!!! | !!! is pronounced by repeating any three repetitive, monosyllabic sounds. Though the possibilities are endless, the most common pronunciations are Chk Chk Chk, Pow Pow Pow, Uh Uh Uh, Etc Etc Etc. The ... |
The Black Heart Procession | The Black Heart Procession took root in San Diego in 1997, when Pall Jenkins (vocals, guitars, synths, etc.) and Tobias Nathaniel (piano, guitar, organ, etc.) put their previous band, Three Mile Pilot... |
Blight | Formed in 1982 in Lansing, Michigan, Blight was created in the wake of another great band's demise - The Fix, one of the earliest bands of the Midwest hardcore scene. Two of its members, Steve Miller ... |
Calexico | Calexico is a band from Tucson, Arizona that shares a sun-bleached border with many performers and musical styles. Comprised of two core members, Joey Burns and John Convertino, Calexico became its ow... |
CocoRosie | Sierra Rose and Bianca Leilani (a.k.a. Red Bone Slim) were born in Fort Dodge, Iowa and the big island of Hawaii respectively. They are the third and fourth daughters of spiritualist Timothy Casady an... |
Dead Child | Upon first glance at its gruesome exterior, Dead Child appears to be a new creation. However, its jagged roots extend deep into the past, with a history that holds almost a century of collective exper... |
Dirty Three | The Dirty Three forged from a need to pay the rent in 1993. The main concern was to try and take a band photo in a rehearsal, albeit brief. The band originally played background MUZAK in the corner of... |
Enon | Enon is a band from Brooklyn, NY. They used to be a foursome, but are now a solidified three-piece. John Schmersal (guitar, bass, synths, vocals) spent time in a hot-shit band called Brainiac. Toko Ya... |
The Ex | After their start in 1979 in the heydays of punk’s first wave, The Ex developed over the years into a melting pot of divergent musical styles. Noise, jazz, improvisation, and ethnic music have been in... |
The Mekons | For about a year back in the 1970s The Mekons epitomized the risks, extremes and ludicrous promise of punk rock. It was a different time f’sure BUT eerily similar to NOW. For a while back THEN the Mek... |
The New Year | The New Year is a band featuring Matt and Bubba Kadane, former leaders of the highly praised band Bedhead. In 1998, the Kadanes pulled the plug and let Bedhead die a quiet and respectful death. Depres... |
Nina Nastasia | In October 1999, Nina Nastasia recorded the album that would finally document her well-seeded career as a local singer-songwriter in New York City, which began in the early nineties. The recording nec... |
Peter Morén | A brief history of a full life: Peter Morén was born and raised in a little village named Vika in a region of Sweden called Dalarna. At the time, Dalarna was a landscape full of horses, mopeds, ski sl... |
Pinback | Autumn of the Seraphs is Pinback's fourth full-length record, and second on Touch and Go. 2004's Summer in Abaddon hit the scene like high tide gliding in, whirling around listeners, full of beautiful... |
Quasi | Quasi consists of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss, both of whom possess impressive indie rock credentials. Sam has recorded and/or toured with Heatmiser, Elliott Smith, Built to Spill and more. He also per... |
Rachel's | Rachel's is a collective of musicians based in Louisville, KY. Since releasing their first Quarterstick Records cd in 1995, the group has performed in libraries, churches, rock dungeons, ballrooms, ga... |
Shannon Wright | Shannon Wright is a powerhouse singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia. She’s no coffee shop strummer, singing sad pretty lyrics over her favorite C and G
chords. No, not that. She’s feeling somet... |
Shellac | Membership:
Steven Frank Albini - electric guitar
Todd Stanford Trainer - drum set
Robert Spurr Weston IV - electric bass guitar
Band information:
While there is no specific c... |
Shipping News | Shipping News has been a band since the Fall of 1996. They released their first record, Save Everything in September of 1997, and a split EP with the band MetroSchifter soon followed. Very Soon, and i... |
Silkworm | Bullheaded, crossbeam-chomping persistence: fourteen years, nine full lengths, many singles and EPs, innumerable tours, wild fluctuations in the public appetite for their work. That’s not to demand ... |
Slint | Slint established its earliest roots when, in 1981, at the ages of eleven and twelve, guitarist Brian McMahan and drummer Britt Walford began playing together in Louisville, KY. In 1984, Britt Walford... |
Supersystem | Refusing to be satisfied by the familiar, Supersystem has always been ready to destroy a song in order to put it back together again. Hip-hop, electronica, punk rock, so-called world music a little b... |
Tara Jane O'Neil | Portland, OR based artist Tara Jane ONeil is a multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, engineer, and painter. Over the last decade her art has taken many forms, all of them lavished with the rich at... |
Ted Leo + The Pharmacists | Maybe the dilapidated garages and all-ages clubs of the East Coast post-hardcore scene of the late 80s is a fitting place to begin our story. That’s where the chronicle of our era’s ever-humble valedi... |
TV on the Radio | TV on the Radio's story is one of synchronicity, of serendipity, of epiphany. TVOTR began with Tunde Adebimpe (vocals) and David Sitek (multi-instrumentalist and production kingpin behind the Grammy n... |
Uzeda | Uzeda is a four piece band that hails from Catania, a city in the region of Sicily. Catania is known for its close proximity to Mt. Etna, a volcano so consistently explosive that it makes the most obv... |
