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The Romantic Cats

After close to 7 years of making plans and promising to one day rule the world, the wiley and elusive animal known only as The Romantic Cats is finally here to add sparkle and shine to the music scene!
Focusing mainly around the exploits of two fine young gentlemen, Messrs Bob Stephenson and James Lee, with guitars, effects pedals, and a little silver box with buttons on it, and artwork by the third stray cat Mr Daniel Chambers...

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Headquarters

There are two bands with the name Headquarters, one is a UK math-rock band on Unlabel, the other an American indie band with a capital Q - HeadQuarters. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: UK: Headquarters are a Kent-based math-rock / experimental quintet, who grew from the ashes of The Kicks (of Royal Tunbridge Wells, no less) and Captain Black.

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Scream! Shout! Say Nothing

‘Scream! Shout! Say Nothing’ is a group of close friends from Hertfordshire, who came together with the sole intention of making truly honest music with no specific sounds in mind, and free of boundaries set by genre or fashion. People are growing irritated that styles of music once dictated by emotion and cathartic expressionism have become subservient to image, pigeonholes and cynical mass marketing by the music industry as a whole.

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にせんねんもんだい

にせんねんもんだい (Nisennenmondai) are three women from Tokyo, Japan : Himeno Sayaka (drums), Zaikawa Yuri (bass) and Takada Masako (guitar). Formed in 1999, the name refers to the "Year 2000 Computer Bug". They compose mostly instrumental tracks. Nisennenmondai has become favorites of the Tokyo noise underground thanks to performing their live shows with a healthy doses of intensity. www.nisennenmondai.com

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With Stones In His Pockets

With Stones in His Pockets' music ranges from gothic choral acoustic folk to sweeping post-rock soundscapes to bleepy-bloopy disco-desecration. They have so far released two EP’s and an album. The first, Farewell Happy Fields, an eclectic five-tracker; the second, Above Lake Superior has less electronica and more cowbell. Their debut album Falls The Shadow, is a raw, live sounding archive of songs ancient and modern, all written over the past decade. It was finally recorded in an abandoned school, over the course of three days in the summer of 2011.

With Stones In His Pockets on Last.fm.

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Polvo

Polvo is an influential indie noise rock band of the 1990s from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. The band was fronted by guitarists/vocalists Ash Bowie and Dave Brylawski. Eddie Watkins played drums, and Steve Popson played bass guitar. The band reformed in 2008 with Brian Quast assuming drum duties. Polvo are considered by some to be one of the key proponents of a genre which came to be known as math rock, although in interviews the band disavowed that categorization.

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Twine

There at least two different representatives of the name Twine. 1) Baltimore, Maryland's Greg Malcolm and San Diego, California's Chad Mossholder comprise a unique musical entity. Twine is the culmination of their extended history, which includes their acclaimed 2002 LP Recorder for France's Bip-Hop and their distinguished catalogue for Chicago's Hefty Records and Sweden's Komplott. Their sound contains a mysterious and unresolved quality, the result of the musical relationship which the group's two main practitioners share.

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Hella

Hella began in 2001 in Sacramento, California as a two member band consisting of Zach Hill and Spencer Seim writing technically intricate music of a highly spastic nature. They play a blend of math rock and noise rock. On early albums, the band forged their classic sound, playing minimally arranged, abrasive instrumentals that still retain an idiosyncratic sense of melody. In 2005, the band expanded their live band by adding Dan Elkan on vocals, rhythm guitar, and synth and Jonathan Hischke on bass guitar.

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Godspeed You! Black Emperor (formerly punctuated Godspeed You Black Emperor! and abbreviated to GY!BE, GYBE, or just Godspeed) are a Canadian band based in Montreal, Quebec. Formed in 1994 in Montreal, Canada, the band has been highly influential within the post-rock genre. Working with orchestrated arrangements, the nine-piece group created tracks with wide dynamic ranges, a highly evocative use of instrumentation and sounds and uncompromising long form compositions. Their engrossing use of art and visuals in both album packaging and live performances creates an enigmatic aura.

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Plantagenet 3

Plantagenet 3 describe themselves as "a misguided combination of Spaghetti Western soundtracks, surf guitar and minimalist post-rock". Initially the solo project of Richard Lanyon, they are now an instrumental 3-piece, with Richard on guitar, Staz (of the band BITCHES) on drums and Tasha V on bass. They are based in London, UK. Plantagenet 3's debut single was released in June 2010, and their first album is due to be released in May 2011. The band's website can be found at http://www.jitter.co.uk/plantagenet3/.

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