Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine are a cover band and comedy act based in Los Angeles, California. The band’s name is a play on that of rock band Rage Against the Machine, and Cheese’s pseudonym is a reference to smegma. The band specializes in playing jazz and lounge covers of popular rock and [...]
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Steve Angello was born to a Greek father and Swedish mother in Athens, Greece. Because of his father’s deep criminal ties, his father was killed when Steve was a teenager. Determined not to follow the family’s criminal traditions, a life in Stockholm, Sweden and music took the better of him. He started out as a [...]
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Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana, died June 25, 2009 in Los Angeles, California), often referred to as The King of Pop, is the biggest-selling solo artist of all time, with over 750,000,000 sales. Jackson is an inductee of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and double inductee to the Rock & [...]
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N*E*R*D is alternative rock/funk/rap group which formed in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States in 2001. The group consists of lead singer Pharrell Williams (vocals, keys, guitar), Chad Hugo (guitar, bass) and Shay Haley (drums). The band is best known for the songs “Rock Star”, “Everybody Nose” and “She Wants to Move”.
Williams and Hugo are also [...]
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Nneka Egbuna was born in a small town called Warri in Nigeria in 1981 and used to sing in her school’s and church choir in Nigeria. She says “In my life the only places I really felt secure were and still are in the Music and in the Lord“.
After relocating to Germany she’s been singing [...]
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Röyksopp is an electronic music duo based in Bergen, Norway, but the members are originally from Tromsø, up in northern Norway.
The band consists of Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge. The group formed officially in 1998 and released their debut album Melody A.M. in 2001. The Norwegian word “Røyksopp” means puffball fungus (lit. “(a) smoke mushroom”).
Röyksopp [...]
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Formed around 1990 in Los Angeles, California, United States, Tool is a band that is most noted for combining hard rock with a wide variety of progressive structures, irregular time signatures and lyrics that range from anger to philosophical and social matters. After performing a handful of shows in the Los Angeles area and up [...]
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Hercules and Love Affair is a musical project from New York formed in 2007 by DJ Andy Butler. Members include Nomi, Kim Ann Foxman and Antony Hegarty (lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons). It is signed to DFA Records. Their single “Blind” was released on 3 March,2008, and their debut album (produced by Butler [...]
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London Elektricity has become a byword for groundbreaking ‘fast soul music’, ramming venues, destroying drum & bass crowds, leaving huge smiles from the Big Chill to Glastonbury and beyond, London Elektricity Live has always been ‘out of this world’. The LE saga began way back in ‘96, and up until 2002 LE was a double-act. [...]
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Justice is an electronic music duo from Paris, formed in 2003 and consisting of Gaspard Augé (born 21 May 1979) and Xavier de Rosnay (born 2 July 1982). They are mostly known for their remix of Simian’s “Never Be Alone”, later renamed “We Are Your Friends”, as well as their “Waters of Nazareth” EP [...]
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