Magic Marker Recordings
Magic Marker Records is a Portland, Oregon-based underground pop label whose catalogue includes Tullycraft, Vehicle Flips, Vehicle Flips, and a half dozen more.
Dear Nora
Portland's Dear Nora plays just the kind of music their name suggests: charming, gentle indie pop. Fortunately, their songs avoid the cloying qualities that can accompany the style, engaging with their clarity, melodicism, and lack of pretension.
We'll Have a Time
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2001
The Galactic Heroes
This creative duo plays pop-rocking music using standard
instrumentation plus a kazoo, a physics book, and a cup of laundry change. Formed while writing spoof songs about monsters, The Galactic Heroes have uniquely complicated and twisted pop's standard framework.
How About San Francisco?
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2000
Kissing Book
Portland-based Kissing Book is a free-floating ensemble which relies on unlikely instruments and quirky arrangements to turn simple twee-pop tunes into something more original and compelling.
Lines & Color
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1999
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2001
Tullycraft
Tullycraft excel at combining clever lyrics and super-bratty vocals with candy-coated guitars. This is the ultimate younger sibling band -- whether you have one or not, you'll understand.
The Singles
Beat Surf Fun
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2002
