Tag Archives: The Velvet

Forming from the ashes of London’s indie rockers Pete & the Pirates, Teleman exchanged that band’s brash design for any subtler approach. Vocalist/guitarist Tommy Sanders, his keyboardist sibling Jonny, and bassist Pete Cattermoul created Teleman soon after Pete & the Pirates disbanded in 2012, adding drummer Hiro Amamiya to total …

An audio-visual collaboration between a few of shoegaze’s leading lighting and visual musician Simon Welford, Hush Delirium mixed Welford’s abstract paintings with instrumental paths from each musician. Ride’s Tag Gardener, Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe, Swervedriver’s Adam Franklin, Curve’s Dean Garcia, and previous Rock Roses’ member Aziz Abraham had been …

The shaggy, shambling indie rock project of Australian Craig Dermody, the beginnings of Scott and Charlene’s Wedding could be traced back again to a friend’s party in the mid-2000s. At that time, Dermody performed with two various other rings, Spider Vomit and Divorced, and in addition produced a name for …

Magic Castles’ shiny vocal harmonies, hazy guitars, and warm organ drones propel their fantasyland storytelling right into a warm, pastoral neo-psychedelic trip. The band created in Minneapolis in 2006, developing out of vocalist/guitarist Jason Edmonds’ house recording task as he tapped vocalist/guitarist Jeremiah Doering, bassist Paul Fuglestad, drummer Brendan McInerney, …

Portland-based indie pop quartet Radiation Town draw from doo wop, girl groups, and traditional pop and rock influences and throw in male/feminine vocals aswell as digital touches for the sound identical parts throwback and forward-looking. Naming themselves with the thought of making music that might be within the wreckage of …

Contacting their distorted, amped appear “medicine punk,” Cosmonauts certainly are a California-based garage area punk group known because of their simple, physically powerful songs and punishing stage volume. Cosmonauts had been formed in ’09 2009 by guitarists Alexander Ahmadi and Derek Cowart, natives of Fullerton in Orange State. They met …

Toward the finish from the 2000s, Australia converted into an unlikely hotbed for garage area rock and roll revivalist acts, and like their mates Royal Headache and Eddy Current Suppression Band, Melbourne’s Woollen Packages focus on scrappy, hooky tunes. Influenced from the hard-edged, no-frills musicianship of rings like Modern Enthusiasts …

London-based indie pop duo the correct Ornaments shaped in 2005 when James Hoare, guitarist for Veronica Falls, met up with Argentinian musician Max Clapps inside a women’s clothing store. Both bonded more than a shared love from the Velvet Underground, Like, the Remaining Banke, as well as the Seaside Boys. …

The Royal Baths certainly are a San Francisco-based indie rock-band whose music is a dark but curiously engaging combination of garage rock sneer, Velvet Underground-style buzz, psychedelic murk, and post-punk throb. Founded in middle-2008 by vocalist/guitarists Jeremy Cox and Jigmae Baer (the second option a former person in Thee Oh …

Shaped in 2006 across the talents of New York-born guitarist Joe Conte and California indigenous/vocalist/songwriter Victoria Patrick, Los Angeles-based indie pop duo A River Valentine crafts delicate, left-field folk music in the vein of She & Him and Tegan and Sara with a wholesome dose of Velvet Underground sweetness and …