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Calming effect
Although Porcelain Raft released their debut full-length, Strange Weekend (Secretly Canadian), earlier this year, the project's mastermind, Mauro Remiddi, is no novice.
Jersey sure
Legendary New Jersey underground rockers the Feelies have always existed outside genre boundaries.
Wichita Records (2012)
In the 2000s, the Cribs initially drew comparisons to the Libertines, the Strokes, and other rag-tag rockers when they formed in West Yorkshire, England.
Partisan (2012)
Deer Tick ringleader John McCauley doesn't know what to do with himself if he isn't making music.
Barsuk (2012)
Early in their career, Maps & Atlases reveled in being math-rock whizzes fond of sparkly percussion, frantic tempos, and finger-tapped guitars.
Eclectic shock
Judging by outward appearances, Ed Sheeran is not your typical pop sensation.
DGC/Interscope
The All-American Rejects began life as an emo-scarred keyboard-pop band and gradually smoothed out their rough edges (or, rather, gave in to their '70s and '80s rock tendencies) on earworms such as "Gives You Hell" and "Move Along."
Rounder (2012)
The characters in Delta Spirit's songs— wistful daydreamers, hopeless romantics, and clear-eyed pragmatists alike— are as rich and complex as the music.
Rock rebellion
Last summer, British pop veterans Kaiser Chiefs came up with a novel way to self-release their fourth full-length, The Future Is Medieval .
Zoe/Rounder (2011)
It's unfair, even sexist, to assume the expanded sonic palette of Kathleen Edwards's fourth album, Voyageur, is due to the presence of Justin Vernon.
Survival rate
It's just before Christmas, and Anthony Green, his wife Meredith, and their one-year-old son, James, are gearing up to indulge in some holiday cheer: hot apple cider, gingerbread house displays, quality time with Green's parents — and a 9 pm bedtime.
Triple Crown/Favorite Gentlemen (2011)
O'Brother's bio for their debut album, Garden Window, reads in part: "Native American tradition believed taking a picture of someone also took a piece of their soul. O'Brother views this album in the same vein. It captures a piece of them at a time in their lives that they will never get back."
Big Rig (2011)
Earlier this year, VH1 compiled a list of their "40 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the '90s."
Bright lights
When Canadian post-hardcore band Alexisonfire announced in August that they were disbanding, Dallas Green should have been relieved.
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