Lo-fi indie pop band Boat vocalistguitarist D Crane bassistguitarist M McKenzie and drummer J Goodman got its start when D Crane moved back to Seattle after teaching junior high classes for a year in Chicago He had already been coming up with ideas b…

Though the core members of Tunng Sam Genders and Mike Lindsay began their musical partnership composing scores for soft-core porn they soon decided to form a band that would bring together Genders gentle vocals with Lindsays guitar playing and songwr…

The music of Portland OR-based the Village Green harks back to the time of the British Invasion with influences like the Beatles the Kinks from whose song and album The Village Green Preservation Society they got their name and Brit-pop acts like Oas…

The diminutive Lady Sovereign is a white rapper with a tomboyish presence and self-deprecating sense of humor who rose up as part of the U.K.'s grime scene in the early 2000s. She was just out of her teens when her first singles started getting the a…