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  Other Music

  Other Music is a music retail store that sells CDs and records through their website as well as a brick-and-mortar store in Manhattan. It specializes in the sale of closely curated underground, rare and experimental music. In January 2007, Other Music announced that it plans to begin selling high...
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  Virtual band

  A virtual band (also called a virtual group or cartoon band), in music, is any group whose members are not corporeal musicians, but animated characters. The music is recorded (and, in the case of concerts, performed) by human musicians and producers, while any media related to the virtual band,...
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  Outsider music

  Outsider music are songs and compositions by musicians who are not part of the commercial music industry who write songs that ignore standard musical or lyrical conventions, either because they have no formal training or because they disagree with formal rules. This type of music, which is often...

• FUVKIN

  In the shadow of the new millennium Fuvkin was formed by the Brothers Fuvkin in a quandaries state of contemptuous disarray.  Barely conscious the courageous brethren managed to salvage some much needed coin to purchase the virgin guitar that would go on to produce the most peaceful auditory...

• Noise pop

  Noise pop is a term used to loosely describe a number of alternative rock bands that fuse punk rock's attitude and anger with the atonal noise, feedback, and free song structures of noise music, presented in a decidedly pop context. Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain, released in 1985, is...

• Psych folk

  Psychedelic folk or psych folk is a loosely defined music genre that originated in the 1960s through the fusion of folk music and psychedelic rock. It retained the largely acoustic instrumentation of folk, but added musical influences common to psychedelic rock and the psychedelic experience. Psych...

• Psychedelic pop

  Psychedelic pop is a musical style inspired by the harder, louder songs of psychedelic rock but applied more to a pop music setting. Psychedelic rock began as an underground music genre, but it eventually became popular enough to move into the mainstream, through Record labels cashing in on the...

• Avant-garde music

  Avant-garde music is a term used to characterize music which is thought to be ahead of its time, i.e. containing innovative elements or fusing different genres. Historically speaking, musicologists primarily use the term "avant-garde music" for the radical, post-1945 tendencies of a modernist style...

• Indie folk

  Indie folk is a music genre that arose in the 1990s from singer/songwriters in the indie rock community showing heavy influences from folk music scenes of the 50's, 60's and early 70's. A few early artists included Beck, Elliott Smith and Lou Barlow. This genre is often closely related to others...

• Freak folk

  Freak folk is a genre of folk music associated with contemporary artists, like Devendra Banhart, Animal Collective, Cocorosie, Panda Bear, Kelli Ali, Joanna Newsom, Greg Weeks, Hecuba, Akron/Family, Rio en Medio, Sufjan Stevens, Bigger Princess, Sean Hayes, The Dodos, Little Teeth and with '60s...