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info: The Rumour Said Fire is a Danish band, founded in 2008 by singer, songwriter and guitarist Jesper Lidang.The group performed for the first time together in May 2008 and opened in 2009 for Passion Pit in Copenhagen.The group released the single Evil Son in August 2009,[1] followed by their debut EP The Life and Death of a Male Body 21 September 2009. In October the subsequent single The Balcony,[2] was released.The group won the P3 Guld prize in the category "The P3 Talent 2009."On 20 September 2010 The Rumour Said Fire released the single Sentimentally Falling, from their second album The Arrogant, which was released in October 2010. The single was on P3's Uungåelige.[3] wikipedia 

bio: Langhorne Slim is an American singer-songwriter, (born Sean Scolnick on August 20, 1980 in Langhorne, Pennsylvania).  In 2006, Langhorne Slim and the War Eagles signed to V2 Records for one EP and an LP.  On August 9, 2009, Langhorne Slim sang "God Bless America" during the seventh inning stretch during a Philadelphia Phillies-Florida Marlins game at Citizens Bank Park as WXPN's Artist to Watch and has twice been featured on the station's live at noon concert series. via: Wikipedia

bio: John Lennon Songwriting Contest Grand Prize Winner 2012 Female Songwriter and Artist of the Year - Vancouver Island Music Awards 2011

Helen Austin is a prolific singer/songwriter from the UK now living on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.  

She is no stranger to the stage and has worked as a professional performer for over 20 years. After her previous life as an award winning stand-up comedian, she brings her quirky humour to her musical performances, as well as the ability to tug at your heart strings with her more serious songs.

With her self-produced music videos getting over a million viewers online, she has been earning accolades and acquiring fans from around the world. Her music is now getting regularly licensed in Network TV shows such as '90210', 'One Tree Hill' and 'Ghost Whisperer', along with many MTV shows and ads, including a European Nivea ad campaign.

bio: Nina Nastasia was born in Hollywood, California and is of Calabrian and Irish descent.[1] She began writing songs in 1993,[2]and released her first album, Dogs, in 2000. Only 1,500 copies of the album were initially pressed, with Nastasia putting together the album packaging herself in her apartment. Nastasia sold them at her shows, quickly selling all of them. By the end of the year 2000, the album was out of print. Famed DJ John Peel took notice of the album (calling it "astonishing") after having been given a copy by Steve Albini. Peel began playing songs from it constantly on his radio show on BBC Radio 1. The album, as well as Nastasia, subsequently gained a cult following.[3]Nastasia has released six albums, one in collaboration with Jim White. Her first album, Dogs, was initially released in 2000 on Socialist Records. Her subsequent albums, The Blackened Air (2002) and Run to Ruin (2003), were released on indielabel Touch and Go Records, which also re-released Dogs in 2004. In 2006, On Leaving was released on Fat Cat Records. In 2007, an album on which she collaborated with Jim White entitled You Follow Me was released through Fat Cat. All of Nastasia's albums to date were recorded by Steve Albini, who has ardently praised her music in a number of interviews.Nastasia recorded six sessions for late BBC disc jockey John Peel's show. The last one was recorded with the help of Tuvan throat singing group Huun-Huur-Tu. Two of Nastasia's songs were included in Peel's annual Festive Fifty: "Ugly Face" (ranked 4th in 2002) and "You, Her & Me" (ranked 13th in 2003).[4]"Stormy Weather"MENU0:00Album version, as it appeared on DogsProblems playing this file? See media help.A 7-inch single, titled "What She Doesn't Know" was released on February 25, 2008. The single featured the title track, along with the song "Your Red Nose". Both tracks were recorded by Steve Albini during the On Leavingsessions. Nastasia has called the single "a good complement to You Follow Me".[5] A solo American and European tour coincided with the release of the single.The single "Cry, Cry, Baby" was released on May 10, 2010 internationally and May 18 in the US.[6] Her sixth studio album, Outlaster, followed on June 7, 2010.[7] wiki

info:  My Brightest Diamond is the project of singer–songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shara Worden. The band has released four studio albums, 2006's Bring Me the Workhorse, 2008's A Thousand Shark's Teeth, 2011's All Things Will Unwind, and 2014's This Is My Hand, along with remix albums Tear It Down and Shark Remixes, Volumes 1-4. Worden has also recorded and performed with The Decemberists (as "The Queen" on their album Hazards of Love) and Sufjan Stevens' albums Illinoise and The Age of Adz. 

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