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Amen Dunes may be the task of Damon McMahon, whose mixture of folk, psychedelia, and atmospherics has attracted comparisons to Roky Erickson, Syd Barrett, Chris Knox, Suicide, and Royal Trux. A Philadelphia indigenous and a previous person in Inouk, McMahon released an record under his very own name, Mansions, in …

Portland, OR’s Meth Tooth (careful when googling) includes a similar starting to another music group that formed after their frontman’s music group split up and took to composing music by himself, for himself: Bon Iver. Like Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, Meth Teeth’s founding member Mattey Hunter began the task after …

Local Pennsylvanian, California-based singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Michael Stasis records lo-fi, experimental, fun-time pop with influences from the annals of pop/rock and indie. Having a routine of fabricating and sharing ratings of tunes piecemeal, he ultimately released some selections to constitute his early recording discography, including 2011’s self-released, 17-monitor RIP (2003-2009). His regular …

Concocting a dark, swampy fusion of blues and doomstruck indie rock and roll, the Ukiah Move are a group whose root base are in the South but whose minds have migrated towards the Northeast. The Ukiah Move feature guitarist and vocalist ZZ Ramirez, guitarist and vocalist Brian Hennessey, bassist Andrew …

Magic Trick may be the ’60s psychedelia and ’70s folk-influenced music group led by the new & Onlys’ frontman, Tim Cohen. The group started in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA as Cohen’s single outlet between Clean & Onlys tour schedules, which yielded the albums BOTH Edges of Tim Cohen, Have fun …

Philadelphia bedroom musician Dan Svizeny started functioning beneath the moniker Coughing Cool in ’09 2009, taking his name from a Misfits melody but building music that owed more towards the fuzzy textures of lo-fi saving as well as the dreamy sentiments of shoegaze than anything resembling punk. Implementing reverb-treated drum …

Elevated in St. Louis, Missouri and afterwards relocating to Chicago, Illinois, indie folk vocalist/songwriter Angel Olsen started executing in St. Louis espresso shops in her teenage years, ultimately branching out and experiencing a network of like-minded performers. Olsen caused California musician Emmett Kelly within his collective the Cairo Gang, performing …

Wet Locks grew in the ashes of long-running Iowa Town, Iowa sound collective Raccoo-oo-oon, started as a single task by Raccoo-oo-oon founding member Shawn Reed in the ultimate a few months of his band’s existence. Moist Hair strayed in the frequently improvised and rhythmic currents of Reed’s previous band, deciding …

Tonstartssbandht (pronounced “tahn-starts-bandit”) certainly are a sibling sound rock and roll duo founded in 2007 by Florida-raised, Brooklyn/Montreal-based brothers Edwin and Andy Light. Having a genre-hopping aural mish-mash of loop-driven pop, doomy, experimental blues, and nervy, fractured indie rock and roll, the set spent their teenage years discovering the permeable …

As Gary War, Brooklyn’s Greg Dalton makes warped garage-synth-prog-pop that owes as very much to Chrome since it does to Syd Barrett while conveying an urgency all his very own. Gary War’s debut record, New Raytheonport, found its way to 2008 on SHDWPLY/Disaro in a restricted model of 500 copies, …