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Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien (b. March 16, 1954 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is an American bluegrass, old time and celtic musician. O'Brien plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki and mandocello and is an accomplished vocalist. He moved to Boulder, Colorado in the 1970s and became part of the music scene there. In 1978 he founded the bluegrass group Hot Rize. Hot Rize had its own offshoot band called Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers.

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Big Mountain

Big Mountain are an American Reggae and Pop music act from San Diego, California, established in 1991. The band had a major hit in 1994 with a cover of Peter Frampton's "Baby I Love Your Way", which also featured in the soundtrack to the film Reality Bites. The follow-up single , "Sweet Sensual Love" reached number fifty-one in the UK, while Unity, the album it was on, went on to sell over a million copies worldwide. Their most recent album was Versions Undercover in 2008.

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Beaumont

There are 3 artists with the name beaumont: 1. A Sydney based electronic musician, 2. A (now defunct) pop group based in London & 3. A Glasgow based electronic musician 1. beaumont Utilising the warm, retro sounds of analogue synthesisers, beaumont creates rich landscapes full of 8-bit arpeggios, leftfield glitch-outs, disco strings and summery, chord-driven nostalgia. beaumont's more esoteric mid-tempo numbers have been described as "roving, glitch-filled retro epics", while his bit-crushed, French-tinged dance-floor-ready tunes have been called "videogame mystery-funk".

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The Morning After Girls

The Morning After Girls is a pop rock band, in the vein of The Dandy Warhols, The Vines and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, from Australia. The group originally formed in Melbourne around 2003, however in 2004 founding members Sacha Lucashenko (voice/guitars) and Martin B. Sleeman (guitars/voice) relocated to Sydney. The group has released two EPs, the first on Rubber Records in 2003 and the second on Fly Music in early 2005, both of which are self-titled. Mid to late 2005 they have toured with The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Read more about The Morning After Girls on Last.fm.

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High Child

High Child is: Spud (lead vocals, guitar), Jaffar (lead guitar) Jewels (bass, backing vocals), Alex (keyboards, backing vocals) and Chris (drums). Spud and Alex grew up together in the rolling fields of Derbyshire, where there was little else to do other than climb trees and count sheep. They picked up some instruments, wrote some songs, and formed the band. The band's sound is a mixture of melodic 60s pop and gritty 90s indie. The band has written three demo albums, which have sold over 7,000 copies in total.

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Kimbra

Kimbra, born and bred in Hamilton, New Zealand has been writing a fusion of jazz and soul for over 5 years, known for her erratic but graceful voice inspired by the likes of Björk and Jeff Buckley. Kimbra's first success was in 2004, receiving Second place in the Smokefree Rockquest along with Best Vocals and Womens Musicianship. Before her debut album, Kimbra released 2 singles: 'Simply On My Lips' and 'Deep For You'. Kimbra's debut album, Vows was released in 2011. Three singles have been released from this album - 'Cameo Lover', 'Settle Down', 'Good Intent'

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