When the "lo-fi," amateurishly recorded aesthetic became popular in the Indie world, some of the charm was lost, as musicians began to go for a "sound," missing out on the fact that the appeal of the recordings was more in the uncomplicated way they were presented. Lo-fi originators/popularizers constructed songs on their four-track recorders with seemingly no sense that they would ever reach the public.
The simple combination of Baldwin's bass and singing is pure, direct, and timeless. Today, when most of the so-called musical innovators simply offer contemporary takes on already proven and accepted movements in music (neo-psychedelia, nth-wave garage bands...) Portsmouth, New Hampshire's Nat Baldwin is a true original. Baldwin is an upright bass player and a singer, but he takes both of those things to their limit, and has perfected a sound that he can call entirely his own.
Science consist of three solo artist and Science Magazine's podcast. "Fauxhead the Alchemist", "Ill-Literate" and "The Murphy Brown Solo Show". Thier music is noise/experimental at its core.
mutual benefit is the sound of everything making sense, if just for a second. It is the magic of ordinary moments. It is sound created and/or tastefully re-created by Jordan Lee as well as an ever rotating cast of ruffians and ne'er-do-wells Jordan is also proud owner of the tape label/collective kassette klub. "do cool things and be kind to each other" mutualbenefit.tumblr.com
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Kepi was the bassist and vocalist for Sacramento, California based pop-punk band the Groovie Ghoulies. He has been recording and touring both with a full band and as an acoustic soloist since the Ghoulies' break-up in mid 2007.
The sun-soaked hills of Southern California have inspired many a studio autéur - from Brian WIlson to Phil Spector to Harry Nilsson, each having paid tribute to California in song & craft. Frank Maston knows a little bit about craft (and Southern Cali to boot), having spent his youth in suburban Los Angeles, absorbing the meticulously crafted discography of Msrs. Spector, Wilson, Bacharach, & Morricone, all the while mentally re-scoring the music to old Prisoner episodes & other filmography from the sixties & seventies.
Juliana Hatfield (born July 27, 1967 in Wiscasset, Maine, United States), is an American guitarist/singer-songwriter from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock band Blake Babies. The daughter of Philip M. Hatfield (a radiologist) and The Boston Globe fashion critic Julie Hatfield, Juliana was born in Maine and grew up in the Boston suburb of Duxbury. She acquired a love of rock music during the 1970s, having been introduced by a babysitter to the music of the seminal Los Angeles punk rock band X, which proved a life-changing experience.
The Smittens are a five-piece indiepop band from Burlington , Vermont and a DIY twee pop explosion. Formed in 2002, The Smittens have been winning the hearts and minds of indiepop fans and discerning critics in the U.S. and abroad with an impressive and rapidly expanding catalog of fresh and fancy bubblegum-inspired revolutionary twee pop. Accomplished songsmiths all, the six Smittens--Max Andrucki, Colin Clary, Dana Kaplan, Holly Chagnon, David Zacharis--switch up instruments and song-writing to create brilliantly lyrical and hyper-catchy pop songs of all colors, shapes and sizes.
uhhhhhhhhh porches is ben horowitz's songs played by ben horowitz and his friends, when he's lucky. other bands whose members have played in porches: hands on fire
cardiac party
nkosinathi
arkansas?
toby foster
blueberry fist
fox paws
cup n' string
a technicolor yawn
the coke balloons
y lime?
zak's yet to be named hardcore band that is going to rule