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The Claypool Lennon Delirium is an American psychedelic rock band, currently composed of bassist/vocalist Les Claypool (best known as the bandleader of Primus, and guitarist/vocalist Sean Lennon, son of Yoko Ono and the late Beatles member John Lennon . After touring with Lennon's band The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger (as well as Dinosaur Jr.) in 2015, Claypool invited Lennon to his guesthouse to drink wine, run some ideas and play drums. They enthusiastically began work on an old-school, psychedelic and progressive rock record. Read more on Last.fm

Recorded at home in the fall of 2013 with a variety of synthesizers, drum machines, and assorted hand-made electronics, Damaged Bug is Oh Sees mastermind John Dwyer's latest bit of cracked pop alchemy. The project is the cure to the ailment of too much guitar for too long. Fizzing and sputtering like a glowing temperamental cockpit control panel, this is Dwyer bunkered deep in a blinking laboratory and penning songs about the long arc of our travels across space and time. Read more on Last.fm

Jon Spencer is an American singer, composer, and guitarist. He has been involved in multiple musical acts, including Pussy Galore, Boss Hog, Heavy Trash, and Blues Explosion (formerly The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion). Read more on Last.fm

The New York Dolls were an American rock band formed in New York City in 1971, now famous as a proto-punk band. Though they found limited success during their initial run, the New York Dolls prefigured much of what was to come in the punk rock era, particularly among other NYC bands such as the Ramones. And, even later; the Dolls' over-the-top crossdressing and sexual tone influenced the look of many glam metal groups, especially that of early Mötley Crüe and Poison Read more on Last.fm

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Moonstarr is one busy cat. He's on the phone holding things down on the business end for PTR, breaking beats live on the P.A., hunkered down behind closed doors over his synths, drum machines, and samplers to bang out mind-melding beats. Citing musical influences as diverse as Underground Resistance (Detroit Techno), DJ Premier (Hip Hop), Baden Powell (Bossa Nova), Zakhir Hussein (Indian Classical) and Sun Ra (Jazz), Moonstarr's sound has continuously evolved with releases on such noteworthy labels as Sonar Kollectiv Read more on Last.fm

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KOKOROKO are a young, London based Afrobeat 8-Piece band led by trumpeter Sheila Maurice-Grey, playing a fusion of Jazz and Afrobeat. Members: Sheila Maurice-Grey, Cassie Kinoshi, Richie Seivwright, Yohan Kebede, Duane Atherley, Tobi Adenaike, Onome Edgeworth, Ayo Salawu. Read more on Last.fm

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