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Norway’s Minor Bulk plays gentle, refined acoustic folk-pop with a complicated, occasionally country-tinged vibe. Like their likewise hushed countrymen Kings of Comfort, Sweden’s Nicolai Dunger (circa Tranquil Isolation), and Iceland’s Funerals, they have the ability to assimilate a distinctly American stress of rootsy melancholia right into a design that just …

Portland, Oregon-based indie pop duo Quasi teamed vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Sam Coomes and drummer Janet Weiss, who also not merely previously joined causes in the music group Motorgoat but additionally married and divorced. Following a 1993 break up solitary with Bugskull, small was noticed from Quasi until 1996, once the duo released …

Best known because the business lead vocalist, guitarist, and concept songwriter using the Spinanes, Rebecca Gates was among the leading statistics over the ’90s indie rock and roll scene before shifting for an eclectic profession within the arts. Gates initial began producing music when she was a girl; she trained …

A singular skill who passed nearly undetected during his short life time, Nick Drake produced many albums of chilling, somber beauty. With hindsight, these attended to be named peak accomplishments of both British folk-rock picture and the complete rock vocalist/songwriter genre. Occasionally compared to Vehicle Morrison, Drake actually resembled Donovan …

Denton, TX-based vocalist/songwriter Robert Gomez can be an accomplished guitarist, having studied and played Cuban electric guitar with Nelson Gonzalez. Besides executing with the kid group Septeto Habañero, Gomez in addition has toured using the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and performed schedules in Spain, Turkey, as well …

Playing her way from your subways and streets of London and Boston, guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Mary Lou Lord broke in to the indie rock and roll scene in 1994 within the Destroy Rock and roll Stars label. After showing up on the KRS compilation, Lord released a self-titled EP in 1995 another …

Washington, D.C.’s the Caribbean created from the ashes of two of the city’s most prominent indie rock and roll rings, the Townies and Wise Went Crazy. Their self-released debut EP attained the finish of 1999, as well as the group authorized to Winnipeg’s Endearing Information for its 1st full-length record, …

Neo-power pop singer/songwriter Scot Sax initially made his name among power pop followers with his function in Wanderlust and Bachelor NUMBER 1 (the latter which landed a music within the American Pie soundtrack). For his 1st solo recording, a self-titled work released by Not really Lame in the summertime of …

Keyboardist/songwriter Pole Argent spent the ’60s while a crucial section of underappreciated Uk Invasion popsters the Zombies, and later on shifted to embrace recording rock as innovator of his own music group, Argent. He was created June 14, 1945, in St. Alban’s, Britain (near London); apart from about 2 yrs …

Minneapolis by method of Milwaukee vocalist/songwriter Tag Mallman got his focus on trashy glam rockers the Odd in the late ’90s (ahead of that, Mallman have been in several bands with potential Promise Ring head Davey VonBohlen). However the group was nearly over when it started, and Mallman released a …