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The core unit of San Diego’s Louis XIV had originally played together within the rootsy, alt-rocking Convoy, which issued an album called Dark Licorice in 2001. Having shifted by 2003, vocalist/guitarists Jason Hill and Brian Karscig and drummer Tag Maigaard installed with bassist Jimmy Armbrust and started fleshing out the …

Formerly referred to as the Wildbunch, the Detroit sextet Electric Six mix garage, disco, punk, fresh wave, and metal into cleverly dumb, in-your-face songs like “Danger! Large Voltage,” which reached number 2 around the English graphs early in 2003. Vocalist Dick Valentine, guitarists Stone Indian and Surge Joebot, bassist Disco, …

Restless sonic chameleons the Fiery Furnaces revolve around the brother and sister duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger, whose prickly childhood relationship and musical family arranged the stage for his or her playful, unstable music. The Friedbergers’ grandmother was a musician and choir movie director in a Greek Orthodox chapel …

We were young in rural Broenderslev, Denmark, Steffen Westmark (vocals/guitars), Søren V. Christensen (Hammond body organ), Allan F. Villadsen, and Per M. Jorgenson (drums) had been inspired from the classics — Cream, Kinks, Very Points, Them — plus they utilized that hard R&B, primal rock and roll influence to operate …

Not really a party pet but a celebration guerrilla, Andrew W.K. burst onto the picture having a cross of metallic, pop, and dance that parodied and paid tribute towards the cheesiest, sleaziest areas of all three designs. The California-born, Michigan-bred W.K. — the initials are a symbol of from “Light …

A Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter who performs using the music group Mr. Elevator & the mind Resort, Wyatt Blair’s kitschy mixture of glam rock and roll and ’80s pop machismo falls somewhere within Ty Segall and “Risk Zone”-period Kenny Loggins. After issuing his debut recording, Banana Cream Desire, individually in 2012, …

Following the breakup of his debauched rock and roll & move group Louis XIV in ’09 2009, Jason Hill retreated towards the Hollywood Hills studio he bought and outfitted with vintage documenting gear to begin with focusing on solo material. Attracting friends aged and fresh, like drummers Dominic Howard from …