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ELBOW

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       Elbow is an alternative rock band which formed in Bury, Greater Manchester, England in 1990 while at sixth-form college. The band consists of   Guy Garvey   (vocals, guitar),   Mark Potter (guitar, vocals),   Pete Turner   (bass),   Craig Potter   (keyboards) and   Richard Jupp   (drums). Over the band’s 19 year career, it has released five studio albums, four EPs and ten top fifty singles in the UK.     The band is named after a line in the BBC TV mini-series The Singing Detective which says that the word “elbow” is the most sensuous word in the English language, not for its definition, but for how it feels to say it.     Elbow began specializing in “ chilled   funk ”, but changed the direction of its music after unanimously deciding that they were “shit.” The new songs were noticed from both   Island Records   and   Universal , but the band was dropped before anything was released after it signed with both labels. The band then released two critically acclaimed EP’s o

OK GO

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     OK Go is an American rock band which formed in Chicago, Illinois, United States in 1998. The band consists of   Damian Kulash   (guitar, vocals),   Tim Nordwind   (bass),   Andy Ross   (guitar, keyboards), and   Dan Konopka   (drums). The band is best known for their singles “Get Over It”, “A Million Ways”, “Here It Goes Again” and “This Too Shall Pass” and for their high concept, low budget, one-shot music videos.       They play   rock   music, with influences such as   Cheap Trick ,   T Rex   and   Queen . They share management with   They Might Be Giants , with whom they toured before signing to Capitol Records. They served as the house band to the public radio program This American Life on the show’s fifth anniversary tour. Ira Glass, the show’s host, wrote their first official bio, calling them “living catnip” and describing their songs as “part indie rock, part stadium rock, part straight up pop with the occasional whiff of   The Pixies   or   The Cars   or   Elliot

ICONA POP

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Icona Pop is a duo all the way from Stockholm, Sweden. Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo deliver pop music that seems second nature to most Scandinavians. Upon first hearing Manners you get it all – clapped beats, fizzy electronics, cute female vocals and a Sesame Street chorus. It’s verses are like the narration of a teenager’s diary, before the youthful confidence comes storming in, “take a second look and you’ll see, there is no one like me“. It’s a punchy pop song that has a wonderful blend of obvious hooks, big choruses and a chart-ready appeal, yet it’s still drenched in buckets of ice cool undertones.   Watch out for more of Icona Pop this year. http://ww.iconapop.com/ http://ww.facebook.com/iconapop

THE JOKER . . .

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"Don't talk like one of them, you're not... even if you'd like to be.  To them, you're just a freak, like me.  They need you right now, but when they don't...they'll cast you out. Like a leper. See their morals...their code... it's a bad joke, dropped at the first sign of trouble.  They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you...when the chips are down these, uh,  these civilized people...they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster.   I'm just ahead of the curve." Joker.

KITSUNE - FRANCE

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     Kitsuné Music is a French electronic music record label created in 2002 by Gildas Loaëc (Roulé) and Masaya Kuroki, as part of the Kitsuné Fashion Label. The label has since released singles by such artists as   Klaxons ,   Simian Mobile Disco   and   Digitalism . The only full length release to date is   Hot Chip ’s debut,   Coming On Strong .     Kitsune   ( 狐 ,  IPA:  [kitsɯne]   (   listen ) )  is the Japanese word for  fox . Foxes are a common subject of  Japanese folklore ; in English, kitsune  refers to them in this context. Stories depict them as intelligent beings and as possessing  magical  abilities that increase with their age and wisdom. Foremost among these is the ability to  assume human form . While some folktales speak of kitsune employing this ability to trick others—as foxes in folklore often do—other stories portray them as faithful guardians, friends, lovers, and wives. Foxes and human beings lived close together in  ancient Japan ; this compan

NIVER J.Z. - SOM R_R

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BON IVER

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Wisconsin, USA (2007 – present)     Bon Iver is an  indie   folk  band, and one of  Justin Vernon ’s current and most notable music projects to date. The band also consists of Mike Noyce, Sean Carey and Matt MacCaughan.     The name ‘Bon Iver’ (pronounced “bon ee-VAIR”) is a play on the French phrase ‘bon hiver’ meaning ‘good winter’. Vernon independently released Bon Iver’s debut album  For Emma, Forever Ago  in 2007, most of which was recorded during a four-month stay in a remote cabin in Wisconsin, USA.     While in high school and college Vernon founded the  indie-rock  bands  Mount Vernon  and DeYarmond Edison  in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he still resides.      According to the  For Emma Songfacts , after the break-up of De Yarmond Edison, Vernon retreated to his father’s log cabin, out in the woods of north-east Wisconsin to hibernate for three snowy months. There he collected his thoughts and formulated them into a suite of songs,  For Emma, Forever Ago  . The album

MARS VOLTA

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El Paso ,  United States  (2001 – present) The Mars Volta is an American rock group formed in 2001 by guitarist  Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez  and vocalist  Cedric Bixler Zavala . They incorporate various influences including  post-hardcore ,  jazz fusion , psychedelia ,  funk  and  latin / salsa  into their sound. They are characterized for their energetic and improvisational live shows, as well as their concept-based studio albums.  The roots of The Mars Volta are found in the band  At the Drive-In . Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, both members of At the Drive-In, formed an  experimental ,  dub   reggae -influenced side project called  De Facto , which featured Bixler-Zavala on drums, Rodriguez-Lopez on bass, Isaiah Owens (AKA “Ikey”) on keyboards, and Jeremy Michael Ward on vocals, loops and sound effects. Due to creative differences and discomfort with mainstream success, Rodriguez-Lopez and Bixler-Zavala quit At the Drive-In in 2001. The remaining members of At the