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Featuring a couple of luminaries around the Southern indie rock and roll scene, the Rock and roll*A*Teens (never to become confused using the Rock-a-Teens, the Virginia-based strap who scored popular in 1959 with “Whoo-Hoo”) execute a swampy but emphatic mixture of indie rock and roll, rockabilly, garage rock and roll, …

Marked by beautiful harmonies, tunes that fuse pop hooks with root base rock and roll accents, and a playful love of life that doesn’t hinder the (sometimes) serious intent from the music, the Psycho Sisters can be a collaboration between two acclaimed and achieved artists, Susan Cowsill and Vicki Peterson. …

Rex Hobart was raised in St. Wayne, MO, but shifted to Kansas Town to discover his lot of money. Around 1989, he was playing inside a rock and roll & move combo known as Giant’s Chair, nonetheless it simply didn’t feel correct. What experienced great had been the honky tonk …

You may remember Nora O’Connor as an associate from the Blacks (she sometimes passed the name Nora Black) or her appearances on-stage and on record with Andrew Bird, the brand new Pornographers, the Aluminium Group, Chris Mills, Otis Clay, or Mavis Staples. People in her indigenous Chicago also understand the …

Since his appearance over the alt-country scene using the Grievous Angels in the mid-’90s, Jon Rauhouse is becoming Bloodshot Records’ secret weapon multi-instrumentalist, appearing on greater than a dozen of their produces, aswell as guesting on albums for other brands. Developing up in Az, Rauhouse started playing banjo on the …

Born close to Winnipeg, raised within the Dark Hillsides of South Dakota, and later on located in St. Paul, Minnesota, vocalist/songwriter Haley Bonar is normally in the same musical orbit from the dreamy Minnesotans Low. (Her debut record, How big is Planets, was also released on Low head Alan Sparhawk’s …

Following the dissolution of alt-country kings Whiskeytown, frontman Ryan Adams’ solo career received the majority of critical attention. However, vocalist/fiddle participant Caitlin Cary was sitting on the sidelines with her personal amazing batch of music. Cary released a single EP, Waltzie (Yep Roc), in 2000. The discharge was a stripped-down, …

Chicago-based children’s act Wee Hairy Beasties contain Mekons users Jon Langford (billed as “Cyril the Karaoke Squirrel”) and Sally Timms (“Monkey Dual Dippey”), singer/songwriter Kelly Hogan (“Marjorie the Singing Bee”), as well as the acoustic blues trio Devil inside a Woodpile (Rick “Cookin'” Sherry, Joel Paterson, and Tom Ray). Based …

Alternative nation singer/songwriter Neko Case earned a big and devoted audience on her behalf smoky, advanced vocals as well as the downcast beauty of her music. Blessed in Alexandria, Virginia, Case transferred around frequently as a kid, spending the biggest section of her youngsters in Tacoma, Washington. She still left …

Bassist, singer and songwriter Lisa Marr has generated a profession around her creative variety, having caused cuddle-core favorites Cub and garage-flavored punk-popsters Buck before stunning from her own using the alt-country influenced quintet The Lisa Marr Test. Created in Canada, Marr slice her musical tooth in Vancouver, English Columbia, when …