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Though most young Italian underground rock bands circa 2000 portrayed an open up sonic infatuation (like a great many other groups of how old they are somewhere else) with Anglo-American post-rock — often sleepily so — Jennifer Gentle showed that there is more taking place than performing Slint to death. …

We were young in Caracas, Venezuela and LA, Devendra Banhart was always playing music and sketching. Nonetheless it wasn’t until his short stay on the San Francisco Artwork Institute how the disciplines became his continuous companions. Using the encouragement of poet and SFAI teacher Expenses Berskon, Banhart started experimenting with …

American singer/songwriter Dawn McCarthy is among the founding members from the roving acidity folk collective Faun Fables and spent some time working extensively with Bonnie “Prince” Billy in addition to recording and performing on her behalf own. McCarthy was raised in Spokane, Washington in a big musical family, learning music …

Leslie Feist — most widely known simply while Feist — was a respected person in the Canadian alternate music community before getting a global pop sensation using the success on her behalf albums ALLOW IT Die as well as the Reminder. Feist was created in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada on …

Brooklyn’s dark indie folk duo White colored Magic features singer/guitarist/pianist Mira Billotte and guitarist Doug Shaw. Ahead of White colored Magic, Billotte performed in Quix*o*tic with her sister Christina (also of Slant 6); the initial version from the music group also included drummer/bassist Miggy Littleton, also of Ida, and guitarist/drummer …

The folk pleasure that’s Lavender Gemstone originally found life in Parrot Songs from the Bauharoque, a punk operetta inspired by the task of American painter/architect Paul Laffoley. Vocalist Becky Stark had written and developed the piece with a pal while surviving in Providence, RI, and starred as Lavender herself, a …

Something of the one-man combination of the Cramps, Beck’s early indie information (circa One Feet within the Grave), as well as the soundtrack to O Sibling Where Artwork Thou, vocalist and guitarist Langhorne Slim provides a sardonic, contemporary undertake traditional folk, nation, and blues. Fancifully dubbed “the bastard boy of …

Located in Athens, GA, the Tools are not a lot an organization as a casual gathering of musicians set up for performing and documenting reasons by singer/guitarist/cellist Heather McIntosh, also an associate of Japancakes and Circulatory System. To record the band’s debut record, Vast amounts of Phonographs, for Orange Twin …

Norwegian singer/pianist Susanna Wallumrød began performing in Norway in 2000 as Susanna & the Marvelous Orchestra with keyboardist Morten Qvenild. The duo’s exclusive mixture of atmospheric jazz, rock and roll, and electronica spawned Set of Lamps and Buoys (2004) and Melody Hill (2006). Susanna released her debut single album, the …

Susanna as well as the Magical Orchestra are in fact the Norwegian duo of singer Susanna Wallumrød and keyboardist Morten Qvenild. The set began performing jointly in Norway in 2000, having a unique mixture of atmospheric jazz, rock and roll, and electronica. Several their tracks made an appearance on Rune …