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MGR

Mustard Gas and Roses (MGR) is an solo project from Los Angeles, California, United States created by Mike Gallagher around 2005, - the guitarist for American band Isis, having previously been a member of Cast Iron Hike. Gallagher incorporated more structure, more distortion, more dark foreboding into his almost-all-guitar aesthetic. "For me, these songs evoke more of a feeling than a concept-making this record was kind of a journey into and out of things making sense.

Read more about MGR on Last.fm.

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Mezzanine

Mezzanine is an indie rock band from Perth, Western Australia.

Channeling the ghost of a time when rock was straight up and actually meant something, Mezzanine have an attitude that pretension dares not fondle. They energise and humanise the Perth music landscape with power chords and passion, drawing teeth from the likes of Thurston Moore, Anton Newcombe and Stephen Morrissey. A self professed loud and energetic combo, they play each show like it's the last 30 minutes of their lives. They put pen to Pro Tools in February 2011, emerging with their first Extended Player, Novella.

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Versa

Versa is your new favourite indie/postrock band from the heart of Belgium. They play a very intense live show, often compared to an emotional hurricane. Points of interest:
- Started playing shows in february 08
- Did about 30 shows in the first year
- Released their selftitled Debut-EP in February 09
- Won the prestigious IFS-bandcontest in Leuven in March
- Went on a 4 day european tour with Dancing On Debris (GER) in April Visit them at:
www.facebook.com/versaofficial

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Chet Faker

Shrouded in secrecy, hidden behind an alias and disguised by a beard, Chet Faker is an artist that enjoys the mystery. Hailing from the tight-knit deep disco scene in Melbourne, Australia and taking elements from an acoustic past, Chet Faker has carved out his own style that fuses personal stories of love and loss with an electronica soul, which reaches far beyond his homeland. Chet quickly came to everyone’s attention when his cover of 'No Diggity' hit number 1 on the worldwide indie music aggregator, Hype Machine.

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Betray the Oracle

Betray The Oracle is a solo Funeral Death Doom project which started in Mount Compass, South Australia. Inspired by bands like Shape of Despair, Mournful Congregation and Evoken.
All instruments and vocals are done by Levi Siegmann.
Betray the Oracle has made it's first proper, physical release through Iron Guardian Industries May 2012. This release is a EP/Split with Flesh Incineration (a solo grindcore project from the USA) called The Funeral Grind on 10" vinyl limited to 25 copies.

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Apricot Rail

One day, after his star sign promised a ‘dynamic’ afternoon, Ambrose Nock (guitar) decided it was the right time to form a band known as Apricot Rail. He was soon joined by Jack Quirk (guitar), Matthew Saville (drums) and Daniel Burt (bass). The premise of the band was simple: music based on unique guitar tunings, the use of natural harmonics, and very open ideas about other instruments, electronica and song structure.

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