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Years prior to the popular one “Cables” nearly topped the U.K. graphs, Athlete was just one more Oasis-styled clothing from South London. Youth close friends Carey Willets (bass), Joel Pott (vocals, electric guitar), Steve Roberts (drums), and Tim Wanstall (keyboards) produced the group in early 2000, originally modeling their audio …

Heading under their original moniker Miss America once the met up in 1989, the associates Julian Koster (vocals/ guitar/ accordion), Liza Wakeman (violin), Alan Edwards (guitars), Keith Stop (drums) and Paul Wells (bass) wished to develop more of a phonouneum within their hometown of Tampa Bay, Florida instead of just …

Hawthorne, CA’s Dios includes guitarists/vocalists Kevin and Joel Morales, bassist John Paul Caballero, keyboardist Jimmy Cabeza DeVaca, and drummer Jackie Monzon. The music group hails from exactly the same city that spawned the Seaside Males, Emitt Rhodes, and Dark Flag, as well as the previous two performers’ trippy wistfulness, as …

The Russian Futurists (aka one-man indie pop orchestra Matthew Adam Hart) produce lo-fi bedroom recording into an art. Hart, who comes from eastern Ontario, Canada, drew rave testimonials, in addition to evaluations to Magnetic Areas as well as the Flaming Lip area, for his 2001 debut record, THE TECHNIQUE of …

Ill Convenience was actually a one-woman music group developed by Elizabeth Clear. Clear was created in Maryland on Dec 14, 1971. A neurological disorder that triggered her brain to learn music as satisfaction led Clear to learn many musical instruments in her teenager years. After playing in a number of …

Just as much a performance artwork troupe like a music group, Bongwater was the brainchild of guitarist (Tag) Kramer — main from the Shimmy-Disc label along with a former person in Shockabilly — and actress Ann Magnuson, most widely known to mainstream viewers for her part within the ABC sitcom …

The Portland-based duo Helio Sequence is made up of vocalist/guitarist Brandon Summers and keyboardist/drummer Benjamin Weikel. Debuting in 1999 with an ambient, psychedelic audio that placed just as much emphasis on your guitar as Summers’ muted vocals, the music group released the Accelerated Slow-Motion Movie theater EP before falling the …

The Athens, Georgia-based Gerbils emerged within the second wave of rings from the Elephant 6 Saving Organization collective, a coterie of like-minded, lo-fi indie groups — like the Apples (in stereo), Natural Milk Hotel as well as the Olivia Tremor Control — who shared music artists, ideas and sensibilities. The …

Sonia Tavares, Miguel Ribeiro, and brothers Nuno and John Goncalves comprise the eclectic noises of the Present. The Present were merely teens when they shaped in 1994 in a little village beyond Lisbon, Portugal. Collectively, the four-piece spent another five years composing an elegant mix of traditional, jazz, electronica, and …

Iffy comprises of Kirk “KjustinJ” Johnson about vocals, Dave Pederson about acoustic guitar and keyboards, and Tom Merkl about bass. KjustinJ and Merkl 1st received national interest within the Twin Firmness and SST music group Run Westy Operate, whose 1990 recording, Green Cat Isle, was made by R.E.M.’s Peter Buck. …