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After spending a couple of years playing in his brother Ed Baluyut’s band, Versus, James Baluyut opted to look solo in 2001. The task was called As well as/Minus (+/-), and after a whirlwind calendar year of composing and recording materials, Baluyut released his initial record, Self-Titled Long-Playing Debut Record, …

Jason Merritt, Maximum Lichtenstein, and Dan Goebel comprise the indie rock and roll clothing Timesbold. The trio, which comes from Brooklyn, produced a large splash overseas using its debut solitary, “Sewn in Seams,” in springtime 2001. The Woe Become Gone EP produced a larger impression later on that fall, placing …

Indie-pop vocalist/songwriter and Elephant 6 confederate Ross Seaside was created in New Orleans and elevated mainly in Baton Rouge, LA, signing up for his first music group, Beach-Head, while in senior high school. Relocating to Ruston, LA in 1991, he became a member of the music group Smilin’ Joe Fission, …

Power pop music group Heavens to Murgatroid was founded in Portsmouth, NH, in 1990 by vocalist/guitarist Rick Twombly and bassist Tim McCoy. After many staff shifts, their current lineup stabilized around business lead guitarist Tim Theriault and drummer Chris Boyle. Furthermore to many compilation efforts, Heavens to Murgatroid documented the …

Like American contemporaries the Killers and Interpol, and Delorentos and Director nearer to residential, Irish four-piece the Flaws are indebted towards the English post-punk picture of the first ’80s, crafting super melodic indie pop music with small pretension to originality but a lot of spirit and solid songwriting. There’s greater …

Called after a T. Rex monitor by founders Alejandro Escovedo, bassist David Fairchild and drummer Glenn Benavides, Buick MacKane combined rootsy rock and roll with edgier types of the 1970s like garage area rock and roll and glam. The loose quartet was created in 1989 when Benavides (previously of Doctors …

The Fullerton, California-based Charley was the lo-fi project of of former Focus on 13 and Medication Guy singer/guitarist Rob Lohayza; originally a single opportunity, Charley mutated right into a operating music group midway through documenting with the help of players including business lead guitarist Curt Carson, bassist Bryan Blume and …

First gathered collectively in 1997, Alexander Lebedev (vocals, classical guitar), Sergei Korolyov (acoustic guitar, microKORG, Kaoss Pad), Andrei Prosvirnin (bass), and Alexandra Kucherova (drums) barely could play an axe. Initially, they simply performed eclectic imitations of a common Russian and European rock and roll music. An extremely singular peculiarity about …

Since Fall Leaves produced their 1993 saving debut using the single “WHILE I Close My Eye” b/w “The Sphere of Sea Tides,” singer/songwriter David Beckey laid the groundwork for his one-man music group that looked up to the psychedelic ’60s revival from the Byrds as well as the Beatles. Pursuing …

Producing frenzied tunes of raw rock and roll & move endured by straight lyrics, Silent Friction’s themes draw out blazing stamina to modern rock and roll style. Shaped in 2000 in Nashville, TN, Friction includes a three-piece lineup fronted by Matt Bell (acoustic guitar, vocals) and finished with Nathan Hansen …