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Kacey Johansing

Kacey Johansing's debut album, Many Seasons, plays like a travelogue. Sweeping the listener along from her roots in small town Colorado to Boston to a San Francisco, where Johansing is at something of an epicenter for a rapidly evolving songwriting scene, the album crystallizes a rich Bay Area indie-folk sound bursting at the seams with creativity. Although Many Seasons is a solo album, the guitarist and singer's penchant for collaboration shines through. A member of the bands Honey.Moon.Tree and Honeycomb, Johansing also counts Matt Adams' band The Blank Tapes as frequent collaborators.

Read more about Kacey Johansing on Last.fm.

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Citizen Charlie

"A voice pitched somewhere between the scorched fury of Courtney Love and the glacial cool of Amy Lee" (Classic Rock, 2008) Citizen Charlie is a rock band based in Oslo, Norway. The band is fronted by lead vocalist Charlie Forsberg, a woman influenced and inspired by Joan Jett and Courtney Love and with an attitude to match. Citizen Charlie delivers gritty, road-tested rock, delivered with a punky swagger.

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Lauren Aquilina

Seventeen year old, Bristol-born Lauren Aquilina, is a songstress armed with melancholic piano-driven melodies, propelled by her formidable lyrical ability, all delivered with an overwhelming honesty, something rarely found in an artist so young. Singing as soon as she could speak, writing songs since the age of five and playing the piano since the age of seven, music is all Lauren has ever wanted to pursue.

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Grace Weber

Grace Weber, 21 years old, is a veteran to the stage. Among Grace's accomplishments include singing on the famed "Showtime at the Apollo" in Harlem, NY, at the Kennedy Center, the Ella Awards, and appearing on the Today Show. Grace's ear for soul music was present at a young age and continued to grow after joining the Inner City Youth Gospel Choir in Milwaukee, WI, where she performed at churches and revivals around the city.

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Sally Archer

Sally Archer is a soul/pop/neo-soul singer songwriter based in London. Having been brought up surrounded by music, she began her vocal career in 2007 performing with her previous band at WOMAD festival. Since then she has been playing numerous gigs at great venues around the country, collaborating with other artists and has recorded at Abbey Road Studios.

She has recently started writing and recording solo material, preparing her new EP to be released in the near future with her band. The band consists of Dan Cole on bass and guitar, Jadan Reeves-Bassett on keys and Matt Withers on drums.

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Kiesza

Kiesza has packed a lot into her 22 years. She's been a navy codebreaker, a national beauty pageant contestant and a tall ship sailor.But these days, writing and performing music is the Calgary native's main passion. It's been only four years since Kiesza (pronounced Kye-za) wrote her first song on her mother's old guitar. "I knew that my mom had a guitar in storage in the house," she says. "My parents got divorced when I was 18 and I had a lot of emotions going on and I went searching for it. When I found it and started playing it, I wrote a song that first day.

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