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Big Scary

The story of Big Scary begins in 2006, when Melbourne duo Tom Iansek and Jo Syme, armed with just acoustic guitars and egg shakers, started playing songs together in the living room of Jo’s parents’ house. After a bit of a break, the two reconvened in 2008, this time with more instruments—electric guitars, drums, piano, mandolins and ukuleles—and a bolder, more expansive vision. What began as a few rainy day acoustic ballads in their first incarnation soon grew into an all-encompassing, genre-defying sound.

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Juno

There are at least six artists that have used this name: 1. Juno was an American indie rock band formed in Seattle, WA in 1995. They released their debut album This Is the Way It Goes and Goes and Goes on DeSoto Records on March 30, 1999. Their second album A Future Lived in Past Tense was released May 8, 2001. Although their two albums are very paced, steady, slow-burning epics with the occasional explosion of fireworks (hear Leave a Clean Camp and a Dead Fire for a quintessential Juno track)...

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Boulevard

There are at least 4 bands with the name Boulevard. One from Germany/Canada, one from New Zealand, one from Finland and one from Denmark. 1) Randy Burgess (bass) Mark Holden (saxophone, vocals) David Forbes (lead vocals) Andrew Johns (keyboards) Randy Gould (guitar) Randall Stoll (drums) Tom Christianson (bass; replaced Burgess) Holden had been working in a recording studio in Frankfurt, Germany and an offer to open a new, multi-million dollar recording studio in Calgary gave him reason to return to Canada.

Read more about Boulevard on Last.fm.

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Crow Mother

Formed in March 2012 band is still young that can’t be said about its members who have been musicians and friends through numerous different bands for long time before joining their forces and inspiration under the name of Crow Mother. Shortly after forming in 2012 band kicked off with recording their first two singles called Killing the Love and Sugar, Blood & Wine. First two records were more like experiment for band to find its own sound that became more individual in their next two singles – Winterland and Smile Like You Care.

Read more about Crow Mother on Last.fm.

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Gran Ronde

Named after a river in vocalist/guitarist Christopher Pearson's home state of Oregon, New Wave/post-punk revivalists Gran Ronde got their start in 2004. Based in Los Angeles, Pearson, Bryan Hobbs (bass), Fernando Sanchez (drums) and Neil Parek (guitar) performed at SXSW in March 2008 and released their debut album, Secret Rooms, on Filter US Recordings the same year.

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Pageants

Coconut Garage band from Melbourne, Australia...... Pageants is also a band formed in Long Beach, California, United States. It's members are Rebecca Coleman (vocals, guitar), Devin O'Brien (guitar), and Dylan Wood (drums). Pageants is the new musical trio of former Avi Buffalo member and founder Rebecca Coleman with Devin O’Brien and Dylan Wood. The project began in modest after Coleman left the band in the summer of 2010, initially starting off as a duo only to expand to the current three-person lineup.

Read more about Pageants on Last.fm.

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rooftops

Rooftops are a math rock/indie rock band from Bellingham, Washington. Some of their influences are The Americas, Par Coliss, Maps and Atlases, and Don Caballero. The bandmembers include: Wendelin Wohlgemuth, Mark Detrick, Drew Fitchette, and Jonathan McIntyre. Former bands that these musicians have been members of include lands Farther East, Members of, leaves sleeves, and Snow Cuts Glass. Rooftops signed with Bellingham label Clickpop Records in Dec of 2008. www.rooftopsmusic.net

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Kill Henry Sugar

Born and bred in New York City, Erik Della Penna and Dean Sharenow perform as the drum/dobro duo KILL HENRY SUGAR, creating modern folk music from the roots of Gotham. The two met performing around town and discovered a shared fascination with the city's corrupt beginnings and the frenzied ambition of its inhabitants. Kill Henry Sugar became the minimalist, streamlined vehicle for this ongoing discourse; think "Gangs Of New York" (the book, not the movie) meets "Metropolis" (the movie, not the book).

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