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CabaretAmericana vocalist/songwriter Kennedy Greenrod relocated from Britain to California in age 17. In his early twenties, after stints in Bay Region rock clothes like Erasergun as well as the Vulvettes, he obtained an accordion, transferred to Chicago, and assumed the pseudonym the Thin Guy. Greenrod set up a collective of …

The Gypsy-tinged quartet DeVotchKa were formed in Denver, CO by multi-instrumentalists Nick Urata (vocals, guitar, trumpet), Tom Hagerman (violin, accordion), Jeanie Schroder (sousaphone, bass), and percussionist Shawn Ruler. Supporting music artists rotated in and from the eclectic group’s lineup, adding such diverse noises as strings and bazoukis. Although some defined …

Husband-and-wife duo the Good-looking Family have already been tagged both alt-country and traditionalist, but truthfully their frequently dark music is based on a distinctive space somewhere among, blending the noises of traditional nation and bluegrass (and, specifically, murder ballads) right into a more modern landscape. Vocalist and composer Brett Sparks …

Originally a solo project for displaced singer/songwriter Jim Elkington, Chicago’s the Zincs draw greatly from your multi-instrumentalist’s English homeland, mixing the wry and windswept sounds of Uk folk using the similarly despondent tones from the American Midwest. Elkington found its way to the Illinois metropolis in 2000 after stints with …