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Afghan Whigs

American band the Afghan Whigs were a soul-influenced, alternative rock band that was mainly active in the 1990s. While achieving only moderate commercial success, the Afghan Whigs attracted ample critical acclaim and deeply loyal fans, Rolling Stone described the band as spending "the bulk of their career on the brink of stardom", yet they've "never quite broken beyond a substantial legion of devotees enamored of their thinly veiled sleaze."

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Liam Grundy

Liam Grundy is a writer and performer and writes for country and rock and roll artists alike.
Including a stint with British eccentric rocker John Otway, for whom Liam produced a single on theTime/Warner label, Liam seems to be a presence behind a lot of interesting musical projects.
For the past eight years, Liam has worked regularly with Elvis Presley guitar legend Scotty Moore arranging tours and recording with Scotty.

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Little Feat

Little Feat is a band who have mixed blues, R&B, country and rock and roll styles together since they formed in 1969 in Los Angeles, and are known for their eclectic blend of many forms of music. They were founded by the brilliant songwriter/singer Lowell George, who died in 1979. The blend of California cool and New Orleans funk together with George's slide guitar, Richie Hayward's melodic and driving drums, and Bill Paynes virtuoso keyboards, gave the George era Little Feat a sound unique in rock and roll.

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Los Cenzontles

Los Cenzontles (“The Mockingbirds”) is a Latin Fusion and Roots band, heavily influenced by blues, Tejano music, country music, rock, and traditional Mexican regional music. The band's core members also operate a non-profit arts center, Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center, in San Pablo, California. The band, renown for their performances of traditional Mexican music have created an electrifying new fusion sound. The group brings together their musical influences using drums, electric bass, and guitars along side Mexican folk instruments like vihuela, jarana, pandero, and quijada (jawbone).

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Rob Tognoni Band

1994
Rob Tognoni's international debut came in '94 when Australian slide-guitar maestro Dave Hole on hearing Tognoni's songs helped set-up a record deal with Provogue/Mascot Records in The Netherlands. 1995-96
Dave Hole went on to produce the Stones And Colours CD which was released through Europe in September '95. The CD was an immediate success and received critical acclaim. This caused enough positive reaction to begin the first European tour in February '96.

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Tommy Castro

TOMMY CASTRO (1955/San Jose, CA – ) and his music sit squarely at the centre of an evolving tradition of rock and blues. Castro, winner of the 2008 Blues Music Award for Entertainer Of The Year, is famed not only for his hard-hitting, impassioned vocals, soaring guitar work and his blues-infused, rocking R&B sound, but also for his striking, original songwriting and exhilarating stage show. According to The San Francisco Chronicle, “Castro navigates seriously funky Southern soul, gritty big city blues and scorching rock…his silvery guitar licks simultaneously sound familiar and fresh.”

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Goribor

Goribor is a alternative rock band from Bor, Serbia (ex Yugoslavia). Having performed as a teenage band called Projekat from 1988 until 1992, after a four-year hiatus, the band was reformed in 1996 by the founding members, the vocalist Aleksandar Stojković St and guitarist Željko Ljubić Pity with the guitarist Predrag Marković Peđa. Until 2003 they had been making home-made demo recordings eventually released through the Croatian independent record label Slušaj Najglasnije!, after being discovered by the head of the label Zdenko Franjić.

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Dead Sara

Emily Armstrong - Singer/Guitarist
Siouxsie Medley - Guitarist
Sean Friday - Drummer
Chris Null - Bass Player Music history is rich with rock bands fronted by dynamic duos. Looking to carry on this vital yin and yang tradition (minus the drama such chemistry often fuels) are singer Emily Armstrong and guitarist Siouxsie Medley, who front Los Angeles’ Dead Sara — an electrifying rock outfit whose supercharged music is propelled by Medley’s monster riffs and Armstrong’s wailing, passionate vocals.

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