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Self-proclaimed “boy band” I USED TO BE a Cub Scout are Nottingham, England’s Todd Marriott (vocals, synthesizer, guitar) and William Bowerman (drums), who joined up with together while teenagers following playing in split punk bands. The theory had its origins with Marriott, who began being a one-man act in middle-2005, …

In a few ways, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad will be the live dub version from the Grateful Dead, blending traditional American folk and country with Jamaican reggae and dub rhythms, with a lot of improvisational jams and interludes, all while looking and sometimes sounding such as a bluegrass band. …

R&B vocalist Deemi, hailing from Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant community, took performing seriously as soon as high school, going to Manhattan’s Skill Unlimited SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. In 1998, she crossed pathways with companies Chris Designs and Bruce Waynne. Both helped her build a demonstration, but she afterwards understood that she should sing …

Delivered in 1988 in Braintree, Massachusetts, indie-bred, country-pop crooner Nick Santino rose to prominence in the mid-2000s as the frontman for emo-tinged, late-’90s alt-rock/punk-pop revivalists A Rocket towards the Moon. The music group unleashed five EPs and two well-received long-players before contacting it quits (amicably) in 2013 following the release …

An Icelandic post-metal outfit with root base in progressive, dark, and Viking steel, Sólstafir were founded in 1995 by longtime friends Aðalbjörn Tryggvason (electric guitar, vocals), Halldór Einarsson (bass), and Guðmundur Óli Pálmason (drums). After slicing some demos, Sólstafir scaled right down to a duo (Tryggvason and Pálmason) and started …

Born Might 30, 1977 in Clamart, France, pop singer Adrienne Pauly was originally students of drama, and produced her career in the film world (she produced five motion pictures from 1997-2002) before switching to piano and vocals. After her last film, La Bête de Misericorde de Jean –Pierre Mocky, 2002, …

The Clues, never to be confused using the American music group from the same name, are an indie pop music group from Brisbane, Australia. Lead vocalist/keyboardist Martin Somerville, also an associate from the Better Mousetrap Treatment and a single performer, met all of those other music group — drummer Anthony …

The three full-time people from the string music group referred to as the Carolina Chocolate Drops (Dom Flemons on guitar, jug, and harmonica, Rhiannon Giddens on banjo and fiddle, and Justin Robinson on banjo and fiddle — Sule Greg Wilson sometimes sits in on percussion) met in 2005 on the …

Canadian swamp blues and root base rock-band MonkeyJunk shaped in 2008 in Ottawa, Ontario. From the gate, they boasted a somewhat uncommon set-up with vocalist and harmonica participant Steve Marriner manning the baritone electric guitar, as opposed to the even more usual bass. Along with business lead guitarist Tony D …

When singer/songwriter and Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy in the beginning began focusing on his first solo album, he began demoing and rehearsing the tunes aware of his son Spencer about drums. Although he envisioned it mainly as a single task, as Spencer became increasingly more involved it had been decided …