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Great Earthquake

One man band Noah Symons from Melbourne, Australia.
http://www.myspace.com/greatearthquake Noah Symons is an visual artist and musician, who in his musical performance utilises a number of instruments to create soundscapes, organically built up in time, with a strong emphasis on rhythm. As a visual artist Noah makes drawings, video, paintings, and photography all with an emphasis on the body's relationship to things (through notations, annotations, make-making, etc.

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Faker

Faker is an Australian alternative rock band, formed in Sydney in 1996. The band consists of vocalist Nathan Hudson, drummer Evan Mannell, guitarist Nic Munnings, and bassist Ash Moss. Their touring keyboardist is Dizzi de Cazz. The band has released two studio albums, and despite forming in 1996, Faker's first studio album Addicted Romantic, was only released in 2005. Prior to that, the band played multiple local gigs, and also released two EPs. In 2007, Faker became a mainstream success with their second album, Be the Twilight, and went on to continue touring nationally.

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Polygon Palace

Polygon Palace formed after a chance encounter between recreational time-traveller Adam Ferns and future-street-tough Gabriel Crossan, at The Polygon Palace Of Time Adventure ($5 Wednesdays), when both decided to go for the 'Super Saver Spin'. Several random eras and misadventures later, they placed their arms outside the ride and crash-landed in Melbourne in the early 21st century. Determined to raise enough money for a ticket home, they formed a band, harnessing the medium of popular song to share their experiences of vampire-hunting robots...

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Friendly Fires

Friendly Fires is a dancepunk band which formed in 2006 in St Albans, England. They consist of Ed MacFarlane (vocals), Edd Gibson (guitar) and Jack Savidge (drums). The band released their self-titled debut album on 1 September 2008. It contains the singles "Paris", "Jump in the Pool", and "Skeleton Boy", which is a rip off of Olive's 90s hit "You're Not Alone". Formed out of the ashes of First Day Back, the St Albans, United Kingdom hardcore band they formed while still at school, Friendly Fires make razor-sharp post-punk that burns through the memories of all the dismal...

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Josh McDonald

Richard (Josh) McDonald is a guitarist from Adelaide, South Australia. Originally hailing from Port Lincoln, McDonalds influences stem from avenues as varied as Jeff Buckley to Tool and Justin Timberlake. McDonald is currently in the midst of writing songs for his forthcoming album, 'If Only Your Tears Were Real, Peter', due for release at the end of 2007

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Art of Sleeping

<a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Art+of+Sleeping" class="bbcode_artist">Art of Sleeping</a> is a <a href="http://www.last.fm/tag/rock" class="bbcode_tag" rel="tag">rock</a> band from Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
The members are: Caleb Hodges: Vocals & Guitars; Jean-Paul Malengret: Drums; Jarryd Shuker: Keyboards; Patrick Silver: Guitars; Francois Malengret: Bass.
When asked to describe their sound, the boys cited The Temper Trap, Coldplay, Phoenix and listed their influences as Copeland, Foals and Jeff Buckley. You can find them on <a href="http://triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=41620" rel="nofollow">Triple J Unearthed</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/theartofsleeping" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://soundcloud.com/search?q%5Bfulltext%5D=art+of+sleeping" rel="nofollow">Soundcloud</a>, <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/au/artist/art-of-sleeping/id503889254" rel="nofollow">iTunes</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/theartofsleepingsound" rel="nofollow">Myspace</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/artofsleeping" rel="nofollow">YouTube</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/artofsleeping/" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a>.

The Shins

The Shins are an American indie rock band consisting of James Mercer (vocals, guitar), Jessica Dobson (guitar), Yuuki Matthews (bass), Richard Swift (keyboards) and Joe Plummer (drums). The band formed in 1997, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States as a side project of Mercer (previously of Blue Roof Dinner) and drummer Jesse Sandoval, who were both members of Flake Music. The band's original lineup was Mercer (vocals, guitar), Sandoval (drums), Marty Crandall (keyboards) and Dave Hernandez (bass).

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Bobby Long

British singer-songwriter-guitarist Bobby Long's anticipated debut studio album A WINTER TALE, produced by Liam Watson (White Stripes) will be released February 1st, 2011 on ATO Records. Currently residing in New York City, the 24-year old Long has been writing finely-crafted songs since taking up the guitar at age 17; from then on he’s been creating memorable songs inhabited by hauntingly poetic lyrics.

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Jónsi

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Jón Þór Birgisson, aka Jónsi, is the guitarist and vocalist for the Icelandic band Sigur Rós. He is universally known for his soft inimitable falsetto voice. He has also released an album as one half of Jónsi & Alex with his boyfriend Alex Somers, formerly of the band Parachutes. Jónsi's solo album, Go, was released on April 6th 2010. In his solo venture Jónsi departs from the ethereal, dreamy landscapes present in Sigur Rós' music and instead concentrates on shorter, more instant 'portrait' tunes.