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Catholic Discipline

Catholic Discipline was a short lived band headed by Slash Fanzine editor Claude Bessy, nicknamed Kickboy Face on vocals. The band was started in 1979 and played a series of shows around the Los Angeles area before ultimately breaking up in 1980. However they are best known for their appearance in the 1980 Penelope Spheeris rockumentary film The Decline of Western Civilization, in which they played two songs.

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Social Security

Simon and myself had met when we were both around 12 years old. We’d both been expelled from local public boy’s schools unable to adhere to the regimes and doctrines of a private education. A career in banking, the military or the city didn’t suit our recalcitrant ways so we were sent to the local comprehensive where we were taught how to be thick. We loved everything sixties, the clothes, the look, the songs, the bands, the T.V. the films and anything to do with Ealing Cinema.

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The Patriots

The Patriots were one of the best Beatlesque bands of the era. Originally they only had four songs officially released on the Bam Caruso split LP with the Chicaynes. But they also recorded a bunch of demos. Those six demos, including a cover of a Left Banke's "Let Go Of You Girl", show how much The Patriots were a promising act.

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Fountains Of Wayne

Fountains of Wayne is an American power pop band, formed in 1995. The band name was taken from the name of a lawn-ornament store in Wayne, New Jersey, not far from Montclair, New Jersey, the hometown of the band's bassist and cofounder Adam Schlesinger (it has since gone out of business). The band was formed by Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood. The two first met as freshmen at Williams College and began playing music together in various bands. The two eventually went their separate ways with Collingwood forming the Mercy Buckets in Boston and Schlesinger forming IVY in New York City.

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Graham Parker & The Rumour

Graham Parker and the Rumour (led by British rock musician Graham Parker, with Brinsley Schwarz and Martin Belmont on guitars, Bob Andrews on keyboards, Andrew Bodnar on bass and Steve Goulding on drums) formed in the summer of 1975 in London, England, and began doing the rounds of the British pub rock scene. The band was also augmented at times by a four-man horn section known as The Rumour Brass: John "Irish" Earle (sax), Chris Gower (trombone), Dick Hanson (trumpet), and Ray Bevis (sax).

Read more about Graham Parker & The Rumour on Last.fm.

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We The Kings

This pop rock quartet hailing from Bradenton, Florida have made a name for themselves with over 13,500,000 plays on myspace alone. They are currently signed to the independent label S-Curve Records. The bandmembers first met at Martha B. King Middle School in Bradenton, and their name refers to the school mascott. The group began playing together while at Manatee High School in the early 2000s, and landed on the PureVolume Top 10 list after hiring a manager.

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Bubble

There are multiple artists called Bubble: 1 - Bubble - Karen Bagdasarov and Guy Sarnat are two musicians from the Israeli jazz, trance and electro scene, who met in the SNS-records studio in 2004.
Guy got into trance at age of 15. He started producing music in his home studio and graduated the Music School in Tel Aviv.
Karen started his musical career at the age of 5 starting out by learning to play the saxophone, later he graduated the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, where he became a professional musician.

Read more about Bubble on Last.fm.

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