Dressy Bessy
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Architecture in Helsinki
Architecture in Helsinki are an Australian musical ensemble, influenced by the twee pop aesthetic.
Broadcast
Broadcast, currently a duo consisting of Trish Keenan and James Cargill, have been compared to Stereolab but do an excellent job of standing apart musically from their peers.
Sigur Rós
Sigur Rós are an Icelandic post-rock band with shoegaze and minimalist elements. The name (pronounced "si-ur rose") is an Icelandic girl's name, and means "victory rose."
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom (born 1982 in Nevada City, California) is a San Francisco harpist, harpsichordist, singer and songwriter. Though a former music student at Mills College, she sees her harp style as being distinct from that of classically-focused harpists.
Camera Obscura
Camera Obscura are a Scottish indie pop band formed in 1996 by Tracyanne Campbell, John Henderson, and Gavin Dunbar. Since their debut album Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi released in 2002, they have mainly played acoustic, melancholic folk pop influenced by variou
The Clientele
The Clientele are a London-based band with Alasdair MacLean on vocals and guitar, Mark Keen on drums and James Hornsey on bass. MacLean and Hornsey began collaborating musically while still in school, after MacLean saw that Hornsey had written the name of
The Gentle Waves-Isobel Campbell
The Essex Green
Essex Green is the name of an Elephant Six indie rock band from Brooklyn, NY. Comprised of pemanent members Jeff Baron, Sasha Bell and Chris Ziter, along with Mike Barrett and Tim Barnes, they formed in 1997 and were later signed to Kindercore Records.
Talulah Gosh
A British twee pop band formed in the eighties, who later turned into Heavenly.
Pipas
lupe and mark sing the songs that make their world go around. short, bittersweet. lupe lives in london. mark in brooklyn
Ulrich Schnauss
Ulrich Schnauss was born in northern Germany fishing port Kiel in 1977, during his formative years he grew a love for a broad spectrum of music ranging from My Bloody Valentine to Tangerine Dream, Chapterhouse to early bleep & breakbeat tracks.
Mogwai
Mogwai are a Scottish post-rock band formed in 1995 that have become one of the most influential and best known post-rock bands. They compose lengthy instrumental guitar-based pieces in the post-rock tradition.
The Concretes
The Concretes is a Swedish band composed of eight members. The Concretes began as a three member, all girl band with Victoria Bergsman, Maria Eriksson, and Lisa Milsberg.
Iron & Wine
Iron & Wine is the stage and recording name for Florida singer-songwriter Sam Beam. Raised in South Carolina, Beam released his first album, The Creek Drank the Cradle.
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Will Oldham (born 24 December 1970, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American singer-songwriter, actor, and musician. His music is often (perhaps inappropriately) placed under the genre of "alt-country".
Cat Power
Chan Marshall, a.k.a. Cat Power, is an American singer-songwriter known for her minimalist (yet often pastoral) music, for her sparse guitar and piano playing, and for her ethereal, Southern-styled vocals.
Faust
Faust is a German band composed of Uwe Nettelbeck, Hans Joachim Irmler, Zappi Diermaier, Arnulf Meifert, Jean Herve Peron, Gunther Wustoff and Rudolf Sosna.
Can
Can was an experimental rock group founded in Germany in 1968. Describing themselves as an ''anarchist community'', they constructed their music largely through improvisation and editing, in a way similar to several avant-garde composers of the time.
Cibo Matto
Cibo Matto was a New York City-based band formed by Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda in the 1990s. Their musical style contained elements of trip-hop, rock, and latin music. Cibo Matto is an Italian phrase that translates to "crazy food
Le Tigre
Le Tigre are a feminist electro post-punk band formed in 1998 by Kathleen Hanna. Initially envisioned as a live back up band for Hanna's solo project Julie Ruin, Le Tigre mixes the politics and feminism
Kimya Dawson
Kimya Dawson is a singer-songwriter and a prominent part of the Anti-folk movement. She is most well known for being the female counterpart to Adam Green in The Moldy Peaches.
Kings of Convenience
Kings of Convenience are an indie folk-pop/rock duo formed in a little white house outside Bergen in Norway.
Khonnor
At only 17, Connor Kirby-Long is Type's youngest artist! Such a young age and Connor is already crafting the most beautiful electro accoustic works we at Type have heard. Imagine a blend of classic American folk music, 80s new wave sentiment, all with the
Grandaddy
Grandaddy was a rock group from Modesto, California, United States. The band was formed in 1992 by singer/guitarist/keyboardist Jason Lytle, bassist Kevin Garcia, and drummer Aaron Burtch.
Gang Gang Dance
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Badly Drawn Boy
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Fennesz
ambient drone electronic electronica experimental glitch idm indie instrumental minimal new wave noise post-rock rock seen live shoegaze spacerock
CocoRosie
electronic female vocalists folk freak folk indie pop indie rock lo-fi new weird america rock seen live singer-songwriter trip-hop weird
Dntel
ambient chillout duyster electronic electronica glitch idm indie indie pop indie rock indietronica post-rock trip-hop
Out Hud
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Project Divinity
ambient beautiful chillout drone electronica experimental finnish harmonic meditation meditative mellow
Merzbow
avant-garde dark ambient electronic experimental industrial noise power electronics powernoise
Jesu
ambient metal doom drone experimental industrial post-rock seen live shoegaze
Casino Versus Japan
Milwaukee-based producer Erik Kowalski produces tracks of gorgeous listening techno, with baroque, haunting melodies, and distorted trip-hop beats. After over two years of recording on his own, Kowalski released an eponymous debut on Star Star in 1998.
Minotaur Shock
4ad ambient chill chillout downtempo electro electronic electronica idm indie trip-hop