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Self-consciously quirky indie rock trio Sleeping in the Aviary played its first gigs within their hometown of Madison, WI, in the springtime of 2004. A high-energy group with brand-new wave leanings highly similar to early XTC and Speaking Minds before they found out Brian Eno as well as the non-esuch …

Jordan Galland’s music baby, Dopo Yume, is a campy mixture of indie pop and garage area rock and roll. He was 18 when he founded this cool clothing in 1998, merging the Italian phrase for “after” (dopo) and japan translation for “wish” (yume). For another couple of years. Galland collaborated …

Three students at Bard University — Tahlia Harbour, Apr Hayley, and Caitlin Pearce — formed the Dry out Spells in 2002, prompted by an area news story about the accidental killing of the nine-year-old girl with a deer hunter. Sketching from traditional folk ballads, the trio began working on music …

Equally inspired simply by classic punk and retro girl group pop, Vancouver’s Vancougar was formed in 2003 simply by vocalist/guitarist Eden Fineday, bassist Becca Stewart, keyboardist Megan Johnson, and drummer CC Rose, also from the Pink Mountaintops. The next 12 months, the group self-released a demonstration CD that finished up …

The Funerals, an alt-country collective, comes from Iceland. Made up of Ragnar Kjartansson (vocals, electric guitar), Lara Sveinsdottir (vocals), Olafur Jonsson (electric guitar), Thorgeir Gudmundsson (drums), and Trabant’s Thor Grondal (synth) and Vidar Gislason (bass), the Funerals produced in summer months 2001. The music group was barely 90 days old …

Mercurial English singer/songwriter Vinny Miller originally performed as Starry Soft Hound, and, less than that name, released several songs about 4AD samplers, including Anakin, Dust Distorts, and Kiddy’s Got 4 Fingers, which arrived in 1998. Primarily, Miller collaborated with Laika’s Man Fixsen, who add experimental creation touches towards the tapes …

Chicago-based indie rock-band Ruck La’ Rou includes 4 talented users who all deserve recognition for his or her own individual attempts. Guitarist Jimmy Giannopoulos doubles as the band’s back-up vocalist and in addition like a songwriter; furthermore, he founded the Musical Clothes, another indie music group within the Chicago picture. …

Supplying hard-edged tunes motivated by the task of rings like Kyuss, among stoner metal’s most prominent functions, the Minibosses combine heavy metal’s powerful riffs with rock and roll & roll’s stalwart strains. Assembling in Northampton, MA, in January of 2000, the music group combined the experience of a three-piece team …

Experimental noise rock trio Boogie Boarder (bassist Willie Miesmer, drummer Cyrus Lubin, and keyboardist Paul Gladstone) were shaped within a ceramics glaze room in 2004 at school in upstate NY. A D.We.Y. 2006 discharge with hand-printed addresses titled What Traveling Waves IS FOCUSED ON collected home-recorded periods and was released …

Epic indie rock-band Implications hail from Sweden and show the lineup of Richard Ankers (drums), Mattias Areskog (bass), Jonas Heijkenskjöld (vocals/guitars), Åsa Jacobsson (keyboards), and Daniel Jansson (electric guitar). The band’s genesis resulted from Areskog composing a lot of music, and subsequently getting urged to create a music group with …