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Synth pop music group machineheart were shaped in 2014 by guitarist Carman Kubanda, bassist Jake Randle, and drummer Harrison Allen — several friends from Tacoma, Washington — along with Stevie Scott, an Anglophile singer from LA. Popular addresses of Katy Perry as well as the 1975 helped them gain blog …

Funk duo Tuxedo is definitely a collaboration between Los Angeles-based neo-soul singer/songwriter Mayer Hawthorne and Seattle-based hip-hop producer Jake 1. Influenced from the traditional disco-funk of ’70s and early-’80s works like Chic, Shalamar, and Zapp, both friends started trading mixtapes dating back to 2006, although Tuxedo task wouldn’t officially surface …