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Starting out beneath the head-turning moniker Starfucker, STRFKR are an indie pop/indie electro group made up of Sexton Blake’s Josh Hodges, Junkface’s Ryan Bjornstad, and Mr. Fredrick’s Shawn Glassford. After key songwriter Hodges came back to Portland, Oregon carrying out a four-year stint in NEW YORK, he released two Sexton …

For originality in modern blues having a capital “o,” one want search no further than Western Coast harmonica stylist, singer, and songwriter Paul hold off. Hold off may be the freshest songwriting tone of voice to arrive onto the Western Coast blues picture since Robert Cray increased to prominence within …

Thriftstore Masterpiece isn’t a lot a band being a conceptual entity come up with by manufacturer Charles Regular. Dreamed up in 2000 after obsessing over Lee Hazlewood’s 1963 debut Difficulty Is certainly a Lonesome City, Normal wished to come up with a task where he and his musician close friends …

Hailing from Portland, Maine, emo rock and roll throwback Pinsky produced in 2007. Composed of Peter Vachon, Jeff Roberts, Andre Tranchemontagne, and Mike Graton, the quartet evokes the generating emo audio laid straight down by rings like Braid and Tx ‘s the reason in the mid-’90s, merging a guitar-driven post-hardcore …

Having a misspelled name and an equally slack indie aesthetic, Nucular Aminals formed in 2007 when San Franciscans and former users of Marriage + Cancer guitarist Robert Comitz and keyboardist Erin Schmith relocated to Portland, Oregon to construct a fresh group with bassist Jheremy Grigsby and drummer Wiley Hickson. K …

Portland, Oregon’s psychedelic pop duo Wampire includes Rocky Tinder and Eric Phipps, youth close friends who began building music together even though they were even now in middle college. By the middle-2000s, the set — who got their name from just how Phipps’ goth German close friends pronounced “vampire” during …