 (MySpace) as having a substantial electronic sound, one strife with hype and thus with the capacity for an inevitable backlash from the masses. But, my introduction to their upcoming LP Blue Lights On The Runway demonstrates just how wrong my expectations were. Now, Bell X1 certainly adds electronic elements to “How Your Heart Is Wired”, but they’re merely a backing instrument, a beat, a keeper of time. Read More »Bell X1: How Your Heart Is Wired [pReview]
In exactly one month from today, Obits (MySpace) will release their album I Blame You on Sub Pop. And, much like the label’s true beginnings as a haven for subterranean pop music in the vein of loud, oft leaning toward the obnoxiousness of punk and grunge, Obits fit the frame, square as it may or may not be. As much as the grunge era’s true artists passed me by, I cannot say the same for these guys. Read More »Obits: Pine On [pReview]
One hidden treasure from 2007 was Kevin Hume‘s The Truth About Ants And Aphids. Hume’s debut album was packed with a variety of tunes that touched an array of worldly influences of primarily a folk nature. Well he is back with a new single called Velociped, and from the sound of it, his music continues to and always has pushed creative boundaries, this time breaking out of the worldly folk and into electronic folk.
Read More »Kevin Hume: Velociped [Digital Single Review] 
We Swim You Jump (MySpace) produces intricate, intimate pop jems that mix in elements of folk and are populated with detailed orchestration. Despite the powerful music pouring forth from each song on their self-titled EP, We Swim You Jump is dominated by massively forthright, in-your-face vocals. It’s not that they’re hard-hitting or edgy, they’re just ever present when it comes to being the most noticeable element in the song. Read More »We Swim You Jump: We Swim You Jump [Album Review]
