The CD's hook-filled melodies and indie-pop arrangements will have a familiar appeal to adults.

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When he's not playing solo, Fedofsky also plays the keys in the five-piece indie-pop group, Curtains for You.

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Others might explore darker material under the circumstances, but Rogue Wave's latest album, Permalight, is full of bright, uptempo indie-pop, with unexpected excursions into electronic music.

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The group's crisply enjoyable rock could be the music playing in an endless loop between every intern's ears the clandestine indie-pop melodies that power corporate America's foot soldiers.

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Nada Surf has been plugging away since the mid-'90s, beginning as an alt-rock one-hit wonder (with the novelty song "Popular") and ultimately morphing into a rare creature: an indie-pop band that traffics in uplift and empathy.

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With the help of a few guest players and the inclusion of the viola, lap steel, upright bass, mandolin, and piano, "Letter To You" has a rich sound characteristic of the 8-piece indie-pop-orchestral band Margot and the Nuclear So and So's.

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Newman, the Canadian band New Pornographers is virtually peerless in the world of power-pop and indie-rock.

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Work is a lovely collection of streamlined indie-rock, delicate orchestral pop and intimate fireside balladry.

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With time, the band's bombastic nature and unconventional electro-pop music caught the eye of indie label Cantora Records, with whom it released the first MGMT EP, Time To Pretend.

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Inara George is known to pop audiences as the lilting voice behind the indie-rock duo The Bird and the Bee.

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