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Armed with a really outstanding debut one, “Monsters Beneath the Bed,” that recalls artists which range from Odelay-era Beck to ’80s U.K. cult heroes the tv screen Personalities, Eugene McGuinness made an appearance rather out of nowhere in 2007, seeming like he could end up being the Damon Albarn of …

If there’s a good example of a Portuguese music group that didn’t quite fulfill its potential, Ornatos Violeta is most definitely one of these. Initially known as Suores dos Reis, Ornatos Violeta produced in 1991. Its lineup was nearly formed from the starting, save for a limited period where in …

Quintet Az actually had resided in Brooklyn, NY, before saving and relocating to Asheville, NC. The music group — Alex Hornbake (bass, vocals), Andrew Dunn (vocals, acoustic guitar, key pad), Benjamin Morris Wigler (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano), Wayne DeDakis (drums, vocals, sax, dulcimer), and Nick Campbell (vocals, acoustic guitar, drums, …

Athens, GA, indie pop music group Venice Is Sinking began like a one-man music group, that one guy being vocalist/guitarist Daniel Lawson, who have released the initial Venice Is Sinking “recording” in the summertime of 1997 in his hometown of Peachtree Town, GA, by means of 50 handmade cassette copies. …

Acquiring his name from a range within a tune by Wilco, Cherry Ghost may be the stage name for Simon Aldred, a British singer and songwriter who made a decision to strike from his own being a single react in 2005 after many years of playing within a succession of …

The Wisdom of Harry came together in the height of new-revival punk rock (Sonic Youngsters, Nirvana, Mudhoney) in the first ’90s, but didn’t achieve the main buzz like their post-punk counterparts. Made up of the appearance much like My Bloody Valentine, Mogwai, and Catherine Steering wheel, the Knowledge of Harry …

Nodding to rings like Yo La Tengo, the Remedy, as well as the Flaming Lips using their cerebral, reverb-heavy make of indie pop, the Foundry Discipline Recordings created in the first 2000’s as a car for songwriter Billy Schuh. Schuh began his first music group, Billy Schuh & the Foundry, …

Basically the project of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Luke Steele and a revolving cast of supporting musicians, Perth, European Australia’s the Sleepy Jackson mixed from electro-pop to alt-country to soaring, George Harrison-esque play their music. The boy of blues vocalist Rick Steele, Luke Steele was raised inside a musical house, but …

Named honoring a turn-of-phrase in the J.D. Salinger traditional Catcher in the Rye, the noise-pop music group Rollerskate Skinny was produced in Dublin, Ireland in 1992 by vocalist/guitarist Ken Griffin, guitarist Ger Griffin (no relationship) and bassist Stephen Murray. After debuting using the 1992 EP Newbie, the group released the …

Grizzly Carry began like a real estate saving project for Boston-bred experimentalist Edward Droste, the son of the elementary school instructor, who laid the groundwork for the band’s otherworldly debut album on a little hand-held tape recorder while holed up for 15 weeks in his Greenpoint, Brooklyn, apartment. His homespun …