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The Baseball Project

The Baseball Task had its origins in the past in 1992 when musicians Scott McCaughey (the Minus 5, the Little Fresh Fellows) and Steve Wynn (Fantasy Syndicate, Gutterball) met and discovered they shared a separate fascination with baseball. The program to create an record of original contemporary rock tracks about …

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Dani Wilde

British isles blues and soul singer Dani Wilde was raised in Hullavington in Wiltshire, where her father’s record collection, filled with Motown, Stax, and Chess sides, confident her that she wished to sing and perform, and by age 17 she was starting for famous brands Maddy Previous. When she flipped …

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The Builders and the Butchers

However the Builders as well as the Butchers formed in Portland through the middle-2000s, the band’s hybrid of folk, country, and twangy rock and roll evokes the fantastic Depression a lot more than the contemporary Northwest. The group’s origins date back again to fall 2003, when frontman Ryan Sollee relocated …

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Free Blood

Free Bloodstream began as an effort by previous !!! percussionist John Pugh and designer Madeline Davy to mix the impeccable design of Manhattan dance night clubs with the organic energy of Brooklyn celebrations. The duo produced Free Bloodstream in 2003, blending loud, percussion-heavy dance-punk comparable to !!! with pop melodies …

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Music Go Music

The LA dance-rock trio Music Go Music (vocalist Gala Bell and multi-instrumentalists Kamer Maza and Torg) craft explosive and eclectic club anthems that rely heavily for the melodic past due-’70s progressive pop design of bands like ABBA and ELO, while keeping a contemporary edge similar to Scissor Sisters, the brand …

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Douglas Armour

Shapeshifting Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Douglas Armour crafts deep, brooding dance figures, fuzzy, blissed-out modern rock and roll tunes, and introspective electro-pop confections with equal parts nostalgia and innovation. His debut recording, Light of the Golden Day time, The Hands of the night time, premiered in springtime 2008 within the Sociable …

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The Last Shadow Puppets

A Scott Walker- and David Bowie-inspired cooperation between your Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner as well as the Rascals’ Mls Kane, the final Darkness Puppets began when Kane’s previous music group, the tiny Flames, toured using the Arctic Monkeys in 2007. Currently close friends from prior gigs jointly, the pair began …

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Uh Huh Her

Perhaps most widely known in the role of Alice Pieszecki in Showtime’s The L Phrase, Leisha Hailey was also the girl in back of Uh Huh Her, an electro-pop duo that made some waves in the indie circuit following release of their debut album in 2007. Hailey, previously from the …

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Wye Oak

Wye Oak, a Baltimore-based indie rock and roll duo comprising Jenn Wasner (electric guitar, vocals) and Andy Stack (drums, keyboards, vocals), took their name from a symbolic 460-year-old tree within their house condition of Maryland. Produced in 2006 beneath the moniker Monarch, Wasner and Stack documented their first record in …

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Forever the Sickest Kids

Forever the Sickest Kids received their first break mere days after forming, when lead singer Jonathan Cook inadvertently spent several hundred dollars for front-page song placement on PureVolume.com. Without songs with their name, the Dallas-based music artists were compelled to hurriedly pound out a monitor so as never to waste …

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