What: "Get It Daddy"
Who: Sleeper Agent
Hails From: Bowling Green, Kentucky
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“We gonna have a ball but we ain’t got no need for chains!” opens the chorus of SLEEPER AGENT’s devil-may-care anthem: “Shuga Cane”. With that one phrase these Bowling Green, KY natives lay the groundwork for a sound that’s infectious, fast and overflowing with energy. Dueling vocals between lead singer Kidd and guitarist Tutone, accompanied by the driving rhythms of Keyser and Grizzlee set the stage for Saga to synthesize the flavor of Sleeper Agent’s signature sound. With a slew of shows on the horizon and their debut album, entitled “Celabrasion” produced by Jay Joyce, Sleeper Agent is on their mark to get set and awaken your love for all things rock.
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What: "Don't Gotta Work It Out"
Who: Fitz & The Tantrums
Hails From: Los Angeles, California |
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Fitz & the Tantrums are an American soul group from Los Angeles, California. The group was founded by Michael Fitzpatrick, who had begun writing soul music for a solo project on an old church organ he had purchased. He added friend James King to the group as an arranger and soon after expanded the band to a seven-piece, including several horns. Fitzpatrick shares the vocal duties with Noelle Scaggs. Other members include Joseph Karnes, Jeremy Ruzumna, and John Wicks.
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What: The Runner
Who: The Boxer Rebellion
Hails From: London, United Kingdom |
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International Anglophone band comprising American Nathan Nicholson, Australian Todd Howe and Englishmen Adam Harrison and Piers Hewitt; together they deliver a mixture of rawkus bass-heavy grooves, alternately fragile and explosive vocals, and melodic indie/alternative sounds. So far the band have released “The Boxer Rebellion” EP (in 2003), “Code Red” and “In Pursuit” (in 2004), and the “Exits” LP (in 2005). A limited edition vinyl of “Evacuate” preceded by a year their new and second LP “Union” , released on January 11th, 2009 exclusively through iTunes, along with a worldwide re-release of “Exits”.
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What: "Love Is Dead"
Who: Kopek
Hails From: Dublin, Ireland |
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The Irish trio has a history that stretches back a decade. Drummer Shane Cooney and bassist Brad Kinsella grew up as next-door neighbors in Dublin, and through their shared love of classic and modern rock music, quickly decided that rock stardom was their ticket to bigger and better things. “We listened to all the old stuff, The Stones, Hendrix, The Doors, Zeppelin, amazing bands where you can hear the energy,” recalls Cooney. The first singer who answered their ad in a local musician’s magazine turned out to be the golden voiced Daniel Jordan, and from there Kopek, average age 15, was born.
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What: "Got It All"
Who: Portugal. The Man
Hails From: Wasilla, Alaska |
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Portugal. The Man is an experimental indie rock four-piece centered on frontman John Baldwin Gourley’s abstract musical approach and corresponding upbringing. He was raised in a sort of technological isolation: his log cabin home in the winter wasteland of the fringes of Wasilla, Alaska was powered by a generator and had no telephone. Both of his parents helped completely immerse him in the unique lifestyle that comes with a land of seasonal darkness and perpetual cold with their jobs as dog sled mushers. Gourley’s innate curiosity and individual spirit combined with a fascination with science fiction and experiences of homelessness create a distinctly transcendent sound that is always open to interpretation and change.
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What: "Follow The Leader"
Who: Sloan
Hails From: Halifax, Canada
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To many, 1991’s Sloan is one of today’s quintessential Canadian bands, as cliche as it might sound. Since their debut EP Peppermint in1992, the fab four - Halifax natives, now relocated to Toronto - have forged a distinct niche for themselves in the Canadian scene. The outfit includes Jay Ferguson and Patrick Pentland on guitar, Chris Murphy on bass, and Andrew Scott on drums; each have their own unique songwriting voice and style, each contribute equally.
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What: "Follow The Leader"
Who: Sloan
Hails From: Halifax, Canada
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To many, 1991’s Sloan is one of today’s quintessential Canadian bands, as cliche as it might sound. Since their debut EP Peppermint in1992, the fab four - Halifax natives, now relocated to Toronto - have forged a distinct niche for themselves in the Canadian scene. The outfit includes Jay Ferguson and Patrick Pentland on guitar, Chris Murphy on bass, and Andrew Scott on drums; each have their own unique songwriting voice and style, each contribute equally.
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What: "Slap Slap Slap"
Who: The Death Set
Hails From: Sydney, Australia
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The Death Set is a music group formed in 2005 in Sydney, Australia by Johnny Siera and Beau Velasco. Six months after its inception the band moved to the East Coast of the United States, spending most of its time in Brooklyn, Baltimore and Philadelphia where the band found an audience for its style of spastic, cross genre punk rock. All members currently live in Brooklyn, where the band is based. The band fuses punk rock sound and energy, electronic music production and hip hop sampling into their recordings. Their live shows are high energy events often played at crowd level with the audience surrounding the band.
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What: "Slap Slap Slap"
Who: The Death Set
Hails From: Sydney, Australia
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The Death Set is a music group formed in 2005 in Sydney, Australia by Johnny Siera and Beau Velasco. Six months after its inception the band moved to the East Coast of the United States, spending most of its time in Brooklyn, Baltimore and Philadelphia where the band found an audience for its style of spastic, cross genre punk rock. All members currently live in Brooklyn, where the band is based. The band fuses punk rock sound and energy, electronic music production and hip hop sampling into their recordings. Their live shows are high energy events often played at crowd level with the audience surrounding the band.
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What: "Saturday Night"
Who: Travis Barker
Hails From: Fontana, California
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Travis Landon Barker, (born November 14, 1975), is the current drummer for blink-182 and +44. Travis has also played drums for Box Car Racer, The Transplants, The Aquabats (as Baron Von Tito) and is 1/3 in hiphop group Expensive Taste with Transplants bandmate Rob Aston.
According to Songfacts, Barker released his first solo album, Give The Drummer Some on March 15, 2011. The title was based on something James Brown used to say on stage when he would break it down and let the drummer take over.
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What: "Saturday Night"
Who: Travis Barker
Hails From: Fontana, California
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Travis Landon Barker, (born November 14, 1975), is the current drummer for blink-182 and +44. Travis has also played drums for Box Car Racer, The Transplants, The Aquabats (as Baron Von Tito) and is 1/3 in hiphop group Expensive Taste with Transplants bandmate Rob Aston.
According to Songfacts, Barker released his first solo album, Give The Drummer Some on March 15, 2011. The title was based on something James Brown used to say on stage when he would break it down and let the drummer take over.
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What:"Sofi Needs A Ladder"
Who: Deadmau5
Hails From: Toronto, Ontario
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Joel Thomas Zimmerman (born January 5, 1981), better known by his stage name deadmau5, is a Canadian progressive, electro, and house producer based in Toronto, Ontario. His tracks have been included in compilation albums such as In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza, MixMag's Tech-Trance-Electro-Madness (mixed by deadmau5 himself), and on Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance radio show. His debut album, Get Scraped, was released in 2006, followed by others in the next few years...
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What:"Sofi Needs A Ladder"
Who: Deadmau5
Hails From: Toronto, Ontario
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Joel Thomas Zimmerman (born January 5, 1981), better known by his stage name deadmau5, is a Canadian progressive, electro, and house producer based in Toronto, Ontario. His tracks have been included in compilation albums such as In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza, MixMag's Tech-Trance-Electro-Madness (mixed by deadmau5 himself), and on Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance radio show. His debut album, Get Scraped, was released in 2006, followed by others in the next few years...
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What:"Old Man"
Who: Redlight King
Hails From: Hamilton, Ontario
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Intense, soulful and poetic, Redlight King's music is both biographical and cathartic. Using the backdrop of his humble beginnings growing up in the hardworking Canadian steel town of Hamilton, Ontario, Redlight King frontman and songwriter, Kaz, wrote his first song at the age of 7 but didn't pick up a guitar until he was 21...
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What:"Old Man"
Who: Redlight King
Hails From: Hamilton, Ontario
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Intense, soulful and poetic, Redlight King's music is both biographical and cathartic. Using the backdrop of his humble beginnings growing up in the hardworking Canadian steel town of Hamilton, Ontario, Redlight King frontman and songwriter, Kaz, wrote his first song at the age of 7 but didn't pick up a guitar until he was 21...
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