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Gringo Star

Peter Furgiuele, Nicholas Furgiuele, Pete DeLorenzo, and Matt McCalvin are Gringo Star. Originally called A-Fir-Ju-Well but they changed their name in 2006 and then released a self titled EP. Gringo Star may be known best for their stunning live performances and constant touring.
Hailing from the ATL, they have a sweet mix of classic rock and Motown with a bit of punk energy. Most of the instrument duties and songwriting are split equally among the four band members.

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The Babies

There are two bands named "The Babies": 1) The Babies are a band formed out of Brooklyn composed of: Cassie Ramone (Vivian Girls), Kevin Morby (Woods), Nathanael Stark (Bent Outta Shape) and Justin Sullivan (Ringers).
2) THE BABIES (named after 1977 punk classic song: ''Boston Babies'' - SLAUGHTER & THE DOGS) are garage punk'n'roll trio from Zagreb/Vinkovci, Croatia. They're playing furious screamin' punk'n'roll in style like THE STOOGES, THE DEAD BOYS, THE SAINTS...

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Go

Several music acts share the alias "Go": 1 - Go is a 80s Disco-SynthPop duo from Norway, consisting of Carstein Seeberg and Erlend G. Balsvik.
Go released an album titled Voices Of Our Fantasy in 1989. Their major hit was Let Your Love Flow. 2 - The Go is a garage rock band from Detroit, composed primarily of Robert "Bobby" Harlow (vocals), John Krautner (guitar, bass), Marc Fellis (drums), and a rotating cast of other band members, most notably, Jack White (later of the White Stripes), who was with the band from mid '98 - early '99.

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Anne Clark

For more than 30 years Anne Clark has held a unique place in contemporary music.
Combining literary, socially engaged texts with innovative and genre-breaking music, she has covered every kind of style, while at the same time maintaining her own identity on each and every recording, whether it be the samples (before sampling became a concept) and electronically treated acoustics of The Sitting Room (1982), to the ground-breaking analogue synth classics of Sleeper In Metropolis (1983) and Our Darkness (1984).

Read more about Anne Clark on Last.fm.

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The Paperhead

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Paperhead/132648110137077 The Paperhead (formerly The Looking Glass) is a psychedelic band from Nashville, Tennessee.
The band members Ryan Jennings, Walker Mimms and Peter Stringer-Hye wrote and recorded their debut album in the summer of 2010 only at the age of 18. The band's name is inspired by a lyric in "My Clown," a song by '60s British psych-band July . Their true psychedelic sound reminds of a genuine British Psych vinyl from the 60's.

Read more about The Paperhead on Last.fm.

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PowerSolo

What do you think of when you hear the name "PowerSolo"? 'Round Denmark way, the moniker apparently conjures the trash-rock psychobilly legacy of Hasil Adkins, the Cramps, and Southern Culture on the Skids. Powersolo may be a power trio, but in this case, the prog-metal acrobatics of rush are replaced with something they call "donkey punk." Two tremolo-loving chicken-scratch, rail-thin guitarists Kim Kix and Atomic Child. And drummer J.C.

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Ipso Facto

There is more than one band with the name Ipso Facto: 1) A psychedelic rock band from London (formed in 2007), highly recognisable for their black and white clothing and 1960s-influenced aesthetic. The group consists of Rosalie Cunningham (vocals, guitar, and xylophone), Cherish Kaya (organ, backing vocals, melodica, and violin), Victoria Smith (drums and percussion), and Samantha Valentine (bass guitar and backing vocals), daughter of Hilton Valentine of The Animals.

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The Shades

There are a number of bands under the name The Shades, one being a punk band from Austin, Texas who released a 12" EP in 1980 called Ward & June Never Understood on the label Ray Gun. The group consisted of Lisa Franklin and Joe Zavaletta. Their manager was Robert Draper. Another band under the name The Shades were concieved in the creative breeding ground of Walter Jeffermenko's Stiener Primary School class.

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Tav Falco

American singer, songwriter, guitarist, performing artist, dancer, photographer, filmmaker. Born Gustavo 'Tav' Falco into a family with roots in southern Italy. Grew up in the backwoods of rural Arkansas. After working a diversity of jobs as a railroad 'brakeman', icehouse worker, gas station attendant & flat tire fixer, he moved from Arkansas to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1973. He became a member of Big Dixie, an alternative performance group and with Televista, an alternative film/video group in Memphis.

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