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An Academy Award-nominated singer/songwriter and composer most widely known as the acrobatic, multi-instrumental, primary person in the spirited Grammy Award-winning indie rock and roll collective Arcade Fireplace, Will Butler was created in North California and spent his formative years in Southern Tx. The son of the geologist (dad) and a …

Shaped in London, England, in 2006, Royworld — Fishing rod Futrille (vocals), Rob Parkin (guitar), Tim Mls (keyboards), and Gerry Morgan (drums) — had been led by Fishing rod and his brother — and co-composer — Crispin Futrille, and curved out following the various other members responded an advertisement searching …

This Dublin group’s sole and rare album, 1973’s Early One Morning hours…., provided a fascinating indie-type spin over the United kingdom Isles folk-rock design of the first ’70s. Though intensely indebted in a few methods to the rock-up-traditional-Celtic-folk strategy pioneered by Fairport Convention and Steeleye Period, it added even more …

The Elysian Quartet is a contemporary string ensemble founded in 1999 by violinists Emma Smith and Jennymay Logan, violist Vincent Sipprell, and cellist Laura Moody. All musicians studied on the Trinity University of Music in London. Focused on playing 20th hundred years compositions, modern traditional, and experimental music, the group …

Leicester-based psychedelic pop band the Junipers had been formed like a recording project in 2000 by founding users Joe Wiltshire, Marc Johnston, Pete Gough, Liam Riley, and Stuart Pratt. Pursuing in the footsteps of seminal ’60s organizations just like the Zombies as well as the Remaining Banke, the group includes …

Experimental artist Reiko Kudo began her musical career with Noise, the group she founded (less than her maiden name at that time, Reiko Omaru) in 1979. The music group flirted with different lineups and designs before settling like a duo; Reiko published the songs, performed acoustic guitar and trumpet, and …

An artist from the visible, musical, and digital, Tristan Perich was created in 1982. A Columbia School grad, Perich attracts inspiration not really from the standard stations — musical rings or artists therefore (though it would be tough to state that he hasn’t been transferred by any musician, certainly) — …

The first conception of Dark Jake & the Carnies arrived on Halloween party in 2002, though it could take Dark Jake many years of trying out sound and lineup prior to the band was to find its special “crabgrass” sound. Led by Jake Zettelmaier on vocals and banjo, his Carnies …

Vocalist/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Peter Silberman was raised in upstate NY and began tinkering with house saving in his past due teens. Silberman had taken particular motivation from records created by the Microphones, and followed a few of their lo-fi methods into his very own homemade sound masterpieces. In 2006, Silberman released his …

Ville Kiviniemi may be the Mattoid, a bald, poncho-wearing enigma from Finland who moved to Nashville to dominate the scene along with his exclusive mixture of lounge-flavored Velvet Underground rock and roll & move, Scandinavian throat singing, and signature rhythmic electric guitar technique known simply as “sango.” He produced the …