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The Champagne Socialists

Jihae Simmons Meek met her husband to be and Neverever bandmate, Bricolage’s Wallace Meek, during her stint while the business lead singer for the Glasgow-based indie pop group the Royal We. Following a Royal We’s separation in 2007, the few relocated to Jihae’s hometown of LA, CA, where they teamed …

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The Mantles

The Mantles — a sweet yet gritty San Francisco-based indie pop outfit rooted in 1960s garage rock, paisley underground, as well as the C-86 sound — began being a three-piece comprising frontman Michael Olivares, drummer Virginia Weatherby, and a bassist named Jermaine. The last mentioned still left the group in …

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The Mayfair Set

The Mayfair Place certainly are a collaboration between your enigmatic Brooklyn-based noise pop project Empty Dogs as well as the Dum Dum Young ladies’ mastermind Dee Dee. The duo’s sound demonstrated itself to be always a mash-up of both tasks. The Mayfair Set’s debut one, Currently Warm (released over the …

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Vivian Girls

Deriving their name from your ill-fated characters presented in the task of writer/illustrator Henry Darger, the Vivian Girls (never to become confused using the “create pop” duo from the same name) certainly are a Brooklyn-based trio whose gritty, lo-fi tunes nod to seminal indie pop functions like Black color Tambourine, …

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Blank Dogs

To contact the one-man task Empty Canines prolific is a little bit of an understatement. Although Empty Dogs produces have been from the small-potatoes range (being released on several small independent brands), they have already been several and critically well received: 2007 noticed many of the project’s produces on essential …

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Crystal Stilts

Formed in NY in 2003 by Brad Hargett and JB Townsend, multi-influenced indie rock-band Crystal Stilts released their first function — some singles and an EP — in 2004 in the Feathery Tongue label. The initial single, “Shattered Stand out,” was accompanied by some local shows and a five-song EP …

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Desolation Wilderness

Olympia, WA’s Desolation Wilderness borrows cues from dreamy electro-pop and runs on the loose analog saving technique — aided in zero small degree with a Roland Space Echo, two Maestro Echoplex hold off units, and many springtime reverbs — to make a narcotic, dusty undertake the style. The idea was …

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Violens

Created by former members of Lansing-Dreiden in past due 2007, New York’s Violens derive their name from a combined mix of “violence” and “violins.” The music group, originally made up of Jorge Elbrecht (vocals, acoustic guitar), Iddo Arad (vocals, synthesizer), Ben Brantley (bass), and Kris Ruler (drums), performed its first …

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Frankie Rose

After investing in time with Vivian Women (serving because the band’s drummer and writing “Where WOULD YOU SET YOU BACK,” a highlight of the first album), Crystal Stilts, as well as the Dum Dum Women, Brooklyn-based noise pop drummer/vocalist Frankie Rose made a decision to focus on her own material …

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Earring

Chicago-based indie-psych duo Earring’s fuzzy guitars, slow tempos, and lethargic, lost-in-reverb vocals resemble a sludgier version from the slowcore and shoegaze noises from the ’90s. Guitarist/vocalist Jason Balla and drummer Alexander Otake started producing music in 2012, gigging around the town and issuing cassettes within the Manic Static label. The …

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