Gnarls Barkley is the collaboration between producer DJ Danger Mouse and Goodie Mob rapper/ singer Cee-Lo. Their first single, Crazy, which debuted at #1 on the British pop charts on April 2, 2006, is the first #1 UK single to be obtained solely through Internet downloads. The success of the sin...

Foo Fighters are an American rock band formed by musician Dave Grohl in 1995. The group is named after the World War II term "foo fighter", used to refer to mysterious aerial phenomena.

The Foo Fighters began as a solo project taken up by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. On the deb...

Slightly Stoopid is a band based in Ocean Beach, California 10 miles from downtown San Diego, who describe their music as "a fusion of acoustic rock and blues with reggae, hip-hop, and punk". As a band, they have released eight albums (2 live) with their sixth studio album, entitled &qu...

The Mars Volta are an American musical group founded by Cedric Bixler Zavala and Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez, generally considered progressive rock with jazz and punk influences and known for wild live shows, extensive jams, cryptic lyrics, various experimentation and use of ambient music to help est...

G. Love & Special Sauce is an alternative blues and hip-hop band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Formed in 1992, the trio are known for their unique "laid back" blues sound.

The trio released their first album; self titled, in 1994 on Okeh/Epic, a subsidiary of Sony Music. On t...

Hailing from London, United Kingdom the brains behind electronic band Hot Chip are Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard. The band formed in 2000. The combination of Taylor's ethereal high pitch vocals and Goddard's warm low pitch and the band's blip-blop electronics creates a dreamy sound.

Hot Chip a...

The Black Keys are a two-man blues-rock group from Akron, Ohio, United States which formed in 2001, consisting of singer and guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney. The band name was inspired by a schizophrenic artist and friend in Akron, who used the term "black keys" to des...

With roots firmly planted in the fertile musical soil of Texas, the Eli Young Band is a little bit country and a helluva lot of guitar-driven rock & roll. Their Carnival Recording Company debut, Level, finds them poised to bust out of the Lone Star State and bring their brand of music to a wi...

Combining elements of punk, gypsy music, and Brechtian cabaret, Gogol Bordello tells the story of New York's immigrant diaspora through debauchery, humor, and surreal costumes. Leader and singer Eugene Hütz's taste in music was spun out of black-market tapes of the The Birthday Party and Ein...

Mates of State are an American indie rock duo, who have been active since 1997 when they formed in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. The group is composed of the husband-and-wife team Kori Gardner (vocals, Electone and Hammond B-3 electric organs, Casio synthesizer, and Rhodes electric piano, pian...

Stage name of Portland, Oregon based singer-songwriter Matt Ward.

Ward was previously with the band Rodriguez, who released the album Swing Like a Metronome in 2000. Duet for Guitars #2 was released by Howe Gelb on his Ow Om record label. Ward's 2001 album, End of Amnesia, was put out by Futur...

Louis XIV is a quartet indie rock group from san diego, california, formed in April 2003. They were formed from the band Convoy. Their first album, Louis XIV, was released in November 2003, followed two years later by the release of their EP Illegal Tender in January of 2005. Later that year they...

Patty Griffin, born Patricia Jean Griffin, March 16th, 1964 in Old Town, Maine, is an American singer-songwriter.

She brought out her debut album Living With Ghosts--a set of demos featuring only Ms. Griffin and her guitar--to critical acclaim in 1996. Her sophomore album, Flaming Red, demons...

Donavon Frankenreiter, born December 10, 1972, in Downey, California, is an American roots musician and pro surfer. He is a long-time friend of Jack Johnson and his debut self-titled album was released in 2004 on Johnson's Brushfire Records through Universal Music and has already made the Austral...

The Swell Season is another name for Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová.

Glen Hansard (frontman of The Frames) and Czech singer and pianist Markéta Irglová released their first album, The Swell Season, in Ireland in April 2006.

Starting in fall of 2007, the duo began touring...

N*E*R*D, an acronym (pronounced by saying each letter), is the name of the group consisting of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo of The Neptunes and their friend Shay Haley. It is hard to pigeon-hole the band into one genre; they are loosely a blend of rock, hip-hop, and R&B. Pharrell explains;...

What Made Milwaukee Famous is an indie pop-rock band based in Austin, Texas. The band met in 2002 through an ad placed in the alternative Austin paper The Austin Chronicle. Band members spent their entire first year getting to know one another before presenting themselves to the public. Their fir...

Asleep at the Wheel is an Austin, Texas based Western swing band, winner of nine Grammy Awards. The name is derived from the expression "asleep at the wheel" which means one has fallen asleep while driving a vehicle, or "behind the wheel". It can also describe someone who is b...

Cansei de Ser Sexy (also known as CSS) is a band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2003. In an interview, guitarist/harmonica player Ana Rezende explains the band's name:
"[...]we heard that Beyoncé had said that she was really tired of being sexy, which is a really retarded thing to say. I...

Mars could refer to one of many acts. Organized chronologically by order of inception, they include:

1) New York-based "No Wave" act formed in 1975, best known for their contribution to the seminal Brian Eno-produced compilation, No New York. Originally called "China", the ...

Dan Dyer greets his second decade as a musician with a self-titled album. From this soul-revivalist recording, produced out of an old snake-charmer church turned studio on the East side of Austin, emerges a spooky, diaphanous, and bright release drawn from an ever-deepening soul.

Coming from ...

Manu Chao is a French Latin folk singer of Galician origin.

Manu Chao was a well-known member of the Parisian alternative music scene, in bands such as Hot Pants and Los Carayos. In 1987, Chao, his brother Antoine Chao and their cousin Santiago Casariego founded the band Mano Negra. Mano Negra...

There is more than one artist with this name:

1) The Virgins i are a American indie rock band formed in 2005 based in New York City, New York. They have toured with Jet and opened for Sonic Youth and Patti Smith.

The Virgins were formed after a Ryan McGinley photo shoot brought together Don...

David Byrne is a musician and artist best known as the singer for Talking Heads. He released his first "proper" solo album in 1989, and remains active (in a variety of media) today. He maintains a frequently updated journal/blog. A detailed official bio and discography are available o...

Between having three dogs named Merle, Nash, and Dolly and an East Texas accent so pronounced you could pick her out in a crowded honky-tonk from across the room, Sunny Sweeney is so country she probably snores Loretta Lynn melodies in her sleep. That much was clear long, long before she ever got...

Alejandro Escovedo's family tree includes former Santana percussionist Pete Escovedo and Pete's daughter, Sheila E (also Prince's former drummer and later a pop star). He began his music career with the Nuns, a mid-'70s punk band based in San Francisco. He co-founded the pioneering cowpunk band R...

Antibalas is a Bushwick, Brooklyn based afrobeat band that is modelled after Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band and Eddie Palmieri's Harlem River Drive Orchestra. Although their music is primarily afrobeat, their music incorporates elements of jazz, funk, dub, improvised music, and traditional drumming f...