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When John Maus (never to end up being confused using the John Maus of Walker Brothers popularity) wasn’t performing keyboards for Pet Collective, Panda Carry, and Haunted Graffiti, he was composing and saving his own hermetic, experimental, and quite often misunderstood compositions. Sketching on performers like David Bowie, Scott Walker, …

Five dudes from Bloomington, IN (namely, Cory Plump, Jay McElfresh, Nate Lineback, Nate “Brand-new Nate” Cross, and Brandon Crowe) came together as the Amazing Great Dudes in 2003. Slinging a method of tongue-planted-firmly-in-cheek humor disco that nodded to contemporaries like Har Mar Superstar and Kennedy, the fivesome self-released six full-length …

Raphael Haroche was created in the Parisian suburb of Boulogne on November 7, 1975. Having a Russian dad and Argentinean mom, Haroche was raised inside a multicultural home, exposed to an array of musical manifestation. He created a like for the pop music of the first ’80s, hearing artists such …

Skeletons, initially the task of Matt Mehlan — a fairly idiosyncratic pop songwriter who all uses plenty of consumer electronics — had an extremely low-key from Oberlin, OH, with a set of albums (I’m near the top of the Globe and Life as well as the After Delivery) released in …

Denmark’s Embellish create quirky pop melodies for a brand new indie rock audio similar to the Fountains of Wayne, Ooberman, and Eggstone. They released their debut, Wake Me Up, on March Information in the summertime of 2000.

The Mirage were able to release seven singles on three labels in the U.K. between 1965 and 1968 without obtaining anything resembling popular or perhaps a solid cult popularity. This is ascribed to two main elements: the lack of significant primary musical vision, as well as the absence of actually …

“Awesome” began as a task involving stars Evan Mosher, John Ackermann, Kirk Anderson, John Osebald, Rob Witmer, David Nixon, and Basil Harris as some sort of cabaret action, something to amuse a audience. Since it grew in reputation, as well as the stars became better musical performers, “Awesome” converted into …

Harvey Williams was among the unsung catalysts behind the achievement of the now-legendary Uk indie Sarah Information, recording a number of the label’s first singles under his Another SUNSHINEY DAY alias and later on serving using its flagship music group, the Field Mice. Given birth to and raised simply beyond …

Rising from the ashes of indie-pop five-piece Skypark, singer/guitarist Brent Kenji set up the Fairways in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in the late 1990s with fellow Skypark associates Jen Cohen and Andrew Leavitt. After recruiting Keiko Kayamoto and Zac Stanley, they released the ten-song Is normally Everything FINE? record in …