Acoustic / Rock / Indie. The Beatles REM Simon & Garfunkel CSNY Pete Yorn The Beach Boys Nirvana My Morning Jacket Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Beck Jackson Browne Fiona Apple Toad the Wet Sprocket Joni Mitchell Wilco U2 Elliott Smith Alanis Morissette Guster The Byrds David Bowie Elvis Costello What began as an innocent collaboration between two aspiring singer-songwriters has quickly grown into a bigger project than either expected. New York City-transplant, Bryan Master, was introduced to Michael McCarthy, a Vermont-ex-patriot now living in Los Angeles. Soon thereafter, they began working on each others' songs.