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Following the demise of Fantasy City Film Club in 1999, Michael J. Sheehy quickly surfaced like a single singer/songwriter. Even though many of his U.K. contemporaries had been exploring melodic acoustic guitar rock and roll or neo-prog, Sheehy struck out in another path; his dark and frequently darkly funny, punk-spirited …

Born Michael Adam Owen Pallett-Plowright, Owen Pallett is really a singer/violinist/manufacturer/arranger from Toronto. Classically educated from an early on age group, at 15 he began playing single violin displays. As his musical passions shifted to indie pop, Pallett collaborated with a variety of indie performers, including Jim Guthrie, Royal Town, …

Move away from Me personally, the name of singer/songwriter Nellie McKay’s debut record, was a play in two game titles by romantic feminine vocalists who became popular in the first 2000s: Norah Jones’ End up with Me personally and Jane Monheit’s Arrive Dream beside me. But while McKay stocks a …

Washington, D.C.-centered indie pop singer Sarah Shannon was the lead singer and center point for Velocity Girl, whose 3 early-’90s albums, Copacetic, Simpatico, and Gilded Famous actors and Zealous Hearts, reworked the English shoegazer aesthetic right into a distinctly first form. When that music group divide in 1996, Shannon shaped …

Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter John Platinum crafts breezy, nuanced, indie pop gems that suggest an extended, steady diet plan of West coastline classic rock and roll like Crosby, Stills & Nash, Joni Mitchell, and Harry Nilsson, and a penchant for the literate, indie folk musings of contemporaries like Josh Ritter, Rufus …

Following the demise of his previous band, Snug, British songwriter Ed Harcourt released a short-lived career being a chef while continuing to create his own songs. A enthusiast of Tom Waits and Jeff Buckley, he quickly empty the kitchen and only a single songwriting career, one which discovered him progressing …

American singer, songwriter, and producer Ben Folds emerged within the mid-’90s because the leader of the energy pop trio Ben Folds Five, before impressive out on an effective solo career. Carrying out a past due-’80s stint playing bass for the music group Majosha, the NEW YORK native spent many years …

Vocalist/songwriter Richard Swift’s lo-fi, sepia-toned design harks back again to the Tin Skillet Alley age. Blessed in 1977, the California indigenous spent his youngsters locked in his area using a four-track recorder, a tool that — plus a pc — the musician continues to work with even today. Inspired by …

After would-be pop star Jake Simpson finished his performance of Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours,” the celebrity judges of CBS’ 2003 Superstar Search revival were stunned, to state the least. Stating a lot more than that, Naomi Judd exclaimed, “You make my substances vibrate at a higher regularity …

Vocalist/songwriter Charlotte Martin got her begin singing opera even though going to Eastern Illinois University or college in the past due ’90s. Her dad was a well known professor within the music division, and normally Martin adopted his footsteps. She’d been playing piano since she was just a little lady …