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Bedouin Soundclash is a Canadian band from Kingston, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. Their sound can be described as a mix of reggae, rock, soul, and ska.

The band's current lineup consists of vocalist and guitarist Jay Malinowski, and bassist Eon Sinclair. Their debut album, Root Fire, released in 2001 also included djembe player Brett Dunlop. The band met while attending Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The band released their second album, Sounding a Mosaic, in 2004. The album's single "When the Night Feels My Song" was the band's breakthrough single on Canadian radio, charting #1 on The Edge CFNY and gaining airplay on commercial radio stations throughout Canada in the summer of 2005. The band released their follow-up record Street Gospels on August 21st, 2007. On January 8th, 2009, it was announced that drummer and founding member Pat Pengelly left the band.
Albums
* Root Fire (2001)
* Sounding a Mosaic (2004, SideOneDummy Records)
* Street Gospels (2007, SideOneDummy Records) #15 UK Indie, #2 Can
Singles
* "Santa Monica" (2001)
* "When the Night Feels My Song" (2005) #1 Canada
* "Shelter" (2005)
* "Gyasi Went Home" (2006)
* "When the Night Feels My Song" [UK re-issue] (October 2, 2006) #24 UK
* "Walls Fall Down" (2007) #6 Canada
* "St. Andrews" (2007)
* "12:59 Lullaby" (2008)
* "Until We Burn in the Sun (The Kids Want a Love Song)" (2008)

Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck.

With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and ironic lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating samples, drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public throughout his musical career as being amongst the most creative and idiosyncratic musicians of 1990s and 2000s alternative rock.
Major label albums
* Mellow Gold (1994)
* Odelay (1996)
* Mutations (1998)
* Midnite Vultures (1999)
* Sea Change (2002)
* Guero (2005)
* The Information (2006)
* Modern Guilt (2008)

The Beautiful South were an English pop group formed at the end of the 1980s by former members of Hull group The Housemartins - Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway.

The duo were initially joined by Sean Welch (bass), Dave Stead (drums) and Dave Rotheray (guitar), all of whom stayed with the group throughout their 19-year career. Later additions included female vocalist Briana Corrigan; she was replaced by Jacqui Abbott, who in turn was replaced by Alison Wheeler. The group broke up in January 2007, claiming the split was due to "musical similarities", having sold around 7,000,000 records worldwide.
Albums
* Welcome to the Beautiful South (1989) UK No.2
* Choke (1990) UK No.2
* 0898 Beautiful South (1992) UK No.4
* Miaow (1994) UK No.6
* Blue Is the Colour (1996) UK No.1
* Quench (1998) UK No.1
* Painting It Red (2000) UK No.2
* Gaze (2003) UK No.14
* Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs (2004) UK No. 11
* Superbi (2006) UK No. 6

Beats International was a British electronic music band, formed in the late 1980s by Norman Cook (better known as Fatboy Slim), after his departure from The Housemartins.

Their first album, Let Them Eat Bingo spawned the UK number one single "Dub Be Good to Me", a re-working of the S.O.S. Band's hit "Just Be Good to Me", based around a sample of the bassline from The Clash's "Guns of Brixton" and featuring Layton on vocals.
The second Beats International album was 1991's Excursion on the Version, which featured a greater use of dub and reggae sounds, but failed to repeat the success of its predecessor. This was the last Beats International recording, with Cook next going on to form Freakpower.
Albums
* 1990 Let Them Eat Bingo
* 1991 Excursion on the Version

The Beatles were a rock and pop band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals).

Although their initial musical style was rooted in 1950s rock and roll and skiffle, the group worked with different musical genres, ranging from Tin Pan Alley to psychedelic rock. Their clothes, style and statements made them trend-setters, while their growing social awareness saw their influence extend into the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s. After the band broke up in 1970, all four members embarked upon successful solo careers.
The Beatles are one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music, selling over one billion records internationally. In the United Kingdom, The Beatles released more than 40 different singles, albums, and EPs that reached number one, earning more number one albums(15) than any other group in UK chart history. This commercial success was repeated in many other countries; their record company, EMI, estimated that by 1985 they had sold over one billion records worldwide. According to the Recording Industry Association of America,
The Beatles have sold more albums in the United States than any other band. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked The Beatles number one on its list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. According to that same magazine, The Beatles' innovative music and cultural impact helped define the 1960s, and their influence on pop culture is still evident today. In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of top-selling Hot 100 artists to celebrate the chart's fiftieth anniversary; The Beatles topped it.
Studio albums
* Please Please Me (Parlophone, 1963)
* With The Beatles (Parlophone, 1963)
* A Hard Day's Night (Parlophone, 1964)
* Beatles for Sale (Parlophone, 1964)
* Help! (Parlophone, 1965)
* Rubber Soul (Parlophone, 1965)
* Revolver (Parlophone, 1966)
* Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Parlophone, 1967)
* Magical Mystery Tour (U.S. only. Released as a Double EP in the UK) (Capitol, 1967)
* The Beatles ("The White Album") (Apple, 1968)
* Yellow Submarine (Apple, 1969)
* Abbey Road (Apple, 1969)
* Let It Be (Apple, 1970)

Beastie Boys is an American hip hop group from New York City consisting of Michael "Mike D" Diamond, Adam "MCA" Yauch, and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz.

Since around the time of the Hello Nasty album, the DJ for the group has been Michael "Mix Master Mike" Schwartz, who was first featured in the song "Three MC's and One DJ". The Beastie Boys began as a punk group in 1979, and appeared in the compilation cassette New York Thrash with Riot Fight and Beastie. They switched to hip-hop with the release of their debut solo album Licensed to Ill (1986), which enjoyed international critical acclaim and commercial success. The group is well-known for its eclecticism, jocular and flippant attitude toward interviews and interviewers, obscure cultural references and kitschy lyrics, and for performing in outlandish matching suits.
Regular members (as of 2005)
* Michael Diamond, a.k.a. Mike D - vocals, drums
* Adam Yauch, a.k.a. MCA - vocals, bass guitar
* Adam Horovitz, a.k.a. Ad-Rock - vocals, guitar
* Michael Schwartz, a.k.a. Mix Master Mike - turntables, samples
Albums
* Licensed to Ill (1986)
* Paul's Boutique (1989)
* Check Your Head (1992)
* Ill Communication (1994)
* Hello Nasty (1998)
* To the 5 Boroughs (2004)
* The Mix-Up (2007)
* Tadlock's Glasses (Unreleased)

Beach House is an American dream pop and indie rock duo formed in 2005 in Baltimore, Maryland. Their dreamy sound is often compared to Mazzy Star and Nico.

Their self-titled debut, Beach House, was named the 16th best album of 2006 by Pitchfork Media. The band formed in 2005, composed of Alex Scally on guitar and keyboards, and Victoria Legrand on vocals and organ. The band's song, "Apple Orchard", was featured on a Pitchfork Media mp3 mixtape in August 2006. In October 2006, their self-titled debut album, Beach House, was released on Carpark Records. Their second album, Devotion, was released on February 26, 2008. Legrand is the niece of French film composer Michel Legrand and singer Christiane Legrand.
Albums and EPs
* Beach House (October 3, 2006), Carpark
* Devotion (2008), Carpark
Singles
* "Used to Be" (2008), Carpark, #27 UK Indie Chart

Baxter is a Swedish electronica band composed of two drum and bass producers and an emotive female vocalist. The band set out to transform pop music by introducing melody, vocals and strong song-writing to a layered drum and bass/jungle-influenced rhythm.

In 1996, Ricky Tillblad, one of the Swedish recording industry's pre eminent designers, dub/raggae aficionado, and the man behind the Stockholm dub club, DubDeck, met Nina Ramsby, former guitarist and lead singer in the band Salt. At the time, Nina was looking for design and graphis arts work to finance her musical interests. She began working at Ricky's design firm, F+. The two began writing music together and that same year, Ricky bumped into Carl Herlöffson, guítar player /engineer/ producer and head of the Indie label Primal Music, at his club. The chance meeting resulted in Ricky signing on as partner in Carl's label. By late 1996, Ricky and Carl had become a prolific production team working as Eclectic Bob, cutting instrumental club-oriented drum & bass tracks for Primal Music.
One day, Nina came into work at the studio and was introduced to Carl, bringing about the first time all three had been together. For the next three months, Ricky, Carl and Nina experimented with sound, wrote, and recorded most of an album. By the spring of 1997, all that was left to do was a bit of polishing and mixing on the tracks. In the fall of 1997, the three of them as Baxter sent out a five-track promotional CD comprising selections from their full length album. After lengthy negotiations and numerous overseas flights Baxter signed with Maverick Records.
Members
* Ricky Tillblad - programming, bass-line, lyrics, rhythm, final mix.
* Carl Herlofsson - programming, string arrangements, mixing, trumpet, melody, rhythm, final mix.
* Nina Ramsby - vocals, guitar, melodica, melody, lyrics, string re-arrangements, final mix.
Discography
Baxter (1998)
1. "Television"
2. "Fading"
3. "Love Again"
4. "I Can't See Why"
5. "Ballad Of Behaviour"
6. "Political"
7. "Possible"
8. "All Of My Pride"
9. "So Much I've Heard"
10. "Oh My Love"

About This (2002)
1. "Got to Wake Up"
2. "Gonna Make It There"
3. "My Day"
4. "On My Own"
5. "Don't Have a Choice"
6. "Can't"
7. "It's Coming"
8. "To You"
9. "I'm Here"
10. "Breathe In Breathe Out"
11. "Get Done"

Bauhaus were an English rock band formed in Northampton in 1978. The group consisted of Peter Murphy (vocals), Daniel Ash (guitar), Kevin Haskins (drums) and David J (bass).

The band originally went by the name Bauhaus 1919, dropping the latter portion within a year of their formation. With their dark, gloomy sound and image, Bauhaus are generally considered the first gothic rock group. Bauhaus first broke up in 1983. Peter Murphy began a solo career while the other members continued as Tones on Tail and, later, Love and Rockets. Both enjoyed greater commercial success in the United States than Bauhaus had, but disappeared from the charts in their homeland. The band reunited for a 1998 tour and on a more permanent basis in 2005. The group announced plans to disband again before the release of their final album, Go Away White (2008).
Discography
* In the Flat Field (1980)
* Mask (1981)
* The Sky's Gone Out (1982)
* Burning from the Inside (1983)
* Go Away White (2008)

Battles is a critically acclaimed American experimental rock band. The band's line-up includes ex-Helmet drummer John Stanier, ex-Don Caballero guitarist Ian Williams, ex-Lynx guitarist Dave Konopka, and Tyondai Braxton (son of avant-garde jazz musician Anthony Braxton),

Who also plays guitar and keyboard and creates live voice samples. Following a string of EPs, the band released their debut album on the Warp Records label in February 2006, which was titled EP C / B EP. It is a compilation of their increasingly hard-to-find early releases, EP C, B EP and the single Tras. Their first full-length album Mirrored, recorded by Keith Souza at Machines with Magnets, was released on May 14, 2007. The album received positive reviews and appeared on several top album lists for 2007.
The first single from the album, "Atlas," was released on February 21, 2007 as streaming audio, and the accompanying streaming video was released on February 28, 2007. It was voted "Best Single of the Week" by NME magazine, and received a glowing review in the British Clash Magazine, as well as ranking at number one in the second Dandelion Radio Festive Fifty. The song was performed by the band on BBC television's Later With Jools Holland in November 2007. The song also went on to be featured in the Media Molecule developed video game Little Big Planet, available for the Playstation 3.
Members
* Tyondai Braxton - guitar, keyboards, vocals
* Dave Konopka – bass, guitar, effects
* Ian Williams – guitar, keyboards
* John Stanier – drums

Natasha was born to a Pakistani father and English mother on october 25th 1979. Khan graduated in music and visual arts; while at university her experimental work was influenced by artists such as Steve Reich and Susan Hiller,

And she produced multi-media work centred on sound installations, animations and performance. She went on to work as a nursery school teacher, and it was during this period that she began writing the material for her first album. "Whenever I'm writing music it's a very visual place in my mind," said Khan. "It has a location full of characters and colours and landscapes, so those two things really complement each other, and they help the other one to blossom and support the other. They are like brother and sister."

Basement Jaxx started in Brixton, South London in 1994, where they held a regular night club called Rooty, the namesake of their second artist album.

In 1999, the group released their first full length album, Remedy to wide acclaim. Remedy includes the single "Red Alert", which was featured in the film Bend It Like Beckham and commercials including Nickelodeon and Coca-Cola. Other singles on this album were "Jump N' Shout", "Bingo Bango" and "Rendez Vu", which is Basement Jaxx's highest UK chart entry to date at number 4. Basement Jaxx also released Jaxx Unreleased, a compilation of b-sides, remixes and other assorted material, in 1999.
Discography
Main releases
* Remedy (May 10, 1999) #4 (UK)
* Rooty (June 25, 2001) #5 (UK)
* Kish Kash (October 20, 2003) #17 (UK)
* Crazy Itch Radio (September 4, 2006) #16 (UK)
Compilation albums
* Atlantic Jaxx Recordings: A Compilation (November 10, 1997)
* Jaxx Unreleased (February 2, 2000)
* Xxtra Cutz (December 19, 2001)
* Basement Jaxx: The Singles (March 21, 2005) #1 (UK)
* Atlantic Jaxx Recordings: A Compilation Vol. 2 (February 27, 2006)