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Agent Ribbons
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BIO: Lauren was a drumming chick band historian, Natalie was painting the walls in a record store. Somewhere in between the lines, they were introduced and it was love at first sight. Baroque, intensely theatrical and always, simply, romantic. They look like violins but they sound like cellos, so to speak. Agent Ribbons was formed by Lauren Hess (drums, accordion) and Natalie Gordon (vocals, guitar) in 2006. Violinist/cellist Naomi Cherie joined the band in early 2009. |
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June Madrona
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BIO: Songs written simply and honestly, performed acoustically. Based upon the guitar and words of Ross Cowman, the varied content and carefully constructed stories of the songs may make you want to dance, cry, sing, think or just listen as deeply as one can. |
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Half-handed Cloud
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BIO: Half-handed Cloud is an interesting phenomenon. John Ringhofer, the man behind the namesake, is as joyful and frugal as his music. An economical thinker, Ringhofer prefers the subway over a taxicab, is a recycler of plastic, a compulsive note-taker, and a habitual optimist. When not on tour solo, as the trombonist for Sufjan Stevens Illinoisemakers, or as the occasional Danielson bassist, he lives rent-free in Berkeley California in exchange for his services as a custodian. |
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Luke Temple
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BIO: Now playing under his new moniker Here We Go Magic, Luke Temple grew up in Manchester, Mass. He attended the school of the Museum of Fine arts in Boston. He moved to New York and found the visual art world a bit too cloistered for his liking so he started singing, singing for the ones without a fighting chance, for the voiceless, for the unheard... well, not really... Mostly because he could and people seemed to like it. He tells little stories. He only understands some of them. More than anything he loves texture, color and surprise. |
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Rio En Medio
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BIO: Rio en Medio is the musical adventure of Brooklyn-based singer/ukulelist Danielle Stech-Homsy. A New Mexico native, Danielle's songwriting reflects a vast scope of influence from techno to traditional folk to early and contemporary classical, drawing on literature as well as music, from ancient to avant, and incorporating elements of chance. Her crystalline vocals, delicately strummed baritone ukulele and found sonic elements evoke the strange delight of a dream where the dreamer's authority is always in question. At its best, the gentle, the fearful, the sorrowful, the formidable, the entranced and the rambunctious collide to create a sound that is as responsive as it is moving. In her own words, it is music that wants to listen as much as be heard. |
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Castledoor
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BIO: Consisting of family members and longtime friends, Castledoor formed in 2005 and resides in Los Angeles, CA. The band self-released the Follow the Dove EP in 2006 and has since been playing their hearts out all around California and beyond. At the end of 2007 the LA Times listed them as one of the top 3 bands to look out for in 2008. Influenced by the likes of Beatles pop and the desperate, yet triumphant, spirit of modern bands like the Arcade Fire, their music is a mixture of sounds and emotions that remains hard to pinpoint. |
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