Tag Archives: Indie Pop

Self-described Canadian “chamber folk” quintet the Wilderness of Manitoba shaped this year 2010 across the skills of Stefan Banjevic, Will Whitwham, Melissa Dalton, Scott Bouwmeester, and Sean Lancaric. The group shaped naturally out of late-night classes at Toronto’s Delaware Home, a mixture basement studio room/rehearsal space/living quarters for regional indie …

The dreamy pop task of Hollywood natives and sisters Piper and Skylar Kaplan, Puro Instinct’s origins could be traced back again to an inspiring conference Piper had with experimental musician R. Stevie Moore throughout a trip to NEW YORK. She started writing tracks with Skylar, a self-taught guitarist who was …

Coasting created in Brooklyn, NY in ’09 2009, a collaboration between Fiona Campbell (a fresh Zealand transplant and former person in the Coolies) and Madison Farmer, whose grimy, bleary-eyed surf-style guitars, murky vocals, and primeval pop sensibilities provide a nod to indie pop functions like Best Coastline, Brilliant Colors, as …

The very difficult to pin straight down indie rock experimentalists Swarming Branch possess one permanent member, Andrew Graham, and a rotating crew of musicians on call to greatly help him complete his wildly diverse songs. Graham began his musical trip in the first 2000s in Columbus, Ohio using the indie …

The Belfast, Ireland group Young ladies Names formed in ’09 2009, initially being a duo comprising guitarist/vocalist Cathal Cully and novice drummer Neil Brogan. They began with a loud audio that nodded to old-school indie pop serves like Beat Taking place, Field Mice, and Josef K. Bassist Claire Miskimmin, whom …

Created in 2008 round the talents of Alex Davey Saunders, Daniel Hopewell, George Waite, and Russell Bates, Uk indie rockers the Crookes create sly, romantically doomed, contemporary pop songs which have attracted comparisons to artists like Vampire Weekend, Belle and Sebastian, the Housemartins, as well as the Smiths. The music …

Eben Portnoy and Sara Magenheimer began playing jointly in the music group Traveling before splitting off and beginning a far more experimental lo-fi task called Fertile Crescent. After personal launching a 7″, the duo transformed their name to Woom. Structured out of Oakland and LA by method of Brooklyn, both …

Inspired with the dreamy underwater imagery of their collaborative brief film, Dolphins and Porpoises, Rebecca Scott (vocals, tips) and Brian Prepare (drum piece of equipment, guitar) shaped the equally dreamy indie pop group Panda Riot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania circa 2005. The band’s buzzy electric guitar riffs, gossamer vocals, and swaths …

It’s common for just two close friends to try performing some music after several beers way too many, but not most of them turn out making a profession from it. Maximum Twins, however, will be the exclusion: Liam Kenny (acoustic guitar and vocals, previously from the Friendsters and Bitch Ideal) …

Fargo, North Dakota trio Key Cities build sweetly haunting, lo-fi chamber pop melodies. After conference in music group camp, M.J. Parker and Charlie Gokey began producing home-recorded cassettes beneath the name Light Foliage if they had been 15 years of age, collaborating by email from their distinct edges of North …