*Emily Kokal: Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizer
*Theresa Wayman: Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards, Drums
*Lee Lindberg: Bass, Vocals
*Stella Mozgawa: Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals

Warpaint is an American indie rock band from Los Angeles, California. They have also shared the stage with ‘The xx’, ‘Band of Horses’, ‘Yeasayer’, ‘Akron Family’, ‘Javelin’, and ‘The Walkmen’. LA Times Columnist Todd Martens wrote an article describing the band’s style as ‘Combining the dense, shadowy mood of some early Cure with the sonic drift of Mazzy Star and Cat Power’s more hazy vocal work, Warpaint occupies a challenging space where the mood can vary from deep woods come-down to fierce primal ritual’. In 2009, they self-released their debut EP,’ Exquisite Corpse’ which was mixed by former ‘Red Hot Chili Peppers’ guitarist John Frusciante. Warpaint were signed to Rough Trade Records, and immediately began extensive touring throughout the United States and Europe. In 2010, the band released their first full-length album entitled ‘The Fool’. To support and market their album, the band played at various major festivals including ‘Summer Sundae’, ‘Bonnaroo’, ‘Glastonbury Festival’, ‘Reading and Leeds Festivals’, ‘Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival’, ‘Rock Werchter’ and ‘Electric Picnic’. The album received a glowing review in the NME musical publication. In January 2014, the band released ‘Warpaint’ which is their second studio album and was produced by Flood (Mark Ellis) and the band itself. The album was preceded by the single, ‘Love Is to Die’. The single was released on October 28 with the pre-ordered digital version of the album.

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Thanks to http://www.latimes.com/ for some biographical information.

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*Alana Haim: Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion
*Danielle Haim: Guitar, Drums
*Este Haim: Guitar, Bass
*Dash Hutton: Drums

Haim is an American rock band hailing from Los Angeles, California. The sisters, Este, Danielle, and Alana, grew up in San Fernando, California playing classic rock songs with their parents in a family band, called ‘Rockinhaim’ , which played for charity events and street fairs. After years of playing with their parents, the girls decided to strike out on their own, and began writing their own material. Danielle and Este were originally members of ‘The Valli Girls’, an all-girl group that was signed to Columbia Records/Sony Records. It wasn’t until after both sisters graduated from college when they decided to get more serious about music and formed their own band. Youngest sister Alana spent one year in college before dropping out to join the band with her sisters. The band later added drummer Dash Hutton who was previously a member of the bands ‘Wires on Fire’ and ‘Slang Chicken’. All three sisters are proficient on more than one instrument: Este plays both guitar and bass, Danielle plays guitar and drums, and Alana plays guitar, keyboards and percussion. Over the past few years, the band has opened up for Julian Casablancas, Cold War Kids, Ke$ha, Group Love, No Age, The Bird and the Bee, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Chief and The Henry Clay People. In 2012, Haim supported Mumford & Sons on their US tour and then supported Florence and the Machine on their UK and Ireland tour. In March 2013, Haim was named one of Fuse TV’s 30 must-see artists at SXSW. Haim’s first release was a three song EP entitled ‘Forever’. In September 2013, they released their first full-length album entitled ‘Days Are Gone’. The band released ‘The Wire’ as a single on July 29, 2013.

We give you the opportunity to listen to a sample of the band’s single ‘The Wire’ below in our media player.

Thanks to http://www.wikipedia.org for some biographical information.

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Power Glove is an electronic music duo from Melbourne, Australia. The name of the band comes from a controller accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The duo’s music gained widespread attention when their track ‘Hunters’ was featured in the 2011 Canadian independent film ‘Hobo with a Shotgun’. Their music is an homage to 1980s film and television soundtracks from directors such as John Carpenter. Their first EP, the 4-track ‘EP 1’ , was released in January, 2012. They are best known for producing the soundtrack to the 80s influenced retro-futuristic video game ‘Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon’. The soundtrack was met with critical acclaim and the band received several awards for ‘Best Audio’ from several video game publications such as ‘Game Informer’ and ‘IGN’. They recently released a special track in time for Halloween called ‘Motorcycle Cop’. They’re currently working on their second EP called ‘EP 2’ that will be made available sometime in the near future.

You can listen to a tiny bit of the song ‘Power Core’ from the ‘Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon’ soundtrack in the media player below.

Thanks to https://www.wikipedia.org/? for some biographical information.

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*Chibi: Vocals
*Falcore: Guitars
*Rainbow: Guitars
*Owen: Synthesizers
*Nate Manor: Bass
*Rhim: Drums

The Birthday Massacre is a Canadian synthrock band from London, Ontario. The band are known for their unique sound and the band described their sound as being rock /new wave/synthpop on their Facebook page. Each member is associated with a nickname rather than their traditional family names. The Canadian band were originally called ‘Imajica’ but had to change their name in order to avoid confusion with a California metal band with the same name. The band members met in college and relocated to Toronto, Ontario to continue working on music projects together. In July 2002, The Birthday Massacre independently released a limited-edition CD entitled ‘Nothing and Nowhere’. In 2005, the band signed to Metropolis Records. The band began a series of international tours taking them to Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Hungary, Czech Republic, Belgium, Spain and UK. In 2006, the Birthday Massacre toured North America on their ‘Broken Minds’ tour. On September 11, 2007, the band released the album ‘Walking with Strangers’ in North America, entering at No. 10 on the Billboard ‘Top Heatseekers’ chart. During the summer of 2009, Chibi recorded vocals for former WWE Diva Katie Lea Burchill’s entrance theme, ‘Hurt You’. On September 14, 2010, The Birthday Massacre released the album ‘Pins and Needles’. In early 2011, the band played the Opera House as part of ‘JUNOFEST’ with fellow Toronto band ‘Die Mannequin’ and Montreal band ‘Ariel’. On August 4, 2011 the band released the ‘Imaginary Monsters’ EP to listen to in full on their Myspace profile. On October 9, 2012, the band released their fifth album entitled ‘Hide & Seek’. The entire album was made available for free online streaming exclusively on RevolverMag.com via Metropolis Records SoundCloud account. On February 5, 2014, the band announced that their next album would partly be funded by a crowd funding project on PledgeMusic in cooperation with their label, Metropolis Records.

You can listen to a sample of the band’s song ‘Down’ in the media player below.

Thanks to http://tbmchicago.com/ for some biographical information.

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James Kent, AKA ‘Perturbator’, is a Parisian musician who blends retro eighties synthesizer style, modern EDM percussion to make great electronic music. Kent has self described his music as dark and retrofuturistic and gets his influences from 1980s style movies like ‘Blade Runner’, ‘Alien’ or ‘Total Recall’. His nickame ‘Perturbator’ is taken from his love of 1980s films that end with ‘ator’ such as ‘Terminator’, ‘Predator’, ‘Exterminator’ and his enjoyment of the word ”perturbed’. He started his musical career as a guitar player in a progressive/death metal band called ‘I The Omniscient’. Aside from working as ‘Perturbator’, Kent has another side project called ‘L’enfant De La Forêt’ which is more of an ambient/trip-hop style of music. In 2012, he released his first album entitled ‘I am the Night’ and followed it up with another album in the summer called ‘Terror 404’. Perturbator’s music can be heard on the soundtrack for the video game ‘Hotline Miami’. Hotline Miami is a 2D top-down action video game by Dennaton Games. It received high praise by many video game publications and received a score of 85/100 on Metacritic. The game’s soundtrack was made available to purchase on Valve Corporation’s digital distribution platform, Steam. The game received the ‘Best PC Sound of the Year’ accolade by IGN in its end of year awards (2012). PC Gamer awarded the game with ‘The Best Music of the Year 2012’. After the success of the game, Kent followed up with an EP entitled ‘Sexualizer’ that paid tribute to the game with songs such as ‘Miami Disco’ and ‘Angel Dust’. His newest album entitled ‘Dangerous Days’ is set to be released sometime in 2014 and some of his contributions will be on the soundtrack to ‘Miami Hotline 2’ which is set to be released very soon.You can listen to a sample of the song ‘Miami Disco’ from the ‘Hotline Miami’ soundtrack in the media player below.

Thanks to https://www.facebook.com/Perturbator for some biographical information.

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