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Edith Crash is a French-born, Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter and one-woman music group. Her sound is usually a meld of passionate 21st hundred years chanson, folk blues, and brooding post-punk. Crash was created in Perpignan, France in 1983. She started playing acoustic guitar and writing tunes in her early teenagers. At …

The Orchestra of Spheres is a wide-ranging quartet from Wellington, New Zealand whose music is a cross of global sounds and cultures, from disco and electro to kuduro and mbalax, from neo psych to no wave, from kosmiche to prog, on instruments both formal and homemade. Composed of Baba Rossa …

Stro Elliot became the principal alias of Brian Roberson, a rapper/maker alternately referred to as Stro the 89th Essential and Stro. Roberson can be a founding person in the Procussions, an underground group that, before the launch of their 2003 full-length debut, relocated using their indigenous Colorado Springs to LA. …

Blessed in Tokyo and raised in the U.K., TJ Hertz aka Objekt first found prominence in 2011 using the release of the dubstep-infused white label 12″, Objekt #1. Developing up in Oxford, Hertz’s curiosity about music started young, and with the most common stints in rings, a like of ’90s …

Founded this year 2010 being a side task/bereavement vehicle for Paradise Shed mastermind Gregor Mackintosh following the death of his father, punishing English severe steel supergroup Vallenfyre (Outdated English for “solid flame”), which also contains Hamish Glencross (My Dying Bride), Adrian Erlandsson (On the Gates, Paradise Shed), and Scoot (Doom, …

Focusing on a muscular, tech-heavy mixture of metalcore and melodic hard rock and roll that’s attracted comparisons to rings like Between your Buried and Me personally, As I Place Dying, For Today, and Killswitch Engage, Cody, Wyoming-based Christian steel quintet Righteous Vendetta produced in 2008 throughout the talents of vocalist …

Having a gritty, smart flow that puts him in easy company with East coast greats like Method Man and Redman, Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire evokes the salad times of middle-’90s hip-hop. Centered out of NY, eXquire includes a design that mixes dirt and irreverence in equivalent parts. In 2011, he produced …

Growing from Dayton, Ohio this year 2010, Like Moths to Flames strike the ground operating using their inception and haven’t got enough time to appear back. The music group came collectively after vocalist Chris Roetter (previously of Agraceful and Emarosa) and bassist Aaron Evans (of TerraFirma) made a decision to …

Known for his impressive cinematography and eclectic usage of music and sound in his films, Nicolas Winding Refn is definitely a Danish film director and screenwriter, primarily known for the Pusher film trilogy, and worldwide cult hits through the middle-2000s to 2010s. Created in Copenhagen in 1970, film was an …

Terrel Wallace, referred to as High Black Man, is a hip-hop maker who specializes inside a mellow and layered sample-based audio that appears to place equivalent focus on atmosphere and musicality. He matters DJ Leading and Madlib as inspirations, and Questlove and Gilles Peterson among his admirers. Centered out of …