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They write and record songs that are timeless pop rich in melody and drawn from influences such as the Beach Boys, Bacharach, Gainsbourg, Television, Stereolab, Barry White, Carole King, Blondie, Francoise Hardy, Air and Madonna. The nucleus of the band is Cavanagh and the alluring 26 year old Heidrun Anna. She's the lyricist and melody arranger, and together they combine forces to weave these elements into song form.

The pair met in Liverpool in 1998 where Heidrun had studied at the Liverpool Institute Of The Performing Arts. She became involved in the city's close knit music scene and inevitably the two began to work together. Via Paul came Martin Lynch and Paul Maguire (former drummer with Liverpool faves The Stairs - remember the epic "Weed Bus"?) whilst Jonas Theis, a classically trained pianist, completed the line-up having originally known Heidrun at LIPA where he too was studying. On the strength of a three song demo, Gloss were signed to Nude Records at the beginning of the year.

Global Deejays aka Ravers on Dope, is an Austrian dance and electronica trio composed of DJ Taylor (Konrad Schreyvogl), DJ Mikkel (Mikkel Christensen) and FLOw (Florian Schreyvogl). Their first three singles were big hits in Europe and Russia.
Their song "The Sound of San Francisco" partially samples the 1967 (The Summer of Love) song "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)" sung by Scott McKenzie. The video includes scenes of the band in a decorated school bus driving through popular destinations.

In 2005 they won the MTV Award and the Eska.
On April 12, 2008, Global Deejays performed for the first time in San Francisco, the city that made them famous. During January 26th of 2009, saw the remixed version of Everybody's Free (To Feel Good) from Global Deejays, debut on the Australian Aria Charts at number 33. The song has also peaked as far as number 4 on the Australian Itunes Chart. This was due to the high amount of airplay during the t.v commercials over summer for Channel Ten's reality program called So You Think You Can Dance (Australia).

Glen Hansard (born 21 April 1970 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Academy-Award winning songwriter, actor, and vocalist/guitarist for Irish rock group The Frames. Hansard quit school at age 13 to begin busking on local Dublin streets. He first came to widespread public attention as guitar player Outspan Foster in the Alan Parker film The Commitments, after attending the New York Film Academy School of Acting.

In 2003, he presented the television programme Other Voices: Songs from a Room, which showcased Irish music talent on RTÉ. On 22 April 2006, he released his first solo album, The Swell Season, on Overcoat Recordings in collaboration with Czech singer and multi instrumentalist Markéta Irglová, Marja Tuhkanen from Finland on violin and viola, and Bertrand Galen from France on cello. Hansard also spent part of 2006 in front of the cameras for a music-infused Irish film Once, in which Hansard plays a Dublin busker, and Irglová an immigrant street vendor. The film had its American premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 and received the Festival's World Cinema Audience Award. During the promotional tour, he and Irglová began dating. Said Hansard about his relationship with Irglova: "I had been falling in love with her for a long time, but I kept telling myself she's just a kid". One of the songs they wrote together for the film ("Falling Slowly") won an Oscar for Best Song in February 2008. Hansard became the first Irish-born person to win in that category. Hansard and Irglová also recorded a version of Bob Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" for the film I'm Not There in 2007. In 2009, Hansard said that he and Irglova were no longer romantically linked, and that they are now "good friends."

Glasvegas are a Scottish alternative rock band that formed in Glasgow in 2003. The band consists of James Allan (vocals, rhythm guitar), Rab Allan (lead guitar, backing vocals), Paul Donoghue (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Caroline McKay (drums).

Following the release of another limited edition 7" single, "Daddy's Gone" on 5 November 2007, Glasvegas found themselves at the centre of a bidding war from several major record labels. "Daddy's Gone" sold out and was voted the number two single of the year by NME magazine. After releasing their third limited edition 7" single, "It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry" on 14 February 2008, the band opted to sign to Columbia. They then won the prestigious Philip Hall Radar Award at the NME Awards two weeks later. Glasvegas recorded their eponymous debut album, Glasvegas, at Brooklyn Recording Studios in New York. The album was produced by James Allan and Rich Costey. The album was released on 8 September 2008, and included re-recordings of "Daddy's Gone" (the second single from the album), "It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry," and "I'm Gonna Get Stabbed" (retitled "Stabbed," and featuring the backing music of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata), as well as previously unreleased songs "Polmont on My Mind," "Lonesome Swan," "S.A.D. Light," and "Geraldine," which was the first single from the album.
In October 2008, Glasvegas recorded a Christmas-themed mini album, A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like a Kiss), over twelve days ten of which in a Transylvanian church in Romania and was released on 1 December 2008. The band are to headline the 2009 NME Awards Tour in January 2009, following their own US and UK tour.

The heart of American band Glasstown is Adam Klein and Michael Mullen, both published authors in addition to being the musical duo Roman Evening. Glasstown create rich music, pop music, yes but rich, pop music informed by men with more than 3 decades on this mortal coil.

They write memorable tunes in this case swirling with organ and strings, plus Klein's one of a kind voice riding the 'End of our Understanding'melody like it was a ghostly-grey wave.

Gisli is an Icelandic solo musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist now operating in London, UK. His brand of pop-rock has been likened to, amongst others, Beck. He had some degree of chart success in the United Kingdom with his debut album 'How About That?' (2004) and appeared at Glastonbury Festival in 2004. He his second album, Build-Ups And Break-Downs, was recently released on EMI.

Gisli has also produced and written songs for other artists including Norwegian artist Anja Garbarek. Her album Briefly shaking was co-written/produced by Gisli and later picked up by French director Luc Besson for use in his movie Angel-A.
In a addition to his solo and production career, Gisli is also a full-time member of the group Half Tiger.

Girls in Hawaii is a Belgian indie pop band. In 2000, Antoine Wielemans and Lionel Vancauwenberghe began recording songs on an 8 track-recorder, and a few months later they formed the band by recruiting their brothers: Denis Wielemans and Brice Vancauwenberghe, and two friends: Christophe Léonard and Daniel Offermann.

In May 2002 they signed with 62TV Records, and, soon after, French music magazine "Magic" wrote about their first demo: "Simplicity, efficiency and accuracy close to perfection, lots of ideas, "their music reminds us of Grandaddy, Blonde Redhead and even dEUS". In November 2002 they won Studio Brussel´s Demopoll, a contest wherein Studio Brussel listeners select their favorite demo among hundreds of possible bands. Girls in Hawaii's first release was Found in the Ground: The Winter EP in early 2003, after which the band toured through Belgium and France. In the meantime, they started recording what would become their first LP.
From Here To There was released in November 2003 in Belgium and in early 2004 in Europe. It was well-received across Europe, where the band went on a promotional tour, through Belgium, France, Italy, Germany and Spain. The record was later released in Japan, and in October 2005 China Shop Music released it in the United States. The band started a short tour of the West Coast of the United States in April 2006. Their second full-length album, Plan Your Escape was released in February 2008 in Europe. It was recorded in old houses in the forests of Ardennes by producer Jean Lamoot (who has worked with French artists such as Noir Désir and Alain Bashung). The album, more complex and eclectic than the previous, contains twelve songs, among them, the first single which is called This Farm Will End Up In Fire. The band is currently touring through Europe.
Members
* Christophe Léonard (guitar, keyboard)
* Daniel Offermann (bass)
* Brice Vancauwenberghe (guitar)
* Lionel Vancauwenberghe (vocals, guitar)
* Antoine Wielemans (vocals, guitar)
* Denis Wielemans (drums)

Girls Against Boys are an indie rock band, originally forming in Washington, D.C. in 1988 and currently based in New York City. The group began as a side project of Eli Janney and Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty. Canty soon left the project and by 1991 Janney had gone on to recruit three former members of D.C. punk group Soulside Scott McCloud, Johnny Temple, and Alexis Fleisig to complete the line-up. Girls Against Boys are perhaps most notable for employing dual bass guitars, a rarity in rock music, and for their second album, Venus Luxure No.1 Baby, a heavy yet nuanced entry into early 1990s post-hardc....

This album was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties curated Don't Look Back series, and at the 25th anniversary concert for Touch and Go Records held in Chicago in September 2006. They provided music for the soundtrack to the film Series 7: The Contenders, and two songs for the soundtrack to the 1994 film Clerks. They also contributed the song "Freaks" to the soundtrack for the cult film Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Scott McCloud currently plays in Paramount Styles. After Girls Against Boys became inactive in 2003 Eli Janney became a full time producer for many bands.

Gilles Peterson (born 28 September c.1964) is a DJ, record collector and record label owner from London, UK.
Through his labels Acid Jazz, Talkin' Loud, and latterly Brownswood Recordings, he has been associated with the careers of countless well known artists of the 1990s such as Erykah Badu and Tony Rich plus Jamiroquai. He is also well known as a radio DJ. After starting out on pirate radio, and having shows on various legal London based radio stations, most noticeably including Kiss FM dance music station, he was recruited to the BBC's youth-oriented Radio 1 in 1998.

Peterson is known for his eclectic musical selections, and has even been occasionally mentioned as the new John Peel. However whilst the late John Peel had an "anything goes" range of tastes displayed on his show, Peterson's focus has always been Jazz music, generally Modern Jazz, with a strong emphasis on its use in a club environment, mixed with associated music styles. So you would hear him playing anything from dub and reggae through jazz, nu-jazz, funk, soul, neo soul, quality R&B to drum and bass, house, broken beat, hip-hop, Jazz-funk, latin, bossa nova, samba and beyond.
Widely acclaimed as a musical tastemaker, he spreads his influence on music listeners around the world mostly through his Worldwide radio show on BBC Radio 1 which is also broadcast live on the Radio 1 website and available for audio streaming online for seven days from broadcast. He also does another version of the show which gets syndicated to radio stations all over the world, such as FM4 in Austria and Radio Helsinki in Finland, and does a British Airways in flight entertainment show too. Parallel to this, his frequent DJing gigs around the world also have cemented a worldwide following perhaps rather apt, given the name of his radio show is Worldwide. He has recently been involved with the start of new record label Brownswood Recordings, named after the road in North London where the house he used to live is, though he has since had to move out of after his record collection became too big, and which now acts as a warehouse for his enormous collection of vinyl records. Incidentally, this new label should not be confused with Talkin' Loud, the previous label he was involved with, imprint label called Brownswood Records which was used to release music from the United Future Organization as well as other Japanese associated projects.

Luigino Celestino Di Agostino, better known as Gigi D'Agostino, (born 17 December 1967) is an Italian DJ, remixer and music producer. In 1986 he started his career as a DJ spinning Italo Disco, and releasing his first mix "Psychodelic".

Born in Turin, Gigi D'Agostino spent an eventful childhood between his native city and Brescia (where the Media Records studios are placed). As a child, Gigi D'Agostino always had a big hope: to be someone in the world of disco music. Working first as a mason and fitter, he started his musical career as a DJ by organizing parties in clubs. His debut was in a club near Turin called "Woodstock". He was a resident DJ of Ultimo Impero (an Italian disco) from 1993 to 1998.
Albums
* Gigi D'Agostino (1996)
* A Journey Into Space (1996)
* The Greatest Hits (1996)
* Gin Lemon EP (1997)
* Tanzen EP (1999)
* L'Amour Toujours (1999)
* Tecno Fes EP (2000)
* Tecno Fes Vol. 2 (2000)
* Il Programmino Di Gigi D'agostino (2003)
* Underconstruction 1: Silence E.P. (2003)
* L'Amour Toujours II (2004)
* Underconstruction 3: Remix (2004)
* Laboratorio 1 (2004)
* Laboratorio 2 (2005)
* Laboratorio 3 (2005)
* Disco Tanz (2005)
* Some Experiments (2006)
* Lento Violento e Altre Storie (2007)
* La Musica Che Pesta (2007)
* Suono Libero (2008)

Giant Sand is an American rock band, based in Tucson, Arizona, USA. The name is shortened from the original Giant Sandworms, a reference to the creatures in the Dune books.

Overseen by singer-songwriter Howe Gelb, its membership has shifted over the years—at times with each album. For a long while the band's rhythm section consisted of John Convertino and Joey Burns who left the band when their side project, Calexico, grew more widely known than Giant Sand and, as Gelb characterized it in 2004, Calexico "began to work against Giant Sand and eat away at what the band was". Other members have included keyboardist Chris Cacavas (of Green on Red), bassist Paula Jean Brown (who was briefly a member of The Go-Go's and was married to Gelb at the time) and drummer Tom Larkins (later to become a Jonathan Richman sideman). Guest artists have included Victoria Williams, Neko Case, Juliana Hatfield, PJ Harvey, Vic Chesnutt, Steve Wynn, Vicki Peterson, Rainer Ptacek, M. Ward, Isobel Campbell nearly all members of the band Poi Dog Pondering, and regular cameos from Gelb and Brown's daughter, Indiosa Patsy Jean.

Get Him Eat Him is a five-piece indie rock band from Providence, Rhode Island, formed in February 2004. Shortly after signing to Absolutely Kosher Records in the summer of 2004, the band began selling handmade CD-Rs of their demo under the title Casual Sex. In January 2005, the band recorded their debut album Geography Cones with Jay Pellicci (Deerhoof, Erase Errata, 31Knots) at San Francisco's Tiny Telephone Studio.

Mid-2005 saw the release of Geography Cones, as well as the tour-only EP The Rude Reach. The Do As I Tell You EP was released in January 2006, followed a few months later by the uniquely packaged Challenges You to a Game of Basketball EP. The band has completed four national tours, including dates with Ted Leo, Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene. Their second full-length, Arms Down, produced by the Dismemberment Plan's Jason Caddell, was released on June 5th, 2007.
Members
* Matt LeMay - Vocals, guitar
* Joe Posner - Bass
* Jason Sigal - Guitar
* Kevin Sparks - Keyboards, guitar
* Jeff Wood - Drums, percussion