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There are at least six artists with the name Chalk 1. Chalk is an artist from Brighton, UK . Bio: “Chalk” is the sound of a thousand cigarettes in an empty room. Raw, stark, devastating – it is less a simple collection of doubts and disappointments than a full-blown window to purgatory. At its core is a question: is this it?" Chalk's first album was released through Sonic Anhedonic Recording Company on the 2nd September 2013 and Second Album Via Kissability and Sonic Anhedonic Recording Company on the 27th October 2014. Read more on Last.fm

Goldfrapp are an English electronic band from London, formed in 1999 which consists of Alison Goldfrapp (vocals, synthesizer) and Will Gregory (synthesizer). Despite favourable reviews and a short-listing for the Mercury Prize, the début studio album Felt Mountain did not chart highly. Goldfrapp's second album Black Cherry, which incorporated glam rock and synthpop sounds, was released in 2003. The album influenced the same dance-oriented sound of their third album Supernature. Read more on Last.fm

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Jacob Alon is a Scottish singer-songwriter, with an ethereal and pure voice and delivers his music with palpable emotion. Born and raised in Fife in a single parent family, Jacob first learned to play the piano at the age of nine before later picking up the guitar at age 15. Enchanted by the sombre beauty of Nick Drake and Adrianne Lenker’s music, Jacob started to write songs in school for friends before their all-consuming love of music evolved from a hobby to a lifeline whilst at university. Read more on Last.fm

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Diane Luckey (born December 12, 1960), known professionally as Q Lazzarus, was an American female lead singer known for her husky bass voice. She is primarily known for the song 'Goodbye Horses' which is featured prominently in the 1990 thriller, 'Silence of the Lambs.' Before she was discovered as a singer, she worked as a taxi driver in New York City. Q was born in Neptune Township, New Jersey to James and WillaMae Luckey. At the age of 18, she Read more on Last.fm

Kim Gordon (born 28 April 1953 in Rochester, NY, United States) is chiefly known as the former bass player and singer (along with Lee Ranaldo and her then partner Thurston Moore) of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth (1981-2011). The demise of Sonic Youth coincided with the dissolution of her marriage to Moore. Gordon's take on this painful story is in her post-Sonic Youth memoir, 'Girl in a Band' (2015). During and after Sonic Youth's existence she has taken part in many experimental side-projects Read more on Last.fm

Christopher Edwin Breaux, professionally known as Frank Ocean, is an American singer/songwriter and member of the gleefully hedonistic hip-hop collective OFWGKTA. He was born on October 28, 1987 and lived in Long Beach, California. He has helped pen tracks for Justin Bieber, John Legend, Brandy, and Beyoncé over the last few years. In 2011, Ocean released his debut mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra, for free via his Tumblr.. Venting about his decision to drop the record his own way, he took to Twitter on March 1, 2011: Read more on Last.fm

If the protagonist of Daft Punks ‘Da Funk’ was walking around the streets of New York City today there’d be one thing playing on his boombox and it’d be three piece Fcukers. Whilst on his journey throughout the Lower East Side he’d probably end up running into members of the band working nightlife jobs as DJs, throwing parties in local bars and restaurants or simply finding the frequency of Manhattan’s beat and locking in. Fronted by Read more on Last.fm

Foo Fighters are an American rock band formed in Seattle in 1994. Initially founded as a one-man project by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, the band has included Grohl (vocals and guitar), Nate Mendel (bass), Pat Smear (guitar), Chris Shiflett (guitar), Rami Jaffee (keyboards), and Ilan Rubin (drums). Former members have included Franz Stahl (guitar), William Goldsmith (drums), Taylor Hawkins (drums), and Josh Freese (drums). Grohl created the project to release solo material following the disbandment of Nirvana in 1994. Read more on Last.fm