Mr. Maps are a five-piece instrumental rock band from Brisbane, Australia. Since their inception in 2007, Mr. Maps have quickly earned a reputation for transcendental live performances showcasing complex layers of bass, drums and guitar lifted by lush piano and cello, and punctuated by electronic glitches and tones. Mr. Maps
Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start is an instrumental post-rock band from Kent who have been going since early 2000. They signed to local indie label Tap n Tin records in 2004 and their first double A side 7" single "Stand shadowless like silence/Sadako's fury (radio edit)" was out on February 14th 2005. This was proceeded by a live Xfm session with John Kennedy on May 5th and their second single "Shallows" (available on 10") on August 1st 2005.
members: luke and rhys every vein in every beautiful leaf www.myspace.com/wilddogsinwinter
Years of Rice and Salt is a 5-piece instrumental rock / folk band based in London, United Kingdom. They were formed in Summer '08 and released their debut EP entitled Service Bell EP on 31st January 2009. The EP is a themed collection of songs navigating the timeline of a shipwreck through music.
Mustard Gas and Roses (MGR) is an ambient solo project from Los Angeles, California, United States created by Mike Gallagher around 2005, - the guitarist for American post-metal band Isis, having previously been a member of Cast Iron Hike. Gallagher incorporated more structure, more distortion, more dark foreboding into his almost-all-guitar aesthetic. "For me, these songs evoke more of a feeling than a concept-making this record was kind of a journey into and out of things making sense.
El Ten Eleven is a Los Angeles-based instrumental rock duo consisting of Kristian Dunn and Tim Fogarty. What separates El Ten Eleven from their musical peers is that they are only two musicians on stage creating pounding landscapes of sound with no laptops or sequencers. Dunn switches off (sometimes mid-song) between a double-neck bass/guitar and a fretless bass, while his feet dance on an extensive floorboard of looping devices and effects pedals. He plays everything live, loops himself and juggles all the layers of tracks on top of each other.
The polar dream is an instrumental-ambient ensemble , that consists of Hans (drums) Elihu (Accordion, keyboard), Arts (bass) Oby (keyboards, guitars) & Kosmo (Guitars, Keyboard, Glockenspiel & accordion). the band were formed by Oby and Kosmo in 2005 .The Polar Dream hail from México, and they bring you the beautiful landscape of aurora’s borealis with their music. Was named one of the fifteenth promises of Mèxico by Sonorama Magazine in 2007.
Flies are Spies from Hell are an instrumental post-rock band from Chichester and Southmapton, England. Formed in 2004, the band have released two EP's. The first EP "Demo EP" was released in 2005 and later on, the "Mountain Language EP", released in 2007. The band are currently preparing to record their first full length album. Flies are Spies from Hell are: Chris - Guitar Will - Guitar George - Bass Watty - Drums Fred - Keyboards
A group of musicians creating music for the brony community, their music can be found on their YouTube channel and SoundCloud page. AcousticBrony used to be made up of 6 members but after recent events and some of them going off to do other projects, it is now just Jimmy and Edd. Band members past and present:
Jimmy
Fuzz / Edd
Freddie
Josh
Matt
Nathan They collaborate with MandoPony under the name AcoustiMandoBrony.
Slint was a math rock band consisting of Brian McMahan (guitar and vocals), David Pajo (guitar), Britt Walford (drums), Todd Brashear (bass on Spiderland) and Ethan Buckler (bass on Tweez). They formed in Louisville, Kentucky, United States in 1986. Though they disbanded circa 1991, they are considered to be a major influence on the post-hardcore, math rock, and post-rock scenes. Slint's first album Tweez was recorded by legendary engineer Steve Albini in 1987 and released in obscurity on the Jennifer Hartman Records label in 1989.