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Arcade Fire
Canadian indie rock band
Massive Attack
British trip hop band
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Canadian post-rock band
Belle and Sebastian
Scottish indie pop band
Tinariwen
Tinariwen (Tamasheq: ; with vowels ; plural of ténéré meaning "desert") is a collective of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara region of southern Algeria and of northern Mali, in the region of Azawad. Considered pioneers of desert blues, the group's guitar-driven style combines traditional Tuareg and African music with Western rock music. The collective first convened in the late 1970s and released their first studio album in the early 1990s. They began touring internationally in the early 2000s.
Animal Collective
American experimental pop band
KMFDM
KMFDM (originally Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid, loosely translated by the band as "No Sympathy for the Majority") is a multinational industrial rock band from Hamburg led by Sascha Konietzko, who founded the band in 1984 as a performance art project.
Eels
American indie rock band
Hello! Project
Japanese musical project
Architecture in Helsinki
Australian band
SM Town
South Korean musical group
LSD
supergroup by Labrinth, Sia, and Diplo
Broken Social Scene
Canadian art rock band
of Montreal
American indie pop band
Postmodern Jukebox
American music band
The New Pornographers
Canadian indie rock band
The Mountain Goats
American musical group
Parliament-Funkadelic
Parliament-Funkadelic (abbreviated as P-Funk) is an American music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton, primarily consisting of the funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic, both active since the 1960s. With an eclectic style drawing on psychedelia, outlandish fashion, and surreal humor, they have released albums such as Maggot Brain (1971), Mothership Connection (1975), and One Nation Under a Groove (1978) to critical praise, and scored charting hits with singles such as "Tear the Roof Off the Sucker" (1975) and "Flash Light" (1978). Overall, the collective achieved thirteen
Thee Silver Mt. Zion
Canadian band
The Polyphonic Spree
American choral rock band
AKB48 Group
series of Japanese idol group
Streetlight Manifesto
American ska band
Compass Point Studios
recording studio in Nassau, Bahamas
Silk City
English-American electronic-music duo
Ozomatli
Ozomatli is an American rock band, formed in 1995 in Los Angeles. They are known both for their vocal activist viewpoints and incorporating a wide array of musical styles – including salsa, jazz, funk, reggae, hip hop, and others. The group formed in 1995 and has since released seven studio albums. Although the band has had many member changes over the years and has sometimes had as many as ten members, the current six members have been in the band since its debut album.
The Strumbellas
Canadian musical group
The Funk Brothers
American group of Motown studio musicians
The Wrecking Crew
loose collective of session musicians based in Los Angeles whose services were employed for thousands of studio recordings in the 1960s and early 1970s
The Desert Sessions
Music collective series
Bran Van 3000
Canadian band
The Elephant 6 Recording Company
American independent music recording company and musical collective
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
Dutch orchestra specializing in early European music, founded by Frans Brüggen and Lucy van Dael in 1981
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
British period instrument orchestra, founded 1986
Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
British band
Bomb the Music Industry!
American band
Sakamichi Series
series of Japanese idol groups
Black Mountain
Canadian rock band
Mafia K-1 Fry
Ga.Salah-AI-Din.Rana
Almanac Singers
band
SiIvaGunner
SiIvaGunner (), formerly GiIvaSunner (), is a comedic musical collective based mostly around bait-and-switch YouTube videos claiming to be "high quality rips" of video game music that are in reality remixes, parodies, and/or mashups, often incorporating Internet memes and popular music.
COUM Transmissions
British music and performance art collective
Hieroglyphics
American hip hop collective
Instrumenti
Instrumenti are an Electronic Indie Pop music band from Latvia, Riga, originally formed by two academically educated musicians Jānis Šipkēvics (Shipsea) and Reinis Sējāns. In 2014, band's producer Gatis Zaķis became full member.
Bandista
Bandista (also stylized as bANDİSTA) is a Turkish musical collective, formed in 2006 in Istanbul. The band is known for their diverse musical style, DIY ethic and leftist political stance.
Les Tambours du Bronx
French percussion band
Piano Magic
band
The Wild Bunch
British musical group; sound system
Set Fire to Flames
band
Fly Pan Am
Canadian experimental rock band formed in Montreal in 1996
The Minus 5
American band
Willard Grant Conspiracy
American musical group; alt-country band
Collectif Métissé
French pop band
Systema Solar
Colombian music band