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Creature Feature

The Los Angeles-based goth rock duo Creature Feature will be the brainchild of singer/guitarist Curtis Rx and synth player Erik X. Shaped following a Halloween party in 2005, Creature Feature obtained a pursuing through their MySpace web page and advertisements in horror mags. Both their self-titled EP and debut recording, …

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The Dragons

Led by siblings Doug, Dennis, and Daryl Dragon, the Dragons’ jazzy Western world Coast psychedelic rock and roll fell somewhere within the soft waves of Surf’s Up-era Shore Boys, the smoky late-night chill of Booker T. & the MG’s, and the overall weirdness from the Doors. Each one of the …

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Apse

With few boundaries in its avant-garde, haunting post-rock, Apse formed in Newtown, Connecticut, in 1999. The initial lineup contains high school close friends Robert Toher (acoustic guitar), Ezer Lichtenstein (drums), and Ryan Todd (bass). By 2001 they’d documented their 1st EP while another senior high school friend, Aaron Piccirillo, became …

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Jim White

Southern Gothic singer/songwriter Jim White colored was raised in Pensacola, Florida, enamored using the sounds from the white gospel music he noticed within the Gospel Jubilee tv series. After spending his formative years within the outskirts of the deeply Pentecostal community, he amused a profession as a specialist surfer, accompanied …

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White Flight

Striking from his own following a stint with Lawrence, KS’ the Wedding anniversary, Justin Roelofs (aka White Trip) released his self-titled debut on his homegrown label, Array Life, in 2006. The recording, a psychedelic affair that blended ambient pop sensibilities (? la the Flaming Lip area) with hip-hop and acidity …

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The Pine Hill Haints

Acquiring inspiration from origins music and Southern tales from the supernatural, the Pine Hill Haints perform a self-described design of “Alabama ghost country” that details upon honky tonk, rockabilly, folk, and bluegrass. As a kid, vocalist Jamie Hurdle often became a member of his grandfather in going to regional hootenannies, …

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Goon Moon

Usually, “side tasks” offer an outlet for renowned rockers to explore sounds and approaches they are not really normally associated with. Just to illustrate, Goon Moon. Led by ex-Marilyn Manson bassist Twiggy Ramirez (that has since turn into a touring employed gun for AN IDEAL Group and Nine Inches Fingernails) …

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Munk

Made up of producers Mathias Modica and Jonas Imbery, Munk have offered the chic metropolitan soundtrack for several fashion displays, gallery showings, and underground dance parties in Europe and NY through the entire early 2000s. Modica and Imbery released their 1st recording, Pin, in 1999 beneath the pseudonym Leroy Hanghofer. …

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Albert Ayler

Among the giants of free of charge jazz, Albert Ayler was also perhaps one of the most controversial. His large build and wide vibrato had been difficult to disregard, and his 1966 group sounded such as a runaway New Orleans brass music group from 1910. Unlike John Coltrane or Eric …

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Akira Rabelais

An intellectual pioneer just as much as other things, Akira Rabelais issued forth music creations and innovations from his perch at CalArts. Given birth to and elevated in South Tx, one of is own childhood pastimes included shooting metallic plates with BB weapons in order that he could go through …

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