Artist

Chris Garneau

Chris Garneau is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist, whose distinct musical style combines elements of folk, Americana, pop, baroque, and carnival music. Garneau cites Jeff Buckley, Nina Simone, Nico, and Chan Marshall, among others, as musical influences.
Garneau, a native of Boston, lived with his family in Paris during grade school, and later New Jersey before moving to New York City. Garneau discovered a love of music at a young age while learning to play piano. After high school, Garneau briefly attended Berklee Music School in Boston, but left …

Seattle-based Grand Archives is an indie rock band (signed to Sub Pop) featuring four male vocalists, including Mat Brooke, co-founder of softcore cult-favorites Carissa’s Wierd (not to mention an ex-member of Band of Horses). Other members include Jeff Montano, Curtis Hall and Ron Lewis. Judging from the first material, Grand Archives isn’t a drastic change from the songwriting shown by Brooke in both Band of Horses and (even more so) in Carissa’s Wierd. The latter in which he took even …

David Peter Gray was born on June 13th 1968 in Sale, in England. He is an English singer-songwriter and early music was in a contemporary folk-rock, singer-songwriter mode, while his primary instrument was acoustic guitar, with occasional piano.
Starting with the release of White Ladder, Gray began to make significant use of computer-generated music to accompany his voice and acoustic instrumentation, a technique which differentiates him from many of his peers.
His musical career received early support from a dedicated Republic of Ireland fan base. His first two albums A Century Ends …

Nada Surf is an American alternative indie rock group formed in 1992 in the New York. Band consists of Matthew Caws on guitar, vocals, Ira Elliot ondrums, backup vocals; and Daniel Lorca on bass, backup vocals.
Matthew Caws and Daniel Lorca met in high school and play around the city in a few short-lived bands, eventually forming a trio they call Nada Surf. Ira Elliot came in a little later.
The band is best-known for the song, “Popular” from their album High/Low. The song reached #11 on the US Billboard Modern Rock …

Lavender Diamond is a Los Angeles-based folk, indie country-pop quartet known for its light-hearted, often winsome sound and its simple, romantic lyrics. Band members are charismatic frontwoman Rebecca Stark; Steve Gregoropoulos on piano, vocals; Ron Rege Jr. on drums and Jeffrey Rosenberg on guitar and singing vocals.
Lavender Diamond began in 2003 as a character Becky created for a traveling operetta. In 2004 was rebecca seen playing country songs with guitarist Jeff Rosenberg who left the band shortly after recording first album. Classical arias and tin pan alley tunes she …

The Postal Service is an American electronic indie pop band. Band consists of singer Ben Gibbard known from Death Cab for Cutie – vocals, lyrics, guitar, keyboard, electric piano, drums; and producer Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel, Headset and Figurine – programming, accordion, keyboard;. Several songs on their first LP, Give Up, feature guest vocals and backing vocals from Jenny Lewis, solo artist and the lead singer of Rilo Kiley, as well as vocals and backing vocalsfrom Jen Wood, an indie rock musician. Chris Walla produced the album and played the …

Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish indie rock, post-punk band, formed in Glasgow. Band was formed in 2001 and it consists of Alex Kapranos on lead vocals and guitar, Nick McCarthy on rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, Bob Hardy on bass guitar, and Paul Thomson on drums, percussion, and backing vocals. The band is notable for its use of Russian avant-garde imagery in album and single covers.
The name of the band was originally inspired by a racehorse called The Archduke. After seeing the horse run on television the band began to …

Raycharles LaMontagne is a incredible talented folk singer-songwriter born 1974 in Nashua, New Hampshire, currently living in Wilton, Maine.
Biography

Lamontagne was born to musicians family. His mother and father was constantly traveling, and when Ray was a child, his mother left his musician father, while his father was on tour, and moved him and his siblings up North.
From that moment his father had no contact with Ray and for years had no knowledge about him.
Ray’s early life
Because of the stories told to LaMontagne about his father, LaMontagne refrained from most musical …

The artist of the week is Lou Barlow. Lou is one of the most talented singer/songwriters in pop music today. He should be a star.
Lou Barlow was born July 17, 1966 in Dayton, Ohio, but more commonly associated with the late-80s to early-90s Western Mass-Boston music axis.
He is widely considered to be among the most prolific and ground-breaking indie musicians of the 1990’s. He’s best known for his work with sebadoh, folk implosion and Dinosaur Jr.’s original lineup.
Many labels have been applied to his unique brand of acoustic rock, including …

Sufjan Stevens was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in the chilly upper reaches of the Lower Peninsula.
A self-taught musician, the young Sufjan pounded out elaborate Mozartian sonatas on a toy Casio, and by college became proficient on the oboe, recorder, banjo, guitar, vibraphone, bass, drums, piano, and other instruments too numerous to mention. Somewhere along the line he also started to sing, though at the time his friends didn’t encourage it. He bought a 4-track tape cassette recorder and painstakingly composed 90-minute concept albums for The Nine Planets, …