Robert Pollard is an older man. Pollard spent 14 years as a kindergarten teacher in Dayton, Ohio. Pollard sings in a fake Brit-pop accent. According to rumor, he has not known a moment of sobriety since 1986.
Young and happy, strange and sappy: these are appropriate descriptions of Kevin Barnes, lead singer and primary songwriter of the band Of Montreal. Even more appropriate, perhaps, might be the word zany.
Mistletoe's sonic aesthetic music occupies a niche that's somewhere between Weezer and Promise Ring, and with its first CD release Sorry It's Been So Long, on its self-started label, June Records.
Nestled between a mom-and-pop grocery store and a bookstore, Insurgo looks a little out of place
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