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Angry Vs The Bear

Angry Vs The Bear is frantic. It’s noisy. It’s fizzy electro pop punk. Despite having only been together 6 months The Bears have already been accepted to showcase at the world famous SXSW festival in Texas in March , have seen their track 'I Sing, We Sing' named best unsigned single of 2008 on the BBC Essex Introducing show (which is closely linked to Radio 1) and have been featured on the January 'Best of Myspace' Podcast.

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Pascal Pinon

Pascal Pinon are the twins Jófríður and Ásthildur, two girls from Reykjavík, Iceland. When they were only fourteen they got together with two of their friends and decided to start a band. Using the instruments they had, Pascal Pinon worked in the twins' bedroom. At the same place they played their first gig: calling it 'The Friendly Concert'. 
Only a few months later Pascal Pinon had already played various local venues and started to record their first album.

Pascal Pinon on Last.fm.

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Gurrumul Yunupingu

Australia has produced very few, if any, popular singers of such extraordinary talent that their voices seem to be a gift from the gods. Not until now. Listen to Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu as he sings in Galpu, Djambarrpuynu, Gumatj - and, occasionally, in English - and you will instantly surrender to the greatest voice this continent has ever recorded. Blind from birth, he is not an Aboriginal musician singing protest songs against a rock, reggae or folk-country backing.

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Tania Elizabeth

Tania Elizabeth was born December 22nd, 1983 in Melbourne, Australia, and before she was three and a half, she was playing songs on a tiny violin. By age nine, she knew that she wanted to pursue a career as a fiddle player - and pursue she did. By age 11, Tania was playing in the prestigious Calgary Fiddlers and had recorded on their most recent album - Imprint. In the following year, Tania recorded on Echoes of the Red River Valley and became familiar with the styles of the Metis. In mid 1998, at the age of 14, she released her first solo album - Something, the CD before the next one.

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Navaro

‘Home Is Where Your HEARTLANDS’ (2012) – LHREC01 ‘Navaro seem to have grown together over the last three years. Heartlands exudes confidence and they make what they do sound effortless’
(Dai Jeffries) ****R2 Magazine ‘Friendship has forged the songs on Navaro’s astonishingly beautiful new album, ‘Home Is Where Your Heartlands’.’
(Melanie Dakin) Watford Observer ‘This is an album to listen to for a long time...let it flow into those places that move the fibre of your being’

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Mumford And Sons

Mumford & Sons are a Folk / Bluegrass group formed in London in September of 2007. Having received critical acclaim from the Guardian on their “Band of the Day” online forum and resounding praise from nearly everyone who has witnessed them supporting Laura Marling, Mumford & Sons continue to turn heads in London’s growing folk scene. Their debut EP, ‘Lend me your Eyes’ features 4 stunning tracks written in the short space of 3 months.

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Dead Like Harry

Formed in Spring of 2007, Sheffield sextet Dead Like Harry consists of an eclectic mix of friends brought together by their love of writing and performing music. Since their early teens, songwriting brothers Matt and Sam Taylor have been most at home in the spotlight, hitting the stages of various smoky Sheffield bars, from the tender age of fourteen for charismatic frontman Sam. Joined by old school friend and vocalist Alice Faraday, talented rhythm section Robin Baker...

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Diane Cluck

Diane Cluck is a New York-based singer-songwriter loosely affiliated with the Antifolk scene centered around the open mic nights at the Sidewalk Cafe. She has recorded six albums since 2000. Performing primarily with her voice and an acoustic guitar, Cluck has also been known to make sounds with piano, organ, harmonium, handmade-xylophone, and zither. She has been influenced by dogs and her home state of Pennsylvania[2]. "Dogs inspire me and break my heart.

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