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Eclectic and experimental, Dallas lo-fi indie rockers Weather is definitely primarily influenced by arty post-punk and avant-garde rock and roll, but toss in touches of other things that happens to cross their route: pop, jazz, digital, and straight-up rock and roll & roll. Weather was created in 1997 by close …

Nostalgically named following the ‘80s children’s PBS television series, and boasting a website in dedication towards the host (www.myspace.com/levarmotherfuckingburton, Reading Rainbow popped through to the skirt from the lo-fi indie development in later 2009. Philadelphia transplants Robbie Garcia and Sarah Everton produced the band in the ashes of the screamy …

For a few, “twee” and “primitive” are appellations in order to avoid. For others they prove badges of honor, and such may be the case with England’s Santa Sprees. Composed of few Anthony Dolphin and Katherine Marshall, the duo pretty much happened in 1994 because of a basic key pad …

Dark brown Wing Overdrive’s fractured, experimental music feeds from found-object percussion, manic banjo, clattering jaw harp drones, digital beats, calling alarm clocks, and potentially your kitchen sink aswell. The group officially started when Chuck Bettis and Derek Morton fulfilled in Washington, D.C. Both area of the city’s experimental music community, …

Causing the nightmare world of childhood trauma with insight, humor and astonishing heart, the duo of ex-Landlords members Mr. Anus (guitarist Charlie Kramer) and Mr. Horribly-Charred Baby (vocalist John Beers) teamed as the Happy Bouquets in their indigenous Charlottesville, Virginia in 1983. They debuted the next summer with a set …

The Tinklers will be the duo of Charles Brohawn and Chris Mason, two Baltimore-based multimedia artists whose music pursuits place them squarely in the Fifty percent Japan tradition of deliberate artlessness, though with an frequently more accessible, rather childlike playfulness. Even though the first Tinklers record did not turn out …

Purveying a music squarely located on the more brutal end from the hardcore punk rock and roll spectrum, Clawhammer had been formed in LA, California, USA, in the mid-80s, acquiring their name from a Captain Beefheart lyric. Amongst their first produces was a track-by-track cover record cassette of Devo’s Q: …

Shaped in 1982 by guitarist Eugene Chadbourne, bass player Tag Kramer and drummer David Licht, Shockabilly created music that sounded as an unholy mix of the Electric Prunes and Karlheinz Stockhausen. They specific in outrageous cover variations – ‘Psychotic Response’, ‘19th Anxious Break down’, ‘Time Tripper’, ‘Crimson Haze’ – and …

Much like other talented but troubled performers such as for example Syd Barrett, Brian Wilson, and Roky Erickson, Daniel Johnston battles a daily struggle with the chronic mental disease which has plagued him almost his life time. However, despite repeated rounds of delusional behavior wherein he provides actually endangered himself …

Musician, instrumentalist, and designer David Good is best referred to as the co-founder of Fifty percent Japanese, the long-running experimental rock-band fronted by his sibling, Jad Good. The Good brothers, created in Michigan, are thought to have been surviving in Maryland if they released Fifty percent Japanese like a bedroom …