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With an ear for Brian Wilson-esque harmony, the irreverently named Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. swirl indie pop, folk, and digital components into one breezy bundle. Located in Detroit, Michigan, the duo of Joshua Epstein (also from the Silent Years) and Daniel Zott arrived together in ’09 2009. Training of a …

Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Grain began working collectively in 2005, when Grain made a visitor appearance on Lewis’ 1st single album, Rabbit Hair Coat. Lewis came back the favour by performing on Grain’s own single debut, Trouble Is definitely Real, and both continued their collaboration after Rice became a member …

With an eye toward reinventing the young man band sound, the Desired formed in ’09 2009, nearly a decade after groups like *NSync as well as the Backstreet Boys hit their commercial peak. Like those two organizations, the Desired were put together through some auditions. Maximum George, an associate from …

Canadian sextet Royal Canoe deliver a shiny, percussive design of indie pop, on top of multi-instrumentalism and tuneful, split songwriting. Formed this year 2010 in the ashes of many prominent Winnipeg rings, Royal Canoe emerged together throughout the music of frontman Matt Peters, keeping track of serves like OutKast, Beck, …

Shaped in 2008 across the talents of Jake Hardy (guitar), Whakaio Taahi (guitar), Cameron Adler (bass), Matt Top (drums), and after that-16-year-old vocalist Jenna McDougall, Australian punk-pop outfit Tonight Alive honed their chops in youth centers around their hometown of Sydney before launching a string of increasingly successful EPs (All …

Retro-minded Brooklyn club act BODY GESTURES take ‘80s soul and electro and deliver it having a futuristic slant, very much like Deee-Lite, Chromeo, or Jamiroquai. Supported by party promoters CassetteNYC and Percussionlab, the music group (Give Wheeler, Matt Youthful, Ian Chang, and Angelica Bess) developed a solid group of fans …

Launching their job using a bang using their 2007 debut display at among Tokyo’s hippest & most popular venues, this visual kei quintet continued to become perhaps one of the most prolific rings in the scene, launching an astounding five full-length albums within a year-and-a-half without the noticeable deterioration in …

Before Owl Town, singer/songwriter Adam Teen done the songs that became his side project Sky Sailing. Even more acoustic-based than Owl Town’s electro-pop, Youthful wrote and documented Sky Cruising’s music in 2006, while he was still a Minnesota metalworker coping with his parents. After Owl Town’s Ocean Eye became popular, …

Inspired with the dreamy underwater imagery of their collaborative brief film, Dolphins and Porpoises, Rebecca Scott (vocals, tips) and Brian Prepare (drum piece of equipment, guitar) shaped the equally dreamy indie pop group Panda Riot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania circa 2005. The band’s buzzy electric guitar riffs, gossamer vocals, and swaths …

Fargo, North Dakota trio Key Cities build sweetly haunting, lo-fi chamber pop melodies. After conference in music group camp, M.J. Parker and Charlie Gokey began producing home-recorded cassettes beneath the name Light Foliage if they had been 15 years of age, collaborating by email from their distinct edges of North …