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The Mantles — a sweet yet gritty San Francisco-based indie pop outfit rooted in 1960s garage rock, paisley underground, as well as the C-86 sound — began being a three-piece comprising frontman Michael Olivares, drummer Virginia Weatherby, and a bassist named Jermaine. The last mentioned still left the group in …

The Sunsets coalesced in 2007 around prolific Bay Area songwriter, author, filmmaker, and visual artist Sonny Smith. Using a spinning lineup composed of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA regulars, including multi-instrumentalist Kelley Stoltz, Tahlia Harbour (the Dry out Spells), John Dwyer (Thee Oh Views), Tim Cohen, and Shayde Sartin (Skygreen Leopards), …

Formed in NY in 2003 by Brad Hargett and JB Townsend, multi-influenced indie rock-band Crystal Stilts released their first function — some singles and an EP — in 2004 in the Feathery Tongue label. The initial single, “Shattered Stand out,” was accompanied by some local shows and a five-song EP …

Mitylion is a single project from NJ musician Ari Katz, most widely known for his function fronting the influential hardcore music group Lifetime plus a couple of other projects like Zero No and Miss TK as well as the Revenge. In 2011, as Hurricane Irene bore down on his house …

With one foot in the jangling, psychedelic globe from the ’60s and one in the jangling, psychedelic globe of ’90s dream pop, London’s Charles Howl add some surf, post-punk, indie pop, and ’70s German rock and roll influences to round their sound out nicely. Made up of Charles Howl — …

Going for a cue from like-minded Canadian force pop confectioners like Sloan, New Pornographers, and Super Friendz, aswell as cult heroes just like the Soft Boys and Big Star, Nova Scotian indie rock and roll quartet Monomyth build hook-laden, psych-tinged slabs of jangle pop/heartland rock and roll goodness. Produced in …

Bed Mats are 4 guys from Antwerp, Belgium (Yannick Aerts, Stijn Boels, Noah Melis, and Arne Omloop) who enjoy thoroughly modern-sounding psychedelic music that harks back again to the ’60s, but doesn’t appear to be a nostalgia trip. Their initial record, 8th Cloud, was co-released by Munich and Waste materials …

The duo of Jeffrey Harland and Matt Bullimore shaped Oakland-based noise pop group Legs in 2011. Both had been close friends for a long period and had performed in bands before making a decision to join causes and begin documenting. Inspired from the loud pop entirely on brands like middle-’80s …

Carrying on in the tradition of Tennessee-based garage area revivalists like Jack port Oblivian and Jay Reatard, Pujol delivers lo-fi, high-energy raw rock and roll & move at a prolific price. Developing up in the tiny city of Tullahoma and dissatisfied using the design of starting rings that later went …

R. Cole Furlow fronts Deceased Gaze, a skuzzy but extremely poppy lo-fi music group out of Mississippi. This year 2010, after Deceased Gaze’s 1st cassette launch, End of Times, YOU WILL WANT TO You on Reflection Universe, the group released a break up with Gray Items on Clan Destine. The …