November 7, 2023
Biography
Vancouver’s Ashley Recreation area became a music task after Terry Mls and his close friends originally planned on building a brief documentary celebrating America’s simplistic beauty interpreted through contemporary books, innocent daydreams, and child years pastimes. Instead, Kilometers formed a music group and produced storybook of indie pop tunes for …
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November 1, 2023
Biography
One of the better bands using the worst type of fortune, New Jersey’s the Wrens were establishing themselves among the catchiest & most thoughtful indie rock and roll sets of the ’90s when label complications prevented them from releasing another recording for seven years. The group — guitarist/vocalist Charles Bissell, …
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October 30, 2023
Biography
The three original members of Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin — lead guitarist Will Knauer, drummer Philip Dickey, and bassist Tom Hembree — met in senior high school in Springfield, Missouri, and quickly formed a pop band. It had been Dickey who developed the group’s name while buying with …
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October 18, 2023
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The self-described “fuzz-folk” project Neutral Dairy Hotel was among the primary outgrowths from the Elephant 6 Saving Firm collective, a coterie of like-minded lo-fi indie groups — like the Apples in Stereo system, the Olivia Tremor Control, and Key Square — who shared music artists, ideas, and sensibilities. While varying …
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October 11, 2023
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Another outgrowth from the ever-expanding Elephant 6 recording collective, the indie pop duo Key Rectangular comprised Apples in Stereo system drummer Hilarie Sidney and Lisa Janssen, who previously played bass within the Natural Dairy Hotel album On Avery Island. Magic formula Square debuted in 1995 having a self-titled seven-inch released …
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September 26, 2023
Biography
The long-running Denver-based indie pop band Dressy Bessy were led by singer/guitarist Tammy Ealom, who began her musical career as an associate from the little-known 40th Day; with time she remaining the group to spotlight writing her personal material, eventually becoming a member of the initial incarnation from the Minders. …
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September 22, 2023
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The band that eventually became the Shins, Albuquerque, New Mexico’s Flake Music still left a trail of singles dating back again to 1993 and a lone full-length release to posterity (1997’s When You Property Here, It is time to Come back, Omnibus Information). Originally referred to as Flake, the music …
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September 9, 2023
Biography
Brooklyn by method of Boston indie rock and roll quartet Bishop Allen formed in 2003 about core people Justin Grain and Christian Rudder. The group (both longtime close friends are joined with a spinning cast of music artists) took its name from Bishop Allen Get in Cambridge, MA, the road …
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September 4, 2023
Biography
Indie track sculptor Tony Carbone started releasing his Seaside Males/Burt Bacharach-styled Western Coast pop music beneath the name Bikeride in 1997. The band’s schizophrenic undertake nearly every well-known musical design from Beatlesque light psychedelia towards the Pixies’ alt-rock pioneering (not forgetting bossa nova, jazz, and fresh wave mod) captured the …
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September 2, 2023
Biography
Neo-psychedelic pop outfit the Essex Green were shaped in middle-1997 after 4 members from the Burlington, VT-based Guppyboy — singer/guitarist Chris Ziter, singer/keyboardist Sasha Bell, guitarist Jeff Baron, and bassist Mike Barrett — relocated to Brooklyn, NY. Completing the lineup with drummer Tim Barnes, the group made an appearance at …
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