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Resigning themselves to some job of obscurity by just virtue of the name, Fuck produced in Oakland, CA, in 1993 after bandmembers Timmy Prudhomme (vocals), Kyle Statham (guitar, violin), Ted Ellison (bass, piano), and Geoff Soule (drums) became accelerated friends while detained within a police force holding cell. Building their …

Largely passed simply by in the choice music sweepstakes from the mid-’90s, Acetone pursued indie rock with influences from two of their Southern California forebears, the Beach Boys and Gram Parsons, with a lot of the Velvet Underground thrown in aswell. Officially produced in 1992 by guitarist Tag Lightcap, bassist …

The post-grunge emo outfit Pop Unknown hailed from Austin, TX, and had a hearty pop sound. Made up of Tim Lasater (vocals/electric guitar), Gabe Wiley (drums), Joel Ganucheau (electric guitar), Matt Breedlove (electric guitar), and Casper Echols (bass), Pop Unidentified released their debut EP, SUMMER MONTHS Kills, on Deep Elm …

Jet Dark Crayon may be the instrumental post-rock outlet for former professional skater Tommy Guerrero, who also produces more eclectic, hip-hop oriented units under his personal name. (Back the 1980s, Guerrero was also the bassist within the famous — mostly for their really superb name — skatepunk clothing Free Ale, …

Chicago singer/songwriter Matt Marque produces understated indie pop with an focus on smart lyrics and deft guitar playing. His initial discharge was a homemade, cassette-only assortment of music known as Lightbulb, Fork, String. In 2001, he was agreed upon to the Truckstop label and released MAKE IT HAPPEN. Three years …

Bivouac first had become in the first ’90s in Western Yorkshire, Britain. The music group was comprised of vocalist/guitarist Paul Yeadon, bassist Granville Marsden, and drummer Keith York. Their previously efforts sounded a little like Teenage Fanclub or Superchunk making use of their solid melodies and noisy guitars; actually, that …

[The] Caseworker is made up of Conor Jonathan and Eimer Devlin, formerly of About half Film. This experimental artwork rock duo comes from SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA and upon Fifty percent Film’s split up in 2001, Jonathan and Devlin asked their close friends from Swell, Monte Vallier and Sean Kirkpatrick …

Alternating affects from neo-psychedelia, sound pop, and Ennio Morricone film results, Swell shaped in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in 1989 when vocalist/guitarist David Freel and drummer Sean Kirkpatrick made a decision to record an record. Enlisting second guitarist John Dettman and bassist Monte Vallier, the music group documented a self-titled …

Looking similar to L.A. skater punks than normal rappers, the Metermaids blend rock using their rap to create music in the design of N.E.R.D. or the Great Kids instead of, state, Limp Bizkit. After conference in 2006, MCs Swell and Phrase found that they had a distributed like for indie …