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Although chart success in Britain was an unlikely first rung on the ladder to fame for the band from Bowling Green, Kentucky, mainstream rock-band Cage the Elephant achieved that. Produced by Matt Shultz, Brad Shultz, Jared Champ, Lincoln Parish, and Daniel Tichenor, the group gained a contract using the Relentless …

Because the group took its name from your Dylan Thomas’ short story The Horse’s Ha, one might assume that band was a British folk revival group with art house intentions, but Horse’s Ha comes from Chicago, IL, although there is nothing at all actually remotely Midwestern about their sound. Horse’s …

London-based producer David Sullivan entered the dubstep scene beneath the name Ramadanman, originally launching material in his eponymous label, and subsequently co-founding Hessle Audio with Ben UFO and Pangaea. Further Ramadanman produces appeared on Spirit Jazz, Apple Pips, and Aus Music. Sullivan debuted his Pearson Audio alias in ’09 2009, …

The eclectic Canadian group Timber Timbre features singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Taylor Kirk, keyboardist Mathieu Charbonneau, guitarist Simon Trottier, and drummer Olivier Fairfield. Acquiring motivation for the project’s name from a cabin in Ontario where Kirk produced a few of his 1st recordings, Timber Timbre self-released two albums — 2006’s Cedar Shakes and …

Having a sound inspired in equal parts from the progressive death metallic of Sweden’s Opeth, as well as the orchestrated gothic death/doom of November’s Doom and early Heaven Lost, Dark Suns surfaced from the town of Leipzig, Germany, in 1997. An initial demonstration, Below Dark Illusion, made an appearance the …

After playing for a couple of years in the “directly” music world as an associate of the distinctively virtuosic Washington, D.C.-centered metalcore band Reflux, seven- and eight-string guitar wizard Tosin Abasi was asked to record a single album from the group’s then-record label, Prosthetic Records, after the group disbanded. Initially, …

Before earning evaluations to Iron & Wine and Sufjan Stevens along with his hushed, eclectic folk music, singer/songwriter William Fitzsimmons honed his abilities in Pennsylvania. Given birth to in Pittsburgh to two blind parents, both of whom had been living-room music artists, he started playing piano and trombone in primary …

Detroit’s Omar-S (Alex Omar Smith; aka DJ Snotburger, DJ Snotinburg) surfaced in 2003 as an underground techno/home maverick, launching rigidly funky productions, made out of analog equipment, on his FXHE label. Though his 12″ produces had been pressed in little amounts with handwritten brands (and with run-out etchings like “Techno …

Originally formed like a punk rock outfit in 2001, Chicago, IL-based Caw! Caw! would develop and mature — not forgetting heading from a quartet to a trio — right into a blissed-out, spacy experimental pop group. The bandmembers honed their abilities and explored fresh territory within their hometown, carrying out …

Brooklyn-based electro-rock duo French Horn Rebellion feature the talents of brothers David and Robert Perlick-Molinari. Having a name influenced by the mix of David’s abilities like a pc audio engineer and Robert having once been the first seat French horn participant in the Northwestern College or university Symphony Orchestra, People …