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Sugar Army

'Summertime Heavy' is the second record from Sugar Army - out now through Permanent Records. Over the past few years, the band have released a critically acclaimed debut album & EP, with singles & videos from both releases dominating media all over Australia and finding support across international waters from UK print to US college radio. In that time they've supported Interpol & Smashing Pumpkins, opened the main stage of the Big Day Out, performed at many of the other major Australian summer festivals & toured relentlessly prior to the commencement of solid writing for the new album.

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Empire of the Sun

Empire of the Sun is a collaborative project between Pnau's Nick Littlemore and Luke Steele of The Sleepy Jackson. Steele's vocals were recently featured on Pnau's self titled album. Empire of the Sun's debut album, Walking On A Dream, was released on the 4th of October 2008. The first single from the album is also called Walking On A Dream and the second single was We Are The People. The video for We Are the People was shot in Mexico and a trailer can be viewed on Empire of the Sun's homepage.

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LM.C

LM.C is a rock band from Japan. Members:
Vo. Maya ( ｓｉｎｎｅｒｓ (as a guitarist)→ 雅-MIYAVI- (support, as a guitarist) → LM.C )
Gu. Aiji ( ＫＡＬＥＮ → Pierrot → LM.C )
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Ba. Ikuo / Ken
Dr. Death-O / Yuya
Key. JAYKAY / Jun
VJ. DENKI-MAN LM.C was founded by Maya in Tokyo,Japan , a support guitarist for musician Miyavi in the support band Ishihara Gundan (Ishihara being Miyavi's real last name, Gundan means 'brigade' or 'army' in Japanese) and a guitarist in his own band, Sinners. While still with Miyavi, maya and other support members also played live shows as LM.

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Swim

SWIM are Joe Boyle and Richard Williams. Since a chance meeting in their adolescent years, the duo have been making music together. Surrounded by records of over 60 years of popular music, and trying to make the grey London skies feel like warmer climes an ocean away, the band are influenced by the synths and styles of their 80s heroes, from the likes of Talking Heads and New Order to the lush shoegaze discord of My Bloody Valentine and Cocteau Twins. Crafting escapist, sun-kissed pop, SWIM garner their own, original sound, complemented by an endearing, soaring vocal.

Beg

A successful surgery separated conjoined twins, Horace Glick and Stanley Hodge after some 20 odd years of life together. Each was adopted by different families and moved many miles apart. They lead strikingly similar lives, often defined by their love of music. Neither time nor distance could keep these brothers from reuniting in Lockerbie, Scottland to explore their love of music -- culminating in the formation of Beg.

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Dexys Midnight Runners

Dexys Midnight Runners - the name consistently spelled without an apostrophe - were a British post-punk and northern soul band who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s. The word "Dexys" in this case, comes from a colloquialism of "dextroamphetamine" or "purple hearts," a type of amphetamine diet pill that was a popular "upper" drug with England's Northern Soul scene in the 1960s.

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Mr Fogg

Mr Fogg is a UK-born alternative pop artist, who made his name touring countries including Iceland - where he recorded his debut album - Lithuania and Latvia. He also played Reading Festival, Iceland Airwaves, Truck Festival, Secret Garden Party in the past and has some exciting UK shows coming up in 2010. Mr Fogg has experimented with unusual methods of getting his music out. He uses Bandstocks, where members of the public can buy shares in the production of artists' albums, and in December 2009 he opened a 4 day only pop-up shop...

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Sleepy Age

This Christchurch band cites such bands as The Pixies, Radiohead and Mystery Jets as influences and think they sound like Miley Cyrus (or so they say on their MySpace - go figure?). But seriously, these guys have sweet yet melodramatic lyrics, soothed by catchy beats. The band features Josh Burgess (of Bang Bang Eche fame) on vocals/keys/guitar, Josh Black (of Neil Robinson) on bass and Julian Vares on drums. Check out their new single Décor: http://www.goldsounds.co.nz/ Their self titled EP is available on bandcamp: http://sleepyage.bandcamp.com.

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