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In January 2010, an enormous earthquake hit the country of Haiti, which claimed the lives of 230,000 people and still left nearly a million without homes. As people all over the world emerged forward to greatly help the beleaguered country, several superstars lent their support to fund-raising initiatives for Haitian …

In ’09 2009, electro-techno picture veterans Kenny Glasgow and Jonny White teamed up to create the Toronto home duo Art Section. The collaboration came into being when Damian Lazarus asked both roommates to remix Riz MC’s “Don’t Sleep” for his Crosstown Rebels label. Recognizing a particular camaraderie that produced their …

Formed in LA in ’09 2009 by multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter Tag Foster, indie rock and roll trio Foster individuals make melodic and atmospheric, dance-oriented pop. Foster originally began the task alone, but in a short time he added long-term friend Cubbie Fink on bass and drummer Tag Pontius to comprehensive the …

Woolfy vs. Projections certainly are a California-based duo whose audio draws similarly from dubby space disco, lite funk, and yacht rock and roll, conjuring up pictures of hand tree-lined beaches aswell as the cosmos. The duo’s midtempo neo-disco songs typically feature tasteful acoustic guitar licks, hazy vocals, and calm, atmospheric …

Formed in ’09 2009 like a single vehicle for Sydney-based singer/songwriter Dave Hosking, Boy & Carry is an expert in evocative and heartfelt indie folk-rock in the vein of contemporaries like Fleet Foxes, Bombay Bike Golf club, and Mumford & Sons. Rounded out by guitarist Killian Gavin, bass participant Dave …

A drummer with New Zealand serves like Ladi6, Opensouls, and Body fat Freddy’s Drop, Julien Dyne can be a manufacturer, DJ, and musician who crafts electronic music inspired by instrumental hip-hop, jazz, and funk. Dyne started his career being a manufacturer in the middle-2000s, learning by viewing peers such as …

Distinctively emotive, soul-inspired vocalist Sam Smith was being among the most commercially successful artists to reach through the early 2010s. Ahead of his discovery at age 21, the London, England-born vocalist and songwriter well balanced research with music, sang in choirs and in rings, and performed in musical movie theater …

A throwback towards the four-on-the-floor of ’80s home, Canadian electro duo Azari & III (pronounced “Azari and Third”) gained renown DJ’ing warehouses in the underground picture of Toronto. This year 2010, Dinamo Azari and Alixander III documented their first solitary, “Starving for Power,” for Trax Information offering Fritz Helder and …

Based away of LA, California, Dom Kennedy (delivered Dominic Hunn) can be a rapper using a fiercely 3rd party streak. With a method that pairs terse, basic lyricism using a knack for narrative, Kennedy got inspiration from Western world Coastline rap legends like 2Pac and DJ Quik and started rapping …

Self-described Canadian “chamber folk” quintet the Wilderness of Manitoba shaped this year 2010 across the skills of Stefan Banjevic, Will Whitwham, Melissa Dalton, Scott Bouwmeester, and Sean Lancaric. The group shaped naturally out of late-night classes at Toronto’s Delaware Home, a mixture basement studio room/rehearsal space/living quarters for regional indie …