Vocalist/guitarist Courtney Taylor, keyboardist Zia McCabe, guitarist Peter Holmström, and drummer Eric Hedford formed the Dandy Warhols in Portland, Oregon in 1994. The band signed a deal with the local Tim/Kerr Records after their first show, and their debut album, Dandys Rule OK?, appeared in 1995. Featuring songs such as …
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Jack Antonoff began working on music for Bleachers in secret while touring in support of Fun.’s Grammy-winning album Some Nights. Drawing upon his love of ’80s pop and darker college rock sounds (particularly the soundtracks of classic ’80s John Hughes films like The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink), he …
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A punk rock band whose music is emotionally raw but leaves room for emotions other than rage, Philadelphia’s Mannequin Pussy found a home on the Tiny Engines label, releasing a pair of critically lauded albums in the mid-2010s before making the jump to Epitaph’s roster for 2019’s Patience. They were …
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Finding an unlikely middle point between Suicide’s hostile, proto-electro punk art noise and the sardonic, pop-friendly sound of the Flaming Lips, MGMT started as electroclash musical terrorists but quickly grew into an eclectic, brainy pop group with psychedelic overtones. MGMT first formed in 2002, during Ben Goldwasser and Andrew Van …
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Ryan Guldemond had been writing songs and wanted to start playing them at local clubs. Feeling the tunes needed harmonies, he asked his sister Molly Guldemond to join him. Molly invited her friend Debra-Jean Creelman to add her voice to the mix, and the group’s three-part harmonies were soon wowing …
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Chelsea Wolfe grew up in Northern California with a father who had a country band and his own home studio, so she was immersed in music at an early age. She began recording herself at age nine on an eight-track recorder given to her by her dad; by the time …
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