Aqueduct is the one-man band project of David Terry, originally from Tulsa, OK. After a move to Seattle and releasing Power Ballads, Aqueduct created a buzz and began to open for acts like the Flaming Lips and Modest Mouse. Aqueduct's unshakable keyboard and vocal hooks with drum machine beats led to a signing with Barsuk Records, who released... [+] Read More

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Electro-pop trio Figurine's debut single "I Wait for You (By the Phone)" appeared in late 1998, followed a year later by the full-length Transportation + Communication = Love. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

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Drum-and-bliss project Technicolor was the guise of Bay Area composer/producer Justin LaBo, by day a computer science student at the University of California. Signing to Darla Records, Technicolor debuted in 1998 with the LP One Touch Test Strip; both Far from Home (a contribution to the label's ongoing "Bliss Out" series) and the full-length... [+] Read More

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Named for the way they traded sounds and ideas, the Postal Service is an electronica-meets-indie rock supergroup featuring Jimmy Tamborello (of Dntel and Figurine), and Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard; Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis, and former Tattle Tale and solo artist Jen Wood provide backing vocals. Tamborello and Gibbard first worked together... [+] Read More

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