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Although their audience never extended beyond a little cult following, the Seattle indie folk band Carissa’s Wierd (yes, that’s the way they spelled it) helped pave just how for several acoustic bands partly inspired by British and American folk-rock from the ’60s and ’70s, from Joanna Newsom towards the Decemberists. …

Rising in 2004 using a mixture of woodsy midtempo rock and roll and reverb-laden vocals, Group of Horses obtained an audience within their native Northwest before Everything On a regular basis produced them indie rock and roll darlings. Multi-instrumentalists Ben Bridwell and Mat Brooke founded the group after an eight-year …

S is the single task of Carissa’s Wierd guitarist and vocalist Jenn Ghetto. Hailing from sun-drenched Tucson, but surviving in the relatively wetter Seattle, Jenn Ghetto information as S nearly entirely on the four-track by itself in her bedroom. S provides us small rainy-day records and journal entries of heart-wrenching …

An early on version of slowcore band Rex started in Maine in 1991, but at that time, drummer Doug Scharin was devoting the majority of his time and energy to slowcore innovators Codeine. In 1994, Rex relocated to Brooklyn. With rings like Idaho, Acetone as well as the Crimson House …

Carissa’s Wierd formed in 1995 when Tucson natives Matt Brooke and Jenn Ghetto moved to Seattle. The pair’s hushed, plaintive vocals and complex instrumentation made the feeling on city’s music picture right away, plus they recruited pianist Jeff Hellis — not forgetting a revolving lineup of drummers and violinists — …

Within the vein of such inviting indie folk crooners as Iron & Wine, Laura Veirs, as well as the seemingly a huge selection of folks wanting to be another Elliott Smith minus the unpleasant end, Sera Cahoone’s self-described goal in her official press kit is usually to be viewed as …