Vocalist/songwriter Joemca — that’s pronounced “JUM-ka,” pretty much — promises classical schooling on both piano and violin, and it is armed with a CV including today’s revision of the score for the Chinese language opera, chamber music parts predicated on the functions of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, and — assuming …

Throughout several lineup changes, the main one constant of Montreal (and afterwards, LA)-based indie poppers Nerdy Girl was singer/songwriter Cecil Seaskull. Seaskull’s high, wobbly pitched but unmistakably impacting voice, matched up with lyrics that appear to be pages from a good but rueful one woman’s diary, had been Nerdy Girl’s …

Gabriel Kahane is usually a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter, pianist, and composer; he’s a musical polymath similarly in the home in traditional, theatre, jazz, and indie pop configurations. He has created large-scale orchestral functions, piano sonatas, string quartets, and music cycles. He offers collaborated with everyone from Elvis Costello and Rufus Wainwright …

Northern Ireland seems an improbable location to provide delivery to a vaudeville-obsessed bohemian singer/poet, but try informing that to Lisburn (close to Belfast) indigenous Peter Wilson, better known by his stage name Duke Particular. The self-proclaimed originator of “hobo elegant” — a guide both to his exclusive dress design and …

Having collaborated on a small number of remixes — dating back again to 1999, if they took using one of Vermittelnde-Elemente’s monitors over the Bruchstuecke label, while collecting focus on Losoul’s “YOU UNDERSTAND,” Geiger’s “Great Evening,” and Gui Boratto’s “AS IF YOU” on the way — Michael Mayer and Superpitcher …

Though she was created in Seattle, singer, songwriter, and actress Alison Sudol spent the majority of her life in LA, having moved presently there with her mom when she was five years of age. She started playing piano as an adolescent, with rings like Coldplay and Keane uplifting her whimsical, …

The multinational Guillemots, made up of British singer and classically trained pianist Fyfe Dangerfield, Brazilian guitarist MC Lord Magrao, Scottish percussionist Greig Stewart (aka Rican Caol), and Canadian twice bassist Aristazabal Hawkes, use their eclectic influences and personal styles to make a catchy pop sound and a lively live show …

The bass-less indie pop duo Mishima USA includes guitarist/singer Arto Payaslian and drummer Sean O’Brien, located in Cambridge, MA. Produced in 1998 and sketching their affects from such alt-rock symbols as Hüsker Dü, Glucose, Sonic Youngsters, and Pavement, the set honed their live action starting for such renowned performers as …

Indie pop/rocker Landon Pigg received his informal music education via his father’s record collection. His 1st CD ever possessed was by well-known novelty designer Ray Stevens. Created in Nashville on August 6, 1983, Pigg was the child of a studio room musician dad and a mom who was keen on …

The music of Montreal-born songwriting sisters Kate & Anna McGarrigle first found international recognition in 1974 when Linda Ronstadt recorded Anna’s “Heart Just like a Wheel” as the title song to 1 of her albums. The Canadian sisters had been authorized to Warner Bros. and documented Kate & Anna McGarrigle, …