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Los Angeles-based Aged Guy Markley are hardly an average music group, delivering a crazy, down-home sound that’s equivalent parts bluegrass and pure punk, recognizing the velocity and energy in both styles, and using their kitchen-sink method of materials (traditional fare, vintage pop and rock and roll songs, original tunes, anything …

The boys in O’Death result from all around the Eastern Seaboard, but met up in 2003 while these were attending the State University of NY in Purchase. They make use of folk designs — mainly bluegrass and old-time music — to get a base, but punk, grunge, golf swing, rock, …

Guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Geoff Farina produced a name for himself with Karate, a music group that was dynamic from 1993 to 2005 and grew immensely favored by its unlikely crossbreed of emo rock and roll songwriting and jazzy acoustic guitar flourishes. Farina split up Karate when hearing harm started placing in from …

Hurray for the Riff Raff may be the brainchild of Alynda Segarra, a vocalist/songwriter of Puerto Rican descent whose music imagination was initially sparked by hardcore punk even though she was a kid in the Bronx. Segarra afterwards gravitated toward American root base music, settling in New Orleans around 2007. …