Black Moth Super Rainbow has released four records on the Graveface label, including Falling Through a Field (2004) and 2007’s Dandelion Gum. The band’s members—Tobacco, The Seven Fields of Aphelion, Father Hummingbird, Power Pill Fist, and Iffernaut—all live in the Pittsburgh area.

Lawrence, KS–based White Whale is Matthew Suggs, Rob Pope, John Anderson, Zach Holland, and Dustin Kinsey. The band’s first album, WWI, was released in 2006 by Merge Records.

Brothers Olli and Lauri Ainala are the founders of Finnish collective Paavoharju (whose other members include Jenni Koivistoinen, Ragnar Rock, and Emmi Uimonen). Their first album, Yhä hämärää, was released on Fonal in 2005; Ikkunat Näkevät, an EP of rare and unreleased tracks, appeared in 2011.

Cab Williamson, Magali Meagher, Tara Azzopardi, and Paige Gratland make up the Toronto-based collective Hank. Their albums Ackrill/Venning ’91 (2003) and How to Prosper in the Coming Bad Years (2004) are available on Blocks Recording Club.

Ida was formed in 1994 by husband and wife Daniel Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell. The band’s current lineup also includes Jean Cook, Karla Schickele, and Ruth Keating; they are also frequently joined by pedal steel player Matt Sutton. Ida’s albums include I Know About You (1996), The Braille Night (2001), and Heart Like a River (2005).

David Longstreth has been releasing music on Western Vinyl as Dirty Projectors since 2003. He is currently collaborating with Brian McOmber, Amber Coffman, and Angel Deradoorian. The Brooklyn resident’s 2005 album The Getty Address was a “glitch opera” about Don Henley; subsequent releases by Dirty Projectors include Rise Above, Bitte Orca, and Swing Lo Magellan.

High Places is Mary Pearson and Robert Barber, who live and work in Los Angeles, CA. The duo's releases include their eponymous 2008 debut and 2011's Original Colors (Thrill Jockey).

Chicago-based Califone’s first album, Roomsound (2001), was recently reissued on Thrill Jockey. Founder Tim Rutili, working with a rotating cast of musicians, has since recorded Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People (2002), Heron King Blues (2004), Roots & Crowns (2006), and All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (2009).

Lucy Wainwright Roche comes from a musical family: Her mother Suzzy Roche, father Loudon Wainwright, and half-brother Rufus Wainwright are all singer-songwriters. Roche, who grew up in Greenwich Village and attended Oberlin College, has taught second and third grade in New York City but now tours as a musician. Her first full-length album was 2010's Lucy.

Ta’Raach & the Lovelution is the project of Terrell McMathis, an instrumental figure in the underground hip-hop scene in late-’90s Detroit (where he went by the moniker Lacksidaisycal). His first solo album, The Fevers, was released in 2007.

Cheval Sombre is the project of New York–based poet and musician Christopher Porpora. His poems have been collected in several books, including In Mine Eyes and Becoming, both published by Anne’s House Press, and his debut self-titled album was released in 2009.