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Kiss Kiss are an experimental indie rock-band based in NEW YORK. Acquiring their name from a assortment of brief horror tales by Roald Dahl, the group’s exclusive style is certainly seen as a the prominent usage of the electrical violin in a otherwise typical indie rock and roll/punk set up. …

Washington-based singer/songwriter/accordion player Jason Webley designed his distinctive mixture of folk, punk, and gypsy rock busking around the roads of Seattle in the past due ’90s. Having a penchant for theatricality, pranks, and overall performance art, Webley strike the street in 1998 to get his debut recording Viaje rather than …

A number of noteworthy groups were active on the Boston music picture in the past due ’90s and early 2000s — groups which range from retro-soul/funk music group Superhoney towards the quirky, ’80s-minded synth pop/brand-new wave trio Freezepop towards the hard-to-categorize Moonraker (who’ve since moved to NEW YORK). However the …

Purveying an utterly enchanting appear that borrows from folk, pop, Western golf swing, and early vocal jazz, Los Angeles’ fancifully called Ditty Bops feature the tightly woven harmonies of Amanda Barrett (who also grips mandolin and dulcimer duties) and Abby DeWald (who also performs guitar). Though Barrett and DeWald fulfilled …

Daughter of Uk folk symbols Rick Kemp and Maddy Prior (from Steeleye Period), Rose Kemp tried her hands in her parents’ music, performing in and composing on her behalf mother’s trio when she was only 15 and releasing a single album, Look, in 2003, before she realized that her passions …

Before she was the lead singer, pianist, lyricist, and composer for the “Brecht-ian punk cabaret” duo the Dresden Dolls, Amanda Palmer was a Wesleyan University graduate who was simply involved with theater for several years. After university, she founded the Shadowbox Collective, an organization that performed has in addition to …

San Fermin may be the brainchild of Brooklyn’s Ellis Ludwig-Leone, an designer with a wide music background who pursued music research at Yale and sharpened his teeth dealing with avant-garde classical composer Nico Muhly (Björk, Grizzly Carry, Antony & the Johnsons). Filled up with blustery, unstable, avant-garde plans and rooted …

Israeli folk-rock musician Asaf Avidan was created in Jerusalem about March 23, 1980, and was raised in locations like Jamaica and NY. In 2006, he documented his debut EP, GIVEN THAT You’re Departing, a six-track record coping with his separation along with his long-term sweetheart. To market the self-released EP, …