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The 10p Mixes is Danielle, Will and Keith. The former two have been making music together since 2005, and put the name The 10p Mixes to their endeavours in 2007, when they started doing acoustic gigs and recordings. This is the line-up that recorded the Bedroomsound album (available on self-released CD and Best Kept Secret cassette). |
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14 Iced Bears 14 Iced Bears started off in wave of C86 bands, then developed a more psychedelic sound. They play amazing noisy pop with indelible melodies, jangly/scraping guitars and a psychedelic edge. |
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The ABC Club The ABC Club are all restless drums and nonchalant, femme-fatale drawls, faded tales zipped together with morse code guitar. NME's Breakthrough Band for 2010 and hailed as 'One of the most exciting of 2010's debuts' by Rough Trade, they're one to keep a look out for. |
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Allo Darlin' The darlings of the UK’s indiepop scene, London-based four-piece Allo Darlin’ are led by Australian songbird Elizabeth Morris, with guitarist Paul Rains, Bill Botting on the bass and Michael Collins on drums – create perfect, sophisticated pop gems and know how to put on a joyous, effervescent, fun-filled live show. Having built up an intensely loyal and ever-increasing fanbase, Allo Darlin’s reputation has developed at its own pace, from just one girl strumming a ukulele to headlining London’s Scala and touring all over the world. In their brief lifetime they have toured the USA four times, sold out tours across the UK, embarked on an epic five-week European tour and played shows across the United States. The band have been strongly supported by BBC 6music, recording several sessions including one at the BBC’s prestigious Maida Vale Studios as Steve Lamacq’s personal choice for BBC Introducing. Their self-titled debut was released to universal acclaim with plaudits including being named No. 2 record of the year by online retailer eMusic and a glowing 1,200 word essay by legendary Go-Between Mr. Robert Forster in the Australian critical magazine The Monthly. Their second album, 'Europe' is released in May 2012 and promises to be one of the most exciting albums of the year, with Allo Darlin’ pleasing their existing loyal fanbase as well as winning over hoards of new admirers. The album is proof that Allo Darlin’ will be one of THE bands to watch out for in 2012. |
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Bart Cummings (with Pam Berry) A founding member of The Cat’s Miaow and later of Hydroplane and Pencil Tin, Bart Cummings has spent two decades warming the hearts of wistful bedsitters the world over. Intimate and conversational in style, Bart’s songs are something of a cross between Yo La Tengo, the Go-Betweens and Felt. And with his inclination for brevity and knack for spinning the most ordinary of situations into something to hold dear, he may also be the pop world’s closest link to Raymond Carver. Over the years, Bart has stayed true this formula; Make You Blush heralds his first new recordings since Bart & Friends’ I Was Lonely ’Til I Found You mini-album of 2001, and he is showing no discernible deviation from the music he was making in the mid-90s: dreamy, jangly and sublime. Bart will reunite with former Shapiros bandmate Pam Berry for his performance at Indietracks. |
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The Birthday Kiss The Birthday Kiss formed in 2011 and are currently working on a debut album in Leeds, UK for release later this year. The Birthday Kiss on Bandcamp |
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Colour Me Wednesday are a four-piece band who live in Hillingdon and Peckham, London. They’ve been together for about 3 years and have released an EP and a couple of sampler CDs, recording the long-awaited album right now, from home. |
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Come Again DJs We're very pleased to announce that Come Again DJs will be providing the music between bands on the two main stages throughout the weekend! |
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Cosines Simon (Vermont) and Alice (Arthur and Martha, The Loves) met on the London Underground after a Stereo Totale gig in 2009, two days later Simon was round Alice's house unblocking her kitchen drain. Since then Simon has been round and put up two curtain rails, a blind and a shelf. When they are not doing DIY they like to talk Beach Boys and analogue synths and play music together abley assisted by Alice's old Loves bandmates Dan and Jonny. "Like Electrelene playing 'Kids in America" |
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Darren Hayman is best known as the singer-songwriter of the much-loved Hefner. Following the band's split in 2002, Darren is now six albums into an increasingly idiosyncratic career path and writing the best tunes of his career, as showcased on the first two instalments of his "Essex Trilogy" and "January Songs" where he wrote and recorded a song for every day of the month. In the latest incarnation of the Secondary Modern, Darren has gathered together a tight, tough, but soulful folk-rock orchestra reminiscent of a more urban Incredible String Band or an Anglicized Lambchop. |
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Doggy Doggy is a three piece jangle pop band from the glorious city of Limoges, France, with an obvious love of Subway, Sarah and Matinee Records.Washes of ultra-bright guitar teamed with Field Mice style percussion! Doggy was born in the mid-90's, as a side project for Guillaume Bassard, guitarist of the French band Caramel (several releases on Marsh-Marigold Records). The first Doggy set was in 95, sharing the bill with legendary bands such as They Go Boom!!! and La Buena Vida for a couple of gigs in France. |
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Hailing from London, Echo Lake are a five piece whose strong, defined melodies give them an arresting and unique take on the tuneful side of psychedelia's pop frontier. They have an EP and 7" out now on No Pain In Pop, and their album is due July 2012. |
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Electrophonvintage Remi and Delphine moved to London from Toulouse, France to form Electrophonvintage with guitarist Christos and Ian and Johnny from Pocketbooks. They play short wooden pop songs influenced by The Go Betweens, The Hidden Cameras, French 60's pop songs, Sarah Records and Felt. Two releases so far: I don't want to stay 7" on Plastic Pancake in 2000 and We sang a yeye song on Unique Records in 2005. |
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Evans the Death Evans the Death make frenetic and infectious punk pop which exudes the kind of unbridled charisma, intelligence, and runaway energy that promises a singularly exciting future for the band. Comprising Dan Moss (guitar, vocals), Olly Moss (bass), Katherine Whitaker (vocals, keys), Rob Mitson (drums), and Matt Gill (guitar), and named after the undertaker in Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, Evans the Death are poised to fulfill their potential as one of the most refreshing and exhilarating new groups around. |
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Girls Names hail from Belfast and make reverb soaked noise pop. Formed in January 2009 as a two-piece they have recently expanded to three. Records are currently out on Captured Tracks and Tough Love Records and tapes on Cass/Flick. |
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Go Sailor Go Sailor are the early indiepop supergroup of Rose Melberg (The Softies, Tiger Trap, Gaze) and Amy Linton (The Aislers Set, Henry’s Dress) and this will be their first ever appearance in the UK. They recorded three 7" singles and a full-length album in 1996 but, after the band broke up, their songs "Ray of Sunshine" and "Together Forever in Love" were made famous when they were included on the soundtrack to the film “But I’m A Cheerleader”. The band reformed in 2010 to critical acclaim and released a compilation album on Slumberland Records in 2011. Singer Rose Melberg will also be giving a solo performance at Indietracks. |
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Gold-Bears Gold-Bears formed in 2010 when Jeremy Underwood recruited a few friends to play songs he'd stockpiled since the demise of his former band, Plastic Mastery (555 Recordings/Magic Marker Records). The band quickly released a smashing 7" on Magic Marker Records, recalling the immediacy and urgency of Boyracer or The Wedding Present melding with the pop sensibilities of Slumberland contemporaries like Summer Cats and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. They expanded their sound a bit on their next release (a 4-song 7" on Miami-based indie pop imprint Cloudberry Records) by stripping away some of the fuzz on one song and adding drone elements a la the Microphones to another while still maintaining their indie punk roots. After hibernating in their home studio for the winter, Gold-Bears emerge with Are You Falling In Love?, an even further expansion of the band's sound. This 11-song collection of frenzied crash pop, strummy ballads, and syncopated pop dirges is one of the most dynamic indie pop records of recent. |
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Golden Grrrls Golden Grrrls are a Glasgow-born trio who marry amped up fuzz-punk dynamics with gorgeous, heartfelt songwriting. Ruari MacLean (guitar, vocals), Eilidh Rodgers (drums, vocals), Rachel Aggs (guitar, vocals) together create a joyful noise that frequently flies close to the edge of chaos, their live shows a brilliant mix of enthusiasm and ideas. Golden Grrrls began with Ruari MacLean's bedroom recordings and his first explorations of the guitar, at the advanced age of 18. Golden Grrrls took shape when Ruari invited friends, actual girls, to join him in playing live. Since then the group has blossomed into a democratic affair with Eilidh's vocals and drumming skills forming the backbone for Rachel (also of Trash Kit and Cover Girl) and Ruari MacLean to bounce off. Golden Grrrls have released two sold out seven inches and are currently mastering their debut LP to be released at the end of summer on Night School records. |
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Gordon McIntyre Gordon McIntyre is the lead singer and songwriter with the Edinburgh band ballboy. ballboy write and record story-based guitar pop songs and have released 5 albums. On top of that they've recorded 5 Peel Sessions and also had 10 entries in John Peel’s legendary Festive 50 end of year poll. A new album and a new theatre show are due in the near future. |
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Great Big Kiss DJs If you didn’t feel like dancing in the shed after the bands at Indietracks in 2008, there were two options. One: catch one of the impromptu acoustic band sets on the platform (highlights that year were a solo Allo Darlin’ singing “Emily” and David and Katie from The Just Joans unveiling “What Do We Do Now?”). Or two: dance to the soul mixtape playing in the tea tent next to the truck that served as the outside stage (and try to ignore the fact that soul seemed to include Fatboy Slim and some rather dodgy house tracks). The next year we asked Indietracks supremo Stuart if we could do a soul dance party in the tea tent. “Nice idea,” he said, “but the tea tent isn’t coming back this year. We’d have to get a proper marquee. Let me look into it...” A few months later, the marquee was sorted. “So what’s your soul thing going to be called?” asked Stuart. We had no idea. Weeks of indecision followed. With the deadline for the program looming, Stuart emailed over a running order, on which he’d written How Does It Feel To Be Loved? Soul And Sixties Special. Great, that’ll do, we replied. That first year went pretty well, despite arriving onsite to discover that the floor of the marquee was covered in rocks (a few sessions with the official Indietracks shovel sorted that out), and even though the amp cut out three times during the set. The first time, people groaned and stood around for ten minutes until the amp had cooled down. The second time, they groaned and wandered off for ten minutes. The third time, they decided to take matters into their own hands, as you can see here. After that, we did a few more Soul And Sixties Specials in London and returned to Indietracks in 2010 before changing the name of the night to Great Big Kiss, and going monthly at the Buffalo Bar in London from October 2010. Great Big Kiss is now a big part of our lives, but if it wasn’t for Indietracks then the whole thing would never have happened. We’re very pleased to be back again this year. |
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The Hobbes Fanclub are Leon, Louise and Adam from Bradford, England and they love distortion pedals and reverb. |
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Formed in early ‘80s London, the band were initially a trio centred around singer Jim Shepherd. After sending a demo tape to Melody Maker, the band were recruited by Alan McGee to record for the fledgling Creation label. Their self-titled debut album was released in 1985, and in 1986 the band recorded their only Peel session. Further albums 'Another Age' and 'Scratch the Surface' drew critical acclaim before the band split. They reunited in 2000, releasing the album Veritas, before the band signed to McGee’s Poptones label for the release of 'Popartglory'. |
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Joanna Gruesome Cardiff-based, dual male/female vocal-led five-piece teen sensation Joanna Gruesome sound like all of your favourite 80s and 90s indie bands rolled into one. Dinosaur Jr, Lush, The Pastels, My Bloody Valentine, Superchunk, Mega City 4, blah blah blah - it's all in there somewhere. With an EP available for free download doing the rounds and a new record planned for release early in 2012 on the blogtastic Radio One endorsed Art Is Hard label you're going to be hearing a lot more from this lot very soon. |
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Jorge and Miguelink DJs Jorge, one of the organisers of Madrid Popfest and Miguelink, one of the best pop DJs in spain, join forces to make people dance with all the best 'TEMAZOS' (great songs). Don´t have any doubt and come to have fun!. This will sound for sure: Northern Soul, Girl Groups, C86, Shoegaze, Classic Indiepop, Yeyé, ... |
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The June Brides Phil Wilson is the charismatic leader of The June Brides, a London band that in the early 80′s started to get known within the independent scene just as labels as Creation Records, were taking their first steps following the tracks of other mythical ones like Postcard, Cherry Red or Rough Trade. Their peculiarity lied in the use of a viola and a trumpet added to the more classical pop sounds, giving as a result acclaimed songs that were included in compilations of the era such as “This Town”, “Every Conversation” or “Sunday To Saturday”. Their musical life was short, hardly spanning 3 years during which they released the essential mini-LP “There Are Eighty Million Stories…” and a couple of singles and EP’s on In Tape and The Pink Label later compiled in 1995 for the CD “For Better Or Worse” released by the Overground label. After a long hiatus, in 2007 Phil Wilson continued his solo career (that started in 1987) with the recording of various singles where he kept offering his elegant pop and culminating in 2010 with the recording of the single “I Own It” and the following LP “God Bless Jim Kennedy”, both released on the North American label Slumberland Records. The original members of the band have now reformed to perform at Indietracks as The June Brides. |
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The Just Joans The Just Joans are named after the Daily Record's agony aunt and make music about everyday angst. |
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Language of Flowers were a 5-piece indie-pop band originally from Belfast in Northern Ireland signed to San Francisco indie label Shelflife Records. As of 2006 its members are located in London, Manchester and Belfast. The band’s sound is characteristic of the British C86 movement with heavy use of jangling Rickenbacker 12-string guitars, airy female vocals and bright pop melodies. |
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Librarians Wanted DJs The summer of 2010 Rupert and Silja ventured to their very first Indietracks with the cheapest and probably least waterproof tents from the Argos stock. At a gig we met David - who introduced himself by asking, "Are you Swedish?" and none of us were. And so the story of Librarians Wanted began. (and ironically we've hosted a lot of Swedishbands since...) Someone at the festival joked that we should form a band, but with limited musical talents, maybe DJing would be our thing instead. We all had a past (and a present) of making romantic/depressive/hopeful mixtapes for long lost or potential or totally unfulfilled loves. Before we left Indietracks for London we'd toasted to starting our own club night and to learn how to DJ and bake. We had our first show in December 2010 with Evans the Death headlining and since then we've hosted lots of our favourite bands, always with (more or less deformed) cupcakes and a library card discount. The only rule for Librarians Wanted is that we love the music we choose. The DJ sets and the bands - we don't care about what is cool and what is right and what is indiepop, only, really, what is love ("Baby, don't hurt me"). Yes, it should be a little bit like falling in love, hearing a song or a band for the first time and knowing in that instant it's your new favourite. And it should be about meeting new friends you can leave alongside, smiling, when the evening is over, even if you entered the room a little bit shy and awkward and on your own. |
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Liechtenstein In 2005 Liechtenstein started playing together in Gothenburg, Sweden, influenced by British 80s bands like Talulah Gosh, Dolly Mixture, Mo-Dettes, Girls At Our Best and Shop Assistants. In March 2007 they released their debut 7" single "Stalking Skills". The title track made quite a buzz in the indiepop world and was followed up with a frequent gigging around in Europe. In 2009 the debut album "Survival Strategies In A Modern World" was released on Fraction Discs and Slumberland. A handful of singles and quite a few tours and line-ups later, Liechtenstein released their second album "Fast Forward" in January 2012 on Fraction Discs – a record filled with gorgeous vocal harmonies over angular post punk and jangly guitars. For this gig former bass player Naemi Pebaqué will join them on vocals and percussion. |
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Love Dance Love Dance is a pop band from Bergen, Norway. They play their first UK gig ever at the Indietracks festival 2012. Four years after their last gig outside Norway and five years after the release of their debut album "Result", Love Dance return to the stage with new songs labeled 'straight up Scandinavian middle class pop'. |
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Themakingof have spent the last five years stealing the most shambolic members of several other Derby indie bands. Their albums 'Once Bitten, Twice Shy, Three Times a Lady' and 'Lower Case Tall Stories' soundtrack those people battling with cheap synths and second hand guitars until some untidy pop songs emerged. Almost every song title is a stupid pun. |
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Markie Plays Girlpop! Markie Plays Girlpop! is Markie from The Parallelograms, The Mini Skips and Velodrome 2000. Those bands are all about testosterone fuelled ROCK so Markie Plays Girlpop! is an outlet for his gentle, oestrogen fuelled side. Expect all sorts of female penned or performed covers from the 1950s right up to the modern young popkids’ hot sounds of the 1980s. |
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Mikrofisch Silvi Wersi and Mawe N. Klave are Mikrofisch, a London/Hamburg-based 2-piece that formed in 2001 in Germany as a boy-girl, lo-fi, 4-track project to record a Smiths cover song for a friend. They got on well, and started writing more songs and released these home recordings on their debut album 'Gleichstrom/Wechselstrom' (German for AC/DC). In the following years, more and more instruments were accumulated; some were even built from scratch like Mawe's infamous Tupperware theremin, which always took an entire soundcheck to tune up with an impossibly tiny device resembling a Barbie tweezer. One particularly long stay in Hamburg just before Christmas 2006 resulted in the writing of the second album, 'Masters of the Universe', moving on to more electronic indie-disco sounds. In the following years, more music was sent back and forth between the UK and Germany and a single and an EP were released for free on Mawe's net label Kinokoma, and more gigs were played around Europe. For a while, Mikrofisch took to the theme of lo-fi Italo Disco glitter with pom poms, e-drums and silver foil suits to the extreme, but the suits were ditched after one particularly sweaty gig in Paris last year. The pom poms and the indie synths are here to stay though. For at least the next 10 years. |
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Minibar Minibar are an indiepop duo from Murcia (Spain) consisting in Ruth (Vacaciones) and Rafa Skam (Vacaciones / The Yellow Melodies). They were born as a side project, when they recorded a song called "La extraña pareja" for the "Let it bee" compilation on the Italian label My Honey Records and for Rafa's El Planeta Amarillo fanzine. |
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The Monochrome Set The Monochrome Set are an British post-punk band led by Indian-born singer Bid. They signed to Rough Trade in 1979, releasing a string of influential singles "He's Frank," "Eine Symphonie des Grauens," and their signature number, "Monochrome Set". The band went on to release a dozen albums, embracing a wide range of styles from art-school punk to cabaret and melodic pop. The band reformed in 2011 to perform songs from their forthcoming new studio album "Platinum Coils", their first new album since 1995`s "Trinity Road". |
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Music for Girls DJs Music For Girls are three superstar DJs, Elizabeth (Allo Darlin'), Katey (Spiral Scratch and Indietracks pop quiz mistress) and Alice (Cosines, The Loves). The night was short lived in London in 2009/2010, but those that were there will remember bumping and grinding to The Vaselines and Eux Autres, shimmying to Stereolab and St Etienne, getting down to The Boss and The Mac, THE acapella "Chaka Demus and Pliers" singalong and of course East 17! Music for dancing, music for romancing, but most importantly music for GIRLS! Boys aloud. |
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The Orca Team are the sound of suave- they sound like a sonar echo, debonair but deep... 20,000 fathoms deep, underwater heartbeats, a surf twang but no baggies, dress to impress, keep out of the water- I'm seeing red velvet drapes as a backdrop, bruised knees and skinned ankles, The Orca Team are in a submarine into the azure marine of the dark deep waters of every doomed lover's heart, the dangerous curve on the highway, the band that Joe Meek dreamt of but tragically never found... they are your next favourite band. - Andy Hart |
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Pop-o-matic! is a Sheffield based pop disco. It began when some rum-sodden party reprobate came to the drunken conclusion that all pop is created equal, be it the obscurest indiepop or massively popular chart pop, and that as long as the song is good, you may as well dance to it. Therefore you can expect to hear the Aisler Set followed by Jamelia, or Belle and Sebastian next to Madonna. People keep inviting us to their parties in other places, and we were responsible for what happened at the Indietracks campsite on the Sunday night last year. We have also kept people dancing at the Nottingham pop alldayer, the Odd Box Weekender in London and the Now We Are festival in West Brom. If, like us, you believe that smirking irony has no place in music and that the very concept of a guilty pleasure is rubbish, then we should get along famously. |
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The Proper Ornaments The Proper Ornaments make a thrillingly taut and melodic pop indebted both to the sun balm'd West Coast (The Byrds, Brian Wilson) and the driving, terse rhythms of the British Invasion and C86 pop (The Beatles, Postcard Records), centered around the close partnership of frontmen Max Claps and James Hoare. Their first contact was in 2005 in West London womens' Music and Video Exchange when Max was used a decoy by his then girlfriend to distract shopworker James whilst she stole accessories. Following his subsequent apprehension they found themselves arrested with a mutual appreciation of The Velvet Underground and west coast psychedelia. They duly started writing songs together only for years of depression and intoxication to follow. Over this period the two bought their own tape machine whilst James became homeless and Max's wife filed for divorce. They repaired burnt bridges with former drummer - Ralph Phillips, and in 2010 were joined by bassist Michael Lovett and Lets Wrestle front man Wesley Patrick Gonzalez to released a 7" on San Francisco label Make A Mess Records (produced by Charlie Alex March). Cult London indie label No Pain In Pop - who had released an early single with James' other musical project, Veronica Falls - got in touch after a gig and had the band record their debut EP over a two day period. The eponymously titled product of these sessions is an abrupt and glorious slice of perfect pop jet propelled by super compressed drum production and the pair's DNA tight vocal interplay. Floating between the pair's rich voices not a word of the EP's lyrics is carried alone. It seems - now with one spectacular EP under their belts - it'll take more than a few high notes to tear Max and James away from each other. |
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Robberie are Val, Nik and Robin from Sheffield. They play acoustic indie/folk/pop on the guitar, bass, glockenspiel, melodica and tambourine. |
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Rose Melberg Rose Melberg is an American musician and songwriter who has sung and played guitar as a member of Tiger Trap, The Softies and Go Sailor as well as on her own material. |
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The Rosie Taylor Project The Rosie Taylor Project came together in a redbrick Victorian shambles in Leeds a few years ago. Their new album 'Twin Beds' is released on 13th February (Odd Box Records) - Produced by Richard Formby (Wild Beasts, Herman Dune) and with a guest vocal appearance from Wild Beasts’ singer Tom Fleming, the band have honed their chamber pop sound, expect melancholy, pop gems worthy of their influences but also marking out their own sonic territory. With radio play on 6 Music, Radio 1, Radio 2 and XFM. |
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Combining such influences as indie-pop and the brightest shimmering 60's productions, The School's style is of sunshine pop with moments of light and shadow, the kind of infectious, hyper-melodic pop you can simultaneously cry and dance to. Sophisticated, happy songs, with a little melancholy thrown in them, inspired by The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Phil Spector and girl bands from the 60's. |
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Sea Lions When Adrian Pillado formed Sea Lions in 2007, he wasn't really sure what it would be. His influences were something of a musical snowstorm, involving Crass, John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Syd Barrett, Lou Reed, Orange Juice, and K Records' flagship band Beat Happening. In the beginning, it was just Adrian singing and playing guitar, with his best friend Pat playing drums. Both had a history in Oxnard's D.I.Y. punk scene, but something new was starting to happen in that town. A group of young kids had been listening to a lot of K, Postcard, Sarah, Creation, and (naturally) Slumberland records; new bands started forming, and bands that were previously more into punk and noise started working in these new influences. Maria's Eric Bellow started YAY! records to document the Sound of Young Oxnard, and Sea Lions fit right in on the roster. The early days of Sea Lions were a learning curve, Adrian and Pat crashing and bashing their way through songs, often stumbling upon something beautiful in the process. Still, something was missing; a full band? more time to woodshed? They were always just teetering on the edge of something great, but when would it come? That greatness came one night at the cooler than cool L.A. indie club Part Time Punks. They had recently added a second guitarist, and a bass player... and they killed. Adrian had really grown as a songwriter, the songs were still shambolic, but they were also assertive and direct. They were in a race to the end of each song, and were running that race with swagger. They thrilled the full time punks in the crowd with a cover of Black Flag's "Nervous Breakdown," and wowed us Northern Soul junkies with a downright saucy cover of the Freda Payne classic, "Band of Gold." There was the exact point at which you could say, "Ladies and gentlemen, Sea Lions!" |
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September Girls September Girls are a five piece girl group hailing from Dublin City. Playing fuzzy and reverb-soaked garage pop with heaps of harmonies layered underneath. September Girls have been described as "radiant noise pop of the finest order, guitars distorted, verses simple and catchy, drums energetic, it sure is sweet on the ears" or "sounds from a transistor radio abandoned in a rural cinema." |
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The Silver Factory The band began in 2008 in the head of Fran Feely, who, after a lot of experience in groups with sounds of the sixties, decided to start a musical project which embraced some of his musical heroes from the eighties, such as The Stone Roses, The Field Mice, The Sea Urchins and other groups from the C86 movement, but at the same time, reflected the passion for some other bands from the sixties like The Ronettes, The Shangri-Las, and The Byrds. His prior musical experience is vast but is most notably known for an EP he released for Detour Records with The Psychotic Reaction, a group with a large following and which played on the show of John Peel. With a large handful of songs already composed, he started the search for bandmates. Marc Johnston entered the scene and began using the microphone. Bassist Luke Headland answered an advertisement and joined the group in 2010, shortly followed by Paul Hobbs on drums. Finally completing the line up is Matt Vinall on lead Guitar. |
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The Smittens The Smittens are a hard-working globe-trotting independent American twee pop band from Burlington, Vermont who like to think of themselves as friends first and open-hearted indiepop revolutionaries after that. Max Andrucki, Colin Clary, Dana Kaplan, Holly Chagnon, and David Zacharis switch up instruments, song-writing, and singing to create brilliantly lyrical and hyper-catchy pop songs of all shapes and sizes. |
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Standard Fare Standard Fare is a three-piece indiepop band from Sheffield. Comprised of bassist/vocalist Emma Kupa, guitarist/vocalist Danny How, and drummer Andy Beswick, the group drew inspiration from both classic C86 groups and heroes like Orange Juice, as well as American indie rock bands of the 1990s. Their sparse and energetic sound, topped off by Kupa’s arresting vocals, soon drew interest from indie fans, the press, and record labels. The group released their first single, 'Dancing', on Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation in 2009, then recorded the songs for The Noyelle Beat. The sessions lasted a mere six days, and the results were released by Melodic in the UK and Bar/None in the US in March of 2010. After two years of writing and honing a batch of new songs, the band hit the studio with producer Alan Smyth for a lengthy 11 days. The resulting album, Out of Sight Out of Town, was released in January of 2012. |
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Stevie Jackson Stevie Jackson is the guitarist and one of the songwriters in Belle and Sebastian, as well as sometime contributor to music by The Vaselines, Russian Red, Roy Moller, The Bill Wells Trio and many others. After many years of working with other people, he finished his first solo album, (I Can't Get No) Stevie Jackson last year, which was self-released online in November. |
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Summer Camp Summer Camp are a London based duo formed in 2009. Having formed by accident after deciding to cover The Flamingos' 'I Only Have Eyes for you', the band did not initially reveal their identities, claiming to be six Swedish teenagers, but a report by independent music newspaper The Stool Pigeon revealed that they were solo artist Jeremy Warmsley and journalist Elizabeth Sankey. Their debut single, 'Ghost Train', backed with 'Montgomery Avenue 1984', was released on Moshi Moshi as part of their Singles Club in April 2010. In September 2010, Summer Camp released EP 'Young', which was followed by a string of singles. Their debut album, 'Welcome To Condale' was released in October 2011. |
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The Sunbathers So how is it that a band from the East Midlands has written so many songs about the sea...? Is it a love of the traditional British holiday, complete with candyfloss, the smell of chips and long walks along the cliffs? Or, is it just that so many words rhyme with sand? Their debut release, a split CD with Los Lagos de Hinault on Cloudberry Records is due to be followed up by an EP in early 2012 on Dufflecoat Records. |
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Slumberland Records Slumberland began operations in 1989 as a collective effort consisting of members of DC area bands Velocity Girl, Big Jesus Trash Can/Whorl, Black Tambourine and Powderburns. We were inspired by such musical happenings as C-86, early Creation, Postcard, K, Bus Stop, lower East Side noise, and also the renegade art aesthetics of people like Cage, Burroughs and Duchamp. We were complete musical neophytes but so pumped-up about all the amazing things going on in post-punk independent music that we just had to jump in. The explosion of punk had left behind a thriving network of 'zines, labels and distributors and we felt that there was room for our noise-loving, pop-obsessed aesthetic. While there were loads of US indie labels releasing a steady stream of 7"s, there wasn't much pop going on. Notable exceptions included Bus Stop, K and Picture Book, and we hoped to join that group and help chisel out some space for melodies amongst the noise. Early releases from Velocity Girl and Black Tambourine struck a note, and we found like-minded popsters getting in touch from all over the world. As we expanded the label roster and our own horizons, the goal was always to bring you great songs and interesting sounds from a range of styles. We are justifiably proud of our influential series of releases that lasted throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, bringing you seminal records by legendary bands like Rocketship, The Ropers, Lorelei, The Aislers Set, Hood and Boyracer. More than twenty years we are still at it, ploughing our own furrow and bringing you unique, genre-defining (and genre-defying!) releases from bands like The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Crystal Stilts, Veronica Falls, Weekend and many, many more. As always, we operate entirely outside of the echo chamber of trends, fashion and phoney hipness. Slumberland bands are independent in the best way possible -- making music devoid of bullshit and true to their own voices, regardless of current popular taste. |
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Tender Trap are a London-based indie-pop band featuring Amelia Fletcher, Rob Pursey, John Stanley, Katrina Dixon and Emily Bennett. |
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This Many Boyfriends This Many Boyfriends are an indiepop band from the North. We bonded over a shared love of playing pop music far too loud in rooms far too small. We formed several years ago but have been through more lineup changes than The Fall, before settling on the current one: Richard on lead vocals, Tom on bass guitar, Laura on drums and Daniel on lead guitar. We're named after a Beat Happening song, and people have very nicely compared us to Orange Juice, The Cribs, Hefner and The Smiths. We are also influenced in slightly less obvious ways by the likes of PJ Harvey, The Slits, Spearmint, Jonathan Richman, Otis Redding and Joy Division. Richard likes Paul Simon so much that he wrote a song about him! We've played with lots of great bands, in lots of great places, including Darren Hayman, Allo Darlin', Tender Trap, Standard Fare, The Lovely Eggs and The Wave Pictures, and also at Indietracks Festival 2010. |
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Tigercats Tigercats’ singer Duncan played in Esiotrot until suddenly he didn't, and after a respectful interval of ambling around for 18 months he asked his brother Giles to join on bass in a new band. The name Tigercats appeared out of the air and was soon followed by Jonny on drums, Stefan on guitar and Laura on keyboard. |
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T.O.Y.S T.O.Y.S is a three-piece indiepop band formed in Leeds in 2010, featuring members of various Loiner groups like The Acutes, The Manhattan Love Suicides, and Downdime. David Kitchen plays a baby Yamaha keyboard through a mighty speaker, Adam John Miller plays fuzzed-up bass and Eddy Lines just plays the drums. An experimental project that took on surprising momentum, the result is a lo-fi mix of hard-and-fast kraut-pop, melodic freak-rock and dancefloor indie. |
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Vacaciones are a six-piece indiepop band who started in mid 98. They come from Murcia, Spain and their sound is halfway through energetic, vibrant sixties pop and the sweetest indie pop with female vocals plus some punk-pop tantrums; the kind of sound that made them fit right in on the Spain-based label Elefant Records' roster in the late '90. |
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The Vaselines The Vaselines are a Glasgow garage pop band formed around the songwriting duo of Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee. The band formed in 1986, releasing two EPs before splitting up the same week that their first album Dum-Dum (53rd and 3rd Records) was released. Kurt Cobain described the pair as his "most favorite songwriters in the whole world", and Nirvana covered their songs "Son of a Gun" and "Molly's Lips", bringing the band to wider acclaim. In 2006 the band reformed and have played shows and festivals across the world over the last five years. Sub Pop marked their reunion by releasing the compilation Enter The Vaselines. This was followed by the band's second studio album "Sex With An X" in 2010. |
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Velodrome 2000 We came to this planet Earth in 1993 to begin our ten year mission to harness the power of your so-called rock music. After completing our mission we returned to outer space. Now we're back with a gift for humanity: The Ten Commandments of Velodrome 2000! 1. Thou shalt rock |
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Veronica Falls Welcome to the slanted and enchanted world of Veronica Falls, where serendipity, subversion, providence, and a shared love for Roky Erickson's worldview all have a crucial part to play. Initially forming two years ago when Doyle and Roxanne Clifford (guitars, vocals) moved to London from Glasgow and met James Hoare (also on guitars and vocals) through mutual friends, the band ended up in a friend's studio in Hoxton, where free downtime enabled them to develop songs at their leisure. From then on, the band have undoubtedly had a charmed existence. How else to explain how they ended up playing their first ever show with critically lauded indie rockers Pains of Being Pure at Heart, or, indeed, how they recruited bassist Marion Herbain, who was a friend from Glasgow who only learnt to play the bass when she was asked to join the band? It is this lucky streak which also saw them being snapped up by Mike Sniper, the head of revered New York label Captured Tracks, a scant 10 minutes after they put their MySpace page up. "He got in touch with us so we thought why not", Hoare recalls. "We liked a few bands on his label so that helped too". Doyle agrees: "It felt like a natural home for our first single". The single in question, "Found Love In a Graveyard", is a singalong slice of deliciously morbid pop, the breezy harmonies and chant-along choruses slyly belying the off-kilter undercurrent of falling in love with a ghost, and neatly set the tone for what was to follow – instantly addictive pop songs streaked with shades of grey. Subsequent singles on taste-making labels such as No Pain in Pop and Trouble Records cemented their arrival on the music scene, winning plaudits from the likes of Clash, NME, Stool Pigeon and Loud and Quiet, among others. |
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Comprised of members of The Fat Tulips, The Cut-Outs, The Phantom Pregnancies, Action Time and Airport Girl, The Werewandas are a five-piece combo of Fujiyama mamas and papas who gleefully massacre rock & roll standards as well as their own original Western Bop confections, wishing they were Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps and ending up as a lo-fi, garage-pop Everly Sisters. Predictably, The Werewandas also love Wanda Jackson. |
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White Town Jyoti Mishra wrote, performed, recorded and produced a song that went on to become a number one in eight countries in 1997. That song, 'Your Woman,' gained a weekly US listenership of 90 million people, not bad going for something recorded on a cassette multitrack in a spare bedroom. A songwriter and home-recordist since 1982, by the time the hit single happened, Jyoti was already adept in both areas. Since that hit and his yearn to return to his independent label roots, Jyoti has released three albums, all of which have received critical acclaim from sources such as The Guardian, Rock Sounds and The Quietus. He's also gigged internationally in Sweden, Finland and France as well as for seminal UK alternative nights such as How Does It Feel?, The Hangover Lounge and Indietracks Festival. He now runs his own indie label, Bzangy Records, handling everything from the graphic design to shooting the promo videos. |
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Paolo and Claire are Young Romance. They used to call themselves The Momeraths, and made some gorgeous songs and EPs using that band-name, but now it's all about Young Romance. According to the press release, the two are inseparable. They live together, write together, finish each other's sentences and second-guess what the other's going to say next. Sweet, charming, funny, and entirely self contained, they can bicker and joke with each other for hours on end, splendidly isolated as the world rushes on all about them. |