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Regardless of the seemingly obvious link with the Elton John classic from Madman Over the Water (and newer Almost Famous fame), Tiny Dancers leader David Kay claims in interviews which the young quintet from West Yorkshire is in fact named after a cabal of wicked dwarves in Roger Corman’s 1964 …

Self-described as “galactic-forest rock,” Fantastic Bear’s jubilant sound is normally motivated by themes of hope and excitement. By middle-2007, the Austin, TX, band’s changing lineup included frontman Chris Gregory (electric guitar, vocals), Matt Gardiner (keyboards), Andy McAllister (drums), Brent Pennington (bass), Jamie Reaves (electric guitar), and Kullen Fuchs (multiple equipment). …

Former person in Dallas rings Bobgoblin and Tripping Daisy (whom he joined up with in trumpet and electric guitar in 1997 as well as for whom he played in Jesus Hits Just like the Atom Bomb), Philip E Karnats was back his indigenous Chicago when he documented the music for …

Yum-Yum was the short-lived task of Chris Holmes, a Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist who all experimented in a number of musical styles without ever settling for or excelling in virtually any of them. Ahead of developing Yum-Yum, which he was the just continuous member, Holmes have been the primary songwriter for Sabalon …

Originally hailing from Chicago, Fruits Bats featured an ever-changing lineup based across the folk-pop songwriting of bandleader Eric D. Johnson (never to end up being confused using the Eric Johnson from Archers of Loaf or your guitar virtuoso from the same name). Johnson started writing tracks on his four-track in …

Horns of Pleasure may be the exuberant aspect task of Aaron Deer, whose use Impossible Styles and John Wilkes Booze may already be popular for some. Where those rings grab the arty aspect of indie pop, Horns of Pleasure enjoy fuzzy D.We.Y. creation and down-home melodic feeling. Though it’s officially …

In the past due ’90s, NY native Justin Russo imagined forming a pop group fronted with an orchestra. He performed keyboards and added support vocals to his sibling Jason Russo’s music group, Hopewell. Throughout that period, Russo was also touring like a keyboardist for Mercury Rev, assisting their critically acclaimed …

Expansive indie chamber pop seven-piece Anathallo was conceived in vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Matt Joynt’s hometown of Mt. Pleasant, MI in the fall months of 2000. Using the band’s name extracted from a Greek term for “blooming once again”, over another six years the group was reborn many times, with seven from the …

Often in comparison to Radiohead because of its epic, orchestrated rock, Pilotdrift is multi-instrumentalists Kelly Carr (primary songwriter and vocalist), Jay Budzilowski, Ben Rice, Eric Russell, and John David Blagg. After developing in Texarcana, TX, the music group self-released Iter Facere in 2004, which captured the interest of Tim DeLaughter …

With half its members surviving in Texas (Brandon Carr and J.M. Lapham) as well as the spouse (Religious Madden and Giles Hatton) in north Britain, the Earlies bridge the physical gap using the miracles of technology as well as the group’s distributed like of prog, psychedelic, nation, and electronica. The …