Imagine the brainchild of Dr. Seuss, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Stanley Kubrick and Rube Goldberg, and you begin to understand the spectacle of a That 1 Guy performance by Berkeley, CA-based, classically trained musician Mike Silverman. As inventor and player of The Magic Pipe, That 1 Guy
Hailing from the small village of Sowerby Bridge in the north west of England armed with a collection of razor sharp pop gems, Team Modeliste are a powerful band winning audiences over wherever they go with their charged up spacefunk vibes. Boys and girls, Team Modeliste is coming right at you, and it kicks like a mule. Ben Francis does the Vocals and the Thudstaff. Ross McOwen does the Crooked//out guitar and some singing. Benjamin Stevens provides the Nasty Battery.
Cow Parade Cow began as the solo recording project of 22 year old Mike Litton, born from the thriving Perth music scene in Western Australia. His first release was the full album-length "To the North" (2010) which was initially only intended as a collection of CD-Rs to be shared among friends. However, after a series of international blogs stumbled across the bandcamp website, a larger audience was found.
Forget the grim reality of modern living, Flash Fiktion are a living, modern Brothers Grimm. A collective of separatists since 2008, this trio have been practically living as one organism in a cold and dark rented lock up in a culturally isolated corner of South London. But looking inwards and breathing outwards has created a source of warmth and light, a technicoloured dream-pop storybook depicting a world completely at odds with today's economic and environmental gloom. Flash Fiktion is the way out, Flash Fiktion is on the way in.
Jinja Safari are an Australian indie act, formed in 2010 from a collaboration between Australian musicians Marcus Azon and Cameron 'Pepa' Knight, and eventually joined by Alister 'Nugget' Roach, Joe Citizen and Jacob Borg. Their first national exposure in Australia came from winning Australian Radio Station Triple J's 'Unearthed' competition in 2010. Their sound is comparable to Animal Collective, Sufjan Stevens and Sigur Ros.
Michigan born and bred, but with an itching to travel the seas. Sonically rich, melodically sweet, and emotionally deep, Schneider presides over tunes that brings out the loneliness and distance of cross-culturalism.
Jimmy Buffett (born December 25, 1946 in Pascagoula, Mississippi, United States) is a singer/songwriter, best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville" and "Come Monday". He has a rabid, but genial, cult following known as "Parrotheads." They call the youngest members "Parakeets." Buffett has written three No. 1 best sellers. Tales from Margaritaville and Where Is Joe Merchant? both spent over seven months on the New York Times Best Seller fiction list.
Ducktails is the solo project of Matt Mondanile (with the occasional live collaborator). http://www.ducktailstapes.com/
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Though he might look like a “tough guy”, Andrew Caddick (aka Jeans Wilder) is really a sensitive boy. For two years now, this former associate of Nathan Williams (Wavves) in the group Fantastic Magic, has delivered tapes and vinyls (including the split-7″s with Best Coast & Jean Paul) with a collection of tracks haunted by summer. During these two years he has also written, recorded and fictionalized this first album: Nice Trash. Pop melancholy for ghost flirts.