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Though sometimes listed being a four-member band (using the made-up Kid Lucci in vocals, Jeh Walker in bass, Drehke in keys and programming, and Doc Torchaos in drums), Cassettes Won’t Listen is in most cases the one-man project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Jason Drake, the director of marketing at underground …

Several bands during the period of rock & move history been employed by a continuing mythology to their records: Jamie Hewlett’s elliptical tale line told within and between your albums and videos by Gorillaz, for instance, or the freaky apocalyptic science fiction story line, filled with lyrics within a made-up …

THE BRAND NEW Zealand indie electronic act Within the Atlantic features multi-instrumentalists Nik Brinkman and Bevan Smith. Brinkman acquired already been trying out Within the Atlantic being a single project and acquired issued several compilation monitors upon conference Smith through a shared friend in early 2004. Smith, who’s previously performed …

Called for the courier program that allowed these to operate song ideas while surviving in different locales, the Postal Support had been a short-lived supergroup offering Jimmy Tamborello (leader from the electronica rings Dntel and Figurine) and Loss of life Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard. Increasing the project’s celebrity status …

Devon Copley and Alex Wong comprise the songwriting and executing essence of the energy poppish indie music group the Animators. Wong, a Bay Region indigenous, briefly drummed within a Los Angeles music group known as the Din Pedals, which released one Radiohead-influenced record on Epic in the past due ’90s …

An accomplished maker, multi-instrumentalist, and previous DJ, Christopher Walla could very well be most widely known as Ben Gibbard’s previous right-hand man in Loss of life Cab for Cutie. Walla was created in 1975 and was raised in the suburbs of Seattle, a city whose wealthy music scene motivated him …

California-based Anticon producer Alias had never found out about Brand-new York-based Rona “Tarsier” Rapadas before he got a letter from her 1 day in 2003, soon after the discharge of his instrumental-based album Muted, revealing him just how much she loved his work, if he’d pay attention to her band …

When Portugal’s radio listeners first encountered the genre-blending, Cornelius-like sounds of Gomo, these were entranced. It had been 2001 and Gomo’s demonstration was placed into regular rotation, however the DJs had been of no help when listeners phoned in, requesting, “Where may i get this wonderful and unusual music?” Paulo …

Though friends Ben Cooper and Alex Kane have been playing music together since 2000, it wasn’t until 2004 which they decided to provide a name with their project and begin setting up their tracks. Documenting between October of this year and could of another in Kane’s bedroom and Cooper’s shed, …

Best known while Hot Chip’s clear-voiced frontman, Alexis Taylor also pursued a single career while an introspective vocalist/songwriter. Taylor’s debut, Rubbed Out, found its way to 2008 and discovered him trading his band’s percolating electropop to get more romantic, frequently acoustic fare. His responsibilities with Warm Chip and his additional …