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Letts

Vocalist/songwriter, painter, and sculptor and guitarist/vocalist/songwriter for colorful Southern California-based retro-pop collective Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, London-born Christian Letts crafts bucolic indie folk confections having a hook-laden pop middle. In 2011 Letts fulfilled Marcus Mumford while starting for Mumford & Sons on the Railroad Revival Tour. Both became …

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The Dagoes

Created in 1979, the Dagoes had been an Australian rock-band who performed a freewheeling mixture of ’60s garage area, new wave, and punk. Early denizens from the Adelaide indie picture, these were known for his or her spirited concert events which would sometimes feature up to nine players, many of …

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Clã

Because of their sophisticated flavor and pop sensibility, Clã (meaning “clan”) became a 90’s and 00’s Portuguese pop mainstay. In 1992 music artists Helder Goncalves (piccolo bass), Manuela Azevedo (vocals), Miguel Ferreira (keyboards), Pedro Biscaia (keyboards), Pedro Rito (bass) and Fernando Goncalves (drums) arrived together to developing Clã. Four years …

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Bossa Nossa

Bossa Nossa is a task led by Brazilian-born singer Márcia Barros that performs Portuguese modern pop/rock standards within a bossa nova design. Delivered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and located in Porto, Portugal, Barros can be an experienced vocalist who produced her record debut as Bossa Nossa in ’09 2009. …

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Morris On

Morris On was a 1972 folk-rock “supergroup” that left out one self-titled record (think about them type of like folk’s Blind Beliefs, only more lucrative artistically), recorded for Isle Records. Made up of bassist Ashley Hutchings (Fairport Convention, Steeleye Period, Albion Music group), guitarist Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention), drummer Dave …

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Gregory Porter

Jazz, spirit, and gospel vocalist, songwriter, and professional Gregory Porter was created in LA but was raised in Bakersfield, California, where his mom was a minister. As a kid, he fell beneath the spell of his mother’s Nat Ruler Cole records, understanding how to imitate Cole, but his early dreams …

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Årabrot

A shape-shifting and sonically challenging sound rock device from Norway, Årabrot’s incendiary mixture of avant-garde dark metal, experimental rock and roll, post-punk, and doom/sludge steel invokes brands as diverse as Big Dark, the Melvins, Beliefs FORGET ABOUT, Swans, as well as the Birthday Party. Produced in 2001 and called after …

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SFDK

Spanish hip-hop duo SFDK shaped in Seville in 1993. MC Zatu (blessed Saturnino Rey) and DJ Acción Sánchez (blessed Óscar tissue Sánchez) originally produced their name in the acronym for the expression “Direct from Da Kranny,” but afterwards instituted the modified “Siempre Fuertes de Konciencia,” or “Generally Solid of Conscience.” …

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The Ready Set

Beginning in 2007, Indiana teen Jordan Witzigreuter started retreating to his parents’ cellar to record tunes that straddled the border between melodic emo-pop and bubbly electronica. Although he used a name for the task — the Prepared Arranged — Witzigreuter required a solo method of the tunes, which he documented …

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Jovine

The brainchild of singer and songwriter Valerio Jovine — though he received a whole lot of help from his brother, Massimo (most widely known as the bass-playing JPM in the band 99 Posse) — Jovine formed in Naples, Italy, in 1998. An individual of theirs, “Cambia la Storia,” was included …

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