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Keenly aware that fresh wave has its roots in ‘60s garage rock, the Cripples fuse proto-punk rawness with synthesized noise. Produced by Greg Heino (vocals, electric guitar, synthesizer) and Ross Marshall (synthesizer, vocals) in a higher school cellar in the middle-‘90s. Nearly ten years before resurrecting brand-new wave sounds will …

The Chicago-based power pop quartet Cupcakes includes vocalist Preston Graves, guitarist/vocalist Greg Suran, bassist Solomon Snyder, and drummer Matt Walker. Before they created the Cupcakes, Walker, Snyder, and Graves performed in a music group known as Tribal Opera. When that group dissolved in the middle-’90s, Graves started collaborating with Suran, …

Matt Sharp is most likely best known seeing that Weezer’s first bass guitarist, but in addition has issued albums within another task, the Leases. Born on Sept 20, 1969, in Arlington, VA, Clear helped type Weezer alongside members Streams Cuomo (vocals/electric guitar), Jason Cropper (electric guitar), and Pat Wilson (drums) …

Portland, ME’s While Fast As utilized to end up being known as Rocktopus, and released the 2003 record Something Fierce under that name. Switching towards the As Fast As moniker, frontman Spencer Albee, guitarist Zach Jones, bassist Pat “Hache” Hodgkins, and drummer Andrew Hodgkins (no regards to Hache) authorized with …

A respected light within the mid-1990s indie rock and roll picture, the Mommyheads were formed in 1987 while Brooklyn-born vocalist Adam Elk (née Cohen) attended NY City’s prestigious SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL of Music and Art. The initial line-up included the past due Jan Kotík on drums and Matt Patrick on …

While power pop celebrities Weezer did a lot of nothing at all from mid-1997 to mid-2000, drummer Patrick Wilson kept himself busy along with his personal task. Dubbed the Unique Goodness, Wilson got the name from a mantra he coined while with Weezer, expressing the vibe he strove for while …

With bands just like the Killers, Interpol, and Franz Ferdinand breaking through in 2005, former Cars guitarist Elliot Easton and keyboardist Greg Hawkes surely got to thinking. With all of this ’80s-affected music appearing within the pop graphs, perhaps it had been time and energy to revive the Vehicles and …

The Rentals were the brand new wave-influenced project of singer/songwriter Matt Clear, former bassist for power pop favorites Weezer. Delivered in Arlington, Virginia, on Sept 22, 1969, Clear co-founded Weezer in 1992, and in the a few months to check out, the band surfaced among the most widely used up-and-coming …

Siblings Beth and Jay Sorrentino began building music from about age five. Within their Lancaster, Pa house, Jay would play drums while Beth sat in the piano. Bassist Ken Heitmuller also started playing in early stages. In 1989, the trio created all of a sudden, tammy! and documented two EPs …

The Seattle-based group Octant is known as because of its third member, a robotic drummer developed by singer/songwriter/guitarist/keyboardist/inventor Matt Steinke. Also an associate of Mocket and Satisfact, Steinke researched kinetic artwork and music at Evergreen Condition College and researched consumer electronics after graduation. Desperate to combine each one of these …