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British folk-pop music group the Musgraves play a largely acoustic type of shiny, catchy pop music. Shaped in Birmingham in 2011, the music group features vocalist/songwriter Matthew Bennett, pianist/vocalist Matt Foundling, violinist/percussionist Lesley-Marie Turner, and drummer Matt Farnell Jr. They released the EP Shed in Familiarity in 2011. In 2012, …

A Juno award-winning sextet from Toronto who generate a spirited mixture of folk, pop, alt-country, and indie rock and roll that they dub “folk popgrass,” the Strumbellas were founded in 2008 by mind songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist Simon Ward, keyboardist/vocalist David Ritter, business lead guitarist Jon Hembrey, violinist Isabel Ritchie, …

Lera Lynn’s big break found its way to 2014, when she was ensemble being a moody lone troubadour in the next period of HBO’s dark criminal offense dilemma True Detective. Her desolate Lynchian moments suggested an extra, skeletal vocalist/songwriter, but Lynn’s music is certainly richer than that: she attracts equally …

Nashville-based singer and songwriter Kenny Foster was created and elevated in Joplin, Missouri and was raised singing in church, but he was also fully alert to the pop and nation songs he noticed throughout him, and began playing guitar and writing his 1st songs in senior high school. He majored …

Edith Crash is a French-born, Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter and one-woman music group. Her sound is usually a meld of passionate 21st hundred years chanson, folk blues, and brooding post-punk. Crash was created in Perpignan, France in 1983. She started playing acoustic guitar and writing tunes in her early teenagers. At …

Known for his impressive cinematography and eclectic usage of music and sound in his films, Nicolas Winding Refn is definitely a Danish film director and screenwriter, primarily known for the Pusher film trilogy, and worldwide cult hits through the middle-2000s to 2010s. Created in Copenhagen in 1970, film was an …

Pianist/composer Dustin O’Halloran and composer/engineer Adam Wiltzie met through a mutual friend in 2007, when Wiltzie was executing with Sparklehorse in Bologna, Italy. Backstage, both music artists struck up a camaraderie that progressed into A Winged Success for the Sullen, an electric outlet for what they’ve termed “harmonic Robitussin.” During …

Manufacturer, sonic architect, Vocalist and songwriter Paul Thomas Saunders possesses an emotive, high-register performing tone of voice that reveals his roots as a tuned choir singer. It really is immediately recognizable. He originally comes from Leicester, but started composing and playing music in earnest while participating in university in Leeds, …

Formed in ’09 2009 by Alasdair MacLean from the Clientele and Spanish vocalist/instrumentalist Lupe Núñez-Fernández from the indie pop duo Pipas, Amor de Dias, which means “love of days,” started assembling in secret in 2008 on evenings and weekends. Bolstered with a pit team of seasoned music artists like Louis …

Jazz quartet Wayne Farm can be an acoustic-based yet forward-thinking outfit featuring saxophonist Joshua Redman, pianist Aaron Parks, bassist Matt Penman, and drummer Eric Harland. Created in ’09 2009, the group toured for any year to work through material before documenting. In 2011, they released their debut self-titled recording on …