Pompeya is a four-piece indie pop and rock band based in Moscow, Russia. Their music is often described as bright and breezy, a mix of '70s disco, '80s new wave and '90s pop rock, “the kind of upbeat tunes beats you’ll listen to when you’re driving with the top down in a hot summer day.”

Pompeya is band that creates unabashed Pop and New Wave music inspired by likes of 80's classics from Duran Duran to The Cure.

 

 

Pompeya was formed in late 2006 in Moscow and immediately gained local success on a Russian growing indie scene. The fourth show in history of the band - Pompeya was opener for legendary Stereophonics (UK) performing in front of 3000 people. Following few years musicians spent by recording demos and playing promo gigs until in 2009 they came up with their current music genre: new wave / 80s pop injected with a shot of funk/disco and Motown era.

 

The music mix was acclaimed by critics and fans as «sunny vibe music of hot summers, cool breezes and driving in cabriolets…». Their debut music video and EP «Cheenese» gained first wave of mass success among Russian fans and received honorable mentions in few international music blogs.

 

Swimming Tapes have had a clear agenda from day one. The band formed when four friends - Louis Price, Robbie Reid, Paddy Conn and Jason Hawthorne - settled in London from Northern Ireland and met drummer Andrew Evans.

Drawing on a range of musical influences, from the effortless summer melodies of The Beach Boys to Wild Nothing’s dreamy, shoegazing hue through to the interweaving guitar work of Real Estate, the indie outfit formed the unmistakable sound of Swimming Tapes and self-released their debut single “Souvenirs” in March 2016.

Slow-burning instrumental sections swoon alongside the quick-fire accessible pop songwriting that won Swimming Tapes fans from day one. With Tom Schick - known for his work with the likes of Real Estate, Iron & Wine and Jeff Tweedy - behind the mixing desk and a UK tour in April, 2019 is set to be a defining year for Swimming Tapes.

 

 

Virgin Suicide consists of vocal Martin Grønne, guitar Terkel Røjle, drums Simon Thoft Jensen, bass Kristian Schøtt Kyvsgaard and Synth Jeppe Østergaard.

The band – who met at school in the town of Silkeborg, in western Denmark, before they relocated to Copenhagen and formed Virgin Suicide in 2012. In 2015, Virgin Suicide premiered the first single, self-titled "Virgin Suicide", off their upcoming debut album Virgin Suicide. And with The Raveonettes frontman Sune Rose Wagner co-produced the whole thing it definitely seems a promising album. “The album aims to reflect on our lust for love, sex, party, family, death and all the emotional contrasts you go through while finding your identity.”

The jangled and bright guitar pop, which is the group's distinctive, becomes on the new recordings contrasted with a more gloomy and dramatic expression. Virgin Suicide denotes their sound as dark romantic and mentions Shoegaze pioneers like My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, and the Suede album <Dog Man Star> among inspiration sources.

 

I Mean Us, formed in Taipei at the end of 2015,creates music with a mix of indie pop, noise pop, shoegaze and dream pop. They hope to turn music into a connection between people that resolves the loneliness every individual feels in this big world. They are warm and romantic, holding in their hands "the key to sensibility and reawakening the desire for love in people's lives."

After three years, they finally released the first full-length album "OST". The band performed at the SXSW Music Festival in the US in March 2019, and then began touring in mainland China and Japan.

Instrumental music leads the analog sounds of the 1990s, with the vocals intertwining, singing the inner agitation and the heartbreaks; they are I Mean Us, singing the ‘cheesy’ love songs at the end of the century.