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Pontiak

Pontiak’s neo-psychedelic rock and roll is established by 3 brothers in the Blue Ridge section of Virginia — Truck (business lead vocals, electric guitar), Jennings (bass, body organ, vocals), and Lain Carney (drums, vocals) — who have been separately associated with numerous rings in the U.S. and European countries before …

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Beach House

Despite their summery name, Beach House make music that’s dark, dreamy, and alluringly hypnotic. Baltimore citizens Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand (the niece of French composer Michel Legrand) produced the duo in 2005, with Legrand’s hushed, Nico-like vocals and Scally’s sensitive instrumentation paving just how for their initial batch of …

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Thrushes

A sound pop quartet that owes its heavily reverbed audio towards the Jesus and Mary String as well as the Swirlies, Thrushes were shaped in Baltimore, Maryland by vocalist/guitarist Anna Conner, guitarist/vocalist Casey Harvey, bassist Rachel Tracy, and drummer Matt Davis. Having previously been mixed up in Baltimore music picture …

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Darsombra

Explained by its creators as focusing on “trans-apocalyptic galaxy rock and roll,” Darsombra navigates multiple sonic vistas, from drone-fueled doom and twisty progressive rock and roll to lush, ambient psych-pop. The brainchild of Brian Daniloski (electric guitar, vocals, results pedals) and Ann Everton (synthesizer, gong, vocals), the duo started documenting …

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Blue Barron

Blue Barron led probably one of the most popular nice rings of the golf swing period, forging a two-decade profession built upon his orchestra’s credo, “music of last night now, styled the Blue Barron method.” Given birth to Harry Friedland in Cleveland on March 22, 1911, he performed violin inside …

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Blue Barron & His Orchestra

b. Harry Freidman, 19 November 1913, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, d. 16 July 2005, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Originally an impresario in his city, Barron shaped his own music group in the middle-30s. Having a very clear eye on the money register, he used a musical plan that catered for the sweetest …

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