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The Burlington, Vermont music scene is no stranger to eccentric characters, particularly in the realm of lo-fi indie rock. Perhaps one of the most exclusive people to emerge out of this scene through the 2010s was Joey Agresta, better recognized to close friends and fellow music artists as Joey Pizza …

A homegrown hero of Philly’s tight-knit D.We.Y. picture, Brandon Ayres released many digital-only albums of home-recorded lo-fi pop before putting your signature on a record offer and issuing his initial “correct” record in 2017. Ayres was raised in the middle-class Philadelphia suburb of Drexel Hill and began producing music at …

Another one from the dozens of aspect projects with the inexhaustible Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices, Teenage Guitar is normally an innovative outlet for Pollard to record vocals, electric guitar, and piano in four-track with extra overdubbing by bassist Joe Patterson and drummer Greg Demos. (Within a May 2014 …

Chicago singer/songwriter Willis Earl Beal began his foray in to the music business by tacking hand-drawn flyers all around the greater metropolitan area along with his contact number and address. The flyers stated “I am Willis Earl Beal. Contact me and I’ll sing you a music. Write if you ask …

Gospel Music may be the lo-fi twee pop aspect project of Dark Children bassist Owen Holmes. Diverging in the glossy, stylish Dark Kids audio (aswell as any goals set with the project’s name), Gospel Music presents charmingly ramshackle music in the vein from the Moldy Peaches, shipped with Holmes’ deadpan, …

Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Zach Burba may be the nucleus of Iji, a whimsical indie pop music group with D.We.Y. appearance. Pronounced “ee-hee,” the music group was shaped in Phoenix, Az by Burba, his sibling Luke, and a pal when the musician was 15 years of age. He borrowed and finally …

Seattle indie psych act the Pharmacy were shaped by high-school friends Scott Yoder and Brendhan Bowers, who came jointly more than a shared love from the even more experimental aspect of pop music. Yoder and Bowers originally toyed around using a loud garage punk audio, but their designs would morph …