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...

TV on the Radio is a Brooklyn-based band that was formed in 2001. Their music is difficult to classify and is often described as art rock or post-punk, but is educated by a diverse spectrum of styles including freeform jazz and a cappella music, psychedelia and trip-hop, modern soul and classic '...

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...

Spoon is an American indie rock band from Austin, Texas. The band was formed in 1994 by lead singer/guitarist Britt Daniel and drummer Jim Eno. Current members also include: Eric Harvey (keyboard, guitar, percussion, backing vocals) and Rob Pope (bass, backing vocals - replaced Joshua Zarbo in 20...

Justice is an electronic music duo from Paris, formed in 2003 and consisting of Gaspard Augé (born 21 May 1979) and Xavier de Rosnay (born 2 July 1982). They are mostly known for their remix of Simian's "Never Be Alone", later renamed "We Are Your Friends", as well as their "Waters of Nazareth" ...

Charlyn Marie Marshall, also known as Chan (pronounced "Shawn") Marshall, was born in the U.S state of Georgia on 21 January 1972. After dropping out of high school, she started performing under the name Cat Power while in Atlanta, backed by musicians Glen Thrasher, Mark Moore, and othe...

Diplo, Diplodocus, Wes Gully, and Wes Diplo are all pseudonyms of Wesley Pentz, a Philadelphia-based producer and DJ. Together with DJ Low Budget he runs Hollertronix, a party and music collective. In addition to his solo career, he has worked with Sri-Lankan/Tamil singer and artist M.I.A.. The t...

DeVotchKa is a four piece multi-instrumental and vocal ensemble that fuses Romani, Greek, Slavic, and Bolero, music with American punk and folk roots. They take their name from Anthony Burgess' Nadsat (the self created language of 'A Clockwork Orange's main character, Alex) word for "young g...

South Carolina's The Films, formed in 2003 when four high school acquaintances with different musical pasts, found themselves scrapping to stay alive in America's south. They consist of Michael Trent (Vocals, Guitar), Jake Sinclair (Bass, Vocals), Kenneth Harris (Guitar, Keys, Vocals) and Adam C....

Michael Franti is a gifted and much-heralded spoken word artist and political activist from San Francisco, CA. As leader of the politically and socially-charged group Spearhead, Franti is at the forefront of hip-hop's renaissance, expanding the music's boundaries as he draws on funk and soul-driv...

The New Pornographers are a Canadian indie rock group formed in 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The name of the band represents a subversion of a comment by disgraced televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, who once referred to modern music as "the new pornography." Their sound is in...

Ghostland Observatory is the duo of front man Aaron Behrens and producer/drummer Thomas Turner. Behrens’ vocal style and stage performances are unique and uncompromising, and he has drawn early comparisons to Freddie Mercury and Prince. Turner is heavily influenced by electronic artists such as D...

Michael Franti (born April 21, 1966, in Oakland, California) is an African, Irish, and German American poet, musician, and composer. Franti is the creator and driving force behind Michael Franti & Spearhead, a band that blends hip hop with a variety of other styles including funk, reggae, fol...

Combining poly-rhythmic tapping guitars, pulsing analogue synth, vocal melodies and chopping drum-lines, Foals create organic agitated dance-pop.

They recently signed to Sub Pop for US distribution and featured on the cover of NME magazine, tipped as band of the year for 2008. In March of 2008...

LA indie-pop outfit Sea Wolf formed nearly three years ago. Frontman Alex Church and his fellow bandmates (rotating members of the Ship Collective community) recently recorded an album entitled "Leaves In The River." They are currently signed to Dangerbird Records.

GZA (pronounced Jizza), aka The Genius, born Gary Grice August 22, 1965 in Brooklyn, New York City is an American rapper. He is most well known as a founding member of the seminal hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan. In addition to appearing on all the Wu-Tang Clan albums he has released five solo alb...

There is more than one artist with this name:

1) The first two Spearhead albums were released under just the band name: Spearhead, later albums have been released as Michael Franti & Spearhead including the vocalist's name:
Michael Franti in the band name. His earlier projects include The...

Originally, we played shows around campus with three of our friends, Justin, Fuj, and Damien. After doing this for a little over a year, we both became involved with an on-campus recording studio called QSS. We learned how to engineer and, eventually, produce. Since it was now just the two of us ...

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...

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...

Genius is a Rock-Opera made by Daniele Liverani.

or a short lived UK rock group which originally contained 3/5 of The Feeling. Unfortunately the band folded in 2006 and their debut album was never completed or released.