Toph, aka Trouble Over Tokyo, is an independent musician from London England. Aside from being a multi-instrumentalist of prodigious talent he is gifted with a truly astounding voice. His songs reflect themes ranging from alienation and loneliness to love, pain, and pure joy. www.troubleovertokyo.com
Broken Spindles is the brainchild of Joel Petersen of Omaha, Nebraska. He is in other Saddle Creek bands, playing bass guitar in The Faint and Beep Beep. The music is mostly instrumental with minimal vocals which Petersen sings. It originally started in 2001 as the soundtrack for a friend's film. It developed into a solo project with the first release in 2002 on Tiger Style Records. In between touring with The Faint and Beep Beep, Petersen found time to write music for Broken Spindles. The song, "Song No Song," from fulfilled/complete was used in a car commercial for Lexus
Tanlines is a band that produces its own music with Jesse Cohen from Professor Murder and Eric Emm from Brothers. It's calypso disco electro music for various kinds of sex, doncha know?
There are, at least, two artists known as ceo/CEO. 1. ceo: A pseudonym of Eric Berglund (of The Tough Alliance). Co-founder and owner of Sincerely Yours records based in Göteborg, Sweden.“Come With Me” is the first single from the forthcoming ceo album, White Magic, which comes out late June on Modular. 2. CEO: A pseudonym of Fatir M. Hidayat (aka Frederick Murl Randle & FMH, born 4 Jan 1971, Houston,Texas). The CEO of Enterprise Entertainment Recording Group, (made in 1998), who has produced several mix tapes, video production and albums for Enterprise Entertainment Recording Group.
Lali Puna are from Weilheim, Bavaria, Germany. The band was brought to life in early 1998 by Valerie Trebeljahr who sings and plays keyboards. Having a lot of time on her hands after her all-girl-band l.b.page had split up, she used the four-track-recorder as a kind of band replacement. Then came Markus Acher, relaxing from his The Notwist and Tied & Tickled Trio duties (and from living in a house with Mr. Morr) and thus he became Lali Puna’s second member.
Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra is a project by multi-instrumentalist Shawn Lee. Shawn grew up in a rural area on the outskirts of Wichita, Kansas. His mother is half Lebanese, half American Indian, his father Irish-American. While his peers got off on cheesy corporate rock and the kind of line-dancing tunes recently fashionable in Gap ads, Shawn was groovin to the blaxploitation funk Sly and the Isleys.
Ben Gibbard (born August 11, 1976 in Bremerton, Washington) is an American musician and songwriter who has formed several indie bands. He is most notable as the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie; his other projects include The Postal Service and All-Time Quarterback. He has also created music under his name and under the band Pinwheel. Gibbard appeared as a guest on Jimmy Tamborello's (his Postal Service collaborator) Dntel album entitled Life is Full of Possibilities (2001) - Specifically, he contributed vocals to the song "(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan.
We are Standard or Standard as they are known in Europe are an indie band from Guecho, Vizcaya, Spain. Their indie'tronic sound has been delighting the Spanish masses and their first album 3000v-40000w was released in the USA in July 2007 under the artist name We Are Standard as well as some European countries taking them on a tour including some international festivals like F.I.B, Eurosonic and Popkomm.
If you come across a Teenager or early Teen who is into HipHop nowadays, it