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Baltimore, Maryland’s eclectic but generally passionate group Special event features vocalist/percussionist Katrina Ford, multi-instrumentalist Sean Antanaitis, drummer David Bergander, keyboardist/percussionist Tony Drummond, and bassist/guitarist Walker Teret. Ford and Antanaitis — who may also be couple — began in Ann Arbor’s chaotic, early-’90s noise-punk music group Jaks, where Ford begun to …

Called after a figure in the Brendan Behan book Borstal Youngster, the South London-based electro-pop trio Chew up Lip area features singer Tigs, whose tone of voice has been in comparison to Beth Ditto, Karen O, as well as Liza Minnelli, and multi-instrumentalists Can Sanderson and Adam Watkins. The group …

Small Boots shaped in 2007 being a single automobile for Victoria Hesketh, the ex-lead singer/keyboardist of British dance-pop outfit Deceased Disco. Hesketh’s initial single beneath the brand-new pseudonym was “Stuck on Do it again,” an infectious membership hit made by Sizzling hot Chip’s Joe Goddard that appeared on limited-edition 12″ …

The darkly stylish electronic/post-punk threesome Thieves Like Us are named for the 1984 New Purchase song (instead of the 1974 Robert Altman film), plus they take a lot more than simply their moniker from Manchester’s darkly stylish electronic/post-punk pioneers. Their well-timed, ’80s-indebted approach offers garnered comparisons to varied dance-pop acts …

Called for the Korean belief that sleeping within an enclosed space with a power fan running could cause hypothermia or asphyxiation, Enthusiast Loss of life’s music is normally similarly frosty and suffocatingly lush. Dandilion Blowing wind Opaine (of Dandi Blowing wind) and Marta Jaciubek-McKeever focus on the darker factors in …

Montreal’s Duchess Says formed in 2003 from the mysterious “Cathedral of Budgerigars.” The group’s associates, keyboardist/guitarist Ismael Tremblay, bassist Philippe Clément, vocalist/guitarist Annie-Claude Deschênes, and percussionist Simon “Simon Says” Besre, all state to attended jointly out of their account within this little-known cathedral to help expand the religion’s message through …

One part theatrical pop, 1 part post-punk revival, Fresh York’s electro-rock outfit Heloise & the Savior Faire are fronted by charismatic peroxide-blonde singer Heloise Williams. Ever the showboat, she was raised in a little city in Minnesota having a penchant for carrying out, beginning when she was only a kid …

NY City’s Morningwood brought a delightfully trashy and hedonistic sense of fun to alternative pop/rock and roll in the first 21st hundred years. Led by vocalist Chantal Claret, whose colourful and sexy strategy owed much towards the Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde as well as the Divinyls’ Christina Amphlett, ny foursome shaped …

Originally referred to as Wet Confetti, Portland, OR’s Reporter feature bassist/vocalist Alberta Poon, drummer Mike McKinnon, and guitarist Dan Grazzini. As Moist Confetti, Grazzini, McKinnon, and Poon performed experimental post-post-punk, but after launching two albums and an EP, their audio moved in a far more liquid direction motivated by their …

San Francisco’s post-goth trio the Vanishing began when bassist/vocalist Jessie and drummer Brian still left their previous music group, the Knives, to make what they called “sci-fi horror disco.” The duo recruited keyboardist Sadie Shaw, from the Lies as well as the Husbands, to flesh out the band’s lineup. In …