Greg Dowling and Shane Johnson have been playing records in public since the late 1980s. Their residency at Ireland’s longest running and best known house club, Sweat at Sir Henry’s in Cork, spanned more than a decade and influenced a generation of Irish clubbers and deejays.
Over the 1990s Sweat built up a huge international reputation, [...]
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Santigold (born Santi White on September 25, 1976) is an alternative rock musician, songwriter and producer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States who formerly went under the stage name Santogold. She is perhaps best known for the song L.E.S. Artistes which became a hit in the UK and on American alternative radio. In February 2009, she [...]
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Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam (born 17 July 1977), better known by her stage name M.I.A., is a British songwriter, record producer, vocalist and artist.
An accomplished visual artist by 2002, she came to prominence in early 2004 through file-sharing of her singles “Galang” and “Sunshowers” on the Internet. She released her Mercury Prize-nominated debut album Arular in [...]
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Soundgarden was a seminal seattle rock band who helped to define the sound that came to be called grunge. Despite starting years earlier, and having a sound that more closely resembled Black Sabbath or Deep Purple than their contemporaries, they are usually considered one of the ‘big four’ of the ’90s Seattle grunge bands, along [...]
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Faith No More are an alternative/experimental rock group that formed in San Francisco, California in 1982. Their music combined elements of heavy metal, funk, hardcore punk, progressive, soul, hip hop, and jazz, among many others.
Faith No More formed in 1982 out of the ashes of Faith No Man, a band formed and headed by Mike [...]
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Kris Kross were a rap duo from the early nineties, discovered and produced by Jermaine Dupri.
Their debut album “Totally Krossed Out”, released in 1992, which included this song “Jump”, sold four million copies in the US and topped the charts for eight weeks. They were also famous for their fashion styling —consisting of wearing [...]
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Millencolin is a rock band that was formed in October of 1992 by Erik Ohlsson, Mathias Färm and Nikola Sarcevic in Örebro, Sweden. Fredrik Larzon joined the band in early 1993 which cemented the lineup. Millencolin as a word derives from the skateboard-trick melancholy (also known as “sad air”) because of their passion for skateboarding. [...]
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A Silent Film have established themselves as one of the most exciting live acts in the UK today. Following on from gigs with artists as diverse as Mystery Jets, Metronomy, Athlete and Glasvegas they are about to embark on their first headline tour of the UK in support of their debut album ‘The City that [...]
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Coldplay is a British alternative rock band, formed in London, United Kingdom in 1997. The band comprises vocalist and pianist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer Will Champion.
Having released four successful albums, (all of which debuted at #1 on the UK album chart) Coldplay have also achieved great success with [...]
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Tokio Hotel is a pop/rock band found in 2001 in Magdeburg, Germany. The twins, Bill and Tom Kaulitz (born in Magdeburg, Germany on 9/1/89) have been performing since the age of 9. After a show in Magdeburg, Bill and Tom met Gustav Schäfer (born 9/8/88) and Georg Listing (born 3/31/87). Their tastes in music soon [...]
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