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Originally founded mainly because Volcano Playground in ’09 2009, Toronto-based quartet Programm contains bassist/singer Jackie Game, guitarist/singer Jacob Soma, keyboard player Mark Game, and drummer Andrew Reesor. The music group created shadowy digital indie pop tunes, heavily affected by shoegaze, post-punk, psychedelia, and Krautrock. The group gigged thoroughly across the …

Canadian indie rock and roll/shoegaze ensemble Braids produced loud, somewhat experimental pop that owed much debt to several shoegaze bands from the ’90s. Featuring the abilities of keyboardist Raphaelle Standell-Preston, guitarist Katie Lee, guitarist Taylor Smith, and drummer Austin Tufts, Braids originally began as the Calgary-based music group a nearby …

The one-man project of Luis Vasquez, the Soft Moon provides darkly hypnotic sounds of Suicide, Joy Department, Bauhaus, and Krautrock new lease of life using a stripped-down, lo-fi approach. Vasquez can be motivated by his Afro-Cuban traditions as well as the wide-open areas from the Mojave Desert where he grew …