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Foals are a rock band which formed in Oxford, England in 2005. The band consists of Yannis Philippakis (vocals, guitar), Jimmy Smith (guitar), Walter Gervers (bass) and Jack Bevan (drums). The band has released seven albums: "Antidotes" (2008), "Total Life Forever" (2010), "Holy Fire" (2013), "What Went Down" (2015), "Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Pt. 1" (2019) , "Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Pt. 2" (2019), and "Life is Yours" (2022). In January 2018, it was announced that Walter Gervers (bass) was leaving the band. Read more on Last.fm

187 Lockdown were a British United Kingdom garage act, comprising Danny Harrison and Julian Jonah. The duo produced one album, with four singles releases from it, and remixed many songs towards the end of the nineties. The song "Gunman" sampled from Ennio Morricone's "Sixty Seconds to What" from the film For a Few Dollars More. After their success under this name, the duo abandoned the moniker and continued to record under other aliases such as Gant, Nu-Birth and M-Factor. Read more on Last.fm

Ezra Furman is a singer and songwriter from Chicago, Illinois. It is difficult to peg her as part of a single musical genre because she loves to experiment with different styles of songwriting. Suffice it to say that Ezra makes up songs and plays them on her acoustic guitar with ferocious energy and gut wrenching sincerity. Her music is derivative of, but never completely part of, a number of musical genres: rock, blues, punk, folk and pop are some prime examples. Read more on Last.fm

There is more than one artist with this name, including: 1) SOAK is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson from Derry. 2) Soak was a 1990s American industrial rock band from Texas. 3) SOAK was a Spanish punk band. 4) Soak was an instrumental Christian Worship Band. 1) SOAK is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson (born in Derry on 2 May 1996). They broke onto Derry’s music scene at 14, recording demos and gigging. Read more on Last.fm

Tyler Gregory Okonma (born on March 6, 1991 in Hawthorne, California, USA) also known as Tyler, The Creator, is a Grammy award-winning American rapper, singer, record producer, director, fashion designer, and the head of his independent record label, Odd Future Records. He was the leader of the now-defunct Los Angeles hip-hop collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA). Since his first recordings had debuted on The Odd Future Tape in 2007, he had rapped on, and produced for, nearly every OFWGKTA release. Read more on Last.fm

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Boy Harsher is an American electronic / darkwave duo, formed in 2013, that produces gritty dance beats infused with ethereal vocals, creating a sound that is eerie, intense and incredibly danceable. Gus Muller of Reconss develops the underbelly of sound with minimal beats and grinding synths, where Jae Matthews whispers, screams and chants on top. Together, the music created is somewhere between dance, trance and confessional storytelling. Boy Harsher draws heavily from cinema Read more on Last.fm

The Au Pairs was a post-punk band who formed in Birmingham, UK in 1979. Musically they were very similar to bands such as Ludus, Gang of Four and Delta 5. That is, the rhythm section was tight and funky (obvious influences were James Brown and Funkadelic), but the guitars were light and "scratchy" (like Subway Sect). All these bands shared a strongly left wing social outlook, but the Au Pairs stood out due to their frontwoman, Lesley Woods, being Read more on Last.fm

There are at least eight artists named Mala: 1) Mala (Martin Lawrence) is a DJ and producer mostly associated with the genre dubstep. He is one half of Digital Mystikz (also known as DMZ), a dubstep production duo consisting of Mala and Coki from the South London suburb of Norwood SE25. Go to http://www.dmzuk.com and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Mystikz for more info 2) MALA (SERIES media): Andrés Ramírez (a.k.a. MALA) Inspired by a whole range of music and an insatiable taste for bleeps Read more on Last.fm

Alewya Demmisse, known artistically as Alewya, is a British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist, and model. Demmisse was born in Saudi Arabia to a Sudanese-raised Egyptian father and an Ethiopian mother. She was brought up in Sudan before her family relocated to the UK as refugees when she was five and then grew up in West London. She is heavily influenced by her African and Arab roots. Her name means "the highest" in Amharic. She released her debut single "Sweating" in mid-2020. Read more on Last.fm