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King Of Spain

Based in Tampa, FL, King of Spain is the solo-project of multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Matt Slate. His debut full-length "Entropy" (out on New Granada Records) features a stirring array of well-crafted songs that tend to lean towards the experimental side (i.e. found sounds, home-made percussion intruments, and unique song structures) while maintaining a certain level of pop-sensibility. Matt Slate has another current project called FACE! It is primarily an outlet for more experimental electro-acoustic...

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The Black Tricks

Descending from Hertfordshire, The Black Tricks have invaded London like Derren Brown in a black shirt playing with the likes of Dirty Pretty Things, Lethal Bizzle and Paddingtons before headlining at Death Disco. With the song 'How do you Sleep at Night' being featured on BBC radio they are poised to explode on to the alternative scene.

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Dirty Weekend

Dirty Weekend are the bi-product of a 100 bad nights out with bad people, on bad drugs, in bad cities, “this surely must equal a bad band you say!” Well I suppose you can make your own mind up about that. Basically life was boring so we formed a band. We’ve done over 200 gigs in the last 2 years or so, taking in cities all over the UK. I Always struggle to compartmentalize our sound, the music we write is normally the sum of a horrendous come down with occasional flashes of the Saturday night previous.

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Anison

The band hail from Kingston, South west London. www.myspace.com/anison. ANISON NEW SINGLE SPATIAL AWARENESS / START AS YOU MEAN TO GO ON | OUT ON MARCH 16 2009.
The tracks have been picking up airplay on XFM and BBC6Music.
Check out www.anison.co.uk
You can download free tracks here. ANISON single 'SAFE IN OUR STATIONS/ THE MARIACHI' available NOW! through Pinnacle/16th Groove. DOWNLOAD NOW! From iTunes.

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Recommended Daily Allowance

Recommended Daily Allowance are from: London, UK.
Members are: Robin Peel - Guitar, Dan Gray - Bass Arthur Lea - Keyboards. RdA* play with John Blease / Jon Scott - Drums, Rory Simmons - Trumpet, Jon Shenoy - Tenor Saxophone, Paloma Dyke - Violin and Sam Sherwood / Lizzy May - Cello. They have been influenced by artists like: Steely Dan, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Sigur Ros, Coltrane, The Beatles, The Police, Spearhead, Talking Heads, Django Bates, Supertramp, Joni Mitchell, Simon and Garfunkel, Led Zeppelin, Field Music.

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From Light To Sound

From Light To Sound are a band from Oxford and London formed in 2008, featuring members of The Workhouse, Sunnyvale Noise Sub-element, The Evenings, Intentions of an Asteroid and Thumb Quintet. Drawing influence from the likes of Harmonia, Holy Fuck, Do Make Say Think and Neu!, their music twists and builds on the finest examples of krautrock, post-rock and instrumental art rock.

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Victoria and Jacob

Victoria and Jacob play guitar, synthesiser, melodica, glockenspiel, laptop, children's keyboards and various early learning centre noise making devices, and create electro-acoustic, indie-pop music. Formed in Cambridge in the summer of 2006, they now share a flat in north London. Their first EP, "Super Computer" was recorded and produced at their home studio in Cambridge and self released in April 2008...

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