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San Diego’s Olivelawn gloried in brutal, sludgy SoCal punk, launching two full-length albums in the first ’90s prior to the people parted methods. The group’s muscular sound was driven by vocalist Mike Olson’s brutal delivery, the guitars of O (a.k.a. Otis Barthoulameu) as well as the rhythm portion of drummer …

Created in Montreal to parents of Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright was engulfed inside a sea of music from childbirth. Frequently singing or carrying out on-stage and in the studio room young, Wainwright became agitated at the very thought of a musical profession during senior high school. …

Best known because the business lead vocalist, guitarist, and concept songwriter using the Spinanes, Rebecca Gates was among the leading statistics over the ’90s indie rock and roll scene before shifting for an eclectic profession within the arts. Gates initial began producing music when she was a girl; she trained …

Australian Justine Electra relocated to Berlin early in her career, where she continued to hone a method of acoustic guitar-driven electro-pop that welcomed comparisons to Imogen Heap and Regina Spektor. Electra began gigging around Berlin in 2000, and got a record offer at Town Slang in 2006. Soft Rock and …

Diane Izzo originally found the guitar in age 21 for the motives of experiencing music in her side even though she gruely traveled from condition to convey. While working unusual jobs and offering blood for a full time income, her verse-chorus-verse melodies and lyrical inspiration of struggle and personal solace …

Pennsylvania-born songwriter Diane Cluck began playing her very own songs within the burgeoning NEW YORK “anti-folk” scene in 2000. Together with like-minded performers like Kimya Dawson and Regina Spektor, Cluck was a normal fixture on the Sidewalk Cafe, a hub for the freakier folk noises happening at that time. Ever …

The autumnal tones of Loch Lomond are haunted by their birthplace inside a tumbledown basement, as singer/songwriter Ritchie Young’s bittersweet lyrics soothe picturesque songs of love, reminiscing, and fate. The Portland, OR, group was finished in 2003 when Young’s longtime friend Rob Oberdorfer (the typical) became a member of him …

A multifaceted musical existence, English vocalist, songwriter, guitarist, serial collaborator, and record label mind Jane Weaver has performed both single and with the groupings Wipe out Laura (Brit-pop) and Misty Dixon (retro-kissed indie pop). Weaver released five singles (two which had been via Polydor) with Wipe out Laura between 1993 …

Canadian chanteuse Amy Millan is most beneficial known for fronting the indie rock and roll act Celebrities. Millan’s wonderful girlish vocals also have made an appearance on albums from 16 Tons, Broken Sociable Picture, and Jason Collett. In 2006, Millan place points in her personal words on her behalf first …

John Wolfington began his street to learning to be a Smells Like Information recording designer when he changed trains around the subway and landed alongside Thurston Moore, who was simply engrossed inside a book, but accepted the tape that Wolfington handed him — a track called “Coney Isle Freak” that …