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Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 - April 21, 2016), known professionally as Prince, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, actor, and filmmaker. He was associated with the development of the Minneapolis sound, a style that combined elements of funk, rock, pop, R&B, and new wave. Throughout his career, he was noted for his musical versatility, prolific output, and influence on popular music. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Prince was raised in a musical family. Read more on Last.fm

The Chemical Brothers are an English electronic music duo formed in Manchester in 1992 by Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands. They are regarded as one of the leading acts associated with the big beat genre and have also incorporated elements of house, techno, neo-psychedelia and alternative dance into their music. The duo originally performed under the name The Dust Brothers, adopting it in reference to the American production duo of the same name. Following objections from the original Dust Brothers Read more on Last.fm

Check https://merylstreek.bandcamp.com/ Meryl Streek is a Post-Punk band from Dublin, Ireland. Read more on Last.fm

Anaiis (formerly known as Anaïs) is a London-based singer-songwriter who released her debut EP 'before zero' in 2018. Born in Toulouse, France to a Senegalese father and Franco-Italian mother, Anaiis played violin and sang in a classical choir. At the age of ten, she moved to Dublin, learned English and started to experiment as a songwriter. Later relocating to California, where her first exposure to gospel and R&B led to a love of soul music, and to New York, where she graduated from the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU. Read more on Last.fm

Big Thief is an American indie folk-rock band formed in Brooklyn, New York in 2015 and comprises Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, and James Krivchenia. Big Thief's music, rooted in the songs of Adrianne Lenker, paints in vivid tones "the process of harnessing pain, loss, and love, while simultaneously letting go, looking into your own eyes through someone else's, and being okay with the inevitability of death," says Adrianne. Masterpiece, Big Thief's debut album Read more on Last.fm

Massive Shoe’ continues songwriter Dylan Young’s foray into revivalist pop coloured by his own creative fingerprint.
 In the past year, Way Dynamic have released their sophomore LP ‘Duck’ to excellent reviews, toured with Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman & The Wind, and are now already returning with another full length release ‘Massive Shoe’, resuming Young’s exploration into minimalist folk-pop, baroque pop and art rock. 
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Born John Martin Maher on 31 October 1963 to Irish immigrants in Ardwick Manchester, UK, Johnny Marr is a guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. He is best known for being the founder member, songwriter and guitarist in The Smiths. The band released numerous singles and four studio albums between 1983 and 1987 until the band dissolved. Since leaving The Smiths in 1987, Marr focused mainly on contributing to the work of established bands. He played session guitar and or wrote music for artists such as The Pretenders Read more on Last.fm

Sneaker Pimps is an English downtempo/trip-hop band, initially active from 1995 to 2006 and working together again since 2019. As Line of Flight and Frisk, DJs and childhood friends Chris Corner from Middlesbrough and Liam Howe from Hartlepool released two EPs: "Soul of Indiscretion" and "World as A Cone" in the early 1990s. While not nearly as complex as the song-based material they would produce, these bedroom-recorded mixes of sampled beats and folk sounds would form the blueprint for the later sound. Read more on Last.fm

Seun Kuti is Nigerian musician and singer Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti (born in Lagos on 11 January 1983), the youngest son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti and brother of (eldest son) Femi Kuti. He leads his father's former band Egypt 80 and records as Seun Kuti & Egypt 80. He has also recorded as Seun Kuti & Black Thought. In 2018, the 'Black Times' album was nominated for the Grammys, under the World Music Category. In 2019, Kuti was named one of the "100 Most Influential People" by TIME Magazine for his music and activism. Read more on Last.fm

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