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The very first Belgian-based indie act ever to sign to a significant international label, the improvisational avant-grunge group dEUS was originally made up of vocalist/guitarist Tom Barman, bassist Stef Kamil Carlens, drummer Julle De Borgher, violinist Klaas Janzoons, and guitarist Rudy Trouvé. Shaped in Antwerp in 1991, dEUS started their …

Weird Battle began being a supergroup from the Make-Up’s Ian Svenonius and Michelle Mae, and Royal Trux’s Neil Hagerty following the members’ primary projects dissolved. Originally, the music group, which also included Jessica Espeleta and Steve McCarty, was designed being a one-off task. After documenting their 2002 self-titled debut along …

Found out in the Louisiana Condition Penitentiary, Robert Pete Williams became among the great blues discoveries through the folk increase of the first ’60s. His disregard for standard patterns, tunings, and constructions held him from a wider target audience, but his music continues to be among the great, extreme treats …

John Wilkes Booze found its way to 1999 like a quartet, however the noisy garage area spirit group from Bloomington, IN would eventually expand right into a six-piece who found themselves like a continuation of Indiana’s art-punk continuum which includes, amongst others, the Gizmos, No Children, and MX-80 Audio. Originally …

The Chicago punk-blues duo Cash Cash was formed in 1994 by singer/guitarist John Humphrey, an alumnus of God and Texas. After founding the jazz-rock device Later Great Danes, Humphrey enlisted previous Rosehip Scott Giampino to try out drums; once the Later Great Danes continued keep, Humphrey and Giampino continuing performing …

Previously referred to as Cash Money, Chicago’s punky blues duo Cash Audio includes former Rosehip Scott Giampino and John Humphrey, previously of God and Texas as well as the Past due Great Danes. Humphrey originally enlisted Giampino to try out drums using the Past due Great Danes in 1994, however …

When users of Memphis-based the Oblivians went their individual methods in the past due ’90s, Jack port Yarber (aka Jack port Oblivian, who also played within the origins punk take action the Compulsive Bettors, amongst others) released some single records before starting up with Scott Bomar to start out a …

The oddball indie-funk collective Dub Narcotic AUDIO SYSTEM was spearheaded by vocalist Calvin Johnson, the former frontman from the renowned Beat Happening along with the founder from the famed K Information label. Named honoring Johnson’s very own Olympia, WA-based cellar studio room Dub Narcotic, the task was started in 1994 …

Although forming in Manchester, Britain, in 1965 beneath the banner of New Religious beliefs, Stackwaddy first found attention on the 1969 Progressive Blues Festival in Buxton making use of their boisterous make of United kingdom ’60s-styled R&B. Putting your signature on with John Peel’s Dandelion label, they released the one …

Created to Spill’s Doug Martsch finally produced room for the solo profession in early 2002. This vocalist/songwriter was an underground, cult hero one of the indie audience, but allowed his eclectic aspect to stand out in the discharge of Now YOU UNDERSTAND that fall. Agreed upon to Warner Bros., Martsch …