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The luminously lovely indie-folk-tronic duo CocoRosie consists of the Casady sisters, vocalist/guitarist/flutist Sierra and vocalist/percussionist Bianca. Both sisters had an early love of music that they pursued as they grew up, albeit in different ways: Sierra began operatic vocal training while she was in high school, while Bianca sang and... [+] Read More

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Growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, and Los Angeles, Devendra Banhart was always playing music and drawing. But it wasn't until his brief stay at the San Francisco Art Institute that the disciplines became his constant companions. With the encouragement of poet and SFAI professor Bill Berskon, Banhart began experimenting with all kinds of art. He... [+] Read More

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Alternative country-rock singer/songwriter Edith Frost was born in San Antonio, TX, on August 18, 1964. As a child, her family moved sporadically between San Antonio, Austin, and Guadalajara, Mexico; after college she relocated to Brooklyn, where by day she worked as an Internet programmer and by night fronted three different groups: the Holler... [+] Read More

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Folk-punk singer/songwriter Elliott Smith rose from indie obscurity to mainstream success in 1997 on the strength of "Miss Misery," his Academy Award-nominated song from the film Good Will Hunting. A native of Portland, OR, Smith began writing and recording his first songs at age 14, later becoming a fixture of the city's thriving music scene;... [+] Read More

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Folk-punk singer/songwriter Elliott Smith rose from indie obscurity to mainstream success in 1997 on the strength of "Miss Misery," his Academy Award-nominated song from the film Good Will Hunting. A native of Portland, OR, Smith began writing and recording his first songs at age 14, later becoming a fixture of the city's thriving music scene;... [+] Read More

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Combining elements of both rock and folk music, along with disturbingly personal sentiments and a voice that is able to channel both the falsetto highs of Neil Young and the wavering raspy low tones of Leonard Cohen, Toronto's Hayden Desser has spent most of the last decade creating uniquely affecting music. The critically acclaimed yet... [+] Read More

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Helium is essentially the project of Mary Timony, formerly of the girl punk band Autoclave. Helium formed in 1992 with Brian Dunton on bass and Shawn King Devlin and started releasing 7"s like 1993's The American Jean. 1994 saw the band release the Pirate Prude EP, an interesting but somewhat inaccessible exercise in mixing radical feminism with... [+] Read More

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Hot Box was the creation of Amanda Dellevigne and Danielle Stolzenberg in the winter of 2006. Dellevigne and Stolzenberg met in the neuroscience laboratory of Boston College and began composing tunes on Wallingford Road. They played open mic nights at All Asia and after a few months of composing, Dellevigne and Stolzenberg found a drummer and... [+] Read More

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After the release of Throwing Muses' fifth album, Red Heaven, Kristin Hersh, the band's lead singer/songwriter, took a break from the group and issued her first solo album, the acoustic Hips and Makers, in early 1994. Thanks to the airplay the single "Your Ghost" -- a duet with R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe -- received, the album sold more copies than... [+] Read More

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Arguably the most prolific songwriter of his generation, Lou Barlow was also the one of the most influential; thanks to his lo-fi legacy, any geek with a guitar, a four-track machine and an unrequited crush on a girl could become an underground pop star. Although born in Dayton, Ohio on July 17, 1966, Barlow was raised primarily in Amherst,... [+] Read More

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Born 29 years ago in Alabama, the ethereal-voiced Maria Taylor won over her first fans at age 15 as part of the Birmingham duo Little Red Rocket, a pop/rock group that brought comparisons to Belly. When that outfit, which issued two CDs -- 1997's Who Did You Pay and 2000's It's in the Sound -- disbanded after getting lost in the shuffle that was... [+] Read More

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As both a solo artist and the frontman for enduring cult favorites American Music Club, Mark Eitzel established himself among the truly powerful forces in contemporary music; a hauntingly evocative singer, he earned even greater notoriety for his brilliance as a composer, combining the energy of punk, the pastoral beauty of folk, and the... [+] Read More

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Vocally powerful and haunting, Pascale Goodrich-Black has been singing and writing her whole life. Having sung gospel and jazz music for years, Pascale is also greatly inspired by roots and bluegrass music. This project pulls its inspiration from such old time instruments as mandolin and banjo and combines them with haunting and powerful vocals... [+] Read More

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Sometimes the warmest, sunniest US states house some of the darkest souls. Thus was the case for Florida born native, Mark Freifeld. Pirate Prude (yes, originally the debut EP title by the band, Helium) is the moniker for his songs. Mark began touting the name around back in 2004 when Pirate Prude played its first show opening for Xiu Xiu in... [+] Read More

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1998's Arches and Aisles, the final album by indie-rockers the Spinanes, was a solo album for singer/guitarist Rebecca Gates in all but name; for her next project, she made her solo status official, retiring the Spinanes name. Gates originally formed the Spinanes in 1991 with drummer Scott Plouf in Portland, OR; the band became one of Sub Pop's... [+] Read More

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Singer/Songwriter Ricardo Gutierrez is out to make a name for himself with his 8 track tape machine. Born on March 14, 1984 in a family with no musical background. He taught himself how to play various instruments and started recording music. With influents from the Beatles to Bob Dylan he released There's a Man... in 2006.-Chrissa-Marie

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I'm a 24-year old singer/songwriter currently wasting away in Mid-Western America, but doing a lot of writing and recording on my iBook. I hope to have a band together soon, but until that time, here are some demos I've been working on. I'll be living in either Boise, ID or back in California within the next two months, so if you like what you... [+] Read More

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For most of the '90s, Will Oldham was the mastermind of Palace Music, a shambling, country-tinged indie rock group that recorded under a variety of names. The only constant in Palace was Oldham, and he would often record as a solo artist under the Palace name. That fact made his decision to retire the Palace name in 1997 somewhat baffling, since... [+] Read More

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