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The Silents

The Silents is a four-piece band from Perth, Western Australia. Benjamin Stowe and Jamie Terry began writing and recording music heavily influenced by early sixties psychedelic and beat music in the second half of 2002. In September 2003, Stowe watched friend Sam Ford

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Gyroscope

There are two bands with the name Gyroscope. The first is a / band from Perth, Western Australia formed in 1997 by Daniel Sanders (vocals, guitar), Zoran Trivic (guitar), Brad Campbell (bass), and Rob Nassif (drums). They recorded their first demo cassette, First, as Gyroscope Sunday in 1998, and took up playing regularly on the Perth live circuit whilst also finding time for work and school commitments. The second is a psychedelic jazz outfit from Quebec, Canada.

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The Kill Devil Hills

The Kill Devil Hills are a 6 piece country, swampy blues band from Perth, Western Australia. Their 2004 release Heathen Songs was followed in 2006 by The Drought, an album which has been widely praised by local reviews. The multi-award-winning group spent the best part of 2009 completing their third album,

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Stems

There are at least 3 different bands called Stems: 1)
This dude I know. Has a band called Stems. 2)
Stems are a band based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire (UK).
Art rock embellished with strings - epic cinematic compositions full of sweeping elegant darkness and hypnotic delicate intensity. 3)
The Stems are an Australian garage / indie rock group. Emerged in the early 80's - obviously heavily influenced by 60's garage (Lots of fuzz!)following indifference to band leader Dom Mariani's previous band the Gostarts.

Read more about Stems on Last.fm.

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Freya Hanly

Traversing a sea of folky-jazz melodies, country ballads, humorous love songs and deeply poetic, classically influenced pieces is Freya Hanly. Freya has established herself in the Australian independent music community as a seasoned performer., having extensively toured WA and the East coast as well as being a regular at some top Australian festivals. Freya has supported and performed alongside such artists as The Indigo Girls, Deborah Conway, Lior, Sarah Storer, Kate Miller-Heidke, The Whitlams, Clare Bowditch, Blue King Brown and Brandi Carlile.

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Schvendes

Schvendes are a 5-piece band from Perth, Australia, known for writing dark bluesey songs about dark things (and rubbish collections) featuring guitars, keyboards and cello. Schvendes released their debut LP - 'Sweet Talk Your Enemies' on Good Cop Bad Cop Records with distribution through Inertia in June 2008.

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The Fergusons

The Fergusons played their farewell gig in early 2005, marking the end of this four-year five-piece indie rock band. From humble beginnings in a garage in Perth, Western Australia, the band released their first EP in 2001, and by the time they had released their second EP 'Never Too Young To Hitchhike', they had gained critical acclaim, radio airplay around Australia, some big-name supports including The Breeders and The Violent Femmes.

Read more about The Fergusons on Last.fm.

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