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Marvins Revolt

MARVINS REVOLT of Copenhagen, Denmark make angular and catchy tunes. Hard hitting rhythms combined with joyful and romantic melodies creates an ever changing, but always meaningful musical landscape. The songs appear as intense, challenging and melodic structures, with disregard for songwriting rules. Marvins Revolt started out in 2002 and as a quartet they released an Ep (st, 2004) and an album (Fell in Love with Tanks & Satellites, 2006) in this ‘early’ period. It was noisy and aggressive.

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Black Twig

Formed in Helsinki, Finland in 2008. Black Twig builds on the tradition of jangly, distorted rhythm music. The sound echoes of modern fuzzed out pop experiments as well as of 60s garage rock gems, sometimes developing into hypnotic, repetitive drones. They released their debut EP "Swans et Tea" in August 2010 and their first album, "Paper Trees", was released on 11th January 2012 on the Finnish record label Soliti. http://www.blacktwigmusic.com

Read more about Black Twig on Last.fm.

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Hayze

Hayze is the name of at least two bands: 1) an original rock band from Ipswich, England and 2) a Nirvana tribute band. There is probably a third act called Hayze that has been tagged "Drum and Bass" and "Jungle". These tags do not relate to (1) and (2). (1) HAYZE - The band is not signed in the traditional sense but set up their own label Oh Mercy! Records to release their work. The band comprises: Pete Thompson - lead guitar and main vocals
Powers - rhythm guitar
Paul Backhouse - bass
Jim Newstead - drums and backing vocals

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Babybird

Babybird was a British indie band, formed in 1995. The band was fronted by Stephen Jones, who has also released records as a solo artist, using his own name and the name Baby Bird. Jones had begun writing songs and recording home demos as part of an experimental theatre group in Sheffield. A collection of these demos (I Was Born a Man) was released in the summer of 1995, under the name Baby Bird.

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The Magic Numbers

The Magic Numbers are a four piece indie band from Ealing, London. The band consists of two brother-and-sister pairs, Romeo Stodart (guitar, lead vocals) and his sister Michele Stodart (bass, vocals), and Sean Gannon (drums) and his sister Angela Gannon (percussion, melodica, vocals), who came together as a band after Romeo and Sean started writing songs together. While the Gannons are of Irish heritage, the Stodarts are the children of a Scottish father and a Portuguese mother and were born in Trinidad in the Caribbean and raised in New York, before moving to London in the mid-1990s.

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Mike Noga

Mike Noga is one of Melbourne's most prominent and active musicians, currently the drummer for The Drones, percussionist/drummer for Mick Turner, and former drummer in the Legends Of Motorsport and Sandro. Orginally from Southern Tasmania, Australia he moved to Melbourne at the tender age of 18. His first solo album ‘Folk songs’ was recorded and produced by J. Walker (Machine Translations). The album features guest appearances by Kirsty Stegwazi (The Bites), Andy McKenzie (Legends Of Motorsport) and Mr.

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Sisters

There are at least eight bands called Sisters: 1) Sisters is a guitar/vocal and drums two piece out of the Death by Audio music collective in Brooklyn. Matt Conboy is the drummer, keyboard player. Aaron Pfannebecker sings and plays guitars. Sisters is the best of your 90’s rock pop collection with garage fallout. Noisy guitars with melody and screeching beautiful vocals over the hardest hitting drums. Crooked guitar sounds creating fragmented pop songs. --- www.myspace.com/sisterssound

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Howlin' Rain

This Northern Ca group was formed in 2004 by Ethan Miller of Comets On Fire with Ian Gradek. John Moloney (of Sun burnt hand of the man) joined the group to record the first album, self titled and released by Birdman Records. This has caught comparisons with the early Grateful Dead and the ear of label impresario Rick Rubin. Upon Moloney's departure in 2006 the group was recreated to record "Magnificent Fiend", co-released by Birdman and American Records in 2008.

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