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Although they only lasted for just two albums, Vancouver, British Columbia-based indie power-poppers Zumpano were a brand new and unpretentious act whose combination of ’60s soft pop influences and hard-candy guitar rock and roll made them a pivotal area of the Sub Pop label’s image differ from early ’90s grunge …

Vancouver-based guitarist and singer/songwriter Allan Carl Newman broke in to the Canadian music scene in the first ’90s as an associate of choice rock/grunge outfit Superconductor. An extended stint with power pop group Zumpano implemented in the mid-’90s, leading to two well-received albums, Appear What the First year Do and …

The Vancouver indie rock supergroup the brand new Pornographers feature the talents of Zumpano’s Carl Newman, the Evaporators’ John Collins, Destroyer’s Dan Bejar, cartoonist/filmmaker Blaine Thurier, drummer Fisher Rose, and guest vocalist Neko Case. Newman began the music group in 1996 like a lark after liberating Zumpano’s Goin’ Through Adjustments; …

A gifted however, not prolific band that came jointly in 1992, the Idle Wilds began simply by producing guitar-driven, rock sounds. Throughout their early years, with David Grey (lead electric guitar and vocals) as well as the various other bandmembers (Paul Demyum and Greg Dubrow (both on electric guitar), Adam …

Vancouver indie pop group Sparrow began like a single vehicle for past Zumpano drummer Jason Zumpano. Following the separation of Zumpano and after spending a while playing keyboards for Destroyer, Zumpano went it only, recruiting a violinist along with a cellist to try out with him within the Sparrow. After …