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Lindsay Anderson

Lindsay Anderson is a Chicago-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who makes jazz, folk, and pop-influenced indie rock and roll. She released her debut record, If, on Minty Clean in 2007.

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33.3

Experimental trio 33.3 formed around the campus of Yale University or college in the fall months of 1997; composed of cellist/bassist Dominique Davison, guitarist Brian Alfred and drummer Steven Wall space, the group released their debut LP on Appearance Information in 1999. Takes on Music arrived the next year.

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Pattern Is Movement

Exploratory indie rockers Design Is Movement were shaped in Philadelphia by multi-instrumentalists Andrew Thiboldeaux and Christopher Ward in 2001. Originally became a member of by fellow music artists Daniel McClain, Wade Hampton, and Corey Duncan, early result from the music group tended toward angular mathematics rock and roll. This heavy …

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The Sorts

Washington, D.C. post-rock clothing the Sorts produced in the fall of 1994, originally made up of vocalist/guitarist Joshua LaRue (previously of Rain Just like the Audio of Trains), bassist Stuart Fletcher, and ex-Hoover drummer Chris Farrall. The group’s debut record, Common Time, made an appearance in 1996, implemented a year …

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L’Altra

Chicago-based experimental ensemble L’Altra comprised Lindsay Anderson, Joseph Costa, Ken Dyber, Eden British and Marc Hellner. Their gorgeously atmospheric self-titled debut EP premiered on Appearance in middle-1999. Music of the Sinking Occasion adopted a year later on.

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Isotope 217

The Chicago-based jazz-funk fusion ensemble Isotope 217 featured guitarist Jeff Parker alongside percussionists John Herndon and Dan Bitney, all three better known for his or her work in Tortoise; the roster around the group’s 1997 Thrill Jockey label debut The Unstable Molecule also contains trumpeter Rob Mazurek, bassist Matt Lux, …

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Drowner

The roots of Houston, Texas’ atmospheric pop project Drowner began in 2008, when multi-instrumentalist Darren Emanuel began tinkering with guitar effects and textures that went beyond the music he was producing along with his band at that time, Swimming In. Although some of the shoegaze-inspired approach managed to get into …

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