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Blake Mills is really a guitarist, manufacturer, and recording musician. He is most widely known being a program musician, having performed on recordings by Child Rock and roll, the Avett Brothers, Conor Oberst, Norah Jones, Dixie Chicks, Zucchero, P!nk, Lana Del Rey, Dangermouse, Paulo Nutini, and Weezer. Mills started his …

Newly scrubbed alternative rockers from your upper-class LA beach suburb of Malibu, Simon Dawes can be an inoffensive mixture of the Shins’ quirky, ’60s-inspired melodicism as well as the radio-ready commercial sheen from the Killers or Maroon 5. Fronted by senior high school close friends Taylor Goldsmith (business lead vocalist) …