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Houses

1) Houses is an anonymous lo-fi electronic duo out of Chicago, Illinois. They are signed to Lefse Records. 2) Houses is also an alternative pop band from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. They've released an EP with 5 songs called End Of Story in march 2010. 3) Houses is a psychedelic rock and roll revival 7 piece from Denver, Colorado. They released 3 EPs in 2009 (Spring EP, Summer EP, Fall EP) and are currently recording a full length.

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Mazes

http://www.myspace.com/chicagomazes Mazes is the first album from a band called Mazes. The band called Mazes includes Caroline Donovan and songwriter Edward Anderson of the Chicago band The 1900s, their peculiar friend Charles D’Autremont and a select group of guest musicians from some of Chicago’s best bands. Mazes songs are sometimes written and recorded in one long night and sometimes gather dust on 4-Track cassettes for years before being resurrected and transformed...

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Triple Darkness

Triple darkness was born out of the coming together of the formula known as phalanx heresy and one of britains most serious verbal marksmen m9ine after his heavy featuring on the anathema album both partys agreed that coming together would only strengthen and consolidate the vision which both had uniting under one banner as the triple darkness was the only way forward. under this new force we have Nasheron a dart thrower in every sense of the word his shuriken katanaz technique of writing unparalleled on these shores...

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Disruptive Influence

Disruptive Influence are a now defunct melodic punk band from Edzell in the North East of Scotland, releasing two EP's: "The Turquoise EP" & "Since When Did Tesco Have A Dress Code?", there's also a "Live At The Barcode" DVD and some of the live tracks from that show in circulation. Two members moved on to play in MAFAFI. Martin ate cheese. Disruptive Influence were also known to have an unofficial fourth member who accompanied the band through it's various guises. Although little is known about this fourth member he was referred to as Crazy Dave and was said to be quite sexually ambiguous.

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Syl Johnson

Syl Johnson (b. July 1, 1936) is an American blues and soul singer and music producer. Born Sylvester Thompson in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Johnson sang and played with blues artists Magic Sam, Billy Boy Arnold, Junior Wells and Howlin' Wolf in the 1950s, before recording with Jimmy Reed for Vee-Jay in 1959. He made his solo debut that same year with Federal, a subsidiary of King Records of Cincinnati, backed by Freddie King on guitar.

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Kevin Drumm

Kevin Drumm is an musician based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Emerging from the city's improvised music scene, in the 1990s he became one the world's pre-eminent prepared guitar players. Years active from 1991. Drumm's work expanded to include compositions and live electronic music made with laptop computers and analog modular synthesizers. He has collaborated with many artists working in similar fields, including Japanese guitarist Taku Sugimoto, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jim O'Rourke...

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The Bomb

Hailing from Chicago, The Bomb is a punk trio featuring former Naked Raygun leader Jeff Pezzatti (vocals, bass). Rounding out the group is John Maxwell (guitar), and Paul Garcia (drums). The group came together in the late 1990s and formed Jettison Music, an imprint that has also released recordings by The Matics and Green. The Bomb made their recorded debut with a 3-song EP in 1999 and released a full-length in 2000 entitled Torch Songs, which was recorded by friend (and former Big Black bandmate), Steve Albini.

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