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Despite their summery name, Beach House make music that’s dark, dreamy, and alluringly hypnotic. Baltimore citizens Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand (the niece of French composer Michel Legrand) produced the duo in 2005, with Legrand’s hushed, Nico-like vocals and Scally’s sensitive instrumentation paving just how for their initial batch of …

The neo-psychedelic group Opal formed in the mid-’80s, featuring former Rainfall Parade guitarist David Roback and former Dream Syndicate bassist Kendra Smith. Originally, the group was known as Clay Allison, however the group slipped the name after a unitary; Roback, Smith, and drummer Keith Mitchell released the rest of the …

From the bands who surfaced in the West Coast Paisley Underground scene from the ’80s, the Rain Parade were the group that paid most explicit homage to psychedelic music from the ’60s at its most unfashionable; as punk and fresh wave gave method from what became alternate music, the Rainfall …

Denise James is a voice around the Detroit picture for quite some time. She has offered backing vocals for several Motor City centered organizations, including one lineup of multi-instrumentalist/maker Warn Defever’s rock and roll/digital fusion His Name Is usually Alive, as well as the even more rock-oriented HNIA off-shoot the …

Ethereal pop band the Pale Saints shaped in Leeds, England, in 1987. Ian Experts (bass/vocals), Chris Cooper (drums), and Graeme Naysmith (acoustic guitar) had been authorized by Ivo Watts-Russell to his 4AD label on the effectiveness of their 1st London appearance. The three-song Barging in to the Existence of God …

A founding person in the Wish Syndicate, Kendra Smith was also among the creative forces behind the California psychedelic music group Opal within the mid-’80s. She still left through the band’s last tour and was changed by Wish Sandoval (Opal transformed its name to Mazzy Superstar from then on tour). …

A peculiarly-named quartet from Philadelphia, Bent Lower leg Fatima belonged to the greater progressive rock and roll end of this town?s fabled neo-psychedelia picture. Keyboardist Dale Jimenez, drummer Chris Powell, bassist Jamey Robinson and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist/manic dancing center point Jeff Bradbury created the group in 1996, shifting to Philadelphia from their …

Brooklyn-based genre-bending indie quartet Heliotropes began in ’09 2009 when vocalist/songwriters Jessica Numsuwankijkul and Amber Myers published an ad in Craigslist, initially searching for musicians to try out Brian Eno covers with. These were ultimately joined up with by drummer Cici Harrison and bassist Nya Abudu, with performers Numsuwankijkul and …

Acquiring their moniker from a shortened version of frontwoman Teeny Lieberson’s name, Brooklyn’s TEEN include from psychedelic rock and roll to ’90s R&B to their experimental pop. Were only available in 2010 by multi-instrumentalists Lieberson, a previous Here We Proceed Magic member who produced and released TEEN’s lo-fi, home-recorded debut …