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Mixing a visual design inspired by European cabaret from the 1930s with music that is clearly a spirited gumbo of pop, punk, steel, and ska, Vincent Black colored Shadow is among the more unusual works to emerge from Vancouver’s pop music scene in the brand new millennium. The Vincent Dark …

Originally called Smugface and playing an aggressive, relatively progressive design of alternative rock good nu metal from the later ’90s and early 2000s, it wasn’t until about 2004 that Atlanta-bred quintet changed its sound and image, and eventually its name to City Sleeps. Smugface contains core associates Adriel Garcia (electric …

Firescape will be the aspect task of Josh Partington, whose time job is really as guitarist and major songwriter from the Coldplay-meets-Jimmy Eat Globe indie rockers Something Corporate. With this music group on indefinite hiatus credited partly to vocalist and pianist Andrew McMahon’s bout with leukemia, Partington shaped Firescape to …

Fusing the forceful guitars of rock with clean harmonies, electronic accents, as well as the melodic conceits of indie rock and roll, Madina Lake is really a conceptually ambitious group whose tracks inform the stories from the imaginary community of Madina Lake, a secluded hamlet within the woods where life …

Metal-edged indie rock quintet Tyler Read shaped in Shreveport, LA, in 2003, from the merging of two defunct regional bands. Vocalist Josh Johnson and his sibling, drummer Jordan Johnson, produced the band alongside business lead guitarist Chris McPeters, tempo guitarist and keyboardist Brent Skinner, and bassist Chris Rimmer, acquiring cues …

After splitting with pop-punk band Crimson Car Wire in ’09 2009, singer Evan Lester (who changed his stage name to Evan Couture) and drummer Josh Cutlip formed the hardcore band Avion Roe. Bassist Sean Humphrey and guitarist Jordan Modro finished the four-piece. The Dallas, Tx band documented its self-produced debut, …

Produced in 2007, Southern London’s FranKo certainly are a four-piece who mix the hard rock and roll of American works like Daughtry and Shinedown using the pinup selling point of teenage acts like Anxiety on the Disco and Tokio Resort. Gigs around London and a tour of Thailand, plus an …