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Bibio is Stephen James Wilkinson from Wolverhampton, England. Wilkinson studied 'Sonic Arts' between 1999 - 2002 at Middlesex University in North London, it was during this time in London he came up with the name Bibio. The name was taken from a small black and red fishing fly which was favoured by his father on their fishing trips to Wales during Stephen's childhood, the name therefore has nostalgic meaning which is often a theme in his music. His recording career as Bibio started with Mush records in 2004. Read more on Last.fm

Lucy Rose Parton (Born 1989) is an English singer/songwriter from Warwickshire . She contributed vocals on the Bombay Bicycle Club albums Flaws, A Different Kind of Fix, and So long, See You tomorrow. Her debut single, "Middle of the Bed" came out August 8th 2011, followed by two more singles: Scar, and Red Face. Her debut album, Like I Used To, was released 21st September 2012. A solo European tour followed, starting 25th September. Lucy Rose had previously toured the United Kingdom Read more on Last.fm

Grammy-winning American singer-songwriters Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus record together as boygenius. Their first EP, the eponymous boygenius, was released in November 2018. On July 3, 2020, a demo EP titled boygenius (demos) was released on Bandcamp and was available for 24 hours only. The EP consisted of the June 5, 2018 demos of "Bite The Hand", "Me & My Dog", and "Stay Down". “When we met, Lucy and Phoebe and I were in similar places in our lives and our musical endeavours Read more on Last.fm

John Townes Van Zandt (March 7, 1944 – January 1, 1997), better known as Townes Van Zandt, was a critically acclaimed American songwriter and singer. Much of Van Zandt’s musical canon--songs such as "Pancho and Lefty", "For the Sake of the Song", "Tecumseh Valley", "Rex's Blues", and "To Live is to Fly"--are widely considered masterpieces of American folk music. His musical style is often described as melancholy in sound and delivery with rich and poetic lyrics. Read more on Last.fm

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There are several artists using the moniker 'Jungle'. 1. Jungle is an English modern soul musical collective founded by childhood friends, Tom McFarland and Josh Lloyd-Watson. Jungle was formed at the beginning of 2013, choosing to put an aesthetic emphasis on the music’s surrounding artwork and videos, and not on the pairs' own identity, (McFarland and Lloyd-Watson came to be known as J and T). Throughout the following year Jungle developed its nature as a collective by working with different artists across diverse disciplines. Read more on Last.fm

Baxter Dury (born 18 December 1971 in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom), son of the late Ian Dury, is a British indie rock singer-songwriter, who released his debut EP, the Oscar Brown EP, in 2001. As of October 2025 he has eight solo studio albums to his name. The first one was Len Parrot's Memorial Lift (2002). The most recent one was Allbarone (2025). Read more on Last.fm

Cleo Sol was born to musical parents who met in a Jazz band. Her Mum, half Serbian and Spanish, is a singer and plays the guitar and flute. Cleo’s Jamaican Dad plays the bass and piano. Cleo quickly became the singer in the family, jostling for attention amongst seven other siblings, she received a second hand karaoke player from her mum which gave her a platform to display her early talents to her musical family. It was Stevie Wonder’s ‘Don’t Read more on Last.fm