Tag Archives: The Decemberists

Swedish indie pop music group David & the People was begun by vocalist/guitarist David Fridlund in 1999, who by 2000 recruited Conny Fridh (bass), Alexander Madsen (electric guitar), Mikael Carlsson (drums), and Magnus Bjerkert (trumpet). The music group issued a small number of LPs and EPs (mainly on Swedish label …

Cousins Gabe Archer and Cameron Nicklaus formed the Pale, an indie pop/rock and roll music group from Bellingham, WA, in 1994. Both had imagined playing music inside a music group together for some of their lives and had been affected by their fathers, who documented music in the ’70s. Drummer …

Expansive indie chamber pop seven-piece Anathallo was conceived in vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Matt Joynt’s hometown of Mt. Pleasant, MI in the fall months of 2000. Using the band’s name extracted from a Greek term for “blooming once again”, over another six years the group was reborn many times, with seven from the …

A veteran from the Australian music picture, having completed stints being a helping guitarist and key pad participant for the Lucksmiths, the Simpletons, the Deerhunters, and Mick Thomas, singer/songwriter Darren Hanlon officially stepped from his very own in 1999. A alluring and smart songwriter, drawing evaluations to Evan Dando and …

Led by Montana native Colin Meloy, the Decemberists create theatrical, hyper-literate pop songs that attract heavily from past due-’60s Uk folk functions like Fairport Convention and Pentangle as well as the early-’80s college rock and roll grandeur from the Waterboys and R.E.M. The band’s preliminary lineup also included drummer Ezra …

Danish indie rock outfit Figurines shaped in the middle-’90s around childhood friends vocalist/guitarist Christian Hjelm, bassist Andreas Toft, and guitarist/vocalist Claus Salling Johansen. The people began training at an area school and primarily all three performed acoustic guitar until Toft used bass and Johansen manned the drums. They started playing …

Canada became a hotbed for indie rock and roll in the first 2000s, with multiple rings acquiring their footing in metropolitan areas want Montreal and Ottawa before growing their music to the areas. The Acorn differentiated itself in the pack through the use of acoustic equipment and conceptual designs, developing …

A singer/songwriter having a warm tenor croon, vocalist Steven Web page is best referred to as a founding person in the Canadian pop/rock and roll group the Barenaked Women. Given birth to in Ontario, Web page required piano lessons as a kid and sang inside a youngsters choir. By his …

Broken Sociable Scene materialized in 1999 when K.C. Accidental’s Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, previously of By Divine Best, bonded their companionship by developing a music group. They spent another couple of years honing an atmospheric rock and roll sound within their indigenous Toronto, as well as the powerful was …

A thoughtful lyricist taking his poetic inspiration, songcraft suggestions, and even several style cues from Bob Dylan, Ezra Furman sings inside a nasally design like the Violent Femmes’ Gordon Gano while building unpretentious indie folk/indie pop that’s raw, deep, and achingly sentimental. As college students of Tufts University or college, …