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The Black Sparrows

The Black Sparrows are a band formed by two Bukowski obsessed young men who wanted an excuse to drink and shout in public. Recreating the spirit of the guitar band, The Black Sparrows bring a punk inspired attitude to London indie, with danceable riffs and sharp lyrics.

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!!!

!!! is an American dance-punk band from Sacramento, California that formed in Autumn 1996 from the former band members of The Yah Mos, Black Liquorice and popesmashers. After a tour together, members of local Sacramento, CA bands Black Liquorice and popesmashers formed !!!. The band's name was inspired by the subtitles of the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, in which the mouth-clicking sounds of the Bushmen were represented as "!". Chk Chk Chk is the most common pronunciation, but they could just as easily be called Bam Bam Bam, Uh Uh Uh, Pew Pew Pew, etc.

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Dawes

Dawes comes from Malibu, California. Two members, Taylor Goldsmith and Wylie Gelber were originally from the band Simon Dawes. They branched off, now playing with Griffin Goldsmith and Alex Casnoff to compile Americana/Soul music in the band Dawes.

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Alamo Race Track

Alamo Race Track is an indierock band, founded and based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The band rose from the ashes of Redivider (1997-2001), a melodic guitar band that won the Grote Prijs van Nederland ('Grand Prize of The Netherlands'), Holland's number one band battle, in 1998. As Diederik Nomden - musically a key figure - left the group, Ralph Mulder (guitar/vocals), David Corel (bass/vocals), Len Lucieer (guitar) and Guy Bours (drums) decided to carry on as Alamo Race Track. This was towards the end of 2001.

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Moto

Moto can refer to two bands: 1. Moto was founded in spring 2001. Some day Pawel came to me (Konrad), whom I played some time ago in Chlopiec Dwuglowy. He asked me if could we play together again. Our first rehearsals begun within few days in first Virus near the Shipyard. We - only two of us then - played long, space rock like improvisations on guitars and ancient Philicorda. Then, at home, we modified recorded tracks on computers, we added phat beats.

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Glamour for Better

Glamour for better are a self titled thrash, punk dance band resting on their Laurels for making music you can move to. The five piece originally started in summer 2006 with only three members Charlie Butterfield, Dan June and Ryan Seymour, after their early success and intense following two later editions were added to their live show introducing Robert Carter and Sam Heath. Now firmly placed in the up-coming music scene the five piece have made a tremendous name for themselves and there credentials read impressively.

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Black Tongue

At least three bands have gone by the Black Tongue moniker: 1. A down-tempo hardcore/beatdown/groove band from Hull, England. Founded in January 2013, the band features members of Infant Annihilator and Mister Sister Fister. 2. An American act is also named Black tongue 3. Black tongue is a rock band from Copenhagen, Denmark. The line-up consists of: Cristian Olesen (guitars, vocals), Rune Nielsen (bass guitar), Snakebite (drums), and Jonas Skovsbøl (guitars). The band recorded their first self named EP in May 2009. The EP contained 4 tracks and the band is currently unsigned.

Read more about Black Tongue on Last.fm.

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Dead! Dead! Dead!

Dead! Dead! Dead! are a band from Southampton, England. Constituting their ranks are Matt Canning: guitars and vocals. Bilu Acharjee: Bass. Marc Crocker: drums. Neil Dunsire: guitars and vocals.
They currently have a 7 inch single called George Lassoos the Moon out on Tough Love records.
They've also got a couple of self released demo cds out, which you can get from their website.
They have a very original sound, that is, pop music, but ripped and bitten at the edges...

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