Tag Archives: The High Strung

Playing rootsy, literate, and emotionally wealthy indie pop with solid components of R&B and world music, Floating Actions can be an ongoing task led by musician and songwriter Seth Kauffman, who overdubs himself right into a one-man strap on Floating Action’s recordings and may be the frontman from the lineup …

Motor Town natives Tag Owen, Chad Stocker, Josh Malerman, and Derek Berk comprise the founding lineup from the Great Strung, whose music borrows equally from melodic power-pop and psychedelic garage area rock. Although produced during the summer months of 2000, the group’s legacy extends back to primary college, when the …

Influenced by ’70s and early-’80s punk in addition to ’60s garage rock and roll, blues-rock, and soul, the Anaheim, CA, garage area punk trio the Willowz attract from affects roughly doubly old because they are. The group shaped in 2002, when vocalist/guitarist Richie Wayne Follin, bassist/vocalist Jessica Reynoza, and drummer …

Probably most widely known among the founding members of Take That — together with Gary Barlow, Jason Orange, Robbie Williams, and Howard Donald — Mark Owen effectively carved a solo career following the group’s initial break-up in 1996. Created in Oldham, Britain, in 1972, Owen’s unique boyhood fantasy was to …

The Long Vision is a rock duo formed by guitarist/vocalist Karl Sturk and drummer Patrice Scinta in the summertime of 2009 in Brooklyn. Along with keyboardist/songwriter Jansen Swy, both had previously performed collectively in moody garage area trio the All-Night Drive when they had been surviving in Detroit, but upon …

An easy power pop act through the unlikely environs of Sodium Lake Town, UT, the Brobecks are further proof the salutary ramifications of rings honing their build in towns that absence identifiable moments they’re likely to participate in. (Discover also: Albuquerque’s the Shins and Tarkio, Colin Meloy’s Montana music group …