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  1. Prince / Little Red Corvette

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    Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, actor, and director. Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Prince was known for his electric work, flamboyant stage presence, extravagant fashion sense and use of makeup, and wide vocal range. His innovative music integrated a wide variety of styles, including funk, rock, R&B, new wave, soul, psychedelia, and pop. He sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Read more on Last.fm more...

  2. Basia Bulat / Fool

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    Basia Bulat is a Canadian singer-songwriter based in London, Ontario. She released a self-titled Independent EP in 2005. Her debut album, Oh My Darling, was released in 2007. Her second album, Heart Of My Own, released in January 2010. As reviewed in Pitchfork, Feb 8/10, "...but while Bulat's versatility's a selling point, it's her rare, extraordinary voice that makes her a fresh find in the notoriously musty folk-pop bin. Graceful and incandescent Read more on Last.fm more...

  3. Sturgill Simpson / Breakers Roar

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    John Sturgill Simpson (born June 8, 1978) is an American country music and roots rock singer-songwriter. Simpson was born in Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky, the only child of a secretary and a state policeman who formerly worked undercover narcotics. Due to his father's work, Simpson's family moved to Versailles, outside Lexington, where Simpson graduated from Woodford County High School. Simpson's mother's family were coal miners. Simpson is the first male on his mother's side of the family to not work in a strip mine or deep mine. Read more on Last.fm more...

  4. Misun / Eli Eli

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    Misun are a three piece band from Washington DC, United States. Their style consists of a mix of funk, soul, dance, and rock. The band is named after their singer Misun Wojcik. Read more on Last.fm more...

  5. Ryan Adams / All You Had To Do Was Stay

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    Ryan Adams (born David Ryan Adams on November 5, 1974) is an alt-country and rock and roll singer-songwriter from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Initially part of the group Whiskeytown, which was at the time considered one of the leaders of the alt-country genre, Adams left the band and released his first solo album, Heartbreaker, in 2000 (which was subsequently nominated for the Shortlist Music Prize). As well as his solo albums, Adams has released five albums as Ryan Adams & the Cardinals. Read more on Last.fm more...

  6. Anna of the North / Sway

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    Anna Lotterud (born 8 June 1989), better known by her stage name Anna of the North, is an Oslo-based Norwegian singer-songwriter from Gjøvik. Her music has been regarded as "soft, soul-baring electro-pop". Her debut studio album, Lovers, was released in 2017. Her second album, Dream Girl, was released in October 2019. For more info, visit soundcloud.com/annaofthenorth or facebook.com/annaofthenorth Read more on Last.fm more...

  7. Beirut / So Allowed

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    Beirut is an American indie-rock and world music band which was originally the solo musical project of Zach Condon (born Zachary Francis Condon in Santa Fe, New Mexico) and later expanded into a band. The band's first performances were in New York, in May 2006, to support the release of their debut album, Gulag Orkestar. Condon recorded before Beirut was established: when he was fifteen and under the name of Realpeople, he made an electronic record, fashioned after his love for The Magnetic Fields. Read more on Last.fm more...

  8. David Ramirez / The Bad Days

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    David Ramirez is an American singer-songwriter from Houston, TX, currently based in Austin, TX. By breaking through heartache, Ramirez has gone on a search for understanding. The Austin, TX, resident and frequent traveler to clubs, theaters and listening rooms all over the country, has come to a phase in his creative life where the tears have dried and moving on looks like the best option. That change in perspective hasn’t erased the weary searching that has characterized Ramirez’s sparse Americana songwriting for more than a decade. Read more on Last.fm more...

  9. Hiss Golden Messenger / Drum

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    Hiss Golden Messenger is a folk country band from Durham, North Carolina, led by MC Taylor. The mainstays of Hiss Golden Messenger are M.C. Taylor and Scott Hirsch, formerly of Ex-Ignota and The Court & Spark. Hiss Golden Messenger stretches out into the improv-rock territory of Traffic and the Grateful Dead and beyond. They signed with Merge Records in 2014. Major releases include Country Hai East Cotton (2009), Bad Debt (2010), Poor Moon (2011) Read more on Last.fm more...

  10. Max Frost / Let me down easy

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    Max Frost is a producer and songwriter from Austin, TX signed to Atlantic Records. Frost developed his eclectic style of music playing in various projects throughout his teen years. He became a musician when he was eight, and started playing shows at 12, collaborating with a diverse array of artists like Austin icon Bob Schneider and hip-hop MC/producer Kydd. After hearing musicians like Erykah Badu and D’Angelo in his late teens, Frost began incorporating hip-hop elements into his blues-inspired stylings Read more on Last.fm more...

  11. Kurt Vile / Pretty Pimpin

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    Kurt Vile (born 1980 in Philadelphia) is an American guitarist and singer. Previously the lead guitarist in the band The War on Drugs, he began his solo career in 2008. Vile began his musical career in 2003 creating lo-fi home recordings with frequent collaborator Adam Granduciel. The duo subsequently formed the indie rock band The War on Drugs in 2005. Vile departed following the release of their debut studio album, Wagonwheel Blues, in 2008. Vile's music has been likened to Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, and Tom Petty. Read more on Last.fm more...

  12. Sjowgren / Seventeen

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    Sjowgren (pronounced "show grin") is an American indie pop trio based in San Francisco. Their single "Seventeen" was featured in a well-known ad campaign in 2016 (see "Autotrader Bets on Indie Band Sjowgren in Its Latest Hook for Millennial Car Buyers" at https://www.adweek.com/creativity/autotrader-bets-indie-band-sjowgren-its-latest-hook-millennial-car-buyers-171338/ ). Read more on Last.fm more...

  13. El Vy / Return to the Moon

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    EL VY (pronounced like a plural of Elvis; rhymes with ‘hell pie’) is the musical collaboration between Matt Berninger, vocalist and lyricist of The National, and Brent Knopf, the Portland musician and producer best known for his work in Menomena and his more recent band, Ramona Falls. Their debut album ‘Return To The Moon’ was released on October 30th 2015 via 4AD. The album is a project Berninger and Knopf have been thinking about for years. Read more on Last.fm more...

  14. Champs / Desire

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    There are several artists named 'Champs' ; 1) Champs are Michael and David Champion, two brothers from the Isle of Wight's Victorian seaside retreat of Ventnor. Their debut album, Down Like Gold, was recorded at Studio Humbug, an old water tower inside the walls of Osborne House, Queen Victoria's retreat on the north of island. Designed by Prince Albert in 1845, the building has a large top floor that now houses a studio and above it all sits Read more on Last.fm more...

  15. Prince / Creep

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    Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, actor, and director. Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Prince was known for his electric work, flamboyant stage presence, extravagant fashion sense and use of makeup, and wide vocal range. His innovative music integrated a wide variety of styles, including funk, rock, R&B, new wave, soul, psychedelia, and pop. He sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Read more on Last.fm more...

  16. Susto / Friends, Lovers, Ex-Lovers Whatever

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    Susto is an American indie-rock band based in Charleston. Justin Osborne needed a break. He'd been writing music and making albums since he was 15, and by the age of 26, he felt like he was spinning his wheels. He knew he needed a change, so he ended his old band Sequoyah Prep School and moved to Cuba. He thought he might be done with music for a while, but the songs just kept coming. "I had this idea in my mind that I was going to try and join some kind of Latin American Leftist movement. Read more on Last.fm more...

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