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Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Music group first made an appearance in 2008, when the quintet produced an internet hype with its extended music group name and undisclosed backstory. Choosing to protect that mystique, the Seattle citizens released some humorous PSA movies on MySpace before issuing any documented music. A demonstration …

Formed following the dissolution of his previous strap Gift Equine, Blue Blood may be the most recent single vehicle for Athens, Georgia-based singer/songwriter Hunter Morris. After splitting with Present Equine, Morris retreated towards the solitude of fly-fishing (he both methods and shows the artwork), and started writing new materials. As …

Combining the grand-scale guitar assault of Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine having a melodic feeling and lyrical perspective that recalls Bob Dylan roaring down Highway 61, Philadelphia’s the Battle on Drugs will be the creation of a set of Dylan devotees, Adam Granduciel and Kurt Vile, who fulfilled at …

The moniker for multi-instrumentalist/producer Todd Gautreau, Crushed Celebrities specializes in quiet, literate pop influenced by everyone from Burt Bacharach to the ocean and Cake. Previously, Gautreau experienced centered on Brian Eno and Steve Reich-inspired electronica, operating under the titles Sonogram and Rip Ceremony. Nevertheless, by the finish from the ’90s, …

Indie rock and roll singer/songwriter Jason Lytle produced his single album debut in ’09 2009, carrying out a decade-long saving career because the frontman of Grandaddy. While his previous group didn’t find mainstream achievement before disbanding in 2006, Grandaddy even so garnered important acclaim within the indie rock and roll …

Despite their name, Australian rock-band Holy Holy keep zero affiliation to any organization, however they can bring a song in to the heavens. Shaped by Brisbane vocalist Timothy Carroll and Melbourne guitarist Oscar Dawson, the music group happened over years and continents. The people first fulfilled in Southeast Asia during …

An indie rock-band whose music incorporates components of pop, hard rock and roll, and progressive rock and roll with breathy harmonies, Ruler Washington hail from LA, California. The group was shaped in 2005 by Tyson Kelly, whose dad, Tom Kelly, can be a famous songwriter that has penned strikes for …

Bristol-based quintet the Bronze Medal shaped in ’09 2009 carrying out a six-week backpacking trip through Europe — which vocalists Chris Hillier and Robin Southwell funded by busking while they traveled — and together they mixed influences from your National, Radiohead as well as the War about Drugs to create …

Philadelphia guitarist and songwriter Mike Polizze initial appeared beneath the name Purling Hiss in ’09 2009 having a self-released, self-titled CD-R. He performed all the tools and documented the six fuzzy, corrosive pop tracks himself in the home like a recording-only task. Previously playing in the weighty psych group Parrots …

Philadelphia songwriter Kurt Vile had been recording himself in the home by age group 14, soon after his bluegrass-loving dad purchased him a banjo to encourage his youthful imagination. By age group 17, Vile was self-releasing cassettes of his house recordings, which in the initial days were highly influenced with …