The alternative rock sounds of the Purrs features Jima vocalsbass Craig Keller drums Jason Milne guitar and Jason Atkin guitar The Seattle foursome came together after responding to the same classified ad ultimately creating the Purrs in 2000 Over th…

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…

Jon Auer is co-founder of one of the most critically acclaimed power pop bands of the 90s the Posies formed in Bellingham WA with Ken Stringfellow The two created a demo tape in Auers parents basement and sent it to PopLlama Records in Seattle the ta…

Borrowing from their surname the Rogers Sisters are comprised of siblings Laura and Jennifer Rogers and musician Miyuki Furtado This garage rock trio formed from the ashes of Ruby Falls in 1999 in the brimming indie rock scene of Brooklyn The Rogers …

Portland OR-based experimental rock group Menomena is a trio that consists of multi-instrumentalists Justin Harris Brent Knopf and Danny Seim They assembled much of their debut album I Am the Fun Blame Monster by using a computer program dubbed Deele…

Seattle-based indie-pop trio Tullycraft formed in 1994 from the ashes of Crayon reuniting singerbassist Sean Tollefson with drummer Jeff Fell completing the line-up with ex-Wimp Factor 14 guitarist Gary Miklusek the group debuted in 1995 with the Har…

Torontos quirky high-energy indie rockers Tokyo Police Club feature vocalistbassist Dave Monks keyboardistvocalist Graham Wright guitaristpercussionist Josh Hook and drummerpercussionist Greg Alsop The band formed in the wake of the breakup of the fo…

Minneapolis MN indie rock classicists Tapes n Tapes formed in the winter of 2003 when guitaristvocalist Josh Grier aka Tapes 1 bassist Matt Kretzmann n and guitarist Steve Nelson Tapes 2 began crafting a sound that harked back to the Pixies and Pavem…

From Sunderland, England, the Toy Dolls is a punk trio centred around lead singer Olga (b. Michael Algar). Other personnel, at various times, comprised some five bass players, 14 drummers and 39 drivers and roadies - and that was only by the end of t…

Following various lineup changes over the years RX Bandits included vocalistguitarist Matt Embree keyboardist Steve Choi bassist Joseph Troy drummer Chris Tsagakis and a horn section of trombonist Chris Sheets and saxophonist Steve Borth by the early…

The members of space pop innovators Mew first met in the seventh grade in Hellerup Denmark Before they could even play instruments the ambitious youths -- singer Jonas Bjerre guitarist Bo Madsen bassist Johan Wohlert and drummer Silas Graae -- were r…

Fullerton CAs Cold War Kids make music with roots that go deep and wide embracing influences as diverse as Bob Dylan Billie Holiday Jeff Buckley and the Velvet Underground Matt Aveiro Matt Maust Jonnie Russell and Nathan Willett began crafting their …

Newcastles angular pop quintet Maxmo Park consists of singer Paul Smith guitarist Duncan Lloyd bassist Archie Tiku keyboardist Lukas Wooller and drummer Tom English Like their friends and neighbors the Futureheads Maxmo Park craft smart sharply catch…

Singersongwriter John Roderick has been tagged as an indie version of REMs Michael Stipe Seattles Western State Hurricanes established Roderick as an insightful artist in progress while time spent touring the world with Harvey Danger in 2000 furthere…

Born in Detroit to Argentine parents in the late 70s Diego Garcia immersed himself in the sounds of Iggy Pop and MC5 at an early age Music carried him throughout his tenure in Argentina until his cardiologist father moved the family back to Tampa FL …