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Wye Oak, a Baltimore-based indie rock and roll duo comprising Jenn Wasner (electric guitar, vocals) and Andy Stack (drums, keyboards, vocals), took their name from a symbolic 460-year-old tree within their house condition of Maryland. Produced in 2006 beneath the moniker Monarch, Wasner and Stack documented their first record in …

Emerging through the same increase of retro U.K.-structured singers that launched Amy Winehouse, Duffy recognized herself using a melodic, vintage voice that taken to mind such ’60s artists as Dusty Springfield and Petula Clark. Blessed in the tiny coastal city of Nefyn over the Llyn Peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales, Amy …

Whether single or with her music group the Gramblers, San Francisco-based vocalist Nicki Bluhm has generated a career building nation, R&B, and blues-soaked rock and roll music. Dealing with her hubby, guitarist Tim Bluhm (who was simply a member from the music group the Mother Sides), Nicki released both her …

A singer/songwriter using a bent toward ’60s-influenced pop with an indie rock and roll advantage, Candie Payne was created in Liverpool in 1983. Nevertheless, she spent a lot of her youngsters in the Jackson Heights community of Queens, NY, where she shifted with her parents until time for England at …

Brooklyn’s In Trip Radio features Peira (vocals/guitar), Devin Krug (bass/vocals), Darko Saric (guitar), and Mike Parker (drums). The choice rock foursome arrived collectively in 2004, and collectively they cite affects such as for example U2, Coldplay, and Damien Grain. In 2006, their debut EP reached quantity ten on CMJ’s Best …

Bubblegum Lemonade formed in Glasgow while a car for the indie pop recordings of Lawrence “Laz” McCluskey. Deriving the project’s name through the title of the Mama Cass recording, McCluskey’s project can be rooted in bubblegum pop and jangly organizations like Talulah Gosh and Primal Scream. Bubblegum Lemonade’s debut EP, …

Longtime collaborators Laura Watling, Ed Mazzucco, Tim Morris, and Dwayne Palasek, most of whom initial began working jointly in the 1990s in the Autocollants, teamed up with Matthew Bice (who have incidentally co-founded Shelflife Information with Mazzucco) in the 2000s to create Tears Run Bands. Sketching on the dreamy sweetness …

Following demise of On the Drive-In, singer/guitarist Jim Ward started piecing together the components of Sleepercar, an alt-country group that had taken its cues from Old 97’s and Wilco. Ward was shortly recruited by his previous bandmates to become listed on Sparta, however, as well as the Sleepercar task was …

Although Rupa & the Apr Fishes are located in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA, their music is a specifically locale-free design of pan-culturalism, with lead singer and songwriter Rupa Marya singing not merely in British but also in France, Spanish, Hindi, as well as the Roma language from the Gypsies. …

Produced in Gainesville, FL, in 1970, Mudcrutch had been essentially a precursor to Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, using a after that 17-year-old Tom Petty on bass, Mike Campbell and Tom Leadon (the brother of ex-Eagle Bernie Leadon) on guitars, Benmont Tench on keyboards, and Randall Marsh on drums. Popular …