Tag Archives: The Eames Era

Created in 2007 by ex-Eames Period guitarists/songwriters Ted Joyner and Offer Widmer, New Orleans-based indie pop outfit Generationals build hook-filled tunes that pull liberally from rock and roll and pop’s ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s heyday while preserving enough contemporary sensibilities to stay relevant in the MP3 age group. Like their …

A tart, sugary indie pop clothing hailing from NEW YORK, the Besties were formed in the first 2000s by Marisa Bergquist, Kelly Waldrop, and Rikky Walsh. The band’s two feminine associates hail from Florida, where Bergquist and Waldrop — both natives of Anna Maria Isle — were youth friends. Both …

Like Brooklyn’s response to Toronto’s Broken Public Picture and San Francisco’s Deerhoof, the Jealous Girlfriends create a virtue away from eclecticism, moving easily from noisy, Sonic Youth-style fractured electric guitar raveups to jazzy ballads with trip-hop keyboards, and neatly navigating a near-total modification in musical path between their initial and …

As an Oreo cookie turned inside out, the Eames Period perform indie pop that’s sweet and fluffy externally, because of their irresistible melodic hooks as well as the tasty meringue-like vocals of Ashlin Phillips. However the guitars of Ted Joyner and Give Widmer, along with the rhythm portion of bassist …