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The Bomb

Hailing from Chicago, The Bomb is a punk trio featuring former Naked Raygun leader Jeff Pezzatti (vocals, bass). Rounding out the group is John Maxwell (guitar), and Paul Garcia (drums). The group came together in the late 1990s and formed Jettison Music, an imprint that has also released recordings by The Matics and Green. The Bomb made their recorded debut with a 3-song EP in 1999 and released a full-length in 2000 entitled Torch Songs, which was recorded by friend (and former Big Black bandmate), Steve Albini.

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Ken Vandermark

Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964 in Warwick, Rhode Island) is an American jazz composer/arranger and saxophone and clarinet player. He grew up in Massachusetts, graduating from Natick High School. He performed and led groups while in high school and at McGill University in Montreal which he attended from 1982 to 1986. He is mostly self-taught as a musician, but studied intermittently with George Garzone in the early 1980s.

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Io monade stanca

Io Monade Stanca is a trio composed by Matteo Romano on drums, Nicolas Joseph Roncea as guitarist and Edoardo Baima on bass and voices. Born in Canale, their first LP “In the termi table” sorted out in 2008 for Canalese*Noise. All by themselves they started touring through Europe thanks to DIY personal work of Nicolas. In the summer of 2009 they record the second album called “The impossible story of Bubu” at Red House with Sasha Tillotta as engineer.

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Chez Damier

Chez Damier has devoted his life to electronic music as a vocalist, DJ, producer, label manager and graphic artist. Splitting his time between Detroit, Chicago and occasionally New York, Chez set up the Music Institute with Derrick May and Alton Miller looked after the business affairs and studio output of Kevin Saunderson's KMS label, and helped countless producers get a start in production. On top of that, he has a kick ass discography of his own...

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Boo

There are various artists, called 'Boo' or BOO! :

An Alt Rock band from South Africa, a rap trio from Detroit and a Czech-Austrian alternative rock band Boo (without exclamation mark). Boo is also a ‘monky punk’ band from South-Africa. The album ‘Shooting Star’ is from the South-African band. Boo is also the alias of a promising young MC/producer from Moscow (Russia), who has so far made his name through guest appearance on a smash radio hit “Expensive Love” (“Dorogaya Lubov’”) also featuring Loc (fellow rapper of T.

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Mazes

http://www.myspace.com/chicagomazes Mazes is the first album from a band called Mazes. The band called Mazes includes Caroline Donovan and songwriter Edward Anderson of the Chicago band The 1900s, their peculiar friend Charles D’Autremont and a select group of guest musicians from some of Chicago’s best bands. Mazes songs are sometimes written and recorded in one long night and sometimes gather dust on 4-Track cassettes for years before being resurrected and transformed...

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On An On

On a cloudy night in Austin, Texas during the annual SXSW festival, the three members of ON AN ON were waiting in line to see Mike Snow; they were a bit sweaty, undeniably hungry, and, well, kind of drunk. The Chicago & Minneapolis-based musicians – Nate Eiesland, Alissa Ricci, and Ryne Estwing — that comprise the band had played music with one another in various capacities for the better part of a decade — most recently as members of indie-pop outfit Scattered Trees, with whom they were performing that very weekend.

Read more about On An On on Last.fm.

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Angel Olsen

Angel Olsen hails from sunny, gorgeous, post-industrial St. Louis, Missouri. Beginning her performing career at age 16 in coffee shops, she now hones her craft in Chicago, Illinois, with recent tours to both seaboards and upcoming collaborations with members of the national indie music scene. Her intimate songwriting is coupled with a strong, ethereal tone and hypnotic rhythm acoustic guitar, borrowing from influences as varied as Skeeter Davis and homespun Americana to Spanish guitar and the French New-Wave chanteuse Francoise Hardy.

Read more about Angel Olsen on Last.fm.

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Bam Bam

There are at least two artists with this name: 1) Chris (Bam Bam) Westbrook, colloquially Bam Bam, is a house/acid/techno artist, as well as music producer from Chicago, Illinois. He has been producing on Ascap records since 1987. 2) Bam Bam is a band from Monterrey, México, currently signed to Arts & Crafts México. Their first LP, entitled Futura vía was released in March, 2011.

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