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Albert Hammond, Jr.

Albert Hammond, Jr. (born April 9, 1980, in Los Angeles) is a musician best known as the guitarist for the rock band The Strokes. Outside of the band, he has released two solo albums. The son of Gibraltarian-British songwriter Albert Hammond, Albert Jr. was sent to the elite boarding school Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland at the age of 13. While there, he met Julian Casablancas, who would go on to be a fellow band member. In 1998, Albert met up with Julian in New York City and together they formed a band with Julian's former schoolmates: Nick Valensi, Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti.

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Patti Plinko and her Boy

An enthralling, passionate and uncompromising performer and writer, Patti has been likened to Jacques Brel, Bjork, Edith Piaf and Nick Cave. Eccentric, brooding satirical songs. Greatly influenced by European cinema, and the satirical underworld of Berlin performance art. Patti will holler, whisper and woo the audience taking them into a dark seductive world of art, sex and death. Arousing chemistry seethes beneath gas masked theatrics, welcome to the world of Dada Noir.

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Dave Fulton

Dave's most recent Hypnos-related work is The Range, a collaboration with Giles Reaves released on the Hypnos/Binary sublabel in April 2007. The release will be supported by a loosely-scheduled mini-tour of sorts, including performances at The Gathering in Philadelphia, and an Echoes Living Room Concert, as well as local shows in Portland and elsewhere. Details of these shows will be listed on the Hypnos News page.

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Fields

There are at least 5 bands named Fields: 1) Fields were an Anglo-Icelandic electronic/indie band formed in London comprising Nick Peill (Vocals/Acoustic Guitar/Keyboards), Þórunn Antonía (Vocals/Keyboards/Synths), Henry Spenner (Vocals/Drums), Matty Derham (Bass Guitar) and Jamie Putnam (Electric Guitar). In early 2006 the band played their first live shows. This sparked a furious bidding war amongst UK record companies. They eventually signed a unique deal with Atlantic Records which allows them to keep releasing records through their own Black Lab Records set-up as well as Atlantic.

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