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Longfellow

Longfellow broke up in 2002, most of the members went on to form the band Sederra. One member joined The Maxies. Longfellow is also the name of an electro/pop/folk band from the UK, based in London/Nottingham. Members include Owen James Lloyd, Richard Norris, James Thomas, Kevin Ray, Jonny Morgan, Sophie Bagnall and Ali Hetherington. Their sound has been described as 'folk meets indie' and they won the Battle of the Bands competition 2011 at the University of Nottingham.

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The Resignators

The Resignators psychoska www.theresignators.com Melbourne City ska all-stars, The Resignators, never knew back in 2005 that their infectious sound and trend defying style would take them around the world. As one of Australia's hardest working independent bands, The Resignators have seen it all, playing over 500 shows both nationally and internationally. This road hardened sextet know how to get any room of people on their feet and skanking to their Ska infused beats.

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Voodoo Glow Skulls

Voodoo Glow Skulls are an underground third-wave ska band. Their music is a mixture of old-style ska, punk, rockabilly/psychobilly/horror punk and metal. The band formed in 1988 in Riverside, California by brothers Frank, Eddie and Jorge Casillas and their longtime friend Jerry O'Neill. The Voodoo Glow Skulls practiced for two years in a sweaty back bedroom/practice space until they forged a taut unit that performed with demonic intensity and a demented sense of humor.

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Streetlight Manifesto

Streetlight Manifesto is a ska/punk band from East Brunswick, New Jersey under the creative leadership of singer/guitarist Tomas Kalnoky. Since forming in 2002, the band has released three full-length albums. Several of Streetlight's members were already well known among the New Jersey ska community for their roles in past ska bands from that area, most notably Catch 22's Tomas Kalnoky, James Egan, Mike Soprano, and Josh Ansley, as well as One Cool Guy's Stuart Karmatz, Pete Sibilia, Dan Ross, and Chris Paszik.

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Zibabu

Zibabu: AKA the dyslective collective. AKA fluorescent flavor failure. AKA schizo-core. AKA powersquat ska, punk reggae, metal, grunge, rock, bossanova slickness. Yeah yeah, a whole lot of shit. It's 'cause we is part of the tv culture, slowly looking what's happening outside of the box. We're opening up to a whole new world of views and possibilities. It seems to be worse than on tv though... The voyage taken with ideals and political views collides with those of most world leaders. No one is born illegal, they're just filed as such.

Read more about Zibabu on Last.fm.

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Firing Blanks

Firing Blanks formed early 2006 and have moved on a lot since they began. Taking on a thrash/death metal style they have quickly become a recognizable name in the Edinburgh metal scene. By September 2006, the band had played at Studio 24 in Edinburgh with a following 300 strong, and then in February 2007 they played to a sold out crowd in Cabaret Voltaire. That night, the band were kicked out of the venue for various reasons the bassist at the time, Carlo left the band, they settled down a little bit, wrote new material and introduced new bassist Stewart.

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Assorted Jellybeans

This is the story of a punk rock band so good that when they opened for The Vandals (at the request of The Vandals bassist's wife who had heard them play live on KSPC), Joe and Warren made a decision right then and there to start a record company and take credit for the best punk discovery since Op Ivy. A year later, with the release of their self-titled album, Kung Fu Records was born in their honor.

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LUVDUMP

LUVDUMP was formed in the summer of 07' by Dave, Chris and Boasty, after their previous bands broke up, and with fuck all else to do with ourselves! Luvdump plays a mix of fast melodic ska-core punk wiv sum reggae thrown in there too, with politically influenced lyrics from the Ahole in east anglia that is Bury st Edmunds. We are pro choice, pro peace, pro legalization of weed, and pro life! BUT! anti racist, anti sexist, anti BNP, anti war, anti homophobic, anti any corperation that puts it own gain before that of its customers and anti the fucking system.

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