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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

The Human League is an English synthpop band formed in 1977. Originally a minimal Post-Punk synthesiser-based group from Sheffield, UK, they became one of the most successful New Wave acts of the 80s. The only consistent band member is vocalist and songwriter Phil Oakey. The band's best known configuration was their 1980-1985 lineup of Phillip Oakey (vocals), Joanne Catherall (vocals), Susanne Sulley (vocals), Phillip Adrian Wright (keyboards), Jo Callis (guitar, keyboards) and Ian Burden (bass). Read more on Last.fm

There is more than one artist with this name, including: 1) Pond is an Australian rock band from Perth, Australia. 2) Pond was an American alternative rock band from Portland, Oregon, active from 1991 to 1998. 3) POND was a German electronic band founded in East Berlin in 1978. 4) Pond is an instrumental hip-hop artist. 1) Pond is an Australian psychedelic rock band from Perth, Western Australia, formed in 2008. Initially featuring a revolving line-up, since 2016 the band has comprised Read more on Last.fm

The Fiery Furnaces is an art pop group from Brooklyn, New York. Originally from Oak Park, Illinois -- a suburb of Chicago -- they consist of the brother and sister team of Matthew Friedberger and Eleanor Friedberger, and are currently joined by Jason Loewenstein (Sebadoh), Bob D'Amico and Michael Goodman when playing live on tour. The Fiery Furnaces signed with the Rough Trade Records music label in 2002, and recorded their debut album in the same year. Read more on Last.fm

There are several music groups with the band name Good News. 1) A Christian British rock band that formed in 1971 and is rightly counted among the Jesus Music era. The band emerged from the precursor band The Joy Strings, which belonged to the Salvation Army and was considered the 'official' pop group of the Salvation Army. Ex-Joy String Bill Davidson then started again and gathered Salvationist musicians from all over Europe, and was able to convince the BBC to record an album for 'Religious Broadcast to Schools'! In July 1971 Read more on Last.fm

The Bug Club are an alternative rock band from Caldicot, Monmouthshire. Formed in 2016, they played gigs for 2 years before their first release in 2018. Since their debut release in 2021, they have released 4 EPs, a studio album and a live album. The band are made up of Sam Willmett on guitar and vocals, Tilly Harris on bass, and vocals and Dan Matthew on drums. Things went pair-shaped with Sam and Tilly in 2024 after Dan swapped his sticks for his gardening tools and a quiet life in the countryside. Read more on Last.fm

Status Quo is a British rock band (London, England) founded by bassist Alan Lancaster and guitarist Francis Rossi in 1962. They began as a rock and roll freakbeat band called The Spectres. By 1967, with very little commercial success, they discovered psychedelia and changed their name to Traffic (later Traffic Jam, to avoid confusion with Steve Winwood's Traffic.) At this time the line-up also included organist Roy Lynes and drummer John Coghlan. Read more on Last.fm

There are at least three bands that currently go under the name Congratulations: 1. congratulations are a 4 piece band from Brighton, UK formed in 2021 Members Greg Burns James Gilligham Jamie Chellar Leah Stanhope 2. "CONGRATULATIONS are the up and coming Canadian emo-rock/screamo band. These 4 dudes also play in Life In Vacuum and New Wings and reside in the Kitchener/Waterloo area of Ontario. If Desaparecidos, Bright Calm Blue, Indian Summer and Birthday Boyz were put into a blender, it might end up sounding like this. 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

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