Amid relocating from SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA to Brooklyn, slickly polished indie rock and roll quartet the Morning Benders parted ways with bassist Tim Or and changed their name to POP ETC. This decision emerged after the music group toured thoroughly and found that the term “bender” acquired some homophobic …

Produced in 2008 by Clean & Onlys backup singers Sophistication Cooper and Heidi Alexander, along with drummer Roxy Brodeur of Pillars of Silence, San Francisco-based lo-fi pop trio the Sandwitches mix world-weary folk, ’60s girl group swagger, and infectious, Fleetwood Mac-inspired indie pop right into a sound that’s portion gothic …

Straddling the boundaries of post-dubstep and techno, British-born producer and DJ James Shaw, aka Sigha, got initially taken a decidedly different musical course. Shaw got originally been involved with shoegaze-inspired indie rings, and after learning acoustic guitar at music university, was released to the globe of digital music with a …

Brooklyn-based indie pop purveyors Dinosaur Feathers synthesize African, Brazilian, and retro-pop influences to their very own sunshine-soaked sonics. The task began in summer months 2008 being a single outing for vocalist/guitarist/drum machine participant Greg Sullo to reimagine the noises from the Beatles and Operating-system Mutantes with modern tools, but grew …

Les Vandyke is one particular rare abilities in British pop music whose songwriting achievement crossed several styles and eras, from the finish from the 1950s directly into the 1970s. Certainly, he saw even more achievement than many onlookers understood, working also beneath the name Johnny Worthy of and John Worsley …

Balancing cosmic psychedelic noises without wave angularity, Titus Andronicus guitarist Peter Feigenbaum began documenting music as Dinowalrus in 2003. What began being a half-baked aspect project had taken wings 3 years afterwards, when Feigenbaum fulfilled bassist Kyle Warren at a To Live and Shave in LA party. Recognizing a shared …

A genre-defying indie rock and roll outfit located in Manchester, Everything Everything formed in later 2007 throughout the abilities of drummer Mike Spearman, vocalist, guitarist, and notebook cowboy Jonathan Higgs, bass participant Jerry Pritchard, and guitarist Alex Robershaw, most of whom talk about (professionally) the final name “Everything.” Beholden to …

At age 15, Daisy Coburn began producing headlines as the electro-pop chanteuse behind Daisy Dares You, a collaborative task with songwriter Matthew Marston. Coburn had taken a full page from performers like Lily Allen and Kate Nash — two performers whose music also helped inform her very own quirky music …

The professional trustworthiness of some actors and performers is inextricable from that of the bigger ensemble to that they belong. Comedian/professional/screenwriter Aziz Ansari epitomizes this notion. Ansari shot to popularity in the middle- to past due 2000s as an associate from the three-person humor troupe in charge of The Individual …

Boy of Female may be the electro-pop duo of Berlin-based programmer/manufacturer Paul Mogg and vocalist/guitarist Rosalind Blair, who all lives in Belfast. The set met in the first 2000s when Blair was their studies at St. Martin’s University with Mogg’s partner at that time. Nevertheless, they didn’t begin collaborating on …