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Polina Goudieva was created in Moscow, Russia, to a pop vocalist mom (Anka) and an abstract musician dad (Ruslan Gudiev). The Los Angeles-based songwriter and vocalist discovered piano at a age, earning accolades in Russia before signing up at Berklee University of Music on scholarship or grant at age 16. …

Being a working-class foursome from Allentown, Pa, Pissed Skinny jeans vent their frustrations through a bludgeoning, midtempo grunge punk audio centered on sexual unhappiness and factory-town hopelessness, all doused in much layer of sarcasm and apathy. On the sweltering August evening in 2003, the Gatecrashers had been driving between LA …

At the sea food restaurant where he worked, Atlanta-based rapper Mario Talley, better referred to as DG Yola (or Yola da Great), was discovered by the dog owner, Bureasa “Lady B” Rahim, who noticed him as potentially being the ATL’s next big artist. Therefore Yola became a member of Rahim …

Called after an Iggy Pop song, Norway’s DumDum Kids started in the ’70s as the punk strap Wannskraekk within their hometown of Trondheim. It wasn’t until around 1985 that they used the Pop-inspired moniker and a even more traditional rock audio. The band’s 1988 debut recording, Blodig Alvor (Na Na …

A hardcore punk rock-band that formed upon the demise of Thumbs Straight down, the Set up — Dries (vocals), Raf (acoustic guitar), Andries (acoustic guitar), Christophe (bass), and Serch (drums) — formed in 2002. After solidifying their instrumental lineup of guitars, bass, and drums, the Set up began training songs …

Tokyo-born MC Tigarah taken into consideration learning to be a politician or ambassador while majoring in politics science at Keio University or college, but she uses her global outlook in her music, which mixes baile funk, grime, and crunk with topical ointment, convention-challenging lyrics. The “woman just like a tiger” …

As the life of the sideman will generate a fairly varied résumé, few have as odd a pedigree as Monte Pittman. Hailing from Longview, Tx, the guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter got his begin playing in rings around his indigenous state before shifting to LA in 1999, where he required a …

Looking similar to L.A. skater punks than normal rappers, the Metermaids blend rock using their rap to create music in the design of N.E.R.D. or the Great Kids instead of, state, Limp Bizkit. After conference in 2006, MCs Swell and Phrase found that they had a distributed like for indie …

Appearing out of Atlanta and providing mixtapes filled up with street anthems, rapper Joe Green started uploading his freestyles to the web this year 2010. In 2011 he became a member of the Leave 40 staff, who released his one “31 tha Hard Method” that same season. In 2014 he …

Tennessee vocalist and guitarist Jeffrey Novak started performing in punk rings in his teenagers. His groupings included Jeffrey Novak’s One Guy Band as well as the ultra-raw Rat Traps; when Rat Traps retired in 2006, Novak shaped Cheap Period. The group began being a Redd Kross-inspired hard rock-band, but after …