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Skindred is a Welsh rock band from Newport. The band was formed in 1998 following the disbandment of vocalist Benji Webbe's previous band, Dub War. Skindred's musical style mixes heavy metal, punk rock and reggae. The group refers to this style as "Ragga metal".

Skindred fuses heavy metal, punk rock and reggae influences. The band refers to this style as "Ragga metal".[6][7] Benji Webbe has also jokingly referred to the band's musical style as "nu-reggae", in reference to the term nu metal.[8] Although Skindred has sometimes been compared to Bad Brains,[9] Webbe states that "To someone who doesn't know anything about reggae music, of course we're going to sound like Bad Brains. It's like someone who doesn't know anything about opera might say that Pavarotti sounds just like Mario Lanza. But when your ears are trained and you know what you're looking for, you're going to say, 'Shit no, Mario Lanza don't sound nothing like Pavarotti.'"

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Low is an American indie rock group from Duluth, Minnesota, formed in 1993. As of 2008, the group is composed of Alan Sparhawk (guitar and vocals) and Mimi Parker (drums and vocals), both founding members, and Steve Garrington (bass guitar).

Their music is commonly described as "slowcore," a rock subgenre characterised by slow tempos and minimalist arrangements. Though Low's members disapprove of the term slowcore,[2] [3] the band is among the earliest to adopt and popularize the style, making them considerable contributors to the slowcore movement.

Parker and Sparhawk's striking vocal harmonies represent perhaps the group's most distinctive element; critic Denise Sullivan writes that their shared vocals are "as chilling as anything Gram and Emmylou ever conspired on -- though that's not to say it's country-tinged, just straight from the heart."

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Brannan built his music career by performing songs in his studio apartment and posting them on Youtube and on his personal web site. In March 2007, Brannan provided four of his songs for sale on Myspace. These were followed by his first EP "Unmastered" and his first full length album Goddamned, produced by Will Golden, released on iTunes July 1, 2008. The CD, available through his own label Great Depression Records, shipped on July 15th. and reached number 1 on the iTunes Folk Chart.

Brannan made an international tour, to Ireland and the UK, in August and September 2008 supported by fellow Shortbus cast member, Bitch.

Brannan's next single "The Freshman" became available on iTunes on June 16th 2009. This will be followed on July 7th with the release of "In Living Cover"; a collection of seven cover versions and two original tracks.

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Jim Rose headlined seven world tours and released a self-titled video on Rick Rubin's American Recordings that quickly became a cult classic. In 1994 The Jim Rose Circus was chosen to tour with Nine Inch Nails and a then-unknown Marilyn Manson, and later with KoRn and Godsmack. 1998 saw another world tour featuring women sumo wrestling,mexican transvestite wrestling and chain saw football.The show landed Rose and troupe in Lubbock Texas Jail and later banned from New Zealand. Both of those issues were settled 4 months later."That was one of my highest grossing shows"Rose claimed.It reportedly netted over 4 million dollars. Jim Rose was also the top ticket of the Melbourne (Australia), New Zealand and Edinburgh (Scotland) Fringe and Comedy Festivals. In 2009 Jim Rose joined with professional wrestler Jake "The Snake" Roberts for The Legends Collide Tour, a forty city campaign heralded as "Jake Roberts conquering his troubled past" amidst " pretty girls, wrestling, amazing circus stunts... and a fist fight."

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BACK DOOR SLAM started life as four school mates from the Isle of Man who shared a passion for the blues and started a band to prove it. Fast forward a couple of years, and the just-legal Davy Knowles, Adam Jones and Ross Doyle notched up hundreds of dates across America, and found themselves opening for the likes of Kid Rock, Govt Mule and The Who. And now sees the next exciting chapter in the BDS story, as Davy releases album no2 'Coming Up For Air' - produced by & featuring the legend Peter Frampton...

In January 2009, Davy went into the studio to work on the highly anticipated follow up to 'Roll Away', with Peter Frampton producing. Although Adam and Ross are now going to be pursuing their own music careers in the UK and Europe, the super-talented, 21 yr old Knowles continues the incredible story of Back Door Slam - with plenty more exciting times ahead...

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ass="artistblurb"> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Glasvegas are a Scottish alternative rock band that formed in Glasgow in 2003. The band consists of James Allan (vocals, rhythm guitar), Rab Allan (lead guitar, backing vocals), Paul Donoghue (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Caroline McKay (drums).

In October 2008, Glasvegas recorded a Christmas-themed mini-album, A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like a Kiss), over twelve days--ten of which in a Transylvanian church in Romania--and was released on 1 December 2008.[6] The band headlined the 2009 NME Awards Tour in January 2009, following their own US and UK tour.[7] They will also support U2 in Dublin's Croke Park on July 24, 2009.

Glasvegas received three nominations for the 2008 Swedish Rockbjörnen awards: Best International Act, Best International Album for Glasvegas and Best International Song for "Geraldine."[8][9] In Q magazine's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2008, Glasvegas was voted the fifth best album of the year.

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Bat For Lashes is the work of British singer/ songwriter, multi- instrumentalist and visual artist Natasha Khan. Born in 1979, yet combining influences that span decades, Natasha’s work dwells in the elemental, emerging in timeless forms.

A new Bat For Lashes album ‘Two Suns’ is released on the 6th of April 2009.

‘Two Suns’ was written and recorded around the world, from Big Sur and the Joshua Tree desert in California to the rolling Welsh countryside and the city sprawls of New York and London.

It includes appearances by Brooklyn’s finest psychedelic experimentalists Yeasayer, who provide bass and beat programming. The legendary Scott Walker also performs a duet with Natasha for the album closer ‘The Big Sleep’.

As with Fur And Gold, Natasha chose to co-produce Two Suns with David Kosten (AKA Faultline).

Having spent parts of her childhood in Pakistan, Natasha Khan now lives by the sea in England.

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