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Lady Lamb The Beekeeper

Lady Lamb the Beekeeper is the musical moniker of Aly Spaltro. Spaltro began her music career writing and recording songs in a DVD rental store in Brunswick, Maine, using the store as her studio after finishing her midnight shift at the cash register. She anonymously gave out free samples of her first demo CD under the name Lady Lamb The Beekeeper, and quickly gained local popularity.

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Jana Hunter

Jana Hunter is a songwriter and musician, and was born in Texas. She is now(2010) based in Baltimore. She has recently(2009) formed a new band named Lower Dens and toured the USA with Future Islands(2010). She is signed to Gnomonsong, a record label run by Devendra Banhart and Vetiver's Andy Cabic. Her solo debut album Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom was the label's debut release. She later completed her second album "There's No Home" as well as "Carrion EP".

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Rose Rovine e Amanti

Rose Rovine e Amanti is a musical project based in Rome lead by Damiano Mercuri aided by Noemi York Christian Valente and Giuseppe Lorenzoni. The sound has changed through the years from a pure neo-folk to a wider range of sounds. The music is a brilliant mixture of acoustic neofolk-rock with some bitter songwirtin’ tunes. To describe their music we could mention artists like: Sol Invictus, And Also The Trees, David Bowie, Lucio Battisti, Leonard Cohen, Death In June & Current 93 and Jacques Brel style, all reinforced by a Mediterranean taste.

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Jeremy Jay

Jeremy Jay lives in Angel town. He writes songs and plays piano and guitar. He says one of his favorite things to do is drive around with the moonroof open and listen to music with his friends.
Jeremy has gone on a couple west coast tours and has played with a variety of bands. His performances on the surface seem like a pop singer's performance: dancing, singing and playing guitar. Yet he's still so elusive.

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Bowerbirds

Bowerbirds are Beth Tacular, Phil Moore and Mark Paulson from North Carolina. They make leafy folk-pop with guitars, accordions and violins. They self-released their debut EP Danger At Sea in August 2006 and were signed to Burly Time Records later that year. Their first full length album, Hymns for a Dark Horse, was released in Spring 2007 on Burly Time Records. Their fluent, characteristic style, marked by wonderfully skilled songcraft and bucolic imagery, has since earned them several positive reviews.

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Antony Hegarty

Antony Hegarty is an acclaimed mercury prize winning singer, best known for his work with Antony and the Johnsons and Hercules and Love Affair. Born in 1971, Hegarty is of Irish and English Decent. Hegarty has made three albums with Antony and the Johnsons: Antony and the Johnsons, I Am a Bird Now,The Crying Light. As well as these, he has released four Eps, Another World being the most recent of theese.

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