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Despite their musical differences, eclectic jam band Zox will forever be nestled next to cult favorite Vancouver indie rockers Zumpano (Carl Newman’s band before the New Pornographers) — not only alphabetically, but also for quirks of nomenclature: both bands are named after their drummer’s surnames. In cases like this, drummer …

NORTH PARK indie rockers the Transit Battle certainly are a melodic post-hardcore quartet that’s not whiny or self-involved enough to be looked at emo, nor sufficiently enamored of technique more than songwriting to attract the post-rock chops fetishists. A little more aggressive and much less poppy than either the Weakerthans …

Arriving at emo in the straight-edge post-hardcore path, Oakland, CA’s Desa provides its roots within a long-running East Bay ska-punk group called Web page link 80. Developing in 1994, Hyperlink 80 released three albums with a number of different lineups structured around the primary of drummer Joey Bustos and trumpeter …

Ragged power pop-punk group the specific comprised vocalist/guitarist Max Bernstein (the son of writer Nora Ephron and Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein), guitarist/vocalist Ben Flanagan, and brothers Jeremy and Aaron Bonsall (bass and drums, respectively). The people played their 1st show collectively on Easter Weekend 2001, as well as the Los …

Indie rock clothing Park can track their origins to Springfield, IL, sometime in the ’90s. Nevertheless, lineup adjustments plagued the music group, and by early 2006, Recreation area was on the 4th incarnation of users. Boasting thoughtful lyrics over components of post-hardcore, emo, and pop, the music group was sometimes …