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Mazzy Star is a Dreampop band from California. Their biggest hit song is called "Fade into You" from 1993, which is when I first heard of them. Mazzy Star's creative driving force was between David Roback and Hope Sandoval (who actually didn't write the majority of Mazzy's music.) Although they said they haven't broken up, they haven't produced any music since their last album Among My Swan in 1996.

Taking their name from Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa is a band with members from New York, Chicago, Boston, DC, and Richmond. Their latest album is called Rest and it was released last Tuesday, May 13th. This album was composed primarily through e-mail, because of the various band member's living location!

The Terrordactyls are a very charming indie band from Washington & New York. It seems that the band is centered around Michael Cadiz, who wrote all the songs off their self-titled album. His partner-in-crime, based in Brooklyn then record his participation and send it back to Cadiz, who then pieced it together. Oh there's also someone named named Terry "Terrydactyl" Setter who "[fixed] everything and making it sound way better".

My Bloody Valentine are an alternative rock band formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1984 and predominately based in London. The founding members were guitarist/singer Kevin Shields and drummer Colm O'Ciosoig. The band's lineup during their heyday also included singer-guitarist Bilinda Butcher and bassist Debbie Googe. The band's use of guitar distortion, vibrato, and digital reverb saw them lumped in with the "shoegazing" bands of the early 1990s, a label rejected by the band. Their 1991 album Loveless took two years to make, but once released it was critically acclaimed. Following Loveless, My Bloody Valentine became inactive, with Shields scrapping albums worth of follow-up material. Shields recently announced that the band will reunite in 2008.

But enough about me and let's get to the music. Stereolab was formed in London in 1991 and have ever since kept their unique style regardless of the passing trends. They mix electronic and acoustic instruments in a very sixties french kind of way.

Hey, this is Vu on the road. I have the following pre-written offline on my trusty laptop and I'm hoping to get an internet connection to upload the content before I leave for home (I won't be back until Tuesday).

This was a spur of the moment kind of thing that I was persuaded to do. The video is me singing 'So Sorry' for a chance to 'Jam with Sandi Thom'. The sound quality is pretty poor but hey it's LIVE and ACOUSTIC. And yes it is the real Santa!! Thanks for viewing, Downi xx

Hello Saferide is from Stockholm, Sweden, and is really just Annika Norlin. The name was inspired by "inspired by an intelligent bus driver in a drug-addicted small town" from Willimantic, Connecticut.[1]

originally this post was entered into a contest to win an arc (advance reader's copy) of a book by one of my fave teen authors (which btw, i didn't win...boo!), so if it seems more essayish than more like a review, well that's because it is an essay. besides, i can think of no other band more perfect to write about it in my inaugural weheartmusic post. btw, i'll likely be mining my personal myspace and livejournal blogs for previous posts about music that went mostly unappreciated and posting them here, with a little reworking of course. the majority of my friends aren't as obsessed with music as i am, so i can't be arsed to write music reviews there anymore. anyway, so on to the bestest band in the world.....

Just to give you an idea of the lack of organization at W♥M, we have this shared "pending" list of bands we're working on and I guess Ryan was working on Herman Düne, which I'm actually sort of writing about today. Fortunately, I will not be too focused on Herman, but on David-Ivar's alter-ego, Yayahoni.

Hey hey. I need some background vocals for the title track of my next album (Out of It). I kinda want it to have a singalong vibe. Instead of just going to some of my singing buddies I thought it’d be fun to try opening it up to anyone out there.