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Named honoring a type of furniture created by Charles and Ray Eames, the Chicago-based chamber-pop outfit the Light weight aluminum Group was led by brothers John and Frank Navin, longtime staples from the Wicker Recreation area music scene who initial surfaced in 1983 as members from the hardcore group Women …

With a variety of queer politics, explicit sexuality, symphonic indie pop, and theatrical spectacle that edges for the religious, Toronto’s the Hidden Cameras will be the brainchild of singer/songwriter/guitarist Joel Gibb. The 2001 debut record Ecce Homo — a assortment of four-track demos released on Gibb’s very own Evil Bad …

The Magnetic Areas could be a real band, however in most essential respects they’re the project of studio wunderkind Stephin Merritt, who writes, produces, and (generally) sings all the materials. Merritt also takes on lots of the devices, concocting sort of indie pop-synth rock and roll. As the Magnetic Areas’ …