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The Chap

The Chap are an experimental pop band from London. Their music is a mix of rock and pop with small quantities of almost every other genre thrown in for good measure. They're known for their energetic live shows which often end with exploding violins and cellos. Band Members: * Keith Duncan - drums, vocals, keyboards
* Claire Hope - keyboards, vocals, melodica
* Panos Ghikas - bass, vocals, guitar, violin, computer, keyboards

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Pelt

Jack Rose (R.I.P.)
Mike Gangloff
Mikel Dimmick
Patrick Best Psychedelic noise/drone/folk band from Richmond, Virginia. They play dense, large-scale pieces of music that radiate inner warmth. They are influenced by Indian raga, the American primitivism of John Fahey, minimalism, and noise music.

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best of the wire 2005

terrastock 7 greatness

landscaping with bulbs

psychedelic noise-rock

experimental acid rock

i should keep an eye on this one

post-country

collaborated with

darker than the deepest sea

met

seen live

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These Feathers Have Plumes

Fledgling work, embryonic pieces, works in progress.
www.myspace.com/allofthesefeathershaveplumes http://www.facebook.com/pages/These-Feathers-Have-Plumes/118987745827?v=wall&viewas=901280231 Of Endings and Beginnings. C-30 Cassette release in Ltd. edition of 46, now available on Period.Tapes (www.periodtapes.com)

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Yowie

Yowie, a dual-guitar and drums trio from St. Louis, have been stunning audiences with their incomparable barrage of sonic kung fu. They accelerate the progressive-rock rhythmic sensibilities of Ruins and Magma and mutate them with the shrieker side of Big Black and Slayer. The band incorporates many variations in time signature, tempo, and tuning, to create a virtual audio maze, but no matter how complex things get, their compositions remain cohesive and compelling. After releasing their debut album Cryptooology on Skin Graft, they lost a guitarist.

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Locust

There are at least 4 artists named Locust: 1) Locust is a project of Mark Van Hoen, a British artist who has been releasing electronic music since 1993. 2) The Locust is a grindcore/experimental band formed in 1994 in San Diego, California. Please correct your tags to The Locust. 3) Locust (로커스트) was a Korean popular music band, active in the early 80's. 4) Locust is an alias of Perry O'Neil, who runs the progressive trance label Electronic Elements.

Ecstatic Sunshine

Ecstatic Sunshine is an ongoing musical project that began in 2005 as a guitar duo comprised of Matthew Papich and Dustin Wong (who has since left the project to pursue Ponytail and his own solo guitar musics). Ecstatics has released 3 LPs and 2 EPs since that time and has performed hundreds of shows in the United States and Europe with a revolving group of players. Currently, Ecstatics live performances are solo endeavors by Papich.

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Richard Skelton

Since 2006, UK artist Richard Skelton has been releasing small run documentations of his own musical explorations through his Sustain Release label. These recordings are always exquisitely packaged, in materials and imagery that really invoke the feel of the recordings locked away on the discs.
Place and space play a big factor in Skelton’s creative process, transporting the listener to the environment in which the music was originally recorded.

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contemporary classical

21st century classical

not yet available to play

Heidika

Landings

psychedelic folk drone

folkotronica

minimal contemporary expressions

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Pengo

noise heathens, bashing out the psychedelic chaos since 1998. Tons of releases on tons of labels from all over the world. Tours all over the U.S. & Canada. Soundtrack to the Center of the Cyclone inside your head. Birth: August 11, 1998
Members: Jason Finkbeiner, John Schoen, Nuuj, Joe Tunis (1998-2005)

Thank You

Thank You is a Baltimore-based no wave and post-punk inspired trio made up of Jeffrey McGrath (guitar, vocals, organs), Michael Bouyoucas (guitar, organs, vocals) and Emmanuel Nicolaidis (drums, vocals). Former members include Elke Wardlaw (drums). Thank You have released two full-lengths, World City (Wildfire Wildfire, 2007) and Terrible Two (Thrill Jockey, 2008), and have recently opened for Battles and Ariel Pink. official myspace: http://www.myspace.com/wethankyou

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Comets On Fire

Comets on Fire are a psychedelic rock band from Santa Cruz, California. The band was formed in 1999 by guitarist and vocalist Ethan Miller and longtime friend bassist Ben Flashman, who were seeking to create rhythmically and sonically intense music that paid no attention to categorizations. The band's self-titled debut was released in 2001 and eventually issued on the Alternative Tentacles label. Recorded on a four-track, it was a garage/psych freakout of intense if not epic proportions.