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The ragged pop quartet Boxing hailed from your smog and sun of LA, CA. Brothers Josh Kasselman and Seth Kasselman distributed vocal, acoustic guitar, and synth responsibilities; drummer T.J. Troy and bassist Rune Freeman composed Boxing’s tempo section. The combo debuted in 1998 using the Sluggish Shifting Arrows EP and …

Alternative nation outfit the Superstar Room Guys was shaped in Athens, GA in 1995 by Chicago-born singer/songwriter Dave Marr and guitarist Doug Hollingsworth; line-up adjustments frequently plagued the group, and by enough time of their 1999 debut Why Perform Lonely Guys & Women Wish to Break Eack Other’s Hearts?, the …

After performing with such artists as Abra Moore, Patrice Pike, and Billy Harvey, guitarist/singer Jon Sanchez and pedal steel guitarist John Leon founded the summertime Closet in Austin, TX, in the planting season of 2003, quickly adding drummer George Duron (who had backed John Wesley Harding and Dumptruck), with bassist …

Rex Hobart was raised in St. Wayne, MO, but shifted to Kansas Town to discover his lot of money. Around 1989, he was playing inside a rock and roll & move combo known as Giant’s Chair, nonetheless it simply didn’t feel correct. What experienced great had been the honky tonk …

Joe Pernice is among the most interesting statistics to emerge in the American indie pop picture because the 1990s; while he first obtained recognition within the downbeat alt-country action the Scud Hill Boys, since that time he’s performed and documented with a number of projects which have proven him to …

The Gourds certainly are a good-time, honky tonkin’ music group with plenty of quirk and underground appeal to justify the “alternative” tag in “alternative country-rock.” A part of Austin’s lively scene and well-known performers in the city’s nationwide music display SXSW, the Gourds 1st gained the interest of the Zero …

Chapel Hill, NC-based insurgent nation band Trailer Bride-to-be was led by vocalist/songwriter Melissa Swingle, a onetime person in the all-female trio Pussy Tooth. Pursuing that band’s demise, Swingle turned from bass to acoustic guitar, began writing tunes and formed Truck Bride-to-be in 1993 with upright bassist Daryl White colored. Carrying …

Loose-knit folk-noir confederation the Willard Offer Conspiracy was shaped in Boston in 1995 by singer Robert Fisher and guitarist Paul Austin, longtime collaborators who previously teamed within the noise-rock outfit the Flower Tamers. Asked to test-drive a friend’s brand-new home recording studio room, the duo recruited guitarist Sean O’Brien and …

Alt-country group Milton Mapes was shaped being a duo by Greg Vanderpool and Roberto Sánchez in 1999. The task, which was called after Vanderpool’s grandfather, was created from Vanderpool and Sánchez’s knowledge within the music picture of Deep Ellum, a community in Dallas, TX. After spending per year compiling music …

Led by vocalist Cindy Wasserman and singer and guitarist Frank Lee Drennen, Deceased Rock West focuses on some sort of jangly western coast alt country that tones into pop and punk territory sometimes, a bit just like a smart cross between your Gram Parsons version from the Byrds and L.A.’s …