Black Books is a 5-piece southern indie rock band formed in Austin, Texas USA at the end of 2010. The band consists of Ross Gilfillan (vocals/drums), Meg Gilfillan (keyboards), Clarke Curtis (keyboards/synths), Kevin Butler (guitar), and Mike Parker (bass). Debut album due Summer 2013.
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The Dirty Dozen Brass Band are a New Orleans style brass band which plays R&B and Traditional New Orleans music. Band Members include Charles Joseph, Keith Anderson, Roger Lewis, Kevin Harris, Lionel Batiste, Efrem Towns, Kirk Joseph, Jenell Marshall, Revert Andrews, Gregory Davis, and Raymond Weber. Original band formed in 1975.
Treecreeper are an alt.country rock band formed in the small-town of Wendover, England, by brothers Will and Greg Burns.
Hailing from the kind of no-mark, factory-fuelled London satellite town prevalent in the areas surrounding the capital, Will began writing songs while at school, starting punk bands with varying degrees of seriousness, however it was after leaving school and working in the factories and bars of his hometown that Will began to find his songwriting evolve into something unique, it also began to elicite an increasingly positive response from whoever happened to be listening.
Stardeath and White Dwarfs was born in late 2004 in Oklahoma City, and released its debut EP in the spring of 2005. Members Dennis Coyne, Casey Joseph, Matt Duckworth, and Philip Rice create their own brand of genre bending sound that might occur if King Crimson and Coldplay got stoned and had sex with each other. They are currently in the studio working on their first full length record with Trent Bell of Chainsaw Kittens fame. Expect to hear the new stuff in the near future, But in the mean time you can checkout there sense assaulting laser orgy live show throughout the Midwest and beyond.
The Dukes Jetty are a four piece band from the Midlands. Having played all over the UK and not to mention New York, USA. 'The Dukes' are well established with a large fan base. Their influences include to name a few, The Beatles, The Sonics, The Small Faces, The Zombies, The Kinks, The Who, The Creation, The Byrds, The Booze, The Rolling Stones, The Love, Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, Del Shannon, The Action, Jefferson Airplane, Humble Pie, The Birds with an I!
Carol Grimes (born Carol Ann Grimes, 7 April 1944, Lewisham, London) is a smooth jazz and world music singer. Grimes came to prominence in 1969 as a member of Delivery, associated with the Canterbury Scene. During the 1970s she performed regularly on the London blues circuit with her band The London Boogie Band. At the same time she released her first solo album Warm Blood, the first release on the Virgin's Caroline label (CA2001), backed by session musicians in London and Nashville. The cover was taken in her Notting Hill flat.
Jack Dee (born September 24, 1962) is a British stand-up comedian known for his sardonic, deadpan style. Dee first became well known to audiences in the early 1990s. During that decade he appeared in a series of high-profile adverts for the brewery John Smith's in which he introduced the recently invented widget. Dee has presented a variety of television shows on the BBC, the first of note being The Jack Dee Show in 1997.
The B of the Bang is a lo-fi, electronica-tinged, anti-folk cake with a gothic, grunge icing. Topped with fuzzy reverb cherries. The B of the Bang is, in some instances, the lonesome journey of an acoustic troubador. The B of the Bang is, in other instances, a collection of musicians with a revolving line-up (and a couple of regulars propping up the musical bar). The B of the Bang gigs may come in various formats, be it a knackered acoustic guitar, playing detuned, lo-fi, gothic folk with a special box-o-tricks that makes bleeps and fuzzy noises gurgling contentedly in the background.
