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Atmospheric Seattle, WA-based indie rock outfit Dark Whales shaped in 2008 throughout the talents of vocalist/guitarist Alex Robert, guitarist/keyboardist Alan Foote, drummer/percussionist Davey Brozowski, bassist Ryan Middleton, and keyboard player/percussionist Mike Bayer. Using the roomy rainy neo-traditional pop-infused folk-rock visual of fellow Pacific Northwest shape-shifters just like the Moondoggies as …

Using their penchant for everything frontier (exhibited within their predilection for wearing faux Native American face paint), State Bird followed in the footsteps of other quirky, “themed” indie acts like Sufjan Stevens, whose curiosity about marching bands as well as the 50 states immediately involves mind, aswell as so-called “freak …

Free-folk enigma Gary Higgins came into the popular awareness more than 3 years after his music profession ground for an abrupt halt when the reissue of his 1973 cult vintage, Crimson Hash, became a reason célèbre in the summertime of 2005. Given birth to and elevated in Sharon, CT, Higgins …

A prolific singer/songwriter, film composer, maker, and multi-instrumentalist, as well as the frontman/founder of popular Midwest folk-rock clothing the Fruits Bats, Chicago local Eric D. Johnson, who also information beneath the moniker EDJ, offers proven himself to be always a versatile and unstable artist since growing in the past due …

The Sunsets coalesced in 2007 around prolific Bay Area songwriter, author, filmmaker, and visual artist Sonny Smith. Using a spinning lineup composed of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA regulars, including multi-instrumentalist Kelley Stoltz, Tahlia Harbour (the Dry out Spells), John Dwyer (Thee Oh Views), Tim Cohen, and Shayde Sartin (Skygreen Leopards), …

The atmospheric folk-pop outfit Joker’s Daughter is a collaboration between English-by-way-of Greece singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Helena Costas and genre-bending hip-hop artist/producer Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley, Danger Doom, DM & Jemini). Costas, who started her musical profession on violin, crafts elegant pop tracks that attract on from mythology to meals to past due-’60s/early-’70s …

Growing upon his psychedelic-inclined, ’70s-styled single albums, Devendra Banhart recruited Priestbird percussionist Greg Rogove in 2008 for the medial side task Megapuss. The Los Angeles-based duo premiered in June that yr at L.A.’s Hammer Museum. Unique materials plus an abstract cover of Tears for Concerns’ “Everybody Really wants to Guideline …

Designer, musician and maker Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez was created in Havana, Cuba in 1983. The Baltimore, MD centered artist has already established his visual function featured in various magazines, both online and on the net, aswell as displays in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Like a musician, Gonzalez Alvarez is a person …

The U.K.’s neo-psychedelic and indie folk take action the Accidental created around the skills of Trunk Information co-founder (and Memory space Music group member) Stephen Cracknell, main Tunng songwriter Sam Genders, Hannah Caughlin from Fence Collective duo the Bike Thieves, and vocalist/songwriter Liam Bailey. The group’s home-recorded debut, THERE HAVE …

Called after scandalized 19th century spirit photographer William H. Mumler, this San Jose indie folk collective requires a multi-genre method of songwriting, having an eclectic mixture of equipment (extracted from a giveaway with the San Jose Unified College Region) and designs similar to Devendra Banhart. Produced in 2005 by vocalist/songwriter …