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Portland, OR-based clothing Ramona Falls was formed in ’09 2009 being a single automobile for Menomena multi-instrumentalist Brent Knopf. Called honoring a childhood walking path on Mt. Hood, Ramona Falls’ alternately whimsical and brooding mixture of electro-acoustic pop and left-field indie rock and roll made its open public debut in …

Justin Vernon began saving as Bon Iver following break up of DeYarmond Edison. Vernon’s single project had taken the band’s introspective, folky audio and embellished it with squinchy, quirky orchestral details that nodded to Sparklehorse and a drifty optimism similar to the Flaming Lip area. After composing and recording within …

A textural guitarist, Chris Rosenau is mainly known for his function in the Milwaukee-based post-rock trio Pele as well as the emo-pop group Vermont because the later ’90s. Those are his many “industrial” tasks with produces on Polyvinyl and Kindercore. With Pele drummer Jon Mueller he’s active in several tasks …

Drummer Jon Mueller is mainly known for his participation within the U.S. Midwest post-rock group Pele. He’s also an associate of Telecognac, Choices of Colonies of Bees, and Raccoons (all groups likewise incorporate guitarist Chris Rosenau). His music addresses a wide surface that exercises from alternative rock and roll and …

A collaboration between National vocalist/lyricist Matt Berninger and multi-instrumentalist/producer Brent Knopf of Menomena and Ramona Falls, El VY (“pronounced such as a plural of Elvis; rhymes with ‘hell pie'”) found fruition in 2015. Close friends and periodic tour mates for over ten years, Berninger and Knopf have been sending music …

The alias of Lawrence, Kansas-based singer/songwriter Taryn Blake Miller, Your Friend began like a one-woman show, with Miller training her enigmatic songs inside a live setting via her atmospheric guitar work and soaring voice. Through person to person and a flurry of high-energy home shows, Miller ultimately shifted to bigger …

British dream pop outfit Mt. Wolf’s atmospheric mixture of chamber pop, folk, digital, and R&B provides drawn evaluations to artists like Adam Blake, Bat for Lashes, Bon Iver, and Beach Home. Produced in 2011, originally being a quartet, the music group released their debut EP, Lifestyle Size Spirits, in 2012, …

A talented duo based out of Boston, Massachusetts, High Heights’ evocative, atmosphere-driven pop confections pull from both progressive folk and electro-tinged indie pop, invoking brands like Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Fleet Foxes, and Jose Gonzalez. Founded this year 2010 by vocalist/guitarist Tim Harrington and vocalist/cellist Paul Wright, both of whom …

In 2005, a long time before Justin Vernon started building recordings beneath the name of Bon Iver — and before his earlier band, DeYarmond Edison, had sometimes split — he collaborated with Selections of Colonies of Bees’ Jon Mueller, Chris Rosenau, Jim Schoenecker, Daniel Spack, and Thomas Wincek on the …