Indie Rockness by TenthRow Staff -- 13 Apr 2010

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Elizabeth "Lizzy" McChesney, better known by the stage name Lissy Trullie, is an Americansinger-songwriter and former model. She also performs with a band named Lissy Trullie, and released her debut EP, Self-Taught Learner, in February 2009.

Trullie was born in Washington, D.C. and moved to New York City at the age of 16 with her mother. She attended Walnut Hill School, a boarding school in Natick, Massachusetts with a focus on performing arts, and then attended Parsons in Greenwich Village, New York City, where she studied graphic design. Trullie performed at art openings, but soon gravitated towards the downtown rock scene. Trullie spent time working as a model, a dishwasher, a janitor, and a disc jockey at the Beatrice Inn. She has appeared in the fashion magazines Elle, SOMA, andJalouse, and was the face of actress Chloë Sevigny’s clothing line. She posed in one of photographer Ryan McGinley's early portraits in 2002. Trullie was the inspiration and model for the debut clothing line of Moses de la Renta, the son of fashion designer Oscar de la Renta. Trullie described her modeling as "just a way for me to make money during college" to Time Out New York.

Trullie released her debut EP, Self-Taught Learner, with American Myth Recordings on February 17, 2009. She performed at the Mercury Lounge on February 11, 2009, in anticipation of the release of the CD. The cover of the EP features a woman's posterior clad in hot pants, taken from a 1970s pornographic magazine. She signed with the record label Wichita Recordings, which released her EP in Europe. Photographer Cass Bird directed the video for her single “Boy Boy”, which was partially filmed in the basement of the Lit Lounge on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Chloë Sevigny has a cameo appearance as a merchandise sales girl. The Observer grouped Trullie in with other singers gaining notice with their distinct fashion, 1980s references, andandrogyny, including Lady Gaga, Little Boots, Ladyhawke, and Elly Jackson's synth duo La Roux.

Trullie fronts a four piece rock band, also named Lissy Trullie, which includes Trullie on vocals and guitar, Josh Elrod on drums, Eben D’Amico, formerly bassist with Saves the Day, on lead guitar, and Ian Fenger on bass. The group often performs a cover song in their live sets, including Biz Markie's "Just a Friend", Hot Chip's "Ready for the Floor", which is included on their debut EP, and Amy Winehouse’s "Rehab". The group toured the U.S. and Europe along with The Virgins and Anya Marina in May–June 2009, but the tour was cut short when bassist Fenger was hospitalized with swine influenza; the band and crew were quarantined in their hotel in Germany. The band made their U.S. television debut on Last Call with Carson Daly performing the single "Boy Boy" at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, California on June 3, 2009.

Trullie signed with Downtown Records and re-released her debut EP in October 2009, including four new songs. The band began working on their debut album in late-2009 with Bernard Butler producing, formerly of the band Suede. The band toured the UK in September–October 2009 with The Cribs and Adam Green. Trullie was chosen to represent fashion designer Max Azria for the Hervé Léger Fall 2009 collection. Underground filmmaker and photographer Richard Kern photographed the advertisements and directed a video for Trullie's cover version of "Ready for the Floor", in which Trullie wears clothing from the collection. The song also appears on the soundtrack for the 2009 horror filmJennifer's Body. In October 2009, Trullie made a video for the title single from her EP, Self-Taught Learner. The video was directed by Gian Mazcour and John Pina.

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The Spinto Band is an indie rock band from Wilmington, Delaware. They are currently signed to Park the Van Records.
The Spinto Band was originally formed as recording project by high school students in Wilmington, Delaware in the late 1990s. Frontman Nick Krill describes the early years of the band: "Every other band we knew back then would play in their garage and do the live thing. They’d do a bunch of concerts, then go, ‘Oh man, we’ve gotta record now?’ But we just had this crap in the basement and all we’d do was record, so we had 20 90-minute tapes full of junk before we played our first show."

After several releases on the band's own Spintonic label, the band released its proper debut album Nice and Nicely Done on Bar/None Records in 2006. The single "Oh, Mandy" was released as a single and the group performed the first installment of filmmaker Vincent Moon's now-popular Take-Away Shows.

In 2008, the band signed to Park the Van Records and released its second proper full length album Moonwink. The group promoted the album with a series of humorous videos on YouTube. Preorders of the album were accompanied with a 7-inch single that coupled the band original "Franco Prussian" with a cover of the Motors 1978 UK hit "Airport."

The following year, the band released an EP titled "Slim and Slender." The four-song release contained three original songs and a cover of the 1939 South American hit "Brazil."

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Two years after the release of their critically-acclaimed album Say Something, Brooklyn’s indie pop quartet Via Audio releases their sophomore opus, Animalore, a melting pot collection of eccentric sounds- songs infused with fairy tales, folklore, science fiction, romance, seduction, and adventure.

Via Audio was formed in 2003 in between classes at the infamous Berklee College of Music in Boston. After releasing a self-titled EP on the small independent Kill Normal Records in 2004, the band first garnered attention when Death Cab for Cutie’s guitarist Chris Walla dubbed them his “new favorite band,” in his column for Under the Radar Magazine.

They soon after caught the attention of Spoon drummer Jim Eno, who would become their longtime producer, collaborator and comrade. With Eno’s help behind the board, Via Audio released their first full-length, Say Something, in 2007 on California-based indie label Sidecho Records. Pitchfork Media described Say Something as having “such a beautiful gloss over everything that it sticks, hurts, and feels delicious” and the album received accolades from Spin, Nylon, Under the Radar, Alternative Press, theTripwire, and Stereogum, among others. The band has since toured the U.S. and Japan alongside the likes of Spoon, White Rabbits, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Ha Ha Tonka, and Modern Skirts, making appearances at the South By Southwest, Monolith, and CMJ festivals.

Shutting themselves up again in Eno’s Austin, Texas home studio in 2009, the group tackled their latest songbook- the lo-fi electronics of “Digital,” the soul-infused funk of “Goldrush,” the ethereal surf-lament of “Wanted,” the glittery R&B pop of “Babies”- as Eno carefully and artfully crafted different sonic palettes for each unique song on Animalore. The result is an album that plays like a pop-up book for adults, bursting with vivid colors and secret corridors at the turn of every page.

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White Rabbits is an American six-piece indie rock band based in Brooklyn, NY, originally fromColumbia, Missouri. The band released its debut studio album, Fort Nightly, on May 22, 2007. They currently record for TBD Records.

The band formed while several of the members were attending the University of Missouri; The band's frontmen, Greg Roberts and Stephen Patterson, met at the college in 2004. Alex Even, Adam Russell and Greg had formerly played in the band Texas Chainsaw Mass Choir. The original White Rabbits lineup consisted of five members, but after relocating to New York City the next year, the band expanded to six members. The sixth member, Jamie Levinson, had grown up on the same street as Roberts inWebster Groves, Missouri. Roberts and Levinson both played in a ska band (called The Hubcaps) while in high school.

The White Rabbits recorded its first studio album, Fort Nightly, and released it in 2007 to the public through Say Hey Records. The album was praised by critics.

In addition to consistent touring, they have been featured on NPR's World Cafe, where the band members discussed how they met and formed in the college town of Columbia, Missouri. They also talked about their early sound and performed three songs.[3] They have also performed on the Late Show with David Letterman.

On May 12, 2009, the band released its second album, titled It's Frightening. The album was produced by Britt Daniel, lead singer and guitarist of Spoon (whom they asked after meeting the band while on tour in Minneapolis). The album was released on TBD Records, which also hosts the bands Radiohead and Underworld.