There is a heart-on-sleeve immediacy towards the indie rock and roll of Officer Kicks, a southeast London quartet formed by school friends Jamie Scallion about vocals, Jamie Fisher about acoustic guitar, Keith Wickham about drums, and Michael Skorjanec about bass. Changing their name from Mogul in 2005, the music group …

Created in 2003 by three friends on the School of NEW YORK at Wilmington, the Mile Following had been a pop/rock and roll group that gelled after the recruitment of Mike Borbacz on bass finalized the lineup. The group honed their chops with a reasonably steady group of performances round …

Folk/indie pop duo Dear Audience were founded within their indigenous Johannesburg, South Africa in 2006 by Cerilyn MacNeil (Vocalist/songwriter) and Darryl Torr (producer/bass participant). The set originally known as themselves Harris Tweed before Scottish textile producer from the same name requested that they desist. Having recast themselves as Dear Audience, …

Youth friends-turned-bandmates Anna and Frida started building recordings seeing that the Tough Bunnies in 2002 following break up of Inside Riot, a music group they’d formed if they were teens. The Swedish duo cultivated a childlike, wry, unapologetically lo-fi visual that nodded to works just like the Moldy Peaches, Talulah …

The storyplot behind Operator Please’s formation might have been an ideal plot for a teenager film. One talented misfit, irritated at her high school’s fight of the rings being gained by the favorite kids each year, rounds up four fellow talented misfits of differing age range. The five of these …

A decibel-shattering sludge/doom quartet from Portland, Oregon, Graves at Ocean spent their start holding courtroom deep in the Pacific Northwest underground metallic scene. Created in 2002 by longtime close friends Nick Phit and Nathan Misterek, along with Roger Williams and Steve Klatz, the music group issued some break up 7″ …

Heinz Karl Gruber maintains parallel professions being a conductor, composer, and vocalist (or “chansonnier,” his particular description). He’s particularly determined with the task of Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler, which he provides performed and documented extensively. His very own compositions reveal their influence, in adition to that of Alban Berg, …

When this Willie Jones sang and recorded “Willie’s Weary Blues” in the ’20s, he might have already been expressing exhaustion on the subject of being confused with therefore a great many other musicians with this same name. Another track from your same program, “Blue Buddies Blues,” may experienced something regarding …

Merging the urgency of dance-rock with slick electronica seems, the Los Angeles-based duo Glycerin created in 2004. Korean-born, Texas-raised vocalist Anna Track started her musical profession in LA as a vocalist/songwriter; while surviving in the town, she fell deeply in love with digital dance music and started seeking a task …

Offer Johannesen emerged in the mid-20th hundred years among the most important American pianists from the postwar generation. He was most widely known for his interpretations of French music, especially functions by Fauré, whose whole solo result he documented: Saint-Saëns, Poulenc, Milhaud, and Dukas. But he also performed criteria by …