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Brooklyn’s genre-defying Oneida take their main cues from ’60s garage and punk bands (specifically MC5), but throw in a lot of large, bluesy ’70s stoner rock (think Blue Cheer, Foghat, etc.) as well as dashes of jerky synth pop, avant-garde jazz, and Krautrock. Originally offering guitarist/vocalist Papa Crazy (aka PCRZ), …

While a spinning cast of instrumentalists discovers loose assembly beneath the Pinback name, the relationship of Armistead Burwell Smith IV and Rob Crow reaches the heart from the some of the most complex, postmodern indie pop happening over the West Coast. Within the first couple of days of 1998, Smith …

Georgia indie pop quartet We Versus the Shark defy pigeonholing making use of their volatile, yet uniquely accessible mixture of natural dance beats, guitar-driven funk and lo-fi/artwork rock and roll splendor. Luke Douglas Areas (baritone/microtone/acoustic guitar/vocals), Samantha Erin Paulsen (acoustic guitar/vocals), Jeffery Daniel Tobias (bass/secrets/vocals), and drummer Scott Philip Smith …

Produced in early 2004 in Providence, RI, it didn’t consider lengthy for the five-man group Obtain Him Consume Him to discover a label. Learners at Brown School, vocalist and guitarist (and music journalist over the sly) Matt LeMay, bassist Joe Posner, guitarist Jason Sigal, keyboardist Raf Spielman, and drummer Jeff …

Portland, OR-based emo-pop combo the Pinehurst Children began in 1995 like a duo teaming vocalist/guitarist Joe Davis and drummer Robler Kind, who previously collaborated within the group Five Occasions Fast; called after Davis’ hometown of Pinehurst, Identification — a locale notorious for the high degrees of toxic business lead contaminating …

Playing sharp but interesting post-hardcore with complex melodic lines, edgy guitar numbers, and a lot of eccentric wit (their name, for example, seems French, but doesn’t imply anything), Les Savy Fav had been shaped in 1995 by five friends going to the Rhode Island Classes of Style. Vocalist Tim Harrington, …

Travis Morrison remains to be most widely known for his decade-long stint fronting the influential dance-punk quartet the Dismemberment Strategy. Created in 1972, Morrison spent his adolescence within the Washington, D.C., suburb of Fairfax, VA, learning acoustic guitar and fronting some short-lived senior high school rings. After 3 years at …

A mixture of post-punk aggression and mod melodies and harmonies, People from france Kicks originally presented guitarists/vocalists Matt Stinchcomb and Josh Smart, bassist Jamie Krents, and drummer/vocalist Nick Stumpf. Washington, D.C. natives Krents, Stumpf, and Stinchcomb started playing together within their early teenagers, influenced by their hometown’s renowned hardcore picture; …

Enon may be the trio of John Schmersal (who was simply associated with Brainiac and John Stuart Mill) and Rick Lee and Steve Calhoon (both of Skeleton Essential). Like organizations such as for example Olivia Tremor Control, they’re thinking about discovering that wide place between pop/rock and roll songs and …

Using a heady mixture of precision punk and serpentine classic rock and roll (the band has drawn comparisons to everyone in the Pixies and Sonic Youth to Elvis Costello and Tom Petty), Texas-based indie outfit Spoon went from underground press darlings to 1 from the genre’s most critically acclaimed acts. …