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William Harrison Withers Jr. (July 4, 1938 – March 30, 2020) was an American singer and songwriter known for a series of influential hits during a career spanning 18 years. His best-known songs include "Ain't No Sunshine" (1971), "Grandma's Hands" (1971), "Use Me" (1972), "Lean on Me" (1972), "Lovely Day" (1977), and "Just the Two of Us" (1980), the latter recorded in collaboration with Grover Washington Jr. Withers won three Grammy Awards from nine nominations. Read more on Last.fm

Mazzy Star is an American alternative rock band formed in 1988 in Santa Monica, California, USA, from remnants of the group Opal. Founding member David Roback's friend Hope Sandoval became the group's vocalist when Kendra Smith left Opal. Mazzy Star is best known for the song "Fade Into You", which brought the band some success in the mid-1990s and was the group's biggest mainstream hit, earning extensive exposure on MTV, VH1 and radio airplay. Roback and Sandoval were the creative center of the band Read more on Last.fm

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Poppy Ajudha is a singer songwriter and newly signed model from South East London. Being influenced by the soulful rare grooves and reggae of her childhood she marries jazz and blues with funk beats in the 6 - piece band she sings in, as well as slow and soulful when performing acoustically. Read more on Last.fm

Michael Samuel Kiwanuka (born 3 May 1987) is an English soul musician who is signed to Communion Records. He has been compared to Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, Randy Newman, Terry Callier, and Otis Redding, as well as Van Morrison and the Temptations. In January 2012, he won the BBC's Sound of 2012 poll. Kiwanuka grew up in Muswell Hill, London, the son of Ugandan parents who had escaped the Amin regime. He attended Fortismere School, leaving there in 2005 after completing his A-Levels. Read more on Last.fm

Oxhy is a London-based experimental/electronic music producer. He's the founder of London collective XQUISITE and a frequent collaborator with the likes of Yves Tumor and Felix Lee. His latest LP, Woodland Dance, was released in 2021 through XQUISITE. Read more on Last.fm

Vanessa Amara is the work of Birk Gjerlufsen Nielsen accompanied by long time collaborator Victor Kjellerup Juhl and is one of the strongest new voices in Danish experimental music. There is eminent beauty in the work of Vanessa Amara, beauty that few people manage to reach in their work. The fragile and romantic compositions of synth, organ, piano, percussive tape loops and guitar holds an incredible feeling of urgency and a wonderful originality. Read more on Last.fm

Celer is a music and art project founded in Huntington Beach, California, United States by Will Long and Danielle Baquet-Long (aka Chubby Wolf). Founded in 2005, at the beginning of their relationship in Huntington Beach, California, U.S.A. After producing music for record labels, installations, and exhibits worldwide from 2005-2009, Danielle Baquet-Long died on July 8, 2009 of heart failure. From 2009 to 2022, Celer was the solo project of Will Long. Read more on Last.fm

Huerco S. is the primary recording/performing alias of Brian Leeds, an American producer and DJ based in Brooklyn and originally from Kansas City. Leeds, under this moniker, has released two full-length albums – Colonial Patterns in 2013 and For Those of You Who Have Never (and Also Those Who Have) in 2016 – and multiple 12-inches since 2011, all to much critical acclaim, while also issuing material via other aliases Royal Crown of Sweden, Independence Ave. Orchestra, and Pendant. Read more on Last.fm

Fred W. Warmsley III made a name for himself producing beats for underground hip-hop MCs like Joey Bada$$, but after signing to Ninja Tune and releasing two albums that all but abandoned hip-hop in favor of experimental jungle and ambient music, he stopped making music under his prior alias (Lee Bannon) and began using the name Dedekind Cut. The work created under his updated moniker is dark, volatile, jarring, and unpredictable, recalling the frenzied breakcore of Venetian Snares, the haunted U. Read more on Last.fm