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Lilium

"Lilium" (meant to mean "fortress") started as a solo-project of Pascal Humbert, 16 Horsepower's bass player. Under this moniker he made the album "Transmission of All the Good-Byes", a mainly instrumental creation, which was released in 2000. Lilium now is a duo-project after 16 Horsepower drummer Jean-Yves Tola joined Humbert. As a double act they have so far released one album, "Short Stories", which came out in 2003. Humbert worked on "Transmission Of All The Good-Byes" from 1984 until 2000. The album was released at the end of October 2000 on Glitterhouse Records.

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City Riots

The Australian indie four-piece flew overseas in 2008 to play the Great Escape Festival in the UK after Martin Elbourne (former agent of New Order, The Smiths) immediately confirmed City Riots after watching the band perform just a few weeks beforehand. The band was part of a stellar line-up including The Wombats, Vampire Weekend and The Futureheads, as well as playing sideshows at the Camden Barfly and the International Pop Festival in Liverpool.

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Murder She Wrote

Murder She Wrote is from Boston, MA we are: David - Vocals
Justin - Guitar
Nick - Bass
Chris - Drums Influences: Saves The Day, Fall Out Boy, Millencolin, The Police, MC5, The Jam, Squeeze, New Found Glory, Minus The Bear, The Bronx, Queen, Sharks Keep Moving, Michael Jackson, Motorhead, Queen, Ultimate Fakebook. Band Website: murdershewrotemusic.com

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Galaxie 500

There are two bands with the name Galaxie 500:
1) an American alternative rock band that formed in 1987 and split in 1991
2) a francophone indie garage rock formed in 2002 in Montreal, Canada, and now known as Galaxie 1) Galaxie 500 formed in Boston, MA in 1986 and comprised vocalist/guitarist Dean Wareham (a transplanted New Zealand native), bassist Naomi Yang and drummer Damon Krukowski, longtime friends who first met in high school in New York City before all three attended Harvard University.

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Mr Bones And The Dreamers

Mr Bones and The Dreamers are a bookish band with twelve legs between them; apportioned two per member. They play indie folk-music that was described by sax playing ex-president Bill Clinton as ' the sound of Dolly Parton singing Joy Division songs, alone and drunk in her Dollywood mansion after an expansive session on the gin'. Then again, what does he know? Find us at one of the following and say hello, it's where you can proclaim that you love/despise us.

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Dark Room Notes

DRN started writing and rehearsing in the summer of 2006. Early sessions yielded demos which were sent out to some of the band’s favourite producers – when the calls started coming in the band new they had hit on the right formula. Choosing to work with acclaimed producers Flood (U2, Depeche Mode, PJ Harvey) and Tom Rixton (Elastica, The Chalets, Tom Vek) the band recorded the underground hit Love Like Nicotine which was released in Ireland in June 2007 to universal critical acclaim, rammed dancefloors and heavy alternative radio rotation.

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Roy

Featuring former Botch members, Dave Verellen and Brian Cook (also of These Arms Are Snakes) as well as Harkonen frontman Ben Verellen and bassist Mike Cooper, one might be expecting a font for sonic aggression from such post-hardcore luminaries. But to the contrary, Roy's neo-classic American rock/pop songwriting style is truly more timeless than the changing flavors of the underground. Says Brian on the impetus to go a quieter route "When you spend years and years playing loud music, touring with loud bands...

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