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Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (also known as "Pop" Crudup) (August 24, 1905 – March 28, 1974) was a delta blues singer and guitarist. He is best known outside blues circles for writing songs later covered by Elvis Presley (and since covered by dozens of other artists), such as "That's All Right Mama", "My Baby Left Me" and "So glad you're mine", and by many claims, "Blue Suede Shoes". Born in Forest, Mississippi and living and working in throughout the South and Midwest as a migrant worker for a time Read more on Last.fm

Penelope Isles is the sound of brother and sister Jack and Lily Wolter, from the Isle of Man, formed in Brighton, UK. Read more on Last.fm

Lætitia Sadier (born 6 May 1968, sometimes known as Seaya Sadier, or "The Shah") is a French musician best-known as the singer of the band Stereolab. Sadier was working as a nanny when she met McCarthy leader Tim Gane at a gig in Paris during the late 1980s. Sadier was disillusioned with the rock scene in France, and soon moved to London to be with Gane and to pursue her career. She had contributed vocals to McCarthy's third and final album. The band broke up in 1990 and she and Gane immediately formed Stereolab. Read more on Last.fm

Heaven 17 are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1980. The band was primarily a trio, consisting of founding Human League members Martyn Ware (keyboards, drum machine, vocals) and Ian Craig Marsh (keyboards), along with vocalist Glenn Gregory. Most of their recordings were made during the 1980s. The band has occasionally reformed since then and performed live concerts, with their first live performances taking place in 1997. Full Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_17 Read more on Last.fm

Julia Jacklin (born 30 August 1990) is an Australian singer-songwriter based in Sydney. Her seamless meld of dreamy indie pop and confessional alt-country invokes names like Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, and Caitlin Rose, Julia Jacklin was raised in a family of educators in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. Upon discovering Britney Spears at the age of ten, and eventually Avril Lavigne and Evanescence in high school, Jacklin decided to shift her focus from a future social work to a career in music. Read more on Last.fm

There are at least five bands / artists named Sorry. 1. Sorry are an alternative rock band from London, United Kingdom, formerly known as Fish. The band is the result of the collaborations of Asha Lorenz and Louis O’Brien. As Sorry, they started releasing singles in 2017 and put out two albums of demo recordings from their vaults (in 2017 and 2018) before finally releasing their début full length, 925 in 2020. Here's their Bandcamp: https://sorrybanduk.bandcamp.com. Read more on Last.fm

Laura Veirs (born Laura Pauline Veirs on 24 October 1973 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is an American singer-songwriter. Veirs was raised in Colorado, studied geology and Mandarin Chinese at Carleton College, worked as a translator for a geological expedition in China, and now lives in Portland, Oregon. Veirs has said that she didn't seriously listen to music until she was in her 20s; instead, she just heard what was in her environment. She listened to folk / country / classical / pop, around the house & on the radio, during her youth. Read more on Last.fm

There are at least three bands using the name Genesis: 1. Genesis were an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School in Godalming, Surrey, in 1967. The band's most commercially successful and longest-lasting line-up consisted of keyboardist Tony Banks, bassist and guitarist Mike Rutherford, and drummer and singer Phil Collins. In the 1970s, with singer Peter Gabriel and guitarist Steve Hackett, Genesis became one of the pioneers of progressive rock. Banks and Rutherford have been the only members to remain throughout the band's history. Read more on Last.fm

There are many artists who are called Bubbles. 1.Bubbles (a DJ) is a guy called Andrea Visconti from Italy who plays Progressive House techno. He is also known under the alias Malox. His most famous piece of work is 'Bidibodi Bidibu' where he works together with Don Zauker for the vocals. 2. Bubbles is a Swedish pop group with five girls. http://www.bubbles.se 3. Bubbles was a Portuguese Indie band of the Nineties, who released an EP called "Love Troubles" in 1998 and a album called "Painting My Bedroom Walls Dreaming About. Read more on Last.fm

Arab Strap are an independent rock band from Falkirk, Scotland, UK, signed for the majority of their albums to independent record label Chemikal Underground. The duo had a short lived flirtation with a major label at the peak of their critical acclaim (after "Philophobia") when they signed to Go!Beat records (a former independent label now owned by Universal). Vocalist Aidan Moffat and multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Middleton met in Falkirk, bonded over their mutual love for Drag City recording artists such as Smog and Will Oldham Read more on Last.fm