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An Academy Award-nominated singer/songwriter and composer most widely known as the acrobatic, multi-instrumental, primary person in the spirited Grammy Award-winning indie rock and roll collective Arcade Fireplace, Will Butler was created in North California and spent his formative years in Southern Tx. The son of the geologist (dad) and a …

Hailing from the town of Norrköping in east Sweden, PG.Shed certainly are a post-rock collective who’ve described their audio seeing that “Swedish Experimental Instrumentalism.” Relatively not the same as the generally swamping, unwavering soundscapes of their post-rock counterparts like this Will Destroy You and Explosions in the Sky, the music …

When she released her first independent album in 2007, Brooklyn singer/songwriter Nicole Schneit thought we would work beneath the moniker Air Waves, a name inspired with a Guided simply by Voices track. Her skill for a straightforward melody and loosely ramshackle pop audio gained some early admirers including Dan Deacon, …

Kyle Craft is usually a Louisiana-bred, Portland, Oregon-based singer/songwriter having a strong, full-throated wail and knack for pairing Stones-ian hooks and Dylan-esque wordplay with glam-kissed pop swagger. A Shreveport indigenous who found music in his early teenagers via a opportunity K-Mart-purchased David Bowie compilation, Art grabbed his acoustic guitar, and …

Mapei is a Swedish-American left-field pop musician — given birth to in Providence, Rhode Isle — whose cross types design and blogosphere enthusiast following drew evaluations to M.We.A. and Amanda Empty. Delivered Jaqueline Cummings, she have scored her initial underground strike with “Video Vixens,” whose outrageous video became a YouTube …

Experimental artist Reiko Kudo began her musical career with Noise, the group she founded (less than her maiden name at that time, Reiko Omaru) in 1979. The music group flirted with different lineups and designs before settling like a duo; Reiko published the songs, performed acoustic guitar and trumpet, and …

Brooklyn-based duo Ninjasonik, made up of Reverend McFly and DJ Teenwolf, set up itself in fall 2007 with “Restricted Pants,” a song that generated an extraordinary amount of blogosphere buzz as an MP3 and YouTube video. Remixes from the song, and also other likewise styled songs such as for example …

Chicago power pop band Green were shaped in the middle-’80s by guitarist/singer/songwriter Jeff Lescher, whose influences included the Kinks, T. Rex, and spirit music. Although such albums as Green (1986) and Elaine MacKenzie (1988) had been fairly well-known in Holland, Green didn’t possess much exposure within their house nation. Arriving …

The brilliant juxtaposition of Sarah Tanat Jones’ vocals with brash post-punk guitar riffs and solid backbeat are what defines Edinburgh, Scotland’s Seriously Gang. Channeling the organic pop sensibility of such feminine rock and roll legends as Karen O or Chrissie Hynde, Tanat Jones, who, incredibly enough, also has drums, joins …

Not to end up being confused using the American option rock outfit from the same name, Polar Carry are a English experimental post-jazz five-piece influenced simply by famous brands Beethoven, Stevie Question, and Björk. Produced in London in 2004 by drummer Sebastian Rochford, previously an early on person in Babyshambles, …