(2008 - present) The Paraffins are a band from Scotland making scary but catchy primitive pop you can attempt to dance to with a rusty stringed acoustic guitar, an ancient beatbox, caveman drums, a melodica containing various waterborne diseases and god knows what else. Influenced by Wall Of Voodoo, Ariel Pink, Suicide and Kid Creole & The Coconuts among others. Members are Billy and whoever else.
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.
Boneless is a Hardcore Punk Rock band from Pomona, CA. Not confused with the band of the same name from nearby Riverside, California.
The So So Glos are a Punk influenced Rock and Roll Band from the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Two of the band members are brothers and one is a step-brother. In 2008 they co-founded the Market Hotel venue with promoter Todd P. They have toured excessively in the United States and Canada and have opened for ...Trail of Dead and The Virgins in Europe. Currently they are working on new material for a 2010 release.
Tweedy Psychedeliacs The Relationships have become an institution in their home town of Oxford, England. Their tweedy psychedelia has charmed many down the years, and there may have been no Ride or Radiohead but for their St George-like battling for the pop high ground. The band has been together ten years. Scene is their second album and first on Trailer Star Records -the first was Trend, which came out on Twee Kitten of California (www.tweekitten.com).
Helen McCookeryBook (Dr Helen Reddington) was the bassist and lead singer with Brighton-based punk band The Chefs during the late 1970s and early 1980s. She later formed Helen And The Horns before continuing her career as a solo artist, writer and lecturer.
Fishboy is a four-piece eccentric indie pop band from Denton, TX that began as the bedroom solo project of front man Eric Michener. He was given the nickname on a middle-school field trip after a dare to pluck and swallow a fish at the Dallas World Aquarium. Six years and several shoe boxes full of cassette tapes later, Michener moved from the suburbs to the Texas rock-and-roll Mecca of Denton with a handful of low budget recordings released by the close-knit Austin music collective Business Deal Records.
PHARMACY is a duo electronique from Perth, Western Australia. PHARMACY prescribes harsh tasty beats in an easy-swallow coating of synthesizer techno-pop, hip hop smarts and cameo appearances from acclaimed house-trance vocalist, Sir David Attenborough. PHARMACY are the raison d'etre. For the rock band from Seattle, please change your tags to The Pharmacy.
