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The dreamy soundscapes of Speck Hill first took shape in Brooklyn, NY, where founding members Karl Briedrick (guitar) and Marie-Claire Balabanian (vocals, bass) held their first rehearsals in 2005. Causing the vocals of Mazzy Star’s Wish Sandoval as well as the lush orchestrations of space rock and roll, the music …

Mixing dreamy indie rock and roll guitars with coed vocals and lush washes of appear, Blackstrap certainly are a shoegaze-inspired quintet from Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 2001 by frontman Jonatan Westh and organist Maria Lindén, the group crafted its audio for just two years before liberating a debut recording, Ghost …

In 2000, ex-Mazzy Superstar vocalist Wish Sandoval joined up with with drummer Colm O’Ciosoig of My Bloody Valentine to create Wish Sandoval & the Warm Innovations. The project maintained the laid-back slowcore sound of Mazzy Superstar, and highlighted Sandoval’s sensuous, hypnotic tone of voice. However, it changed the psychedelic leanings …

Guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Geoff Farina produced a name for himself with Karate, a music group that was dynamic from 1993 to 2005 and grew immensely favored by its unlikely crossbreed of emo rock and roll songwriting and jazzy acoustic guitar flourishes. Farina split up Karate when hearing harm started placing in from …