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The Curtains revamped their lineup in 2002, with Peterson and Shimizu replaced by Andrew Maxwell and Greg Saunier, and that same year, Cohen joined the celebrated indie rock act Deerhoof (co-founded by Saunier), making his recorded debut with the band on the 2003 album Apple O'. (Cohen also lent his skills as guitarist to the Deerhoof side project Natural Dreamers, whose self-titled album was released the same year.) 2003 saw the release of another Curtains album, Flybys, and Vehicles of Travel followed in 2004; while most musicians would be busy enough writing, recording, and supporting two albums in as many years, Cohen also continued to work with Deerhoof, and served as an accompanist with Cass McCombs, Danielson, Haunted Graffiti, and White Magic, both in the studio and on the road. After the Curtains took an extended break, Cohen revived the name in 2007 as a solo studio project on the album Calamity. In 2008, he launched another new project, Cryptacize, with Nedelle Torrisi (who had contributed to the Calamity album), and the new combo released Dig That Treasure the same year; the follow-up, Mythomania, appeared in 2009. In 2012, Cohen put his many projects on hold long enough to complete and release his first solo album, Overgrown Path, which was issued by the Captured Tracks label. Four years later, he returned with second full-length As If Apart, which featured two songs co-written by Zach Phillips of Blanche Blanche Blanche. In between work on his own music, Cohen began doing more production work on other artists' albums. He produced Weyes Blood's acclaimed 2016 album Front Row Seat to Earth, as well as records from EZTV and Marietta. In 2019 he released his third, self-titled solo album. Again released by Captured Tracks, it featured guest appearances from Dear Nora's Katy Davidson, Zach Phillips, and saxophonist Kasey Knudsen. ~ Mark Deming","isGroup":false,"bornOrFormed":"1975","name":"Chris Cohen","editorialArtwork":{}}},{"id":"526559399","type":"artists","href":"/v1/catalog/us/artists/526559399?l=en-US","attributes":{"artwork":{"width":1520,"height":1520,"url":"https://is4-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Features114/v4/dc/c9/c4/dcc9c455-c1b7-cbf2-23df-6cbafd58e58a/pr_source.png/{w}x{h}bb.jpeg","bgColor":"b1b0ae","textColor1":"0c0d06","textColor2":"0b243d","textColor3":"2d2d28","textColor4":"2c4054"},"origin":"New York, NY","url":"https://music.apple.com/us/artist/diiv/526559399","genreNames":["Alternative"],"artistBio":"The project of singer/songwriter/guitarist Zachary Cole Smith, DIIV make music that combines shoegaze bliss with grunge catharsis. The influence of Nirvana and My Bloody Valentine was evident on their 2012 debut album, Oshin, but the band's sound deepened and broadened on 2016's Is the Is Are, which paired Malian-inspired guitar melodies with Smith's confessional songwriting, and on 2019's heavier-sounding exploration of trauma, Deceiver. \r\nBorn in New York and raised in Connecticut, Smith began playing guitar as a young boy and joined a few bands during his school years, including a group with future DIIV guitarist Andrew Bailey. After a few years playing guitar with the psych-rock band Soft Black and playing drums for Beach Fossils, Smith formed DIIV in 2011 as a forum for his own songs, incorporating aspects of Krautrock, C-86, and Malian guitarists along with more expected forebears like My Bloody Valentine and Nirvana. To round out his live band, he enlisted Bailey, bassist Devin Ruben Perez, and ex-Smith Westerns drummer Colby Hewitt. Originally called Dive, Smith changed the spelling of the band's name after learning of the early-'90s Belgian industrial act by that name. DIIV signed to Captured Tracks in October 2011 and released the singles Sometime and Human -- both of which were demos Smith recorded on his own -- and Geist in advance of their 2012 debut album, Oshin. The following year, multi-instrumentalist Colin Caulfield became a touring keyboardist and guitarist for the band.\r\nIn 2013, Smith's substance abuse issues came to a head. DIIV scrapped a recording session with former Girls bassist/producer Chet \"JR\" White, and that September, Smith was arrested on drug charges on the way to a DIIV show in Hudson, New York. After being charged with drug possession, he went to rehab in January 2014. While in recovery, he began writing material for the next DIIV album; by that July, he had amassed over 150 songs. The band began recording in Brooklyn's Strange Weather studio in March 2015, around the time that Hewitt left the group. He was replaced by touring drummer Ben Newman, who played the majority of the drums during the sessions. Arriving in February 2016, the ambitious double album Is the Is Are presented a more polished version of DIIV and entered Billboard's 200 Albums Chart at number 81. \r\nFollowing Is the Is Are's release, DIIV underwent more changes. Early in 2017, Smith returned to rehab, this time for extended inpatient treatment. During this time, the band issued a single that collected their covers of Sparklehorse's \"Cow\" and (Sandy) Alex G's \"Icehead.\" That December, Ruben Perez, whose racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic online posts caused controversy in 2014, left the group; Caulfield took over his duties as bassist. To make their third album, DIIV entered the studio with producer Sonny DiPerri in March 2019. Taking a more collaborative approach toward songwriting than before, the band looked to heavier influences like True Widow and Unwound while recording. Deceiver, a deeper exploration of the pain lying beneath addiction, was released in October 2019.\n\n~ Heather Phares","isGroup":true,"bornOrFormed":"2011","name":"DIIV","editorialArtwork":{}}},{"id":"395630711","type":"artists","href":"/v1/catalog/us/artists/395630711?l=en-US","attributes":{"artwork":{"width":2400,"height":2400,"url":"https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Features123/v4/21/cf/3d/21cf3dd6-0a9c-cd78-520c-f6ca8feeaefd/mzl.ykzhjehs.jpeg/{w}x{h}bb.jpeg","bgColor":"18221a","textColor1":"deedee","textColor2":"d3bd78","textColor3":"b6c4c4","textColor4":"ad9e65"},"origin":"London, England","url":"https://music.apple.com/us/artist/the-proper-ornaments/395630711","genreNames":["Alternative"],"artistBio":"London-based indie pop group the Proper Ornaments formed as a byproduct of the friendship between musicians James Hoare and Max Oscarnold. Their love of classic psychedelia and West Coast folk-rock led them to craft their own home-cooked version, starting with a batch of singles in the early 2010s. Both were busy in a variety of other bands, but their shared chemistry led them to release a series of intimate and calmly melancholic albums together as the decade progressed. They started out with a rather simple and jangly sound (2014's Wooden Head) but later featured richer arrangements and a more low-key approach (2019's 6 Lenins) as their collaboration ripened.\n\n \r\nTheir story started in 2005 when Hoare, then a guitarist in Veronica Falls, met up with Argentina-born Claps in a women's clothing store. The two bonded over a mutual appreciation for the music of the Velvet Underground, Love, the Left Banke, and the Beach Boys. Their sound also gathered elements of classic U.K. indie pop with plenty of languidly jangling guitars. After planning and playing when they could due to Hoare's busy schedule, and adding a full band (drummer Ralph Phillips, bassist Michael Lovett, and Let's Wrestle's Wesley Patrick Gonzalez), they released their first single, \"Recalling,\" for the San Francisco label Make a Mess in 2010. They followed it up with an eponymous five-song EP for No Pain in Pop in 2011 and, in 2013, a single (\"Waiting for the Summer\") for Lo Recordings, which then released all of their output to date on a collection (also titled Waiting for the Summer) later that year. After signing up with Fortuna POP! in the U.K. and Slumberland in the U.S., the Proper Ornaments returned with their home-recorded debut album, Wooden Head, in the early summer of 2014. The duo added drummer Robert Syme (aka Bobby Syme, aka Bobby Voltaire) and bassist Daniel Nellis for live shows.\r\nBoth Hoare and Claps, who was now going by the name Max Oscarnold, went their separate ways after the album to work on different projects. Oscarnold joined the Brighton psych-pop group TOY as their keyboard player and Hoare worked with Mazes' Jack Cooper on the band Ultimate Painting. When the two got back together to begin work on the second full-length Proper Ornaments album in 2015, they were joined by Nellis and Syme in the studio. Unfortunately, the process proved both a mechanical failure, as the tape machine ended up breaking and ruining their work, and a rather acrimonious experience that tested their friendship. After a cooling-off period, the group decamped to Hoare's home studio and re-recorded the songs in a more relaxed fashion. The resulting album, titled Foxhole, was co-released by Tough Love and Slumberland in early 2017. The band toured throughout the rest of the year, and once back home they repaired to Hoare's home studio, which was now equipped with a 16-track tape machine. Again with the help of Nellis and Syme, the duo recorded their third album in a more peaceful atmosphere. The resulting 6 Lenins reflected this state of mind, both in the songs they wrote and the sounds they recorded. It was released by their new label, the Germany-based Tapete Records, in early 2019. \r\nWhile on tour in Europe after the album's release, the band (which now featured Nathalie Bruno on bass in place of Nellis) found themselves working on new songs and ideas during soundchecks. As soon as they were back home, the quartet headed to Hoare's home studio to begin recording. Using vintages synths, drum machines, and showing even more restraint than usual, the band hit on a mid-fi sound that harkened back to their earliest recordings, while also showing the growth of Hoare and Oscarnold as songwriters. Mission Bells was issued by Tapete in February of 2020. ~ Tim Sendra","isGroup":true,"bornOrFormed":"2005","name":"The Proper Ornaments","editorialArtwork":{}}},{"id":"286304397","type":"artists","href":"/v1/catalog/us/artists/286304397?l=en-US","attributes":{"artwork":{"width":2152,"height":2152,"url":"https://is4-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music123/v4/d9/af/93/d9af9319-8346-7845-4d42-b0e27c47ae53/pr_source.png/{w}x{h}bb.jpeg","bgColor":"efebe8","textColor1":"0d0b09","textColor2":"161b28","textColor3":"3a3835","textColor4":"41444f"},"origin":"Bloomington, IN","url":"https://music.apple.com/us/artist/hoops/286304397","genreNames":["Alternative"],"artistBio":"Bloomington, Indiana indie rock outfit Hoops appeared seemingly out of nowhere in late 2015, when their Tape #2 was uploaded to YouTube and immediately made its way onto music hype blogs, where it was showered with praise. Their lo-fi sound, reminiscent of '80s college rock, dream pop, shoegaze, and yacht rock, and shrouded in tape murk, displayed a remarkable songwriting prowess, summery and with bright, catchy melodies. Largely eschewing both traditional promotional methods and social media, the members of the relatively anonymous outfit were content to let their music speak for itself. Eventually, some information about the band did begin to leak out: Hoops had formed in 2011 as the solo ambient/noise project of vocalist Drew Auscherman, but expanded in 2014 into a full band with the addition of guitarist Keagan Beresford, bassist Kevin Krauter, and drummer James Harris. Heavily influenced by British acts Prefab Sprout and the Clientele, their sound also drew comparisons to contemporaries like DIIV, Ariel Pink, and Real Estate. Two more tapes swiftly followed the first, increasing the quartet's currency. They signed to Fat Possum for the mid-2016 release of their eponymous debut EP proper, and their initial tapes were also made available digitally. They soon went to work on their full-length debut, which was recorded partly in their first studio sessions and partly in Krauter's parents' Indiana basement by the band and Woods' Jarvis Taveniere. Titled Routines, it arrived in May 2017 by which time Harris was no longer with the band. The album made an appearance on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart, and Fat Possum issued the catch-up compilation Tapes #1-3 that November. The band went on hiatus in 2018 and returned over a year later with a single in late 2019 titled \"They Say.\" The group recorded an album that Fat Possum planned to release in August of 2020; instead, the album was withdrawn and the band broke up the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct leveled at former member Harris, which took place while he was their drummer. ~ John D. Buchanan","isGroup":true,"bornOrFormed":"2011","name":"Hoops","editorialArtwork":{}}},{"id":"982935830","type":"artists","href":"/v1/catalog/us/artists/982935830?l=en-US","attributes":{"artistBio":"Inspired by hazy, jangly power pop acts such as Cleaners from Venus, Emitt Rhodes, and Shoes, Brooklyn's EZTV began as the project of vocalist/guitarist/audio engineer Ezra Tenenbaum. To flesh out demos he'd crafted on his eight-track recorder, Tenenbaum recruited bassist Shane O'Connell and former Widowspeak drummer Michael Stasiak. The trio recorded its debut album with Woods' Jarvis Taveniere as producer, with the April 2015 release of the 7\" Dust in the Sky heralding the arrival of Calling Out that July. For 2016's more polished High in Place, EZTV opted to record and produce the album themselves, and invited guests including Jenny Lewis, Chris Cohen, Quilt's John Andrews, and Real Estate's Martin Courtney and Matt Kallman. ~ Heather Phares","isGroup":true,"editorialArtwork":{},"name":"EZTV","url":"https://music.apple.com/us/artist/eztv/982935830","genreNames":["Alternative"],"artwork":{"width":1400,"height":1400,"url":"https://is3-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music5/v4/6e/22/b2/6e22b241-714a-8daf-b907-6c4334ba8d7c/817949011529.jpg/{w}x{h}ac.jpeg","bgColor":"ecece2","textColor1":"0d0d0d","textColor2":"242422","textColor3":"3a3a37","textColor4":"4c4c48"}}},{"id":"457760955","type":"artists","href":"/v1/catalog/us/artists/457760955?l=en-US","attributes":{"artistBio":"The brainchild of Shane Butler and Anna Fox Rochinski, who formed the band while studying at Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Quilt craft psychedelic pop that evokes '60s idealism without feeling too indebted to it. Butler was raised in a spiritual community that expressed itself with musical chanting, while Rochinski's flair for vocal harmonies came from her time in classical choirs. With founding drummer Taylor McVay, Quilt issued several cassettes' worth of material before working with Apollo Sunshine's Jesse Gallagher on their self-titled debut album for the better part of a year; Mexican Summer released Quilt late in 2011. McVay departed the band amicably, making way for John Andrews, who opened for the band on every stop of its 2009 tour. Their time on the road honed their playing and writing, and when it came time to record their second album in April 2013 with Woods' Jarvis Taveniere, Quilt spent 60 hours a week in the studio underneath Mexican Summer's Brooklyn office. Widening their palette to include bass, saxophone, and strings, Quilt released their second album, Held in Splendor, in January 2014. While touring in support of the album, the band met Matt Arnett, the man who created the traveling quilt exhibition that provided some of the imagery used in Quilt's artwork. The connection ultimately led to Quilt workshopping old and new songs in an historic building that he owned near Atlanta's Grant Park district. The band reunited with Taveniere as producer for 2016's Plaza, a tighter, more wistful set that was also the first to feature bassist Keven Lareau. ~ Heather Phares","isGroup":true,"origin":"Boston, MA","editorialArtwork":{},"name":"Quilt","url":"https://music.apple.com/us/artist/quilt/457760955","genreNames":["Alternative"],"artwork":{"width":1200,"height":1200,"url":"https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Features/v4/62/39/54/62395493-e81d-faac-23ca-b130032e1c9a/mzl.iligppsv.jpg/{w}x{h}bb.jpeg","bgColor":"181d21","textColor1":"ddf9fd","textColor2":"b0d6f3","textColor3":"b5cdd1","textColor4":"92b1c9"}}}]},"appears-on-albums":{"href":"/v1/catalog/us/artists/380899861/view/appears-on-albums?l=en-US","attributes":{"title":"Appears On"},"data":[]},"top-music-videos":{"href":"/v1/catalog/us/artists/380899861/view/top-music-videos?l=en-US","attributes":{"title":"Top Videos"},"data":[]},"playlists":{"href":"/v1/catalog/us/artists/380899861/view/playlists?l=en-US","attributes":{"title":"Artist Playlists"},"data":[]},"compilation-albums":{"href":"/v1/catalog/us/artists/380899861/view/compilation-albums?l=en-US","attributes":{"title":"Compilations"},"data":[]},"singles":{"href":"/v1/catalog/us/artists/380899861/view/singles?l=en-US","attributes":{"title":"Singles & EPs"},"data":[]},"full-albums":{"href":"/v1/catalog/us/artists/380899861/view/full-albums?l=en-US","attributes":{"title":"Albums"},"data":[{"id":"1033540766","type":"albums","href":"/v1/catalog/us/albums/1033540766?l=en-US","attributes":{"artwork":{"width":2400,"height":2400,"url":"https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music7/v4/04/41/b8/0441b830-484e-f4a3-eed2-a983f7c2c5e5/887828036363.png/{w}x{h}bb.jpeg","bgColor":"18100e","textColor1":"eed2b5","textColor2":"afc455","textColor3":"c3ab93","textColor4":"91a047"},"artistName":"Martin Courtney","url":"https://music.apple.com/us/album/many-moons/1033540766","trackCount":10,"releaseDate":"2015-10-30","name":"Many Moons","artistUrl":"https://music.apple.com/us/artist/martin-courtney/380899861","editorialArtwork":{"storeFlowcase":{"width":4320,"height":1080,"url":"https://is5-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Features18/v4/4e/78/b5/4e78b550-f5cf-f3d2-3a2b-3a64ad344318/source/{w}x{h}bb.jpeg","bgColor":"142127","textColor1":"e0cc69","textColor2":"edc39e","textColor3":"b7a95c","textColor4":"c2a286"}},"playParams":{"id":"1033540766","kind":"album"}}}]}},"meta":{"views":{"order":["featured-release","latest-release","top-songs","featured-albums","full-albums","top-music-videos","playlists","singles","live-albums","compilation-albums","appears-on-albums","similar-artists"]}}}]}

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