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War Tapes

Angst-filled Los Angeles-based indie rockers War Tapes craft volatile and brooding post-punk anthems in the vein of Joy Division, Echo & the Bunnymen, Interpol, as well as the Cure. The music group, which includes charismatic and theatrical frontman Neil Popkin, bassist Becca Popkin, guitarist Matt Bennett, and drummer William Mohler, …

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Rodriguez

Another serious contender for the name of “artist least more likely to enjoy a main career re-estimation,” the storyplot of cult enigma Rodriguez is non-etheless seen as a recurring moments of renaissance, sprawled more than four years and as much continents. Hopelessly obscure in america during his formative years as …

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Obscured by Clouds

Seattle-based art rock-band Obscured by Clouds took their name from Red Floyd’s 1972 album from the same name, and their sound also shows the spacy, electronic-induced psychedelia of this era — but with contemporary sound reinforcements and technical digital improvements. William Weikart may be the human brain trust and creator …

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Kellarissa

Kellarissa is Larissa Loyva, a whisper-quiet Vancouver vocalist and synthesizer experimentalist who first gained publicity in 1999 when she formed P:ano with Nick Krgovich. The duo, afterwards extended to a quartet, released three albums through the 2000s, where period Loyva also added to numerous rings and tasks around Vancouver, like …

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White Lies

A dark-edged trio hailing from London, White colored Lays take sonic cues from famous brands Joy Department, the Teardrop Explodes, and Echo & the Bunnymen. Certainly, the three music artists are so focused on the U.K.’s post-punk picture that they authorized with Fiction Information, a Polydor imprint most widely known …

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Kangding Ray

Berlin-based French musician David Letellier, aka Kangding Ray, played out in bands being a guitarist and drummer ahead of taking on production of digital music. His debut record for Raster-Noton, Stabil (2006), was a sharpened, glitchy established that included acoustic and sampled-and-looped components. Its 2008 follow-up, Automne Flip, was markedly …

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Pentemple

Pentemple were formed in 2007 for any one-off improvisational overall performance in Melbourne, Australia; their dark and brutal soundscapes had been built by Sunn 0))) duo Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley along with Oren Ambarchi, Attila Csihar, and dark metal designer Striborg. Southern Lord released the concert recording 0))) Presents… …

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Low vs Diamond

The beginnings of Los Angeles’ Low vs Gemstone could be traced to early 2002 on the School of Colorado, where lead singer/guitarist Lucas Field, drummer Howie Gemstone, and keyboardist Tad Moore (birth name: Adam Thaddeus Moore IV) were undergrads. The three performed together within a jam music group in between …

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Eye Alaska

Crafting an ambitious appear they contact “cinematic rock and roll,” Orange, CA’s Eyes Alaska feature singer/songwriter/programmer Brandon Wronski, guitarist/singer Cameron Trowbridge, guitarist/pianist/vocalist Run after Kensrue, bassist/vocalist Christopher Osegueda, and drummer Han Ko. Prior to the music group shaped in 2006, Wronski and Trowbridge performed in the somewhat harder-edged group Deceased …

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Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz

Based in the Abbey of Stift Heiligenkreuz, in the Vienna woods part of Austria, the Cistercian Monks found the attention from the pop music and classical crossover-buying audience using the launch from the album Chant: Music for the Soul — (the album was entitled Chant: Music for Paradise in Europe) …

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