Bellingham, WA, indie pop quartet Death Cab for Cutie began in 1997 as the solo project of singer/guitarist Ben Gibbard, who previously recorded under the name All-Time Quarterback. The underground success of the cassette You Can Play These Songs' Chords inspired Gibbard to recruit a full-time band including guitarist/organist Christopher Walla... [+] Read More

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Well, my name is Kent Westman. Singer/songwriter. I used to sing and play guitar in a punkrock band called Boneweary for about 8 years. Since we´re not around anymore, and im not interested in playing in some other band, i do music by my own instead. But yeah, after playing skatepunk for about 8 years i kinda got sick of it, so when it comes to... [+] Read More

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Lokomotiv Stockport is the band/format that performs and records the songs of Frank Pelham. Sparkling indie pop from northern England, cracking tunes and sharp lyrics.

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Ryan Townsend moved to Davis, CA in January 2006. By March, the former Chevron Girl/Girlfriend in a Coma/Lonely as America frontman had a brand new band. the overdubs play a particular brand of homemade indie rock that fuses intimate songwriter material with beats and other foolishness.

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Taking it’s name from the Pedro the Lion song of the same name, Priests and Paramedics is a Seattle band emerging from the rolling tantrums of life as the proverbial band that almost was. The band spent it’s first several years of existence wading thru many different sounds and styles, ultimately writing and discarding over 100 songs before... [+] Read More

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Slowcore pioneers Bedhead were led by guitarist siblings Matt and Bubba Kadane, whose musical collaboration dated back to their years spent growing up in Wichita Falls, TX. The brothers continued writing and recording together even after Matt left home in 1985 to attend school in Dallas, and by 1990 they were playing in a band which also... [+] Read More

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* I write songs about girls.
* I like hats and contrary to what it says below, I do actually like table mats. * I'm also quite partial to jumping into things . . . a lot.
* I also write (well used to write) sort story/cartoons about a tree that called people gay It made me :) and my friends laughed muchly. * I hate bubbles
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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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Indie folk-pop band Ida formed in New York in 1992 around the core duo of singers/guitarists Daniel Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell. Littleton emerged in 1985 as a member of the Annapolis, MA-based punk group the Hated; after their 1989 demise, he continued in a series of bands including Three Shades of Dirty, Choke and Slack, which also... [+] 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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Between the recording and release of Slowdive's ambient Pygmalion, Neil Halstead began writing more song-based tunes to occupy down time. Weeks after being dropped by Creation, Halstead and the remaining members of Slowdive (Rachel Goswell and Ian McCutcheon) recorded six demos within three days, much of it live without overdubs. Their manager... [+] Read More

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Though Mac McCaughan has plenty to keep him busy -- playing in Superchunk, managing the successful Merge Records -- he also spends time recording as Portastatic. With a varying lineup, the side-project has recorded two albums and several singles since 1993, when Tom Sharpling of 18 Wheeler Records asked McCaughan to release some of his lo-fi,... [+] 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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Sugar Plant is a dream-pop band formed in Tokyo, Japan in 1993. Over the next four years, they released a series of singles that gained strong reviews in underground publications. In 1997, the full-length After After Hours appeared; Happy followed a year later. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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The Austin, Texas-based drone-pop quartet the American Analog Set evolved from the ashes of Dallas' Electric Company in 1994. After Electric Company's demise, guitarist/vocalist Andrew Kenny, keyboardist Lisa Roschmann, and drummer Mark Smith reunited to cut a number of impromptu four-track recordings which ultimately led to their decision to... [+] Read More

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The Charming Men are an indy rock band based out of North Bay, Ontario. It acts as an artist collective to bring different musicians or music lovers together to create music for the sake of creating music.

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The Promise Ring were one of the most popular emo bands of the '90s, epitomizing the poppier, more accessible wing of the style. Along with Sunny Day Real Estate, the Get Up Kids, Braid, and Jimmy Eat World, they helped bring emo from the punk underground to a wider indie rock audience in the latter half of the decade. Like the exact definition... [+] Read More

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Since they made their debut in 1992, Tugboat Annie have maintained their style of aggressively bouncy noise pop into their native scene of Boston. Consisting of Mike Bethmann (vocals/ guitar), Jay Celeste (guitar), Jon Sulkow (bass) and Tim Barrett (drums), the band started their discography with a split seven-inch between Crazy Alive in 1993... [+] Read More

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