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Hop Along

Hop Along (formerly known as Hop Along, Queen Ansleis), which started out as Frances Quinlan’s solo project, is now a full-blown band, proudly adding Dominic Angelella of Dragonzord and Mark Quinlan of Netherfriends to the roster —-the 2005 release of “freshman year” is the act’s most solid album to date, but they released the album “Wretches” in mid 2009 while touring around the United States. Occasional touring/recording members include Eric Slick of Dr. Dog and Joe Baldacci of Dragonzord.

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Sjofn

Sjofn's album... is blowing my mind - one of the most remarkable albums of the year. Absolutely amazing. It deserves to be enormous.
Mark Whitby - Dandelion Radio (May 8, 2010) Sjofn lives in a log cabin in the Chugach Mountains of Alaska. Her CD titled 'secret' is currently available through UK's Parallax Sounds Records at: www.parallaxsounds.com and will be available worldwide on July 5th, 2010. Visit Sjofn at: http://sjofn.net
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Jana Hunter

Jana Hunter is a songwriter and musician, and was born in Texas. She is now(2010) based in Baltimore. She has recently(2009) formed a new band named Lower Dens and toured the USA with Future Islands(2010). She is signed to Gnomonsong, a record label run by Devendra Banhart and Vetiver's Andy Cabic. Her solo debut album Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom was the label's debut release. She later completed her second album "There's No Home" as well as "Carrion EP".

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The Grams

The Grams are a guitar based 4-piece, two brothers and two life long friends. The band is fronted by Tony Porter and Andy Watts whose guitar interplay is advanced and sophisticated incorporating sonic overtones. The solid pounding backline, supported by Ben Park and Dan Porter, and the killer melodies lock you in. The music is intelligent... The Grams draw their influences from a variety of bands, in particular Bloc Party, Editors and Kasabian. The Grams recorded two songs in March 2007 with the producer and recording engineer Jon Gray for their forthcoming EP.

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Galaxie 500

There are two bands with the name Galaxie 500:
1) an American alternative rock band that formed in 1987 and split in 1991
2) a francophone indie garage rock formed in 2002 in Montreal, Canada, and now known as Galaxie 1) Galaxie 500 formed in Boston, MA in 1986 and comprised vocalist/guitarist Dean Wareham (a transplanted New Zealand native), bassist Naomi Yang and drummer Damon Krukowski, longtime friends who first met in high school in New York City before all three attended Harvard University.

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Basement Birds

Basement Birds is an Australian indie supergroup comprised of Kavyen Temperley (Eskimo Joe's frontman and bassist), Steve Parkin (solo singer/songwriter), Kevin Mitchell (musician) (Jebediah, Bob Evans frontman) and solo singer/songwriter Josh Pyke. The groups' mutual love of lush vocal harmonies and alt-country style was the basis for forming the Basement Birds project. "Luckily we all seem to have fairly similar tastes in music, I think it'd be harder if we had someone who was into death metal and another into jazz fusion.

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Sylvie Lewis

Sylvie Lewis is a singer/songwriter, currently based in Rome, Italy. Born in London, England, she came to the United States in 1995 and studied at the Berklee College of Music. After some travelling, she relocated to Los Angeles, where her self-released EP "Beautiful Mess" was heard by Cheap Lullaby Records, and she was signed to a deal. She released her debut album Tangos and Tantrums in 2005 to good reviews, and has toured the United States and the United Kingdom since then.

Read more about Sylvie Lewis on Last.fm.

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