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The Chapel Hill-based quintet I USED TO BE Totally Destroying It formed in 2007 in the ashes of Sorry About Dresden and Saddle Creek. Their music benefited from muscular guitars as well as the perspective supplied by dual songwriters (and business lead vocalists) John Booker and Rachel Hirsh. Booker and …

American Princes are an edgy but tuneful indie rock quintet whose angular guitar lines and anxiety-inflected vocals blend with hooky melodies and solid rhythms. American Princes may also be a rare exemplory case of a music group that moved from the best city in search of achievement; vocalist and tempo …

Biirdie will be the trio of Jared Flamm, Kala Savage, and Richard Gowen. Flamm may be the primary songwriter (though he occasionally collaborates with Savage) on the debut album, Morning hours Kills the Dark, which combines whimsy and bittersweet subdued dejection that echoes the task of early-’70s United kingdom vocalist/songwriters …

Chicago noise pop quartet the M’s shaped in the summertime of 2000. Vocalist/guitarist Josh Chicoine, past due of regional jam music group Jamestown, initial collaborated with drummer Steve Versaw within the short-lived psych pop clothing Sanoponic, and from then on task dissolved, Versaw transferred in with vocalist/bassist Joey Ruler (his …

Hailing through the Midwest by method of Ireland, brothers Ciaran and Criostoir found Minneapolis, a city they explain as “Dr. Zhivago with rings,” to create glam/Brit-pop-influenced indie rock and roll that requires a tongue-in-cheek take a look at Williamsburg hipster surplus as well as the melancholy from the brokenhearted. With …

A talented singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose soulful folk-pop tracks invoke brands like Seinabo Sey, Tom Odell, London Sentence structure, and Gabrielle Aplin, Sophie Frances Cooke, known professionally as Frances, spent her formative years in Newbury, Berkshire before learning music on the Liverpool Institute for the Executing Arts. She released her …

Inspired with the ’60s pop from the Beatles as well as the Shore Boys, lead vocalist Tim Vanhamel and Steel Molly bassist Pascal Deweze produced Belgian indie pop duo Damaged Cup Heroes in Antwerp this year 2010. After credit scoring strikes with “Baby Don’t Get worried” and “Let’s BREAK APART,” …

After serving mainly because opening acts about Brand New’s 2007 tour, Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull and solo artist Kevin Devine began operating collectively in spurts. After liberating a break up EP in January 2010, both launched Poor Books, a collaborative part project offering vocals and songwriting efforts from both music …