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Blackbirds

There are at least two bands/artists with this name: 1) BLACKBIRDS is a hardcore/punk band from Michigan (although some members are from Canada). Their earlier material took cues from American Nightmare/Outbreak/97A but their new material is in the vein of His Hero Is Gone/Tragedy/etc. They are not broken up anymore and are back together with a new lineup, new releases soon, and are back touring. The hardcore band Blackbirds is not associated with blackdog records.

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The Velvelettes

The Velvelettes were a 60's femal vocal group founded in 1961 by sisters Carolyn and Millie Gill with cousins Bertha Barbee-McNeal and Norma Barbee (both from Flint, Michigan) on the Western Michigan University campus, where they were students. The group signed to Motown Records, but weren't given top priority, as other female vocal groups were attracting audiences and recording hits. While the group awaited their chance at stardom, they recorded backing vocals for more established Motown girl groups, including The Marvelettes, Martha & The Vandellas, and The Supremes.

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North Lincoln

North Lincoln tells Southern Lovin': “We love to play, which is the real foundation of what North Lincoln eventually became to us. We’ve always been doing other bands at the same time and continue to come back to North Lincoln out of a real love of doing it. With the three of us together in a room writing, we know that there’s no real boundries or guidelines for what we need to do or sound like to be North Lincoln.

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Funktion

Funk is an amorphous substance, able to mold itself to a variety of emotions and environments. It consists of all the things we know and composes all the things we feel. It’s the stuff that jiggles in our spine, the thing that rumbles in our belly. It’s the stuff crammed between our toes and the matter jammed between our ears. Funk lives in all of us—its path traces the globe and its roots dig back to traditional campfire rhythms and primal soul vibrations. If you’ve experienced life at all until this point, you’ve come across at least one mutation of the entity of funk.

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Small Houses

Small Houses is acoustic/folk artist Jeremy Quentin, from Flint, Michigan. Starting to write music in 2008, Quentin released his debut album, "Our Dusking Sound' Saturday, February 27th 2010 and is available on iTunes. "Our Dusking Sound" features several collaborations, all with close friends of Quentin. Quentin currently attends Berklee Music School in Boston. Listen to tracks on Small Houses' official Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/smallhousessing Official Releases:

Read more about Small Houses on Last.fm.

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There are 2 artists with this name. 1) An Australian musical outfit founded in 2004 in Brisbane, Australia by friends Nick O'Donnell (lead vocals/guitar) and Drew Fellows (keyboardist/vocals) who later recruited Ross Duckworth (bass/vocals) and Iain Wilson (drums/vocals). The band’s first album ‘The King Must Die’ was released in Australia through Floodboy Records and MGM Distribution and globally through iTunes in 2005. The album received national airplay and ‘The King Must Die’ was honored as the FBI’s Album Show feature album.

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