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The Zephyrs

There are 2 bands with that name: 1) A British beat band, originally called The Clee-Shays. The Zephyrs' records were produced by Shel Talmy, the man behind The Who's early recordings. Their releases never sold in any great numbers and when Mick Jagger was widely quoted as "hating" one of their interpretations of a Bo Diddley song, they were more or less finished. 2) The Zephyrs are Scottish brothers Stuart and David Nicol along with Gordon Kilgour.

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Lars and the hands of light

Lead singer Lars Vognstrup is a well known figure on the Danish music scene. The story started back in 1995 when a young Lars formed a hiphop band together with a friend and since then, the striving musician hasn

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cove

There are three bands with the name Cove: 1) Cove is a scremo band from Rockford, Illinois. They have a cd out that they sell at their shows called, "The Noises You Hear The First Night In Your New House". http://www.myspace.com/coveislove 2) Cove are an underground UK 3 piece post-rock band. They have several releases through Johnson Family Records, Unlabel, Noisestar and Toy Soldier Records labels as well as numerous contributions to a variety of UK and European compilation albums. They have also performed radio sessions for Radio 1s John Peel (R.

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As Cities Burn

As Cities Burn was a (earlier material), (midway) and (later) band from Mandeville, LA that formed in 2002. As an unsigned act, the group accomplished impressive success touring and selling thousands of copies of their two EPs. Their success drew the attention of Solid State Records, who signed them in 2004. ACB released its first full length album, Son, I Loved You At Your Darkest, on June 21 of 2005, and was featured in Solid State's Young Bloods Tour with The Chariot, Showbread, and He Is Legend.

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Adrift

Adrift is a band from Madrid that plays intense, heavy music with a variety of influences, ranging from the experimental darkness of bands like Neurosis, Isis, and Sunn O)), to the more straight-ahead riffage of Kyuss and Tool. Founded in 1999, they have 5 releases:
Cogito Ergo Actuo (first demo cd, auto edited 2002)
Austero (7" edited by La Idea 2004)
Troya (MCD edited by The Other Light 2005)
Waterloo V.A (with another kind of dead, moksha and moho, edited by underhill 2006)
Monolito (CD edited by underhill 2008)

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Peace Burial at Sea

Originating in rural Northumberland before migrating to Newcastle, PBaS used small town experiences to create their dynamic post-rock tinged first album This is Such a Quiet Town, released on Mekong Delta records and then later through Captains of Industry. Critically acclaimed (Kerrang! gave it 'KKKK'), it gained airplay on Radio 1 with John Peel, Zane Lowe and Steve Lamacq, has featured on the latest Suicide Girls DVD, and has led to several UK tours alongside Hell is for Heroes, Rotherham's thisGIRL and the phenomenal 65daysofstatic.

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Call To Mind

"a band who love to experiment (not always getting it right), they don't really sound like anything else out there. and the music is really varied - you could listen to 'energy + blast' and have no idea that it was the same band that made 'empty souls'. and there's no denying that 'breathe' is a nigh-on perfect pop song. whilst sometimes weird and experimental, their music is very impressive, and i for one predict big things." (reverb)

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