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Formed throughout the talents of Rodrigo Amarante (singer/guitarist from Brazilian indie rock and roll outfit Los Hermanos), Fabrizio Moretti (drummer for the Strokes), and Binki Shapiro (a Los Angeles-based singer), Small Joy found fruition after an opportunity encounter between Amarante and Moretti at a festival in Lisbon, Portugal. Moretti, Shapiro, …

Ashley Campbell, the youngest child of nation music icon Glen Campbell, initially pursued an performing career before taking on the banjo in 2008. Currently a skilled pianist and guitarist, her banjo abilities created quickly and by 2009, she experienced joined her dad on the tour of Australia and New Zealand. …

LA group Quatrain issued an obscure recording in 1969 combining period Southern Californian folk-rock, psychedelic, and hard rock and roll affects, produced and engineered by David Briggs (most famed for his are maker with Neil Adolescent). Quatrain grew from the group the Human being Jungle, who released a few obscure …

Using their wall-of-fuzz guitar stylings and sugary pop underpinnings, the Pains to be Pure in mind nodded to a variety of old-school indie pop and shoegaze acts, especially Black Tambourine and My Bloody Valentine. New York-based music artists Alex Naidus (bass), Kip Berman (acoustic guitar/vocals), Kurt Feldman (drums), and Peggy …

Born in NJ to parents who all instilled a like for all music genres within their little girl, vocalist/songwriter Alyssa Graham took motivation from Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Neil Teen, Nancy Wilson, as well as the Temptations young and later on funneled those music affects into her own …

Noah as well as the Whale became a respected light in the Uk folk scene using the discharge of 2008’s Peaceful, the Globe Lays Me Straight down, their popular debut that cracked the U.K. TOP and spawned the strike one “5 Years Period.” Produced in the southern suburbs of London, …

Michigan-based psychedelic/chamber/space/pop/rock giants Starling Electrical originated as the recording project of singer/songwriter Caleb Dillon. A multi-instrumentalist and avid house recordist, the Traverse Town indigenous channeled his like of melodic ’60s and ’70s pop and artwork rock right into a prosperity of materials, around which coalesced the original lineup of drummer …

After learning to be a leading body in the U.K.’s Americana picture with his music group Grand Get, singer/songwriter/guitarist Danny Wilson introduced the likeminded task Danny as well as the Champions from the Globe in 2008 using a self-titled debut album on Loose Music. The label’s name was suitable because …

Called after scandalized 19th century spirit photographer William H. Mumler, this San Jose indie folk collective requires a multi-genre method of songwriting, having an eclectic mixture of equipment (extracted from a giveaway with the San Jose Unified College Region) and designs similar to Devendra Banhart. Produced in 2005 by vocalist/songwriter …

With her mixture of folk melodies, synthesized backdrops, and classical motifs, Enya created a unique style that more closely resembled modern compared to the folk and Celtic music that supplied her initial influences. Enya is certainly from Gweedore, State Donegal, Ireland, which she still left in 1980 to become listed …