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Janet Beveridge Bean was created in Florida, but was raised in Louisville, KY. By the first ’80s, she was playing percussion in an area punk music group, but 1983 noticed the start of her two primary musical pursuits. That 12 months she was recruited by Catherine Ann Irwin (whom she’d …

Jennie Arnau’s bold, bluesy tone of voice and artful mixture of Southern rock and roll, folk, pop, and nation make her music appear somehow both refreshingly unique and familiar at exactly the same time, a difficult mixture that is clearly a whole lot simpler to discuss than to really achieve. …

Bassist, singer and songwriter Lisa Marr has generated a profession around her creative variety, having caused cuddle-core favorites Cub and garage-flavored punk-popsters Buck before stunning from her own using the alt-country influenced quintet The Lisa Marr Test. Created in Canada, Marr slice her musical tooth in Vancouver, English Columbia, when …

Formed in the ashes of two influential alternative country rings, Whiskeytown and Hominy, the duo of lead singer/guitarist Jesse Sykes and guitarist Phil Wandscher fulfilled in 1999 in Seattle’s Hattie Hat club. Sykes had simply ended a romantic relationship with Jim Sykes (her musical partner within the music group Hominy) …

Focusing on an evocative mixture of pop, folk, indie rock and roll, and electronic music, Lovers shaped in 2002 like a single vehicle for prolific East Coast singer/songwriter Carolyn Berk. Concurrently introspective and quirky, the music group released its 2002 debut long-player, Celebrity Lit Sunken Dispatch, with the Orange Twin …

Canadian alt-country singer/songwriter Carolyn Tag was created and raised in Sicamous, English Columbia, growing through to her family’s dairy products plantation. Taught piano by her dad, himself an achieved violinist, she surfaced in 1991 as an associate from the Victoria, B.C.-centered all-girl rock combo the Vinaigrettes, touring Canada as well …

Singing and composing in a method that fuses classic barroom cool using a here-and-now cleverness and faintly ironic wit, LA hipster Eleni Mandell initiated her documenting profession with arty-cool albums filled with her smoky, noir-ish sketches. Mandell, who was simply a huge enthusiast of L.A. punkers X and beatnik revivalist …

Seattle singer/songwriter Laura Veirs sings personal music of intimate intoxication, everyday vignettes, and occasional public commentary which are often large in introspection and intense personality scrutiny. Her vocals and melodies quickly change and veer, along her wide vocal range. She released her very own self-titled CD, documented live and offering …

Trumpeter and vocalist/songwriter Sarah Kramer makes folky, organic music that builds upon her jazz research at Bard University, years spent accompanying additional artists. A indigenous of Western Orange, NJ, Kramer performed trumpet and acoustic guitar growing up and finally attended Bard on the Nesuhi Ertegun jazz scholarship or grant. When …

Alternate country-rock singer/songwriter Kevin Gordon was created and raised in Western Monroe, Lousiana, and was raised on a reliable diet from the area’s indigenous swamp blues, honky tonk and rockabilly. A released poet and graduate from the University or college of Iowa Authors Workshop, he teamed with maker and E …