Chromatics was an American electronic band from Portland, Oregon, whose lineup features vocalist and guitarist Ruth Radelet, guitarist Adam Miller, drummer Nat Walker, and producer/multi-instrumentalist Johnny Jewel.
They originally hailed from Seattle as a quartet featuring vocalist Adam Miller, drummer Hannah Blilie, guitarist Devin Welch, and bassist Michelle Nolan.

The band debuted in 2002 with a Calvin Johnson-produced 7" on Gold Standard Laboratories—a split with Die Monitr Batss—and followed with the similarly GSL-issued Chrome Rats vs Basement Ruts LP.
While Chrome Rats was critically hailed, Chromatics couldn’t keep it together, and Miller was soon the only member in good standing (Blilie, Welch, and Nolan went on to form the similar-sounding Shoplifting).

Unworried, Miller added guitar and drum programming to his vocals and tapped bassist Nat Sahlstrom for the 2003 GSL 7" Ice Hatchets. In February of 2004, the full-length Plaster Hounds, which featured the percussion work of Get Hustle’s Ron Avila, repositioned the Chromatics axis to greater reflect its dub and new wave influences.

However, the group’s second lineup also dissolved, and Adam Miller relocated Chromatics to Portland, teaming up with Glass Candy’s Johnny Jewel, Ruth Radelet on lead vocals, and Nat Walker on percussion and saxophone. The newest lineup of Chromatics has a more lo-fi electronic sound as opposed to the earlier dub and new wave sounds. They released two critically acclaimed albums, 2007’s Night Drive and 2012’s Kill for Love.

On August 10, 2021, the band announced their disbandment.

Dum Dum Girls are an American noise pop/dream pop band originally from California that formed in 2009. The name comes from The Vaselines' album Dum Dum and the Iggy Pop song “Dum Dum Boys.” It is the project of singer and songwriter Dee Dee, currently based in New York City, with the rest of the band in Los Angeles.

The Decemberists are an indie folk rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States, fronted by singer/songwriter Colin Meloy.

The other members of the band are
Chris Funk (guitar, multi-instrumentalist),
Jenny Conlee (Hammond organ, accordion, melodica, piano, keyboards, harmonica),
Nate Query (bass guitar, string bass),
and John Moen (drums, backing vocals, melodica, guitar).

The Magnetic Fields (named after the André Breton novel Les Champs Magnétiques) is an American indie pop group founded and led by Stephin Merritt. He is the group’s primary songwriter, producer and vocalist, as well as frequent multi-instrumentalist. The Magnetic Fields is essentially a vehicle for Merritt’s songwriting, along with various side-projects, such as The 6ths, Future Bible Heroes, and The Gothic Archies.

While the particular musical style of the band is usually as malleable as Merritt’s songwriting, its songs are commonly attributed to pop genres and subgenres: synthpop, indie pop, and noise pop.

The band is often also cited as being recognizable by Merritt’s lyrics, often about love and/or with irregular or neutral gender roles, that are by turns ironic, tongue-in-cheek, bitter, and humorous.

Track #8 from The Magnetic Fields‘ tenth studio album Love at the Bottom of the Sea.

Wild Nothing is an American dream pop one-man band created by Jack Tatum in late 2009.

Interpol is an American indie rock and post-punk revival band from New York City. Formed in 1997, the band’s original line-up consisted of Paul Banks (vocals, guitar), Daniel Kessler (guitar, vocals), Carlos Dengler (bass guitar, keyboards) and Greg Drudy (drums, percussion). Drudy left the band in 2000 and was replaced by Sam Fogarino. In 2010, shortly after recording finished for the band’s fourth album, Dengler left to pursue personal projects. The band re-grouped for their fifth record, El Pintor, released in fall 2014.

Interpol, having first performed at Luna Lounge along with other notable bands like The Strokes, Longwave, The National and Stellastarr*, is one of the bands associated with the New York City indie music scene, and was one of several groups that emerged out of the post-punk revival of the 2000s. The band’s sound is generally a mix of staccato bass and rhythmic, harmonized guitar, with a snare heavy mix, drawing comparisons to post-punk bands such as Joy Division and The Chameleons.

Aside from the lyrics, their songwriting method includes all of the band members, rather than relying on any given chief songwriter.

“C'mere” is a song by New York City-based post-punk revival band Interpol and is featured on the band’s second album, Antics.

Excerpt from a NME Magazine dated sometime before the album was released:

“It’s a jaded love song – very bitter. I will freely admit I gravitate towards the same themes of relationships, distance and proximity, and lust and longing. That’s what inspires me the most.”

Fugazi is an American post-hardcore band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1987. The band’s continual members are guitarists and vocalists Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, bassist Joe Lally, and drummer Brendan Canty.

Lead singer Ian MacKaye was a member of the hardcore punk band Minor Threat from 1980 to 1983. MacKaye decided, after playing with a number of other groups, to go in a more experimental direction, incorporating elements of reggae, noise rock, indie rock, and the New York City ‘No Wave’ scene of the early ‘80s. Other guitarist and vocalist Guy Picciotto, as well as drummer Brendan Canty, were both members of Rites of Spring, a 190s post-hardcore band that too originated from Washington, D.C.

The band released its first EP, Fugazi, in 1988, followed by another EP, Margin Walker and the compilation album 13 Songs. Fugazi helped inspire the growing emocore genre, and influenced the grunge and pop-punk movements of the ‘90s.

Fugazi released their first full-length album, Repeater, in 1990. Despite failing to chart high at first, Fugazi’s heavy touring and critical acclaim helped the album sell over 300,000 copies by 1991, and it is often cited as one of the first releases of the alt-rock explosion.

Fugazi continued to play and record, releasing six more albums – the introspective Steady Diet of Nothing, the abrasive In on the Kill Taker, the subdued Red Medicine, the manic End Hits, and the hauntingly final The Argument. They are noted for their DIY ethical stance and contempt toward the popular music industry. Their style switched back and forth between releases, trading off between slow, quiet, and introspective, and loud, fast, and outraged, culminating in the itself-embattled essay The Argument, which could switch between moods in the span of just one song.

The group has performed numerous worldwide tours, produced six full studio albums, 3 EPs, two compilations, a demo tape, a film, and a comprehensive live series, gaining critical acclaim and notoriety around the world. Fugazi has been on indefinite hiatus since 2002, after their final performance on November 4th at the Forum in London, England.

Fugazi as a whole may not have performed since then, but its members have performed in other projects over the years. Today, Ian, Joe, and Ian’s wife Amy Farina of The Evens can be found performing in Coriky. Joe Lally and Brendan Canty play in the instrumental group The Messthetics alongside Anthony Pirog, and Brendan Canty played drums on an EP from Fake Names.

This is track number four from Grimes' third studio album, Visions. It tells the tale of a confrontation with between two lovers. In an interview with DazedDigital, Grimes mentioned 8 being her lucky number, which is tattooed on her hand.