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The Natural Background are a NY City-based trio, featuring brothers Maximum Tepper on guitar/vocals and Julian Tepper on bass, with drummer Derek Vockins because the just other member. Maximum Tepper and drummer Vockins experienced both been playing in emo-rock/math-rock rings (much like Don Caballero and Fugazi), before their shared interests …

Railroad Jerk skewer blues, nation, rock and roll, and noise right into a messy, bohemian post-punk celebration of root base rock. Produced in 1989 by guitarist/vocalist Marcellus Hall and bassist/vocalist Tony Lee in Trenton, NJ, the duo added drummer Jez Aspinall and guitarist Chris Muller by early 1990; the group …

Shaped in Japan’s northernmost province of Hokkaido at the same time when the majority of their Tokyo contemporaries had been in thrall towards the sounds of Seattle, Japanese three-piece the Cushions sidestepped the loud-soft dynamic to supply a far more wholesome undertake the alternative rock and roll scene, inspired with …

Poster Children certainly are a high-energy punk-pop music group that formed in 1987 in Champaign, IL. Playing what they contact “post influx” music, their three full-length produces illustrate why they will have a die-hard cult pursuing: their capability to create hard however melodic tunes and their do-it-yourself beliefs, which includes …

LA art-punkers S.T.U.N. created in 2000 about guitarist and lyricist Neil Spies, vocalist Christiane J., bassist Nick S., and drummer Bobby Alt. Extended, the band’s name was “Scream Toward the Uprising of Noncomformity,” which aptly clarifies the attitude and activism indicated in Spies’ acerbic polemics. After gigging throughout L.A.’s internet …

After guitarist Ben Einziger and stepbrother and bassist Paul Fried’s band, Audiovent, split up, they thought that their amount of time in the professional music world was finished. They continuing to try out casually together, nevertheless, which offered Einziger the chance to try his hands at songwriting and performing for …

Playing sharp but interesting post-hardcore with complex melodic lines, edgy guitar numbers, and a lot of eccentric wit (their name, for example, seems French, but doesn’t imply anything), Les Savy Fav had been shaped in 1995 by five friends going to the Rhode Island Classes of Style. Vocalist Tim Harrington, …

Originally a five-piece group, when De Rosa split up in 2003, 3 years after their inception, vocalist Martin John Henry made a decision to re-form the group rather than ending things totally, bringing in brothers Neil Woodside (in drums) and James Woodside (in bass, melodica, and mandolin). Following a calendar …

This Athens, GA, band creates high-energy punk-pop with catchy hooks and literate lyrics. Why is Magnapop interesting (and various from lots of the punk-pop rings available) may be the mix of Linda Hopper’s easy, unhurried vocals as well as the furious lashings of Ruthie Morris’ acoustic guitar — it generates …

Jebediah was formed in-may 1995 in Perth, Australia’s most isolated main city, as definately not Australia’s other main population centres since it is through the country’s Asian neighbours. That isolation offers tended to create inquisitive musical hybrids. Kevin Mitchell (Acoustic guitar/Vocals), Chris Daymond (Acoustic guitar) and Vanessa Thornton (Bass) fulfilled …