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Oliver Lieb

Oliver Lieb (born 1969) is a very prolific artist & producer hailing from Frankfurt, Germany. He has released music under a wide number of aliases and in a variety of electronic genres. His musical career started as a bass player in funk and soul bands before he eventually turned to synthesized sound. His taste for esoteric equipment is well known, and his studio is filled with analogue synthesizers. Aliases like L.S.G., Spicelab and Paragliders are among the more well known, in addition to his work released as Oliver Lieb. The catalogue of released remixes by Oliver Lieb is enormous.

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Alex Goot

Alex Goot is a one man pop rock and acoustic band from Poughkeepsie, New York. He provides the vocals, drums, guitars, keyboards & programming for all his songs, some of which are his own written work and others, covers of classic and modern pop songs. He began recording music in 2004 at the age of 16 and since then has gained popularity from his profiles on websites such as Purevolume and Myspace, on which he distributes some of his music and provides news and regular updates to his increasing fanbase on his progress.

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Julia Holter

Julia Shammas Holter is a classically-trained keytarist from Echo Park. After infiltrating Human Ear Music headquarters dressed as an intern, she wrote and recorded her own release on the label. Her music is witty, surreal and optimistic. She plays without sarcasm in the terrains that divide sentimentality, passion, and control. Her songs are written instinctively, and treated with an off-kilter fastidiousness, working orchestral variety from minimal instrumentation.

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Call The Doctors

Call The Doctors was formed in South West Florida, with over 15 members coming and going but the two constant driving forces are -
Brian Bartholomew Vocals/Guitars
Oliver Seibert Vocals/Guitars/Effects
Their sound being influenced by listining to old Spacemen 3 and Brian jonestown massacre Vinyls among tons and tons of shoegazing influences.
Their shows tend to usually have edgy style and wild lights and are very loud.

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Arj Barker

Arj Barker is San Francisco Bay Area stand up comic. He has been doing his time "in the trenches" of stand up comedy, since the early 1990's. He recently gained some real overdue fame on the HBO show, named and featuring the Flight of the Conchords, on which he plays the character of Dave. Arj has been an outspoken comic, especially on the topic of the LEGALIZATION of Marijuana! Much of his comedy has been labeled as "stoner comedy", although this is an unfair tag, as there is allot more there than "stoner" comedy...

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Tor

There are multiple artists that go by the name TOR. (1) Tor was raised in a small mountain town on Canada's west coast where he started experimenting with music production as a teenager. He further honed his skills while living in Australia, running a small recording studio and remixing some prominent Australian producers. He later produced the Sufjan Stevens hip hop mashup album 'Illinoize', which garnered a lot of critical and audience acclaim.

Read more about Tor on Last.fm.

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Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, often considered the most significant contribution to the field of theoretical linguistics of the 20th century. He also helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B. F.

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