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Although their audience never extended beyond a little cult following, the Seattle indie folk band Carissa’s Wierd (yes, that’s the way they spelled it) helped pave just how for several acoustic bands partly inspired by British and American folk-rock from the ’60s and ’70s, from Joanna Newsom towards the Decemberists. …

Rising in 2004 using a mixture of woodsy midtempo rock and roll and reverb-laden vocals, Group of Horses obtained an audience within their native Northwest before Everything On a regular basis produced them indie rock and roll darlings. Multi-instrumentalists Ben Bridwell and Mat Brooke founded the group after an eight-year …

Carissa’s Wierd formed in 1995 when Tucson natives Matt Brooke and Jenn Ghetto moved to Seattle. The pair’s hushed, plaintive vocals and complex instrumentation made the feeling on city’s music picture right away, plus they recruited pianist Jeff Hellis — not forgetting a revolving lineup of drummers and violinists — …