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Shaped in 2005 by experienced Dallas musicians Toby Pipes (who strike the big style in1993 with the very best Ten strike “Breakfast time at Tiffany’s” using the strap Deep Blue Something) and Nolan Thies, Texas-based indie rock and roll outfit BLACK OUTFITS crafts arena-sized pop songs in the design of …

Playing dark-hued pop music that hits an equilibrium between melody-driven satisfaction and guitar-fueled malaise, New Ruins began being a two-man documenting project offering Elzie Sexton on vocals, guitars, and keyboards and J. Caleb Means on vocals and electric guitar. Sexton and Means both was raised in southern Illinois, and became …

The cosmic post-rock music group Mogwai was formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1996 by guitarist/vocalist Stuart Braithwaite, guitarist Dominic Aitchison, and drummer Martin Bulloch, longtime friends with the purpose of creating “serious guitar music.” Toward that end, they added another guitarist, John Cummings, before debuting in March 1996 using the …

Bassist Paul Webb and drummer Lee Harris were bandmates for ten years in the influential Uk band Talk Chat. A year following the band’s last discharge — 1992’s critically acclaimed Laughing Share — Harris and Webb constructed a studio room that they dubbed The Slug. After the studio room was …

Before embracing Brit-pop in the later ’90s, Doves’ three members — vocalist/bassist Jimi Goodwin, guitarist Jez Williams, and drummer Andy Williams — figured prominently in the Madchester scene, where they scored a high Five single within the dance combo Sub Sub. “Ain’t No Appreciate (Ain’t No Make use of)” peaked …

Apart from a small number of common threads — chief included in this the plaintive vocals and haunting lyrics of frontman Mark Hollis — there is certainly little to claim that the five studio LPs that define the Talk Talk oeuvre are indeed the task from the same band throughout. …

Despite a comparatively little recorded output and little media identification, Bark Psychosis were perhaps one of the most innovative artists of their period. From rather uninspired roots being a teenage Napalm Loss of life cover music group, the United kingdom group advanced by leaps and bounds, shifting from moody, lush …

The desire pop/shoegazer school of alternative pop/rock reached its commercial and artistic peak within the ’90s, but noteworthy shoegazer bands continued to emerge in the 21st century — and something of these was Technicians (never to be confused with Engineer, a brutal Syracuse, NY-based loss of life metal combo which …

Named partly following a sister of 1 from the bandmembers, Reykjavik, Iceland’s Sigur Rós (Success Rose) was shaped by guitarist and vocalist Jón Þór Birgisson (who later on passed the name Jónsi), bassist Georg Holm, and drummer Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson. Shaped in early 1994 as the people were teens, the …

Brooklyn collective Superstars Like Fleas blend post-rock experimentation, chamber music affects, traditional American folk forms, and indie pop right into a sprawling, appealingly untidy mass that at several times recalls not merely contemporaries like Broken Public Scene, Akron/Family members, and Sigur Rós, but additionally previous experimentalists like Rachel’s, Chat Talk, …