Beulah's Miles Kurosky and Bill Swan first started off as officemates, working the mail room at a security firm in their native San Francisco in 1994. While having a small dislike for one another, Kurosky and Swan did share a fondness for music. They two put their animosity aside in 1996 and spent the next year and a half mastering a lo-fi,... [+] Read More

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Bright Eyes are the musical vehicle of Conor Oberst, a young singer/songwriter from Nebraska who first attracted the attention of the indie music world in 1994 -- when he was just 14 years old -- as the singer and guitarist for Commander Venus. After releasing two albums, Commander Venus broke up, but not before the bandmembers started their own... [+] Read More

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Denver-based indie-pop band Dressy Bessy was led by singer/guitarist Tammy Ealom, who began her musical career as a member of the little-known 40th Day; in time she left the group to focus on writing her own material, eventually joining the earliest incarnation of the Minders. A series of short-lived projects (including a stint in Sissy Fuzz)... [+] Read More

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Growing up in Florida and Georgia before moving to Potomac, MD, at the age of 11, indie rock innovator John Vanderslice grew up listening to a mix of Led Zeppelin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Kinks, and Southern rock, which instilled an eclectic musical vocabulary. Forced into piano lessons as a child, he eventually picked up the guitar in... [+] Read More

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Not a band per se, the Marbles were essentiallly the alias of singer/songwriter Robert Schneider, better known as the frontman of the frontman of the Apples (in stereo). A four-track solo project, the Marbles began in March 1992 in the Denver, Colorado apartment Schneider shared with fellow Ruston, Louisiana native and future Olivia Tremor... [+] Read More

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Yet another branch of the Elephant 6 collective family tree, the Marshmallow Coast was the alias of avant-popster Andy Gonzalez, also a satellite member of both Of Montreal and the Music Tapes. Outside of an EP, The Scent of Credibility, and a split single with Midget and Hairs, the Marshmallow Coast was little-known prior to the 1999 release of... [+] Read More

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This group's six core members -- guitarist, main singer/songwriter, and producer Josh Babcock; bassist Adam Dobrer; theremin player Lorelei David; pianist Dave Isbister; saxophonist Dave Dunstan; and drummer Mike Evans -- were native Californians, most of whom met each other when they were attending classes at the University of California at... [+] Read More

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Tim Kasher spent the end of the 1990s making powerful and somewhat underrated music as the lead singer and guitarist for the Omaha-based post-rock quartet Cursive, but the band never really allowed for him to explore any of his softer ideas and more personal sentiments. For years, the always-inventive songwriter had been storing his mellower... [+] Read More

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The Hat Company is an indie/pop group from Toledo, Ohio that has shared the stage with bands such as Saturday Looks Good To Me, M Coast, Thunderbirds Are Now!, Bunnygrunt, and Daniel Johnston. They have toured the country and played at famous festivals such as the Athens Popfest held by HHBTM Records in Athens, Georgia.

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Yet another branch of the Elephant 6 collective's family tree, the Minders were led by singer/songwriter Martyn Leaper, a British expatriate living in Denver, CO. There he befriended Apples in Stereo frontman Robert Schneider, who agreed to release the Minders' debut EP, Come on and Hear!!, on Elephant 6 in the spring of 1996. Leaper assembled a... [+] Read More

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Another outgrowth of the ever-expanding Elephant 6 recording collective, the lo-fi, experimental pop of Von Hemmling was in fact the solo project of former Apples in Stereo bassist Jim McIntyre, whose debut seven-inch "My Country 'Tis of Thee" appeared in 1997. The one-sided 12-inch J.W. Kellogg followed in early 1999. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music... [+] Read More

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