Tag Archives: Indie Pop

Regardless of the seemingly obvious link with the Elton John classic from Madman Over the Water (and newer Almost Famous fame), Tiny Dancers leader David Kay claims in interviews which the young quintet from West Yorkshire is in fact named after a cabal of wicked dwarves in Roger Corman’s 1964 …

Indie rocker and image developer Jon Bolden began writing and taking part in tunes while likely to college at Marietta University in Marietta, OH, a little town situated within the shores from the Ohio River. There wasn’t a lot of a music picture in Marietta, but this do small to …

Charleston, SC’s Slow Runner shaped in 2003 across the abilities of vocalist/songwriter Michael Flynn and multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaler. The music group’s melodic, laid-back mixture of Shins-inspired indie rock and roll, peppered with the casual stream of Weezer-esque power pop, 1st made an appearance in 2006 without Disassemble, accompanied by Shiv …

Jihae Simmons Meek met her husband to be and Neverever bandmate, Bricolage’s Wallace Meek, during her stint while the business lead singer for the Glasgow-based indie pop group the Royal We. Following a Royal We’s separation in 2007, the few relocated to Jihae’s hometown of LA, CA, where they teamed …

Stirring in the seems of such modern psych rock and roll rings as Mercury Rev, the Church, and Doves, Sofamecca released their first album — Sofa Mecca — in 2002. Fronted by vocalist Jason Gann, the music group ended up being something of the small-time crucial fave, and in 2005 …

Before planing a trip to NEW YORK to DJ at a show with personal hero R. Stevie Moore in ’09 2009, the idea of creating music acquired never happened to Los Angeles-born Piper Kaplan. Nevertheless, within the NY, she was asked by Moore to record some lyrics that he previously …

Glasgow-born singer Paul Quinn initial emerged in the first ’80s lending his deep, wealthy voice being a backing vocalist for Edwyn Collins and Orange Juice. After tenures with Yaz’s Vince Clarke and Aztec Camera’s Roddy Body, Quinn lay out for a single career, developing a support music group dubbed the …

Vocalist, songwriter, and musician Louis Schefano was raised in Birmingham, AL. He made an appearance within the self-titled debut recording by Remy No in 1996, after that spent a while with Verbena before shifting to Little Crimson Rocket, providing as drummer in the music group led by Orenda Fink and …

Not a music group by itself, the Marbles were essentiallly the alias of vocalist/songwriter Robert Schneider, better referred to as the frontman from the frontman from the Apples in Stereo system. A four-track single task, the Marbles started in March 1992 in the Denver, CO house Schneider distributed to fellow …

Atmospheric Seattle, WA-based indie rock outfit Dark Whales shaped in 2008 throughout the talents of vocalist/guitarist Alex Robert, guitarist/keyboardist Alan Foote, drummer/percussionist Davey Brozowski, bassist Ryan Middleton, and keyboard player/percussionist Mike Bayer. Using the roomy rainy neo-traditional pop-infused folk-rock visual of fellow Pacific Northwest shape-shifters just like the Moondoggies as …