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  • 'Everybody's upping the ante here in Portland,' lead-singer and general-shithead Whathisname told this reporter.

    Portland Music Listener [Card #5: The Heirophant] (WORK-IN-PROGRESS) Christopher Snyder 2011

  • From his lead-singer position Mr. Clausen plays a tom-tom, a crash cymbal and an electronic drum pad, and frequently wanders over to bang on a drum kit with Mr. Husmer.

    Magical Musical Chairs Craig Winneker 2011

  • "We have been a band for five years and this record means the absolute world to us," lead-singer John O'Callaghan says to a sold-out crowd in Los Angeles.

    Jessica Norton: Support Your Favorite Indie Bands! Jessica Norton 2012

  • But yeah, Just Jared via Chud has posted a bevy of publicity-stunt pics of Fanning, as jail-bait lead-singer Cherie Currie, tangling around with Kristen Stewart, as leather-clad guitarist Joan Jett.

    First Look: Dakota Fanning in The Runaways | /Film 2009

  • “Indie rock mixed with electro” is how lead-singer Mette Lindberg describes the music scene of their native Copenhagen.

    Buzzine » Strange ‘Fruit’ 2009

  • The lead-singer of Poison suffered a broken nose and he had to get stitches on his lip when a prop came down and hit him on the head.

    CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2009 2009

  • Armond White on Shut Up & Sing: "There's talk about courage and death threats, and lead-singer Natalie Maines doesn't hide her loud-mouth arrogance; still, these commissioned filmmakers try maintaining truth by showing the price that is paid for audacity."

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 11/2. 2006

  • They immediately remind me of great AM 70s rock, Beach Boys, the Band, and young so-cal stoner-rockers Dios (Malos) - Mark said it reminds him of Neil Young, or maybe CSNY, because of lead-singer Will's slightly cracked, high register vocals.

    Music (For Robots): July 2006 Archives 2006

  • They immediately remind me of great AM 70s rock, Beach Boys, the Band, and young so-cal stoner-rockers Dios (Malos) - Mark said it reminds him of Neil Young, or maybe CSNY, because of lead-singer Will's slightly cracked, high register vocals.

    B&S (not Belle & Sebastian) (Music (For Robots)) 2006

  • Thats not to say that indie-bands are not marketable - but major labels won't touch them if they don't have a hit song or an eccentric lead-singer or some sort of gimmick that they can put on a t-shirt.

    Where the music Industry is going 2008

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