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Made up of Patrick, Roxanne, Graeme, and Andy Friendly (all previous associates of likeminded indie pop teams Bricolage, the Royal We, and Dot to Dot), Glasgow’s Sexy Children developed a luminous twee sound that nodded to seminal indie pop outfits like Talulah Gosh and Dolly Mixture. The band’s debut 7″ …

David Archuleta became probably one of the most recognizable statistics on tv in 2008, when his tenor vocals and boyish attraction helped earn him a second-place surface finish on American Idol. Although blessed in Miami, Florida, he’d spent the majority of his youth in Utah, where he resided along with …

Given birth to and raised in Okemah, Oklahoma, vocalist/songwriter John Fullbright was barely out of senior high school when he began using the celebration circuit. Raised in the music of hometown hero Woody Guthrie and steeped in the wealthy Americana artistry of genre-hopping mavericks like Townes Truck Zandt, Randy Newman, …

Given birth to and raised in the suburbs of Buffalo, NY, Stacy Clark began taking part in her personal acoustic pop music while an adolescent. Open-mike performances resulted in a self-booked tour in 1999, which discovered the teenaged Clark playing espresso shops, bars, as well as the Cornerstone Event. After …

Originally hailing from Boston, MA, the Deceased Trees and shrubs combine alt-country strains having a back-to-basics method of rock & roll. The music group formed in Dec 2006, when longtime close friends Matthew Borg (acoustic guitar), Noah Rubin (drums), Tad Dahlhoff (bass), and Michael Ian Cummings (vocals/acoustic guitar) convened to …

Christian-based post-grunge outfit Reddish colored 1st got their begin in Pa playing contemporary Religious addresses to area youth groups. They quickly grew sick and tired of pop music, however, and started crafting their very own hard-edged rock music that frequently confronted personal problems off their lives. Regarding to lead vocalist …

Inspired by famous brands the authorities, Toto, and Tears for Worries, multi-instrumentalist Olaf Baumann is a mainstay for the German AOR scene because the 1980s. Getting started his career carrying out in a variety of blues rings, he later on teamed up with keyboardists Jochen Haller and Andreas Burwig, bassist …

Florida-based singer/songwriter Damion Suomi (pronounced “sue-me”) crafts elegant, drink-fueled lamentations and explosive, midtempo rockers with 1 ear cocked toward the dusty world of choice country as well as the various other bent toward the Irish tradition. Suomi spent quite a few years in his indigenous Cocoa Beach filling up time …

Singer/songwriter Andy Shauf’s dark, rustic stories from the Canadian prairie mix folk with sophisticated pop, reflecting his upbringing in Regina, Saskatchewan. He became thinking about music as an adolescent, teaching himself acoustic guitar, drums, piano, and some other devices he found. The tunes he published and documented in his parents’ …

Vocalist/songwriter Drew Andrews is a thoughtful, reflective performer using a bent toward melodic chamber pop. The San Diego-based musician was a executing person in songwriter Jimmy LaValle’s music group the Record Leaf before dazzling from his very own. Andrews’ debut single album, Just Mirrors, premiered on Minty Clean in 2008.