This Europop outfit features the core duo of French singer Françoise Cactus (vocals, guitar, drums) and Brezel Göring (b. Germany; vocals, guitar, keyboards). Formed during the mid-90s, Cactus and Göring first met as part of Berlin's Genius Dilettant…

From Detroit, Michigan, USA, Electric Six have performed under various names since their inception as the Wildbunch (a moniker the band still prefer) in 1996. Formed by Jackson Pounder (vocals) and Martin M (drums), the Wildbunch made their recording…

UK synth-pop band formed in 1998 by Daniel Hunt (keyboards/rhythm box), Reuben Wu (keyboards/rhythm box), Mira Aroyo (b. Bulgaria; vocals/keyboards) and Helena Marnie (vocals/keyboards). Ladytron, who take their name from a Roxy Music track, pay homa…

The new millennium saw an underground musical movement erupt from Detroit, Michigan, USA, as bands such as the White Stripes, Bantam Rooster, Soledad Brothers, and the Von Bondies followed in the same high energy, minimalist punk rock direction that …

Few rock acts have started off playing lo-fi pop folk, before transforming into a electronic-based, new wave dance outfit, but the Omaha, Nebraska, USA-based trio, the Faint, is one of the few exceptions. The band was formed during 1994 by Todd Baech…

Formed in 1999 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Hot Hot Heat looked back nearly 20 years for inspiration, as they fashioned their sound after quirky post punk outfits such as XTC and the Cure. After a number of personnel changes, the line-up se…

Separately, synth player Jimmy Tamborello and singer Ben Gibbard were known for their work in electronica and emo, respectively, with Dntel and Death Cab For Cutie. Together, they became a powerful pop duo, combinining Tamborello's melodic knowhow an…

Amidst a field overcrowded with teen-pop and nu-metal, Detroit's White Stripes emerged at the tail end of the 1990s as a new hope for gutsy, no-frills rock & roll. Their doggedly minimalist sound--just one guitar and a drum kit--heralded a return to …

The brainchild of pianist David Cunningham, the Flying Lizards were a novelty UK act with a difference, taking and subverting classic pop songs in a unique and striking fashion. In the summer of 1979, they reached the UK Top 5 with an spoken, arrogan…

While Hot Chip were one of many bands from the early 2000s to have adopted an electro-pop sound, they stand apart from the pack both for their melodicism and for their fully live, band-oriented approach to the genre. Shortly after emerging from their…

Named after the geometrical term for a non-orientable surface that cannot be embedded in a plane the Mobius Bands music is similarly hard to place lying somewhere between bittersweet indie rock electronic pop and alt-country leanings The band which f…

A five-piece from Cincinnati the Greenhornes take the best elements of 60s RB blues and British Invasion and distill it down to their own brand of Midwestern garage rock Their original compositions consistently come across with a level of songwriting…

One of 2006s most unexpected indie success stories Beirut combines a wide variety of styles from pre-rock pop music and Eastern European gypsy styles to the alternately plaintive and whimsical indie folk of the Decemberists and the lo-fi homemade psy…

Indie rock trio the Rosebuds formed in May 2001 shortly after Ivan Howard vocalsguitars and Kelly Crisp keyboards met while in college in Wilmington North Carolina They moved to Raleigh that fall and enlisted drummer Billy Alphin of Ashley Stove Afte…

Releasing nearly one album a year since 2000 the hard-working David Debiak served as the brains behind New Jersey-based dream popindie rock outfit Sleep Station But he eventually wanting to do something a bit different from that highly conceptual pro…