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| x L.A. Guns |
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L.A. Guns are an American glam metal band whose music is frequently associated with the L.A. glam metal scene which grew up around the Sunset Strip in the 1980s, in particular the sleaze rock subgenre. Guns N' Roses, which once featured three of the...
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| x Steve Carlson |
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Steve Carlson is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter from Southern California. In addition to his blossoming solo career, he is also a member of the two successful L.A. club scene bands KANE and The Steve Carlson Band. Currently he is...
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| x Prototype |
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Prototype is an American progressive metal / thrash metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1994.
Prototype was formed in 1994, when vocalist and guitarist Vince Levalois and guitarist Kragen Lum left the Los Angeles band Psychosis and...
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| x The Daylights |
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The Daylights is a pop-rock band from Los Angeles, California that formed in 2004. The trio is fronted by brothers Ran Jackson and Ricky Jackson, with Svend Lerche on Drums.
They have released their first EP "Shift and Blur" independently in 2004...
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| x Dilated Peoples |
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Dilated Peoples is an underground hip hop group that resides in California. It has achieved great fame in the underground hip hop community, although it has had little mainstream success in the US, with the exception of the song "This Way," a 2004...
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| x Son of Sam |
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Son of Sam is an American rock band that is a side project created by Todd Youth in 2000, during his tenure as the guitarist for Danzig. The band recorded one album, which features members of Samhain, Danzig, and AFI. Much like its members' other...
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| x Downset |
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downset. was a Rap Metal / hardcore punk group hailing from Los Angeles, California.
The band's original moniker was Social Justice. They released their debut album, Unity Is Strength, in 1989 and the EP I Refuse To Lose under this name with a...
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| x Faster Pussycat |
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Faster Pussycat is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1986.
The group was most successful during the late 1980s with their self-titled debut album and their 1989 gold album Wake Me When It's Over.
Faster Pussycat was...
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| x 45 Grave |
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45 Grave, (also known as .45 Grave) is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1979. They are associated with horror punk, deathrock and goth rock. The original group broke up in 1985 but vocalist Dinah Cancer subsequently...
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Error is an Electro-hardcore band founded in 2003 by 12 Rounds member and Nine Inch Nails collaborator Atticus Ross, and Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. Since the 2004 release of their self-titled EP, the project has been on hiatus.
According...
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| x Doctor Jekill |
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Doctor Jekill is a Cuban-American Rock band which gained notoriety in the late 1990s and early 2000sthroughout South America and the United States establishing a legacy as one of the most influential bands of the American-Latin underground....
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| x Living Legends |
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The Living Legends crew is composed of eight hip hop artists based in California. Beginning in the early 1990s, the crew garnered a following by recording, promoting, and performing their music independently (without signing a contract with a major...
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| x Black Label Society |
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Black Label Society is a heavy metal band formed by Zakk Wylde, with seven studio albums released to date.
In the early 1990s, Wylde had formed his own solo band Pride & Glory, playing a mixture of bluesy southern rock with heavy metal. However,...
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| x Brownstone |
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Brownstone was a Grammy Award-nominated female contemporary R&B; group, popular during the mid-1990s that has began a revival in 2007. It is best known for its 1995 hit single "If You Love Me." The group also had some success with the singles ...
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| x Saviour Machine |
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Saviour Machine is a progressive neoclassical Christian gothic symphonic metal band from California, USA, formed in 1989. The band is known for its epic music and lyrics that deal with the End Times. Saviour Machine is particularly popular in...
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| x Autolux |
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Autolux is a Los Angeles-based trio comprising Eugene Goreshter (lead vocals, bass), Greg Edwards (guitar, vocals) and Carla Azar (drums, vocals). The trio formed in 2000 and has since recorded one promotion EP, Demonstration, and released one full...
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| x The Knack |
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The Knack is a Los Angeles-based rock quartet that rose to fame with their first single, "My Sharona", an international hit in the second half of 1979.
The "power pop" of "My Sharona", coupled with the band's "retro" 1960s look, earned the band...
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| x Plexi |
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Plexi was a gothic noise rock band consisting of Michael Angelos (vocals, songwriting, bass), Michael Barragan (guitar, occasional Moog), and Norm Block (drums). No other members were ever in the band, though they occasionally utilized a Moog player...
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| x Niyaz |
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Niyaz (نياز) is an Iranian musical trio. The group was created in 2005 by DJ, programmer/producer and remixer Carmen Rizzo, vocalist and hammered dulcimer player Azam Ali, formerly of the group Vas, and Loga Ramin Torkian of the Iranian crossover...
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| x Glue Gun |
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Glue Gun (formerly known as Glü Gun) is an American punk rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1991 by The Grim's Bob Oedy, who is the lead singer and only constant member as of the band's reunion. To date, the band has released two...
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| x People Under the Stairs |
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People Under the Stairs are an underground hip hop group from Los Angeles, California. It's comprised of two emcee's Thes One and Double K. The group, also known as PUTS, has released seven albums since 1998, each about every two years. Although...
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| x Bang Tango |
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Bang Tango is an American funk-infused hard rock and glam metal band.
The band formed in 1987 in Los Angeles, California and were signed to MCA Records that same year. Psycho Café (the band's debut album) was released in 1989 and, although MTV gave...
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| x 14 Year Old Girls |
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14 Year Old Girls is a self-described Nintendocore band. It has released two full-length CDs on the Retard Disco label.
Media coverage includes an appearance playing live on G4TV .
Discography:
2005 - Strategy Guide
2003 - Zombies In Robots Out
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| x The Good Girls |
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The Good Girls was a female R&B; musical ensemble from Los Angeles, California that emerged in the late 1980s; composed of Shireen Crutchfield, Joyce Tolbert, and DeMonica Santiago.
The Good Girls were recording artist for Motown Records, and were...
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| x Coal Chamber |
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Coal Chamber was an American nu metal band from Los Angeles, California. The band formed in 1994 and disbanded in 2003. Former vocalist Dez Fafara and guitarist Meegs Rascon started She's In Pain in 1992. The two decided to create Coal Chamber in...
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| x Great White |
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Great White is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1978. The band gained popularity during the 1980s and early 1990s. The band released several albums in the late 1980s and gained airplay on MTV with music videos for songs like ...
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| x Hellion |
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Hellion is a heavy metal band, which was formed during 1982 in Los Angeles, California. The first line-up included Ann Boleyn (vocals), Ray Schenck (guitar), Sean Kelley (drums) and Peyton Tuthill (bass). With a different line-up they continue on...
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| x Transister |
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Transister is an alternative rock band formed in late-1995 in Los Angeles by music business veterans from both the United States and the United Kingdom. Despite only having released one album to moderate sales, their work has been featured on a...
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| x The Exies |
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The Exies are an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1997. Their name, "The Exies", is short for "The Existentialists". Their two Virgin Records releases, Inertia (2003) and Head for the Door (2004), have sold over 400,000...
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| x The Four Postmen |
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The Four Postmen is a Los Angeles based rock group that consists of five band members. Featuring electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, drums, bass, and an emphasis on three-part vocal harmony, their live show is highly energetic and theatrical,...
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| x Kane |
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Kane is an American country rock, southern rock, and Americana band that was formed in 1998 in Los Angeles, California fronted by actor Christian Kane. The band has released two successful independent albums and toured both the U.S. and Europe.
Kane...
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| x Steve Carlson Band |
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The Steve Carlson Band (sometimes advertised as 'SCB') was an American country rock and funk country rock band based out of Hollywood, California. Formed in 2004, the band released its first independent album in the summer of 2005 and performed in...
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| x JazzyFatNastees |
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Jazzyfatnastees is a vocal duo, Tracey Moore (born 1970) and Mercedes Martinez (born 1969). The group started as a vocal quartet in 1993, when they landed a deal with Tommy Boy. However, by 1995, the deal had fallen through, the other two members...
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| x Vas |
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Vas was an "alternative world" musical group consisting of Persian vocalist Azam Ali and American percussionist Greg Ellis. Vas is frequently compared to the Australian band Dead Can Dance. At present the band has released four full length albums,...
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| x Kate Earl |
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Kate Earl, born Kate Joy Smithson, (born October 8, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter.
Earl was born to Charles and Pomposa Smithson in Anchorage, Alaska. She is of Filipino and Dutch/Welsh descent. She began playing piano at 4, sang in her...
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| x Hirax |
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Hirax is an American thrash metal band from Cypress, California. Starting in 1984 under the leadership of vocalist Katon W. De Pena (their most distinctive character and the band's only original member part of the current line-up), the band played...
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| x The Calling |
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The Calling is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band was formed by Alex Band (vocals) and Aaron Kamin (guitar) when Kamin was dating Band's sister.
After forming in 1999, Band and Kamin were signed to a record deal with RCA....
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| x The Messies |
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The Messies are a pop rock band from Los Angeles, California.
The Messies released their inaugural album, Behind Every Scream, in 2003. The album introduced them to the Southern California music scene, and the single "Super Sexy" was featured on the...
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| x The Shys |
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The Shys are a five piece rock band from Southern California, Their current line-up consists of Kyle Krone, Chris Wulff, Riley Stephenson, Tony Cupito and Ryan Hansen. Their debut CD, titled Astoria, was released on Sire Records on July 11, 2006....
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| x Nobody's Angel |
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Nobody's Angel was an American pop girl group of the late 1990s. The group consisted of four members Ali Navarro, Stacey Harper, Amy Sue Hardy and Sarah Smith. The band was put together after they became friends and discovered they had something in...
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| x Dark Angel |
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Dark Angel was an American thrash metal band from Los Angeles, California. Their over-the-top style (extremely fast, heavy and lengthy songs with lots of tempo changes, lyrics and extended instrumental parts) earned them the nickname "the L.A....
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| x Tha Alkaholiks |
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Tha Alkaholiks, also known as Tha Liks, was an American hip hop group from Los Angeles, California. Since the early 1990s they have produced funky, upbeat, hedonism-themed party music with a hardcore hip hop edge, powered by the beats of DJ and...
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| x Camp Freddy |
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Camp Freddy is a group of established musicians who play rock and roll covers at various shows around America. The band is composed of core members Dave Navarro (guitar), Billy Morrison (guitar), Matt Sorum (drums), Donovan Leitch, Jr. (vocals) and...
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| x Cary Brothers |
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Cary Brothers is an indie rock American singer-songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee, best known for his song "Blue Eyes" which was featured on the Platinum-selling, Grammy-winning "Garden State" soundtrack.
With his songs influenced by everything...
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| x Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. |
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Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. are a hip hop group from Carson, California, composed of the Devoux brothers Paul, Ted, Donald, Roscoe, Danny, and David. Their family is from Samoa. They first began playing music in their father's Baptist church. Before anyone...
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| x Osker |
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Osker was a Los Angeles melodic punk rock band who formed in 1998 and split in February 2002, ultimately due to the departure of their drummer. The line up originally consisted of Devon Williams on vocals and guitar and Dave Benitez on bass. They...
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| x J-Ro |
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James Robinson, known by his stage name J-Ro is a hip-hop performer and former member of Tha Alkaholiks.
818 Antics
Rare Earth B-Boy Funk Vol. II
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| x The Gun Club |
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The Gun Club was an American punk blues band from Los Angeles, California that existed from 1980 to 1996. Led by flamboyant singer and guitarist Jeffrey Lee Pierce, The Gun Club merged the contemporary genre of punk rock with the more traditional...
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| x Scars on Broadway |
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Scars on Broadway is an American alternative metal band, founded by System of a Down members Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan. The band's eponymous debut album was released on July 29, 2008.
In 2003, Daron Malakian (lead guitar), Casey Chaos (vocals...
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| x Aztlan Underground |
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Aztlan Underground is a fusion band from Los Angeles. Since early 1989, Aztlan Underground has played Rapcore. Indigenous drums, flutes, and rattles are commonplace in its musical compositions.
This unique sound is the backdrop for the band's...
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| x Charles Mingus |
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Charles Mingus, Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and pianist. He was also known for his activism against racial injustice.
Mingus is considered one of the most important composers and...
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| x Ice T |
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Tracy Marrow (born February 16, 1958), better known by his stage name Ice-T, is a Grammy Award and NAACP Image Award-winning American rapper, actor and author. He is credited with helping in pioneering gangsta rap, in the late 1980s. As an actor, he...
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| x Metallica |
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Metallica /məˈtælɨkə/ is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1981. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm...
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| x Mötley Crüe |
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Mötley Crüe is a American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981. The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil. Mötley Crüe...
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| x Megadeth |
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Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1983. Founded by Dave Mustaine following his departure from Metallica, the band has since released twelve studio albums, six live albums, two EPs, twenty six singles,...
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| x The Righteous Brothers |
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The Righteous Brothers were the musical duo of Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield. They recorded from 1963 through 1975, and continued to perform until Hatfield's death in 2003. Their emotive vocal stylings were sometimes dubbed "blue-eyed soul".
Medley...
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| x Red Hot Chili Peppers |
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Red Hot Chili Peppers (often abbreviated RHCP) is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1983. For most of the band's existence, the members have been vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist...
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| x System of a Down |
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System of a Down (sometimes simply referred to as SOAD or System) is an Armenian-American rock band from Glendale, California, formed in 1994. System of a Down consists of Serj Tankian (lead vocals, keyboards and rhythm guitar), Daron Malakian ...
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| x The Doors |
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The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California by vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger. They are considered a controversial and influential band, due...
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| x The Bangles |
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The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles through much of the decade.
When Susanna Hoffs joined sisters Vicki and Debbi Peterson to form a band in Los Angeles in the waning days of...
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