British music troupe Piano Magic is one of hard-to-classify bands - since their music contains bits of ambience, rock and anything in between, its no wonder that they were called anything from post-rock to ambient pop to indietronica.
Piano Magic was formed in the mid 90s as a band with a small nucleus of core performers [...]
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“Making People Sick Since 1999″ - Label slogan
“Lawyers or businesspeople call us morons for only doing one-record deals. They say, ‘You’re not really anything, then.’ Well, we like our catalogue. We like the records we put out. Our bands aren’t rushing away. Our job isn’t to own any artist. We’re here to put out the [...]
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After the breakup of Godflesh in 2003, Justin Broadrick decided to form another project and leave behind some of the extreme sounds of his previous bands. Jesu sound is a mix of shoegaze, ambience and doom and is often described as “avant-pop”.
Jesu first release - 2004 “Heart Ache” EP - featured Broadrick playing all instruments, [...]
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Los Angeles duo No Age was born out of ashes of another band - Wives, which featured drummer Dean Spunt and guitarist Randy Randall as well as drummer Jeremy Villalobos, who went on to play with bands Drunkdriver and Whip & The Body.
Their name is based on a title of late 80s compilation of instrumental [...]
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Olympia, WA based Godheadsilo was a duo of Mike Kunka and Dan Haugh. Two of them met in Fargo, North Dakota and originally they were a trio, but guitarist Phil Leitch left the band after their first show and thus they decided to go on as a duo.
Musically, they were known for heavy bass sound [...]
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Chapel Hill, NC Polvo are considered to be one of the key bands in so-called “math rock” genre, even though the band themselves rejected this label in interviews. Their name comes from Spanish word for “dust” (and it also means “sex” in Spanish slang).
Formed in 1990, the initial line-up consisted of Ash Bowie, Dave Brilawski, [...]
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Many of Ian MacKaye’s early bands (including Minor Threat and Embrace) were extremely short-lived, so his goal was to form a band that would not only exist for a long time, but will be influential and won’t sound like his previous efforts. He recruited former Dag Nasty drummer Colin Sears and guitarist Joe Lally and [...]
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Lightning Bolt are Providence, Rhode Island based duo of Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson, well-known for their electryfing shows and music, which according to All Music Guide, sounds like a combination of Fred Frith, Derek Bailey, Ruins, Slayer and Ornette Coleman, all thrown into a blender.
Band members met when they attended Rhode Island School Of [...]
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While not commercially succesful and despite their relatively short run, BP became a very influental band and were cited as an influence by the likes of Coil, Jesus Lizard, Jesus & The Mary Chain, Deerhunter, Dinosaur Jr., Scratch Acid and many others.
While students at Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne, Australia, Nick Cave, Mick Harvey and [...]
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