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Vocalist/banjoist Sam Simkoff prospects the indie rock and roll collective Le Loup, whose 6 members combine diverse devices and full-band harmonies to produce an orchestrated, experimental audio. Simkoff spent the second option half of 2006 indoors, using his family computer to record the music that could quickly constitute Le Loup’s …

Cut through the same experimental psych-pop towel as rings like Yeasayer, Grizzly Keep, and Pet Collective, Brooklyn, New York-based indie rockers Monogold formed in 2007 being a four-piece and released their debut record Waves. The music group went for a far more minimalist strategy on their following task, the Spin-approved …

Though their band, Standing Nudes, split up in 2007, musicians and friends Jason Klauber and Molly Shea knew they wished to continue producing music together. Both — who’d known one another since their period at Oberlin University, where they fulfilled after a shared friend played a few of Shea’s tunes …

Affected by ambient electronica, dance, post-rock, and world music, the Berg Sans Nipple certainly are a French-American duo offering Paris native Lori Sean Berg and Nebraskan Shane Aspegren. Both produced their musical debut in 2002, liberating a soundtrack EP towards the brief film Marie-Madeleine before laying the groundwork for any …

Suckers formed in Brooklyn, NY, where people Quinn Walker, Austin Fisher, Skillet, and Brian Aiken began blending tribal indie rock and roll with flourishes of chamber pop and Bowie-inspired eclecticism. Walker liked some success being a single musician in 2008 (having agreed upon to CocoRosie’s label and released a double …

The music of Brooklyn’s Yeasayer can be an eclectic, genre-bending journey into pop, rock, Middle Eastern and African musics, folk, and dub. Vocalist/keyboardist Chris Keating and vocalist/guitarist Anand Wilder had been both elevated in Baltimore, where they honed their vocal abilities inside a barbershop quartet and performed inside a high-school …

The Ruby Suns combine psychedelic indie pop with world music influences, sketching inspiration in the travels from the group’s only permanent member, Ryan McPhun. Although blessed and elevated in California, McPhun’s thirst for experience ultimately drew him halfway throughout the world, where he ventured into Africa and Thailand before settling …

Originally made up of vocalists Jenny Berggren and Malin “Linn” Berggren, and keyboardists Jonas “Joker” Berggren and Ulf “Buddah” Ekberg, the Swedish quartet Ace of Base became a phenomenally popular international act making use of their 1993 debut album, The Sign, among the highest-selling debuts ever. Ace of Base’s basic, …

Multi-instrumentalist Joshua Dibb, better known by his performing name Deakin, found prominence in the first 2000s being a founding person in experimental indie outfit Pet Collective. Alongside youth friend Noah Lennox (Panda Keep), Dibb started documenting music at a age, befriending upcoming bandmates David Portner (Avey Tare) and Brian Weitz …

Dirty Projectors will be the creation of Dave Longstreth, a previous Yale pupil who still left college to be perhaps one of the most prolific and exclusive indie singer/songwriters of the first 2000s. In early 2002, Longstreth released his first record, The Graceful Fallen Mango, under his very own name …