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Four members from the Oklahoma Town sextet the Uglysuit have played collectively since their early teenagers, but Matt Harrison (bass, guitar), Crosby Bray (vocals, drums, guitar), Colin Bray (vocals, guitar), Jonathan Martin (vocals, piano, body organ, guitar), Israel Hindman (vocals, guitar), and Kyle Mayfield (vocals, guitar, bass, drums) 1st came …

A Portland-based group originally made up of singer/guitarist Israel Nebeker and drummer Ryan Dobrowski, Blind Pilot hits an equilibrium between mellow folk and Western world Coastline indie pop. Both co-founders initial banded jointly in university before merging their abilities and touring the northwestern Oregon circuit. By 2006, nevertheless, they’d decided …

Named following the spaceship in the ’60s tv program Shed in Space, Brooklyn-based indie group Jupiter One make angular post-punk- and psych-inflected rock and roll. Produced in 2003, the music group featured vocalist/guitarist K Ishibashi, keyboardist Zac Colwell, keyboardist/violinist Mocha, bassist Ben Wright, and drummer Dave Heilman. Jupiter One released …

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 …

Fundamentally the solo vehicle for Ben Folds Five drummer Darren Jessee, the mellow indie pop group Hotel Lights formed in Chapel Hill, NEW YORK in 2000 after Ben Folds Five briefly disbanded. Switching from drums to electric guitar, piano, and vocals, Jessee installed with guitarist/manufacturer Alan Weatherhead, guitarist/keyboardist Chris Badger, …

Edmonton, Alberta’s the Whitsundays embrace a audio that takes many pages through the reserve of ’60s sunlight pop and light psychedelia even though also referencing modern indie pop. The Whitsundays’ account nods towards the group’s eclectic strategy — lead vocalist and rule songwriter Paul Arnusch can be an associate of …

Best known while the frontman for the Walkmen, Hamilton Leithauser embarked on the solo profession once that music group continued hiatus after its 2011 recording Heaven. Leithauser constructed a crack group of supporting music artists to focus on his fresh materials, including Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij, Fleet Foxes’ Morgan Henderson, …

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA duo Girls produce druggy, ethereal play the nature of Spiritualized and Ariel Green. Christopher Owens was created in Florida to a mom and dad who were positively mixed up in Kids of God cult, and spent the majority of his years as a child drifting. After …

The Broken Western hailed from LA, which certainly is practical when you pay attention to the band’s mix of pop, high-spirited rock & roll, and accents of folk and country, whose overall blend recalled among the better L.A. music of the first ’70s, as though Emitt Rhodes experienced teamed up …

The three original members of Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin — lead guitarist Will Knauer, drummer Philip Dickey, and bassist Tom Hembree — met in senior high school in Springfield, Missouri, and quickly formed a pop band. It had been Dickey who developed the group’s name while buying with …