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Heirs to ’90s garage area punk aswell as your guitar lo-fi of rings like Pavement and Sebadoh, the Obsessives were shaped in Sept 2012 by Washington, D.C. natives Nick Bairatchnyi (vocals/electric guitar) and Jackson Mansfield (drums). The duo began the music group while within their mid-teens, and self-released the EPs …

The Paranoid Design is a sprawling garage-punk-pop outfit built around singer and songwriter Elizabeth Nelson, who counts the T. Rex, the Mekons, and Elvis Costello among her affects. Her articulate vocal delivery is normally fitting for the band called after historian Richard J. Hofstadter’s 1964 article “The Paranoid Design in …