Foy Vance
Foy Vance is a songsmith born in Bangor, County Down, who is now living in London. He released his first single "Gabriel and the vagabond" c/w with "Indiscriminate Act of kindness" on December 18th, 2006 on Wurdamouth Records. "Gabriel and the Vagabond" was featured in cult US TV drama Grey's Anatomy and received an incredible response and demand to release the track as a single. The relevant episode is just about to be broadcast in the UK.
Shut Up And Dance
Shut Up And Dance - british breakbeat pioneers from scratch. Started with Hip Hop tunes and set up a soundsystem with DJ Hype but soon they integrated House and Techno influences and sped up the beats. With Reinforced SUAD could count as inventors of UK Hardcore. Early classics like Lamborghini, 10 Pounds To Get In, Greenman, The Art Of Moving Butts or the famous Raving I'm Raving saved them a place in the Hall Of Fame of UK Hardcore. After having problems with several unauthorized samples their own label "Shut Up And Dance" disappeared - but rose again from the dust in the last few years.
Marketa Irglova
Markéta Irglová (born 1988, Valašské Meziříčí, Czech Republic) is a Czech musician, songwriter and actress. As of 2007, she resides in Dublin. Irglová began playing music at age seven, when her parents bought her a piano and sent her to lessons. When she was nine, her father bought her a guitar and she immediately began playing and learning songs by ear. She released an album, The Swell Season on Overcoat Recordings in (2006) with Glen Hansard of the Irish rock band The Frames, whom she had met when he was visiting Prague.
Little Wolf
Native American chants and instruments, ambient textures and hip-hop rhythms. It is an intensely spiritual and evocative record, finding a common ground between the past and present and demonstrating that Jim Wilson -- the man behind Little Wolf -- is a composer with a distinctly modern and compelling vision.
Chip Taylor
Chip Taylor (b. January 1, 1940 in New York City) is the stage name of American songwriter James Wesley Voight noted for writing the song, Wild Thing. Taylor's brothers are the actor, Jon Voight, and the geologist, Barry Voight. He is the uncle of actors Angelina Jolie and James Haven. After a hardly successful attempt to become a professional golfer, Taylor entered the music business. He wrote and composed pop and rock songs, both alone and with other songwriters including Al Gorgoni, Billy Vera, Ted Daryll, and Jerry Ragovoy.
Dashboard Confessional
Dashboard Confessional was started in 2000, by Chris Carrabba in Boca Raton, Florida, as a side project from his band Further Seems Forever. Chris recorded his first album, The Swiss Army Romance, in 2000. The following year, he recorded Further Seems Forever's debut album The Moon Is Down. However, he left the band soon after the album's release, instead recording and releasing his sophomore album The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most, as well as a follow-up EP titled So Impossible.
matthew hidden
matthew hidden is a pop duo / 5 piece, based in Manchester and London simultaneously, matthew hidden claims to owe it all to a highly complex system of tubes (presumably, they mean the trains). “We often combine music and lyrics to make songs,” so goes the claim of the band, whose debut single, A Berry Bursts, was played on XFM within one week of its release: "The truth of the matter is that I love their latest tune." - Hattie Pearson, XFM Radio matthew hidden’s music has been featured on the NME blog twice, and has also been upvoted by numerous Hype Machine critics:
Meg Baird
Meg Baird is a contributing member of the psychedelic neo-folk band Espers, as well as a solo artist and one half of the acoustic folk act The Baird Sisters.
http://www.megbaird.com/
http://www.myspace.com/pennsylvaniawildlife
http://www.thebairdsisters.com/
http://www.espers.org/
Javiera Mena
Javiera Mena is a singer-songwriter from Santiago, Chile. whose music combines folk and pop with electronic elements. In 2005 she first appeared in the Chilean indie scene, as some of her songs ("Sol de Invierno" and "C