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Citizens!

"Very few hearts resisted the rallying cry of Citizens! debut album hailed byBritish pop king Alex Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand). With its collectionof hit slogan-like songs Here We Are (2012) established itself as an irresistibledance machine.For their second album, the band went on exile in their label Kitsuné's studio in Paris, the four Londoners havedigested everything that America has in the way of soul music to give birth toEuropean Soul, a slick pop album of modern romanticism. Are Citizens!Europhiles? "This title is more ideological than political", says singer Tom Burke."It suggests the idea of sharing, of inclusion, and the will to be......

Pixies

Pixies is an American alternative rock band which formed in Boston, Massachusetts, United States in 1986. The band consists of Charles (Black Francis) Thompson IV (vocals, guitar; also known as ''Frank Black''), Joey Santiago (lead guitar), David Lovering (drums) and Paz Lenchantin (bass, vocals). Until 2013, the band also featured Kim Deal on bass and vocals. The band officially split in 1993 and reunited in 2004. They went on hiatus in 2007, with each band member pursuing projects of their own, only to reunite in 2009, with the announcement of a new tour commencing in Europe that summer.Although quite popular on alternative rock radio in the United......

Fergie

Fergie (born Stacy Ann Ferguson) rose to prominence when she joined the hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas in 2003. While the group took a brief hiatus, she released her first solo album, "The Dutchess", she was also featured in Slash's debut album "Slash" singing two rock songs "Beautiful Dangerous (feat. Fergie)" and "Paradise City (feat. Cypress Hill & Fergie)". The Feel Alive Songfacts states that she teamed up with Pitbull and DJ Poet for "Feel Alive." It was the first new song from Fergie as a lead artist to be released since the deluxe edition of The Dutchess in 2008.In the Summer of 2006. Her debut single titled......

Maybird

Maybird came together in 2013 around the recording of their debut album Down & Under. Previously, singer/songwriter Josh Netsky had recorded a few albums as a solo artist with fellow members Sam Snyder (guitar) and brother Adam Netsky (drums). Upon the joining of Kurt Johnson (pedal steel/guitar) and Mike Schuler (bass) the group found themselves moving toward a psychedelic, rootsy, eclectic sound that would set the tone for the album that followed. Rochester City Newspaper’s Frank Deblase describes the record as “a carefully constructed wash of singer-songwriter insight and pop-psychedlia. It’s the sound of the beautiful and the weird sharing a slow dance - or a......

The Spinners

There have been at least three groups called The Spinners: 1. a soul group, 2. a 1960s folk group and 3. a Turkish female punk band.1. A soul group of the early '70s, creating a body of work that defined the lush, seductive sound of Philly soul. In the UK they were known as "The Detroit Spinners" to avoid confusion with British band The Spinners. The band's roots lay in Detroit, where they formed as a doo wop group during the late '50s. Throughout the '60s, the Spinners tried to land a hit by adapting to the shifting fashions of R&B and pop. By the mid-'60s, they had signed with Motown Records, but the label never gave the group much......

Shanade

Shanade is the most exciting artist to rapidly rise to the top of the vibrant Warwickshire music scene. Intricate songs coupled with rich blues vocals are stunning audiences at gig's and open mic nights across the area. Shanade Morrow's latest project is to develop her songs with her newly formed band and to take this out on the road to satisfy a growing demand for her music. Source

Toquinho

Antonio Pecci Filho (born in São Paulo, Brazil on July 6, 1946), originally nicknamed "Toquinho" by his mother, is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. He is well-known for his collaborations, as composer and performer, with Vinícius de Moraes. He began his guitar studies at the age of 14 with Paulinho Nogueira and went on to study harmony with Edgar Janulo, classical guitar with Isaias Sávio and orchestration with Léo Peracchi. He also studied with and befriended Oscar Castro-Neves.Initially playing in colleges, Toquinho's professional career took off in the 1960s at shows promoted by radio personality Walter Silva at the famous Paramount theater in São Paulo.......

Scenic

Famed lithographer and record/cd artwork cover artist Bruce Licher's mellow psychedelic rock band Scenic is subtle but potent force from the Sonoran desert that inspired much of the music.Gentle yet dangerous, Scenic create a vocals-free layered guitar soundscape that tantalizes without ever fully satisfying, thereby creating an unfinished story in the mind of the listener. Source