Grande (Kjetil Grande), recently released his second solo album "You Are The Night". Norwegian critics are overwhelmed and honour the album with 5 and 6 eyes on the dice. Some of them even claiming "You Are The Night" to be the best Norwegian album of 2010. Not bad for an artist who experienced the pressure of following up his ”Norwegian Grammy” award winning debut album "Uppers, Downers, Screamers & Howlers".
There are at least two artists with the name The Jukes. 1. A British indie band.
2. A Norwegian rock band. 1. The Jukes, an indie rock band, from Oxford, UK. 2. The Jukes are a four-piece rock band from Sandnes, Norway.
Tommy Smith (born 27th April 1967) is a Scottish jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator. Smith grew up in the Wester Hailes area of Edinburgh, and was encouraged to learn the tenor saxophone from the age of twelve onwards. At the age of sixteen, he obtained a scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music; there he joined Gary Burton's group. He has become one of Scotland's leading jazz musicians and composers...
Since forming in 1999, Pound For Pound from Springfield, IL have proven themselves to be one of the hardest working hardcore bands in the Midwest. Pound For Pound borrow elements of New York hardcore and metal while managing to create a unique sound of their own. Combined with bleak lyrics, the band's music provides an angst-filled soundtrack for the broken and the beaten. Performing frequent shows throughout the Midwest and touring often, the band continues to bring their music to new cities and audiences constantly while maintaining the support of current fans.
Born in 1977, Per Zanussi grew up in Stavanger, Norway with an Italian father and Norwegian mother. He started playing various instruments at five but picked up the bass at 13 playing in rock bands. After discovering jazz he quickly switched to double bass. In 1996, while still a student in Trondheim he founded the electronic project Wibutee together with Håkon Kornstad and Wetle Holte.This outfit recorded 3 albums with Zanussi and toured most of the world in the following years.
There appear to be at least 6 bands with the name Centurion. - A heavy/ethno/progressive/technical metal band from Belgrade, Serbia, who is currently promoting their first self-released single "Odmazda" ("Retribution") and EP named "Virtuelno Ognjište" ("Virtual Hearth") featuring 3 new songs (released in early January 2011).
MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/centurionbg
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Centurion/161858846696
STAER’s Happy Meal is comprised of 100% distorted, octave-pitched meat patty, two piercing blastbeat high-gluten buns, fresh saladcore and our house cunt-o-matic dressing. Choose between high-fat ringmodulator or cold filtered noise. STAER first spread its counter-cultural wings in 2008, and has since been hailed by various noise acts both locally and internationally. STAER use guitars and drums because they want the best.
There are at least four artists who uses the name "Knights". 1) Knights are a rock band hailing from Austin, Texas. Their music can be described as a fusion of progressive rock, classical, electronic/dance elements combined with crisp, dynamic vocals and powerful lyrics, resulting in a distinctive and epic sound. Knights aspire to electrify fans aurally, visually, and mentally by putting on exciting, energetic performances, and recreating that experience in their studio recordings.
The New Tigers is a fuzzy pop group from Turku, Finland. The band consists of Valtteri Virtanen (of Goodnight Monsters), Appu Jasu (Anselmus), Kece (Love Summer Boys), and Janne Kauppinen (Kauppilan Puutarha]). The record label Soliti released their debut album on 21st September 2011. official site:
http://www.thenewtigers.com
Spirits of The Dead consists of Ole Øvstedal (guitars), Ragnar Vikse (vocals), Geir Thorstensen (drums) and Deadly Nightshade (bass, keyboards) The band was formed by Ole and Ragnar early 2007, and later joined by Geir and Deadly Nightshade. Trying to capture the magic of the force building up between the four of them, they immediately went to the studio with sketches and ideas about the how they wanted the band to sound.