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Musician, sign-painter, puppeteer, and actor David Liebe Hart has been a cult personality since 1988, when he first began producing The Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson Program on public access cable. After a stint...

Los Angeles CA

 

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est. 1987 >>> DESTROYERS 2. WHERE DID THE ROAD GO? in search of... SIBYL.......

Houston TX

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’90′s industrial kingpins, Skrew, have stripped off their exoskeleton to reveal an unholy bastion of extreme metal for an Antichrist nation. This angry metal machine is back with more psalms of destruction in a world...

Austin TX

   

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4 people, 12365763 synthesizers......

Austin TX

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"Austin's Bodytronix (Eric Archer and Erich Ragsdale) have been hard at work for awhile without anyone outside of their fair city really knowing what these dudes were up to. Well, if their live mix "Night of the Arawans"...

Austin TX

 

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Austin TX

   

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If you see Miracles of Modern Science loading their classical instruments into a New York rock club and mistake them for another band’s string section, they don’t mind. It makes for a bigger surprise when you hear wh...

Brooklyn NY

 

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The thing about traveling is that you always end up back where you started. Ashes to ashes and all that big-picture stuff. For Hey Marseilles, travel is as much a state of mind as location of body. This is a seven-pi...

Seattle WA

 

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San Francisco CA

 

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Emily Wells has long been turning heads with her unique songcraft. The performer, producer and songwriter trades in a striking mix of classical instrumentation, folk rawness and hip-hop production anchored by her hauntin...

Portland OR

 

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Thomas Dolby was an indelible part of the electronic music landscape on both sides of the Atlantic in the ’80s. The Zelig of synthpop, he was seemingly there or thereabouts at all points of that crucial decade. He enjo...

Suffolk UK-ENGLAND

 

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Good music emancipates the listener. Boring jobs, troubled relationships, rush hour traffic… such mundane prisons are no match for the liberating power of a fantastic pop song. Think of Stuck On Nothing as one giant st...

Philadelphia PA

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Des Moines IA

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A punk rock freight train, in a thunderstorm, on a full moon, on Halloween, in a burst of blood and flame... without being overly dramatic its hard to ignore the virginal excitement of this outfit. Turbogeist have blaze...

London UK-ENGLAND

 

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The Soldier Thread is an indie pop-rock quintet hailing from Austin, Texas. Having been only patched together since late 2007, the ensemble has already undergone quite an alteration in style. Todd Abels (guitar, keyboard...

Austin TX

   

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With their fifth full-length album, In Waves, Trivium make a crucial statement. It's a statement about writing their own rules about what it means to be a contemporary metal band. It's a statement that encompasses bou...

Orlando FL

Moja Adrenalina is first polish band to work with one of the most important and infuential producing duet in modern alternative music – Ross Robinson and Steve Evetts. New album demonstrates conventionally named by mus...

Warsaw POLAND

 

BIOGRAPHY DOPE D.O.D. To say that 2011 has been quite a remarkable year so far for Dope D.O.D. would be an understatement. The career of the Dutch hip hop crew has skyrocketed since the start of the year after releasi...

Groningen THE NETHERLANDS

   

Florida as of late, has churned out dozens of young bands trying to gain recognition, but none have broken out quite as well as Orlando's Sleeping with Sirens. Influenced by metal bands like Drop Dead Gorgeous and rock b...

Grand Rapids MI

 

It can be said that the role of an artist is to absorb the beauty, destruction and love of what surrounds them, and to portray it as best they feel to an audience. And it is well understood that the life of an artist can...

San Antonio TX

BIO: With their sophomore release, Where My Communist Heart Meets My Capitalist Mind, Sounds Under Radio continues to build upon the foundational musical truths that they established through their first full length rele...

Austin TX

“Most people trying to foray into the hip-hop world try to conform to the stereotypes,” says GO NYC magazine. “For God-Des & She, by bucking the standard, they created their own. In other words, while most aspiring...

Austin TX

Wheelchair Sports Camp, the Denver based pseudo hip-hop band is a combination of beats, drums, a saxophone, and DJ. The band unknowingly started in the summer of 1997 when Kalyn moved back from Burbank, CA to her Denver ...

Denver CO

 

WWW.INSTITUTIONALPROSTITUTION.COM Exciting avant-disco neo-crunk outfit, INSTITUTIONAL PROSTITUTION is formed by 2 DAY TIME WORKERS actresses without a Union, MELISSA GAGNE and SAD H. NAVA. Winter 2011: Institutional...

Montreal QC CANADA

 

BLUNT FANG IS A YOUNG RAP ARTIST CELEBRITY FEMINIST ACTIVIST FASCION ICON DIRECTOR PRODUCER AND UP AND COMING INDUSTRY MOGUL FROM ATLANTA GA. HE IS MOSTLY PREOCCUPIED WITH DRAMATIC BIBLICAL SCALE IMAGERY, SOUTHERN COLLOQ...

Atlanta GA

   

"You know about [Fat Tony] houston's best kept secret.. tell him I told you." - Bun B "While the history of the rap game is studded with commanding voices, big characters, and large bodies -- think Big Pun and Fat Joe...

Houston TX

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“How many of ya’ll are familiar with the League of Extraordinary G’z?” was the question posed by Bavu Blakes, indie rap veteran and reigning godfather of the Austin Texas Hip Hop scene, as he stood on a dimly lit...

Austin TX

 

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The capital city of Columbia, SC is beautiful. There are tree lined streets, historical buildings and the neighborhoods are bustling with state politicians and ambitious college students. Singer Nikkiya knows it all too ...

Atlanta GA

 

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Born in Canada and raised in both the Bahamas and L.A., Shane Eli is a producer, rapper, songwriter, music instructor and modern day renaissance man. After graduating college on a football scholarship, Eli decided to dev...

Los Angeles CA

 

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Rapsody is the new force in hip hop, and she's blazing the trail for a new generation of emcees, showcasing effortless lyrical mastery in an age of celebrating the culture of a hip hop renaissance. "Hip hop in its essenc...

Raleigh NC

 

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Chicago IL

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History As a rap duo U-N-I put out three street albums and one mixtape Fried Chicken & Watermelon (2007), Before There Was Love (2009), A Love Supreme (2009) and A Love Supreme 2.0 (2010) becoming known throughout ...

Inglewood CA

 

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Torae gained recognition by collaborating with DJ Premier and Marco Polo. He and Polo went on to receive critical acclaim for their collaborative LP entitled Double Barrel. In 2007, HipHopDX featured him in their DXNext ...

Brooklyn NY

 

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Growing up just a block away from The Notorious B.I.G., watching him go from local kid to rap superstar, “Skyzoo” couldn't help but dream big. He started making mixtapes in 2002, and in 2005, through a mutual fri...

Brooklyn NY

 

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The Atlanta metropolitan area stretches on for at least 30 miles beyond the Georgia Dome and the World of Coke. Peachtree Street (conspicuously void of actual peach trees) stretches up through several counties, changing ...

Atlanta GA

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In the world of Hip‐Hop, the word “wax” has multiple meanings – all of which pertain to the true roots of  the culture. “Wax” as a verb means to speak enthusiastically, as ma...

Dunkirk MD

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Wichita KS

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FREEWAY BIO: Rappers have been rhyming about hustling, living in the ghetto and the perils of street life since the dawn of Hip Hop. But what distinguishes Freeway, is his unique approach to tackling these subje...

Philadelphia PA

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D E N A is the music project of Berlin-based song writer and vocalist Dena Todorova. Born and raised in Bulgaria, she moved to Berlin few years ago, where she focused on writing and working on music. Dena stepped int...

Berlin GERMANY

   

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Five long time friends from Marfa, Tx. who have all been in bands before but never in a band of such magnitude. Lbs. has been a band for about a year, with driving guitar riffs and monster vocals, we feed off of one ano...

Marfa TX

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When they aren't providing top-notch entertainment around the world they stay busy cranking out weird little songs for you to listen to. They got all types of sounds on here you should really check em out......

Fort Worth TX

 

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Who is Lederhosen Lucil? She's the brainchild of multi-disciplinary artist Krista Muir who is currently based out of Montreal. Lucil is a fauxvarian pop princess who has descended on earth in her many-themed "hosen" to b...

Montreal QC CANADA

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Rocking dance and stand-floors since 1996, DJ Jester the Filipino Fist has toured with Kid Koala, MGMT, Grand Buffet, Of Montreal, and Third Eye Blind. His sound is very Texas: hot, spicy, and eclectic. For years, Jester...

San Antonio TX

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San Francisco CA