Tag Archives: Eccentric

Primarily the solo project of Second City’s Tony Mendoza but ultimately expanding to add other Chicago-based improv veterans like Joanna Beuse, Thea Lux, and Tom Vale, the self-dubbed “goof-pop” group Let’s Escape This Terrible Sandwich Shop (frequently abbreviated mainly because LGOOTTSS) began formulating using their make of Apples in Stereo-meets-They …

The associates of Gardens prefer to discuss living a sustainable way of living, community involvement as well as the virtues of frugality, but do not get the idea that they are hippies — this Detroit-based combo plays tough, wiry guitar-centered garage rock with a solid R&B influence, an undertow of …

Like Stereolab and Broadcast, Pc Perfection — featuring users of Detroit’s Pas/Cal — play music located in art rock and roll, ’60s psych, and desire pop, with vintage synthesizers and sunshiny man/lady vocals. Gene Corduroy, Bem, Nathaniel Burgundy, Stevers McFever, and Aaron Q created the project shortly once i GREW …

Los Angeles’ dark folk-rock duo Deceased Man’s Bones includes vocalists and multi-instrumentalists Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields. Gosling is way better called an Academy Award-nominated acting professional who has made an appearance in movies including Fifty percent Nelson, Lars and the true Girl, as well as the Laptop, but he …

The eclectic choral ensemble referred to as the Spooky Men’s Chorale was formed in 2011 by Stephen Taberner, a fresh Zealand native surviving in Australia. Component severe men’s choir, component choral pranksters, Taberner’s part as “spookmeister” (choirmaster) of the group started while he was surviving in the Blue Mountains area …

The solo project of Nate Kinsella, formerly of Joan of Arc, Make Believe, and Decembers Architects and cousin of brothers Mike and Tim Kinsella, Birthmark finds the multi-instrumentalist striking from his own and looking for his own sound. Textural and split, the project originally began when Kinsella was wanting to …

Although G-Side’s raps are from the filthy southern variety, Stephen “ST 2 Lettaz” Harris and Yung “David Williams” Clova incorporate synthesized modern music within their beats in a manner that makes crunk in fact sound dreamy. The duo created in 1999, after getting together with at the Males & Girls …

The Superions found Earth to dominate the earth with delirious dance music. They began by taking on the body of B-52s frontman Fred Schneider, key pad and electrical drum participant Noah Brodie, and programmer Dan Marshall, and generating an album’s well worth of Xmas music known as Destination…Xmas! But seriously, …

A singer/songwriter with the capacity of bluesy grit and metropolitan pop gloss, Mikky Ekko was raised steeped in gospel, journeying through Louisiana, Mississippi, and the others of America’s deep southern along with his preacher dad. After settling in Nashville, he performed being a sideman in a number of bands and …

Strongly rooted in the sounds of past due-’70s proto metal, early-’70s prog, and ’60s psychedelic rock, actually to the idea of performing mainly because Steppenwolf at a Halloween show, Large Hands lists May, Hawkwind, Deep Purple, Blue Cheer, and 13th Floor Elevators amongst their many influences. Like a stoner rock …