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Tek

More artists are called Tek. 1.
Tek is an American rapper, famous as a member of the duo Smif-N-Wessun, and the hip hop collective Boot Camp Clik. Tek debuted on Black Moon's 1993 album Enta Da Stage with his rhyming partner General Steele. In 1994, Smif-N-Wessun released their debut single Bucktown, which became a Billboard Hot 100 hit, and gave Brooklyn the nickname "Bucktown, home of the original gun clappers".

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Takka Takka

Takka Takka is a foursome indie rock band from Brooklyn and Queens. Singer-guitarist-keyboardist Gabe Levine says their name comes from "writing songs about war, and it's a painting about war, with machine guns going, 'TAKKA TAKKA.'" Other band members are Conrad Doucette, Damion Jurrens, and JP Jones. They cite their influences as: the Kinks, Orange Juice (sometimes Orange Julius), Pavement, Lou Reed, Zombies, Johnny Cash, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Magnetic Fields, Brian Eno, REM, Bob Dylan, and OMD.

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Cuba Cuba

5 Beautiful, Talented, Sophisticated and Special young gentlemen making music since August 2007. 'So good they named them twice...' RockMidgets.com "Your songs are just Ace boys" Bethan Elfyn (Radio 1) 'Cuba Cuba are set to rule the world and, I promise, will become the new Welsh Phenomenon' Plugged In Magazine Having worked with producer Romesh Dodangoda (FFAF, Kids in Glass Houses, The Blackout, Twin Atlantic) several times in the last year Cuba Cuba have drawn the attention of quite a few people.

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Krts

1984 on Halloween night and a 4 year-old Kurtis is ready to put on his Go-Bots costume. After exiting the McDonalds drive-in in his father’s Blue Chevet, happy meal in hand, his father turns to him with a grin, “Hey Kurtis, I have something you’re gonna love.” He pops a cassette into the tape player. As Kurtis eyes the illustration and lettering on the cassette cover, his father shares the title of the album, “Who’s Afraid of the Art of Noise”.

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Bright Moments

Bright Moments, formerly known as Team B, is the Brooklyn-based solo project of multi-instrumentalist Kelly Pratt, who was born in Lexington, KY, USA. His debut album Natives was released on February 21, 2012. Prior to creating Bright Moments, Pratt contributed trumpets and vocals to Beirut, many instruments to Arcade Fire's Neon Bible, and horns to LCD Soundsystem.

Read more about Bright Moments on Last.fm.

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Barnaby Bright

Barnaby Bright are Nathan and Rebecca Bliss from Brooklyn, New York. When Nathan and Rebecca Bliss began work on their first full-length album, Wake the Hero, they hoped it would be the kind of record that would reach its listeners in a direct and honest way...that it would speak to the heart, not the head. The music of Barnaby Bright is meant for pondering, meant for stillness...meant for listening.

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The Lone Bellow

The Lone Bellow - A biography Zach Williams, the Lone Bellow’s lead singer and principal songwriter, can pinpoint just about exactly when the Brooklyn-based group serendipitously willed itself into being. It was around 9 a.m. one morning in 2010, at Dizzy’s Diner in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where the Lone Bellows guitarist and Williams’ old friend Brian Elmquist was working a shift. Williams, up to then performing as a solo artist, needed a place to try out some new songs; for a scuffling artist, the diner was as good as any rehearsal space.

Read more about The Lone Bellow on Last.fm.

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