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Chicks On Speed

Chicks on Speed are a female band, born when Alex and Melissa met at the Munich Art Academy in 1997. Chicks on Speed's core members are Melissa Logan (Upstate NY, USA) and Alex Murray-Leslie (Bowral, Australia), who collaborate with amongst others Anat Ben-David (Tel Aviv, Israel), Kathi Glas (Berlin, Germany) and A.L. Steiner (NY, USA). Around Chicks on Speed there is grouped a large and ever-changing collective of musicians, producers, fashion and graphic artists, designers, film and video makers, and so on.

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Kinch (UK)

Kinch are an inventive young indie-pop band from Leeds, England with influences from the early 80s, Motown and ska. They have been compared to Vampire Weekend, The Jam, Born Ruffians, The Smiths, Arctic Monkeys and Dexys Midnight Runners. Since forming in 2007, they have gigged all over the country, done radio, TV and played festivals in the UK, Ireland and France. In the last 12 months, they’ve shared the bill with the likes of Supergrass, Alabama 3, Roisin Murphy, Pendulum, Royworld, Utah Saints, Boy Kill Boy, Das Pop, Little Comets and the Saturdays.

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The Shorts

The Shorts are a hardcore punk band from Southampton, UK. They were formed by Mike Fox (guitar / vocals) and Tony Suspect (drums / vocals) in 2009. A demo was recorded with Kevin Borrett (ex Pilger) playing bass.They then recruited Neil Clelland (ex Intent / Pilger) to play guitar and the "Skinned Alive" EP was recorded in 2011. Alan Marshall (ex Whole In The Head / Chinapple Punx) joined. Influences: Minor Threat, Limp Wrist, The Stupids, 7 Seconds. The Shorts was een Nederlandse popgroep die in 1983 een wereldhit scoorde met het nummer "Comment

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The Brunettes

The Brunettes were formed in Auckland, New Zealand in 1998 by musical couple Jonathan Bree and Heather Mansfield. They were a paradox from the beginning - creating boy/girl melodramatic pop inspired by 70s New York punk and 60s girl groups but surrounded in an Auckland scene of opiate-infused garage rock 'n' roll. Inspired by his dreams of domestic bliss while a teenager living in rat infested junkie flats, and in direct rebellion to the messy hair...

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Daniel Vagant

Daniel Vagant is a german singer-songwriter, born and raised in the late 1970s near Gießen, Germany.
Genre-wise he plays catch-me-if-you-can with you. While some songs are pure rock, the next song may be filled with funky jazz or groovy reggae beats. Although he has had to fight many a downside in life, he states Peter Pan as his idol and still carries the amazing and sometimes naive curiosity and excitement of a child. This is beautifully reflected in his music, which is filled with love and joy, but never lacks profundity.

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Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!

Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! are a indie rock group from Adelaide, South Australia. They feature David Williams (vocals/guitar), Sam Stearne (drums), Caitlin Duff (vocals), Nathaniel Morse (guitar), Art Zinoviev (synth) and Josh Flavel (bass). Formed in 2006 into the vapid whirlpool era of fluro dance-punk, the quintet has since been impossible to pin down to any one sound or genre, opting for distinct stylistic strides between releases.

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Fairfield

Fairfield were formed a few years ago in the vicinity of Lund, south of Sweden. The band consist of five musicians who play music because they love to. The energy and joy on stage are Fairfield's trademark. They have just released their third EP called 'The Cause of Hatred and Love and Everything in Between'. It was recorded at the legendary Tambourine Studios in Malmo, Sweden. Fairfields music can be described as a guitar and piano driven Scandinavian pop/rock with influences from the 60s.

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Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams OC, OBC, (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer, guitarist, songwriter and photographer. Some of his best-known albums are Reckless, 18 til I Die, and Waking Up the Neighbours. Bryan Adams was already popular in Canada when the release of his third album 'Cuts Like A Knife' in 1983 brought him a large following in the USA. His fourth album, 'Reckless', often referred to as one of the most significant of the 1980s, sold over 4 million copies at the time and continues to sell now. His fifth album 'Into the Fire' went platinum.

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Trademark

There are a few bands named Trademark: 1. Tony Reeves and Mark Angus, underground electronic music producers, signed to Intelligent Audio, run by Clare Thwaites - DJ Clare Large.
http://intelligentaudio.net 2. An electropop band from England.
http://www.trademark-online.co.uk 3. Israeli PunkRock band. 4. Japanese indie rock band
http://www.trademark-web.net/ 5.Trademark Arad
http://www.myspace.com/trademarkarad

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