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The quietly magnificent L.A. indie pop music group Let’s Proceed Sailing created in 2002 and released their nice but world-weary debut, The Chaos to be able, in Apr 2007. The years between weren’t spent holed up inside a studio room perfecting subtle tunes: vocalist/songwriter Shana Levy, as well as guitarist …

Five dudes from Bloomington, IN (namely, Cory Plump, Jay McElfresh, Nate Lineback, Nate “Brand-new Nate” Cross, and Brandon Crowe) came together as the Amazing Great Dudes in 2003. Slinging a method of tongue-planted-firmly-in-cheek humor disco that nodded to contemporaries like Har Mar Superstar and Kennedy, the fivesome self-released six full-length …

Lapko is a Finnish alternate rock-band formed in 1996 by Ville Malja (acoustic guitar and vocals), Anssi Nordberg (bass), and Janne Heikkonen (drums). Both of these art-school dropouts and a metallic worker had been originally childhood close friends in the tiny city of Harjavalta. Prior to the starting point of …

The brainchild of cosmic lo-fi Los Angeles-based indie folk artist/high-school science teacher Chad Matheny, Emperor X began its aural assault in the past due ’90s. Matheny’s quirky mixture of surreal, offbeat lyrics and haphazard plans combined with an innate pop sensibility 1st made an appearance in solid type in 1998 …

Originally a singer using the idiosyncratic Swedish soul-ska-punk rock-band Monster, Anders Wendin went solo in 2002, acquiring the relatively peculiar stage name of Moneybrother. Few could possess predicted the achievement that was to check out. His debut record, Blood Panic, marketed well and was panegyrically received by critics in Scandinavia, …

Led by smooth-as-silk guitarist Terry Frewer, this Vancouver, Uk Columbia quartet obtained an enormous local strike in 1971 with “A Nation Boy Called Willy” b/w “Pressed Ham,” released by London. Additional group members had been Bob Buckley (vocals, key pad, sax, woodwinds), Pete McKinnon (bass), and Kat Hendrikse (drums). Spring’s …

The fine Uk guitarist Ray Martinez has divided his career between playing in bands and session work, earning a reputation among the brighter lights in the progressive rock glow and finally developing expansive studio skills in arranging and production. Until the first ’70s he was just about only referred to …

Japanese all-girl pop quartet Speed, made up of Shimabukuro Hiroko, Imai Eriko, Uehara Takako, and Arakaki Hitoe, met in the Okinawa Actor’s College, which also produced several Speed’s contemporaries in the 1990s J-pop picture such as for example Super Monkeys (which subsequently resulted in the respective professions of Maximum and …

Puerto Rican multi-instrumentalist, educator, and longtime conductor from the Children’s Chorus of Puerto Rico Griselle Bou, along with Victor Meléndez and Annette Bou, earned a Best Latin Children’s Recording Grammy nomination for Canciones y Cantos — Juegos Infantiles del Folklore Puertorriqueño.

Dreamy Swedish singer/songwriter Lisa Isaksson honed her atmospheric mixture of psychedelic art rock and breathy indie folk on her behalf mother’s old classical guitar, which had spent an excellent most its life gathering dust in the family attic. Given birth to beyond Stockholm, Isaksson spent very much her youngsters around …