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Brooklyn’s brooding, post-punk-influenced trio the Prosaics includes vocalist/guitarist Andy Comer, bassist Joshua Zucker, and drummer William Kuehn. Comer, previously of the music group Tel Aviv, fulfilled Zucker early in 2002 through a shared friend, and started focusing on demos. A cassette of their song-sketches produced its method to Kuehn, who …

The desire pop/shoegazer school of alternative pop/rock reached its commercial and artistic peak within the ’90s, but noteworthy shoegazer bands continued to emerge in the 21st century — and something of these was Technicians (never to be confused with Engineer, a brutal Syracuse, NY-based loss of life metal combo which …

As a single artist, singer/songwriter Peter Walker mixed mellow pop music with alt-country flourishes. The L.A.-structured musician issued two single albums, 2004’s Landed and 2006’s Youthful Gravity, before enlisting assistance from bassist Tim Hutton and drummer Chris Reynolds to be able to play the materials live. The three shortly noticed …

Motivated by post-punk, wish pop, and some electronica, the San Francisco-via-New York quintet Film Classes started because the brainchild of vocalist/guitarist Krayg Burton (aka Greg Bertens), who started recording beneath the Film Classes name in the past due ’90s. After launching the I’m NO LONGER WORKING 7″ on MeToo! Information, …

Called after radical feminist Valerie Solanas’ Culture for Reducing Up Guys Manifesto, London’s S.C.U.M. advanced from gothy noise-punk into something even more atmospheric and evocative. The music group produced in 2008, rising in the Underage scene, including club evenings, a celebration, and even more; Underage was founded by keyboardist Samuel …

Carving out an area somewhere in the center of garage area punk snarl, shoegaze haze, and Krautrock grooves, Chicago’s Disappears feature Brian Court case (also from the Ponys and 90 Day Guys), Boas associates Graeme Gibson and Jonathan van Herik, and Damon Carruesco. The music group began when Case’s various …