ARTIST · INDIE / DANCE-PUNK

Hockey

Sweat-soaked funk bass under new-wave guitars—disco for warehouse shows with lipstick smears.

Indie rock
Dance-punk

Updated 27 October 2026

Biography

Hockey channelled LCD Soundsystem discipline through lo-fi Portland ambition, earning blog-era hype on rhythmic swagger.

Too Fake packaged cynical lyrics inside mirrorball guitar chop and slap bass that DJs could blend.

Their brief major-label moment captured late-2000s indie's love affair with dance-floor BPMs.

Clean streaming separates Clavinet bark, dry snare samples, and Ben Grubin's nasal soul from mix mud.

Hockey formed in Portland, Oregon, and quickly found an audience through a handful of singles. Too Fake, with its bright guitar and drum machine, was a fixture on indie dance floors in 2009, and the band’s debut Mind Chaos collected Learn to Lose, Song Away, and other early tracks.

The group followed with Little Death in 2012. Their sound, a mix of funk-inflected guitar, synthesizers, and falsetto vocals, stands as a good snapshot of the indie-dance wave of the late 2000s.

Interesting facts about Hockey

01 American band formed in Portland, Oregon, prominent in the late 2000s around vocalist and keyboardist Ben Grubin.
02 Mind Chaos (2009) collected singles such as Too Fake and Song Away for wider release.
03 Associated with the indie-dance wave alongside peers blending rock guitars with electronic rhythms.
04 Too Fake was an early breakout single in 2009.
05 A second album, Little Death, followed in 2012.