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Born John Martin Maher on 31 October 1963 to Irish immigrants in Ardwick Manchester, UK, Johnny Marr is a guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. He is best known for being the founder member, songwriter and guitarist in The Smiths. The band released numerous singles and four studio albums between 1983 and 1987 until the band dissolved. Since leaving The Smiths in 1987, Marr focused mainly on contributing to the work of established bands. He played session guitar and or wrote music for artists such as The Pretenders Read more on Last.fm

1) The Charlatans, known in the United States as The Charlatans UK, is an English rock band formed in the West Midlands in 1988 and later developed in Northwich, Cheshire. The band has released thirteen studio albums, all of which have reached the top 40 of the UK Albums Chart, including three number ones. They have achieved 22 top 40 singles and four top 10 entries, including "The Only One I Know" and "One to Another". The band was founded by bassist Martin Blunt Read more on Last.fm

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Anaiis (formerly known as Anaïs) is a London-based singer-songwriter who released her debut EP 'before zero' in 2018. Born in Toulouse, France to a Senegalese father and Franco-Italian mother, Anaiis played violin and sang in a classical choir. At the age of ten, she moved to Dublin, learned English and started to experiment as a songwriter. Later relocating to California, where her first exposure to gospel and R&B led to a love of soul music, and to New York, where she graduated from the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU. Read more on Last.fm

June McDoom is an emerging singer-songwriter based in New York City. Her unique approach to folk music incorporates influences of early soul, reggae, and vintage analog experimentation into a new world all its own. Read more on Last.fm

untitled (halo) is a band from Los Angeles, United States and its members are Ariana Mamnoon, Jack Dione and Jay Are. Read more on Last.fm

Aja Monet (sometimes stylized in all lowercase) is an American contemporary poet, writer, lyricist and activist based in Los Angeles, CA, United States. She has published many books and poems. Here on Last.fm we will focus on her recorded output, mostly spoken word poetry to a musical background. In 2019, Monet collaborated with Eryn Allen Kane for Kane's album, A Tree Planted by Water. In 2021, with Smoke Signals Collective, Monet released 'The FREE Tape' Read more on Last.fm

SILVERWINGKILLER are a Manchester-based electronic duo making what they describe as “International Industrial City Punk”. Their sound collides aggressive bass, live breakbeats, analogue synths and acid electronics with vocals in English, Mandarin and Shanghainese. Drawing on Chinese mythology, science fiction, video games and the bleak energy of Manchester, their music is chaotic, abrasive and intensely physical. Formed by Yushang Ni and James Baca Read more on Last.fm

Leftfield are an electronic band formed in 1989 in London, United Kingdom. From 1989 to 2002, Leftfield was a duo of artists and record producers that consisted of Neil Barnes and Paul Daley. In January 2010, Barnes resurrected the band name and Daley has declined to be involved. They are pioneers in the fields of IDM and progressive house, being among the first to fuse house music with dub and reggae. As with many of their contemporaries such as The Chemical Brothers and Underworld Read more on Last.fm

Correct tag = working men's club. Read more on Last.fm