FRENCH TOAST is a band that does a lot with a little. Formed by James Canty and Jerry Busher in 2001, it still just relies on two humans to mix the sounds of guitars, keyboards, drum kit, various percussion, samplers and sequencers with personal and haunting lyrics. FRENCH TOAST BAND: James Canty, Jerry Busher, Ben Gilligan play all instruments, including guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, sampler, and trumpet.
Ben Gibbard (born August 11, 1976 in Bremerton, Washington) is an American musician and songwriter who has formed several indie bands. He is most notable as the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie; his other projects include The Postal Service and All-Time Quarterback. He has also created music under his name and under the band Pinwheel. Gibbard appeared as a guest on Jimmy Tamborello's (his Postal Service collaborator) Dntel album entitled Life is Full of Possibilities (2001) - Specifically, he contributed vocals to the song "(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan.
French Films was formed in 2010. They come from Finland, two cities called Espoo and Järvenpää.
The band consists of Johannes Leppänen (guitar, vocals), Joni Kähkönen (guitar, vocals), Mikael Jurmu (bass, vocals), Santtu Vainio (synth) and Antti Inkiläinen (drums).
According to their webpage they are influenced by dreaming, cold & dark winters and being alive.
From their Myspace: The Outer Void Intrepid Sailor, is the brainchild of brothers Lachlan and Gus Franklin who, along with musical think-alike Ben Browning and other assorted friends and collaborators form a group called; theUniverse. Having spent many a childhood year together in the family car, writing spasmodic ditties to add to their very own fictional top40 Chart, the brothers - whilst driving down to family Christmas one year had a revelatory moment about their place within the universe. Out of this moment beyond the feeling of total insignificance came an idea about a project.
Read more about The Universe on Last.fm.
Minneapolis based rock band with two Irish brothers and three local natives: Ciaran, Croister, Nick, Eileen, and Al.
See Also: The Tyde (UK Folk group)
The Tyde are: Rademaker, with wife Ann Do Rademaker
Pseudo Echo were an Australian new wave band. Formed in the early eighties by school friends Brian Canham (vocals, guitars, and keyboards) and Pierre Gigliotti (bass and keyboards), the band completed its lineup with Anthony Agiro (drums) and Tony Lugton (guitars and keyboards). Their first album Autumnal Park was an Ultravox-influenced album that yielded the Australian singles "Listening" (produced by Peter Dawkins) , "Stranger in Me", "Dancing Till Midnight", and "Beat for You". It was a mature album that gave little indication of their youth.
Model Warships is the lofi, implosive solo songwriting project of Michael Waters (Syuzhet, The Amber Sleep, Perfect Writing, Shi Toys, Tenpo Suno, Little Bear). Influences include: Jamie Stewart,
Sufjan Stevens,
Julian Koster,
Spencer Krug,
Ian Fernow,
Martin Grech,
Roddy Woomble,
Thom Yorke,
Conor Oberst,
Freddy Ruppert,
Owen Ashworth. A debut full-length entitled ‘Merchant’ is available for free download.
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Not to be mistaken with The Sunday Drivers. Sunday Drivers are a Los Angeles based rock trio consisting of Brady Erickson on lead guitar and vocals, Marisa Dupuis on Bass and Bryan “Camaro” Zaebst on drums. In 2007, Sunday Drivers saw the release of their first effort, the Archetypes EP. In spite of tracking and mixing sessions at studios in Canada and Los Angeles, Archetypes is ultimately a self-made album.
Tissue Culture are a seriously noisy bunch of young lions from Newcastle. They haven’t been around a long time, but they’ve already built up an impressive TishCult following. What’s more exciting is that they seem to be getting better with each deafening, thrilling live show. Their first release on Tiny Lights, Saint Waleric was released on October 29th 2012, and celebrated with an awesome party at The Cluny 2 on Halloween. SmithBellHendazPottaReed
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http://tissueculture.bandcamp.com/