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With a status for scathingly intense live performances, Explosions in the Sky were touted in early stages within their career as another phenomenon in moody and dynamic instrumental indie rock and roll ? la Mogwai and Godspeed You! Dark Emperor. Eventually they truly became among the genre’s most commercially effective …

A duo whose ambient soundscapes have drawn comparisons to artists like Planks of Canada and Sigur Rós, Hammock shaped in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2004. The duo was originally conceived by Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson, who have been both former associates of the music group Common Kids. Hammock released their …

Named partly following a sister of 1 from the bandmembers, Reykjavik, Iceland’s Sigur Rós (Success Rose) was shaped by guitarist and vocalist Jón Þór Birgisson (who later on passed the name Jónsi), bassist Georg Holm, and drummer Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson. Shaped in early 1994 as the people were teens, the …

The Recording Leaf began because the solo project of Jimmy LaValle, a San Diego-based songwriter who started recording solo materials twelve months after forming the post-rock music group Tristeza. Inspired by way of a number of styles — traditional, jazz, and post-rock included in this — LaValle built his own …

Using a heavier, more rockist sound compared to the post-rock groups that also call Chicago home, Wax on Radio — a quartet through the northern city suburbs of Schaumburg and Lake Forest — non-etheless possess a similarly oblique, progressive element with their sound, blending the sonic explorations of folks like …

Not to end up being confused with the likewise named glammy power pop clothing from Winnipeg, Manitoba, the Harlots certainly are a large grindcore work with some progressive post-hardcore and loss of life metal touches, located in Dayton, OH. Shaped by guitarist Eric Dunn and drummer Jeff Lohrber (who also …

During their first work, 2004’s Time & Withering, Dayton, OH’s Mouth from the Architect featured Jason Watkins (vocals, keyboards, examples), Gregory Lahm (guitar, vocals), Dave Mann (drums), Alex Vernon (guitar, vocals), and Derik Sommer (bass), and followed in the footsteps of Neurosis, Isis, and Godspeed You! Dark Emperor in discovering …

Formed in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in 2001 when Michigan transplant Dee Kesler, NEW YORK native Brian Fraser, and Californian Jason Gonzales fulfilled at a live concert, Thee More Shallows (originally known as simply Thee Shallows, a name that they had to improve when another group delivered them a cease-and-desist …

With few boundaries in its avant-garde, haunting post-rock, Apse formed in Newtown, Connecticut, in 1999. The initial lineup contains high school close friends Robert Toher (acoustic guitar), Ezer Lichtenstein (drums), and Ryan Todd (bass). By 2001 they’d documented their 1st EP while another senior high school friend, Aaron Piccirillo, became …

A mysterious and enigmatic body — supposedly raised within a deaf family members, getting genetically deaf herself, and having learned to indication as her first vocabulary — Picastro front-woman Liz Hysen quickly gained notoriety on her behalf soulfully emotive vocals and her band’s lushly atmospheric mediations. First acquiring their indigenous …