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Shocking Pinks

An generally intimate-sounding mixture of indie pop and consumer electronics, Christchurch, New Zealand’s Stunning Pinks will be the task of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Nick Harte. Something of the wunderkind, Harte started playing piano at age group six; used bass, drums, and electric guitar by enough time he was eight; and …

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Hot Lava

Hot Lava’s eclectic indie pop music — peppered with techno-geek jargon, slicked with gritty seaside rock electric guitar stylings, and laced with spooky reverb results — nodded to fun-loving acts just like the Bicycles as well as the Blow. Founded by several art school learners in Richmond, VA, in 2006, …

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The Brunettes

Breezy New Zealand indie pop group the Brunettes feature the core duo of multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and producer Jonathan Bree and multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Heather Mansfield, alongside as much as 8 auxiliary members who help create the group’s Phil Spector-esque wall of sound. The band’s revolving membership contains Lil’ Main labelmates …

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The Ruby Suns

The Ruby Suns combine psychedelic indie pop with world music influences, sketching inspiration in the travels from the group’s only permanent member, Ryan McPhun. Although blessed and elevated in California, McPhun’s thirst for experience ultimately drew him halfway throughout the world, where he ventured into Africa and Thailand before settling …

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Au Revoir Simone

The Brooklyn indie pop outfit Au Revoir Simone features Heather D’Angelo (vocals/drum machine/keyboard), Erika Forster (vocals/keyboard), and Annie Hart (vocals/keyboard). Borrowing their name from a character within the Tim Burton humor Pee-Wee’s Big Experience, the Casio-centric group emerged together in past due 2003, when Forster and Hart befriended each other …

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BARB

Something of the supergroup of second-generation New Zealand rock and roll celebrities and their pals, BARB is made up of Liam Finn, Eliza-Jane Barnes, Lawrence Arabia, Seamus Ebbs and Connan Mockasin. Finn and Barnes — the boy of Break up Enz/Crowded Home’s Neil and girl of Jimmy, respectively — got …

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Lawrence Arabia

Lawrence Arabia — the pseudonym of Wayne Milne — is a connoisseur of vintage songwriting, creating timeless music inspired while very much by 1970’s Western Coast Americana while the indie pop of New Zealand’s Soaring Nun Records. Given birth to in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1981, Milne relocated to Auckland …

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Cola Jet Set

Cola Plane Set were among several hyper-sweet indie pop clothes to sophistication the roster of Barcelona, Spain’s Elefant Information in the first 2000s. Just like labelmates La Casa Azul and Fitness Forever, the outfit’s breezy, bouncy audio gave much nod to zany bubblegum functions just like the Banana Splits, the …

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Jonathan Bree

Multi-talented Brand-new Zealand musician, producer, and label head Jonathan Bree began his musical career in 1998 when he and Heather Mansfield shaped indie pop group the Brunettes. Playing a tuneful make of pop music with contrasting special (Mansfield) and sour (Bree) vocals, the music group released its first one in …

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