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The Washington, D.C.-centered indie pop band the Ropers was shaped in 1991 by singer Doug Bailey and guitarist Mike Hammel, students in the University of Maryland who quit school following two years to begin with making music. They quickly recruited drummer Alex Hacker, whom both Bailey and Hammel understood from …

Bristol-based indie popsters the Groove Farm emerged within the C-86 movement, serving up shambling guitar with ‘60s undertones. The music group created in 1986, made up of vocalist/guitarist Andrew Jarrett, guitarist Jon Kent, bassist Rupert Taylor, and drummer Jez Butler. Founding their very own label, Raving Pop Blast!, the Groove …

Bristol, England’s Beatnik Filmstars debuted around the indie rock and roll landscape using the Maharishi recording on Big Sky Information in 1991. Led by vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Andrew Jarrett, the music group was instantly in comparison to a number of the United Says’ brightest indie rockers. After liberating some EPs, they came …

Although leader Stewart Anderson is seemingly not capable of keeping a band lineup jointly for greater than a handful of records at the same time, his band Boyracer is among the longest-running & most prolific bands from the ’90s U.K. indie pop picture. Noisier and much more intense than a …