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Cut through the same experimental psych-pop towel as rings like Yeasayer, Grizzly Keep, and Pet Collective, Brooklyn, New York-based indie rockers Monogold formed in 2007 being a four-piece and released their debut record Waves. The music group went for a far more minimalist strategy on their following task, the Spin-approved …

Created in Brooklyn, NY, Group Genius was an eight-member group that specialised in uptempo indie rock and roll. Their debut EP, Hooray, received a fair quantity of applause from your underground music press, and drew evaluations to such titles as Arcade Open fire and Pet Collective.

THE ATTENTION the Ear as well as the Arm play dark indie rock and roll with an focus on funk-informed rhythms and somewhat art-rock-influenced arrangements on the 2008 debut album, Pathways. Made up of the duo of guitarist Darin Green and bassist/vocalist Derek Coburn, their audio was done for the …

The solo project of Nate Kinsella, formerly of Joan of Arc, Make Believe, and Decembers Architects and cousin of brothers Mike and Tim Kinsella, Birthmark finds the multi-instrumentalist striking from his own and looking for his own sound. Textural and split, the project originally began when Kinsella was wanting to …

Affected by ambient electronica, dance, post-rock, and world music, the Berg Sans Nipple certainly are a French-American duo offering Paris native Lori Sean Berg and Nebraskan Shane Aspegren. Both produced their musical debut in 2002, liberating a soundtrack EP towards the brief film Marie-Madeleine before laying the groundwork for any …

Riding the range between Fights’ proggy electro jams and Vampire Weekend’s tropical pop, Brooklyn duo Tanlines began being a remix task by Eric Emm (Don Caballero, Surprise & Stress and anxiety, Brothers) and Jesse Cohen (Professor Murder) that included friends performing over their music. It advanced quickly right into a …

Multi-instrumentalists Fire burning evoke various tones of eccentric rustic, Americana folk on the self-titled 2007 debut EP. Previously the electrical group Cerberus Shoal, they turned to a broad assortment of completely acoustic devices when growing into Fire burning. The EP was co-produced by Michael Gira, on whose Youthful God label …

Here We Move Magic’s creative center, singer/songwriter Luke Temple, first made his name being a muralist, as well as the Brooklyn band’s music completely fits that pedigree. HWGM’s ethereal collage of indie folk, baroque pop, and plains nation (and other things that strikes their extravagant) lolls back again with dizzyingly …

Gangi began simply because the solo task of Brooklyn musician Matt Gangi in 2007, focusing on textural pop music similarly influenced by psyched-out electronica and burly freak folk. Surviving in a dilapidated house, Gangi documented debut 2008 record A in the home on his notebook, occasionally getting insight from friend …

Randolph Chabot, an indie electronica maker from Sterling Levels, Michigan, produces music under a number of monikers, probably the most acclaimed which is Deastro. Chabot started producing music as a teenager, and after leaving the Detroit region for a couple of years to attend university, he moved back into the …