Five Times August, a name with a reputation as one of the most important commodities in the music industry’s new business model for up and coming artists. The completely unsigned solo project of 24 year old Dallas, Texas native Brad Skistimas returns with the new album “Brighter Side.” After sell...

Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Beck's music is known for its pop-junk culture collage of musical styles, ironic lyrics, samples, drum machines, live instrumentation and heady sound effects.

Beck was bor...

Bright Eyes is the main project of American singer-songwriter/guitarist Conor Oberst. Bright Eyes also features multi-instrumentalist/producer Mike Mogis, keyboard player Nate Walcott and a rotating lineup of collaborators drawn primarily from Omaha, Nebraska's indie music scene. Conor Oberst has...

Glasgow 3-piece The Fratellis comprise Jon(vocals/guitar), Mince (drums/vocals) and Barry (bass).

In an interview in The Sun newspaper, The Fratellis confirmed that their name is taken from bassist Barry, whose original surname is Fratelli; the other members of the band simply adopted that pse...

Erykah Badu (born Erica Abi Wright on February 26, 1971 in Dallas, Texas) is an American R&B/hip hop artist whose work crosses over into jazz. She is best known for her singles "You Got Me," her collaboration with The Roots, as well as her own songs "Tyrone", "Love of...

Iron & Wine is the stage and recording name of folk rock singer-songwriter Sam Beam (* July 26, 1974). He currently resides in Dripping Springs, Texas, outside Austin and has released three studio albums, several EPs and singles, as well as a few download-only releases, which include a live a...

City and Colour is the side project of Alexisonfire guitarist and vocalist Dallas Green. The project title derives its name from Dallas’ own: Dallas, a city, and Green, a colour. Dallas is praised by critics and fans alike for his strong, clear vocals and his guitar playing skills. To date, D...

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...

Mason Jennings is a Minnesota-based pop-folk singer-songwriter. Jennings is originally from Honolulu, Hawaii. He is well known for his simple yet catchy melodies, intimate lyrics, intensely literary and historical themes, and deep tenor's voice. His music has appeared in the surf film Shelter and...

Jamie Lidell (born September 18, 1973, Huntingdon, England) is a musician and soul singer, signed to Warp.

Famed for his largely improvised shows, that see Jamie constructing his tracks live, voicing and layering right in front of your eyes, effortlessly whipping them out of the air and forgin...

Based in Philadelphia, PA, Man Man is an experimental indie band that incorporates Eastern European and circus-esque styles in their music, creating a unique sound. The band consists of Honus Honus (lead vocals, piano, organ, percussion), Pow Pow (drums and other various percussions), Cougar (t...

Okkervil River began as a mutual project of Will Sheff (vocals, guitar), and Seth Warren (guitar). They met and collaborated together when both were still in high school in Meriden, NH. After relocating to Austin, TX in the late 90's, the duo decided to re-assemble the band with the addition of Z...

Old 97's are an alt-country band originally based in Dallas, Texas, USA. The group formed in 1993 and took their name from a song popularized by Johnny Cash, "Wreck of the Old '97". They describe themselves as a rock band with influences as varied as The Kinks, The Beatles, Pixies, Davi...

John Fogerty (born John Cameron Fogerty, on 28 May 1945 in Berkeley, California) is an American singer and songwriter, best known for his time with the roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Fogerty’s rise to fame came in 1968, when John, together with his brother Tom, Stu Cook and Doug...

Spiritualized is an English rock band formed in 1990 in Rugby, Warwickshire, United Kingdom by Jason Pierce, who often goes by the alias J. Spaceman, after the spectacular demise of the Spacemen 3 outfit. The membership of Spiritualized changes from album to album, with Pierce being the only cons...

Langhorne Slim is a folk singer originally from Pennsylvania, now operating out of New York.

He began to gain public notice through several years of touring with the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players and an appearance at the Bonnaroo Music Festival. His song Electric Love Letter was recen...

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings are a funk/soul band. They are signed to Daptone Records, where the dap-kings are the house band (Sharon Jones, the singer, has been singing since the '70s and was even a prison guard for a while). Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings are widely thought to be spearhea...

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...

Originally a basement-dwelling partnership between band founders Jake Bellows (vocals/guitar) and Heath Koontz (bass/vocals), the two eventually became bored of their isolated state and recruited three others to help them move their sound from the basement to the stage. After several incarnations...

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City was formed in the early 70s in East Berlin.
Members: Toni Krahl, Georgi Gogow, Fritz Puppel, Klaus Selmke, Manfred Hennig.
Their song "Am Fenster" from 1977 was the first song by an East German band to land a hit in the West Ger...

The Legend of Mugison.
(the way I heard it..)

In 2001 Mugison met his first laptop – a used Mac, most likely stolen or over borrowed from a poor philosophy student in Iceland. Inside the laptop he discovered a hard drive filled with songs and the ability to burn songs on to CDRs. Using his ac...

Following the breakup of Archers of Loaf in 1998, Eric Bachmann started work on a solo project that he named Crooked Fingers. The first release of this project, a self-titled release (Crooked Fingers) of various songs he had written, was put out by warm records in 2000. It was followed shortly af...

Del tha Funkee Homosapien (also known as Del the Funky Homosapien and a few other phonetic approximations) is an alternative hip-hop artist. Del was born Teren Delvon Jones, August 12, 1972, in Oakland, California. Del was part of his cousin Ice Cube’s backing band Da Lench Mob and made his first...

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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...

Based in Athens, Georgia, The Drive-By Truckers are simplistically regarded as a southern rock band. With their three guitar lineup and an epic double CD, Southern Rock Opera, which explored aspects of Lynyrd Skynyrd, 70s rock and the "South", grouping the Truckers with the large, ensem...

MGMT is a psychedelic synthpop group formed in 2002 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. The band consists of multi-instrumentalists Andrew Vanwyngarden, originally from Memphis, Tennessee, (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Ben Goldwasser (vocals, keyboards, synths, drums), both alumni of Wesleyan...

There is more than one artist with this name.

1) The better known "The Black" is a Swedish black metal band formed around 1991 in Eskiltuna by Make Pesonen from Eternal Darkness and Karjalan Sissit. The first full line-up featured Make Pesonen as "The Black" on drums &...

Roky Erickson (born Roger Kynard Erickson on July 15, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, harmonica player and guitarist from Austin, Texas. He was a founding member of the 13th Floor Elevators, who are considered to be the first band to ever use the word "psychedelic" to describe ...

Dan McCarthy has remained Omaha's best-kept secret for the past five years-or-so, despite having toured with the likes of Mayday, Neva Dinova, The Good Life, Orenda Fink, Maria Taylor, and Bright Eyes, and despite having recorded with Cursive and Tilly and the Wall (Keys on the former's "Hap...

Alison Krauss is the powerhouse in front of the band Alison Krauss & Union Station. A bluegrass singer and virtuoso fiddle player who grew up in Champaign, Illinois, Krauss signed with Rounder Records at 14, released her first album Too Late To Cry at age 16 and now counts 10 studio records ...

José González was born in Gothenburg, Sweden to Argentinean parents in 1978. In 2003, he released his debut album, Veneer, in Europe. The album has since been released in the UK, on April 25, 2005, and in the United States on September 6, 2005.

The song Crosses, from Crosses EP and the later V...

Robert Earl Keen, Jr was born January 11, 1956 in Houston, Texas. He is a living legend among the Texas country music community. He is popular with traditional country music fans, folk music fans, the college radio crowd and alt-country fans. Keen currently resides in Kerrville, Texas and maintai...

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. His first two albums "Water" and "Here's to Special Treatment" were both relea...

Robert Anthony Plant (born 20 August 1948, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England) is a British rock singer famous for being the frontman of one of the most influential rock bands of all time: Led Zeppelin. He is known for his powerful style with a wide vocal range.After Led Zeppelin's breakup fol...

Sharon Jones is an American soul/funk singer and lead singer of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, who are widely considered to be at the forefront of a revivalist movement that aims to recapture the feeling of soul and funk music as it was at its height in the late 1960s to mid 1970s. Despite tryin...

Wine debuted in 1993 at notorious TaMtAm club announcing a new voice, an individualist who used the cliches of the past to force his way into the future. Wine promised the end of the post-soviet Russian Rock Era, and made an effort to bring Russian music a bit closer to the international values. ...

The very best rock band for kids out there. Really great music, hilarious lyrics and unbelievable videos make this our family's favorite band. Make sure you're getting songs from their Make your own Someday CD because there's another band called The Jimmies here that's punk music that decidedly...

Originally conceived as a loosely-knit collective showcasing four of Austin’s best up-and-coming artists, The Band Of Heathens is quickly becoming one of the most exciting new acts in American Music. The band’s debut album LIVE FROM MOMO’S features dynamic songwriting with powerful vocal harmonie...