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Hip Hatchet

Hip Hatchet is the songwriting project of Philippe Bronchtein. The songs are simple and carefully orchestrated. The live band is an ever changing line-up, but has featured Alex Lewis on Guitar, Eamon Fogarty on Guitar and Vocals, and Charlie Freundlich on Bass. Hip Hatchet's new LP, Joy and Better Days (released April 10, 2012), the Coward's Luck EP, and the debut album Men Who Share My Name are available alongside at http://hiphatchet.bandcamp.com/ .

Conor Oberst

Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter born February 15, 1980 in Omaha, Nebraska. He began his recording career in 1993 at the age of 13 and has since produced an enormous amount of material. Conor was deeply influenced early on by singer-songwriters David Dondero and Simon Joyner. His first two albums "Water" and "Here's to Special Treatment" were both released in 1994. Rolling Stone has referred to him as "rock's boy genius.

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honest and nice and simple

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music that makes me so happy its probably indecent

you are welcome in my bed

electro

Oberst

i have seen live

Reading Festival 2008

slept with winona ryder

Melancholy Male Musicians

earthy raw and intimate

Favorite Male Vocalist

Lilian Lies

the poets

lyrical excellence

try more of this sometime

if this was a pokemon i would catch it

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The Mekons

The Mekons are a punk rock/post punk band. They are one of the longest-running and most prolific of the first-wave British punk bands (rivaled in both categories only by The Fall). Leeds University art students Jon Langford and Tom Greenhalgh formed the Mekons in 1977, taking the band's name from the Mekon, an evil, super-intelligent Venusian featured in the British 1950s-1960s comic Dan Dare (printed in the Eagle).

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Deer Tick

Deer Tick is a self described rock n' roll band originally from Providence, Rhode Island, United States. The band is John Joseph McCauley III, Andrew Grant Tobiassen, Christopher Dale Ryan, and Dennis Michael Ryan. The band began in December of 2004 as a drums and guitar duo. Within a few years the band developed into a quartet featuring two guitars, bass and drums, with three members singing and writing, and one writing string arrangements. They have released countless CD-Rs and two official releases, 2007's War Elephant (re-released in 2008) and 2009's Born on Flag Day.

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Kevin Welch

Kevin Welch grew up in Oklahoma. He already toured as a teenager with several bands, before he moved to Nashville in 1978 to work as a songwriter. Singers like Ricky Skaggs, Steve Earle and Don Williams were using his material. At the same time he was very active in local clubs with his band - The Overtones. His popularity grew and in 1988 he signed a record contract with Warner Brothers. In 1990 the album Kevin Welch was recorded and 2 years later Western Beat. Both albums received rave reviews, but did not sell very well. Warner Brothers discharged Welch from the contract.

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Cowboy Junkies

The Cowboy Junkies is a Canadian alt-country/alternative rock band with a jazz twist , formed by three siblings from the Timmins entertainment family. The group formed in Toronto in 1985. The band's name was simply a random choice as they approached their first ever gig, but it has come to perfectly represent their sound. (Some sources may credit Townes Van Zandt's song "Cowboy Junkies Lament" as the source of the band's name, but that song was written especially for Cowboy Junkies several years after they coined the name.)

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Neil Halstead

Singer/songwriter of Mojave 3, previously in Slowdive

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Anthony D'Amato

Hailing from New Jersey and a newly-minted Princeton graduate, Anthony D'Amato is an as-yet-unsigned folk musician whose music leans towards alt-country Americana. His songs, in lyrical content and style, bring to mind the works of artists like Joe Purdy, Wilco, and the Avett Brothers. Although not currently associated with any label, Mr. D'Amato has gained indie acclaim in the past two years with his most recent album releases, "Shades of the Prison House" (2009) and "Down Wires", which debuted in October 2010.

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Oh Susanna

Suzie Ungerleider, who writes and performs as Oh Susanna, is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. She was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, staring at the ocean, mountains and railroad tracks through sheets of rain. She sought refuge with song under burnt-out warehouses and in darkened clubs with the promise of guitar twang and a lonesome cry. Suzie cites a wide range of jazz, blues, pop, rock and folk influences as inspirations for her musical career. Discography
Oh Susanna EP (1997)

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Kasey Chambers

Kasey Chambers, born June 4, 1976 in Mount Gambier, Australia is Australia's most popular country music performer with three successive albums reaching #1 on the Australian album charts in 2002, 2004 and 2006, each achieving multi-platinum sales. Kasey's signature tune "Not Pretty Enough" hit #1 on the ARIA singles charts in 2002, where it remained at the top spot for 4 weeks.

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