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While many groups that mix reggae with rock go for the laid-back vibes and represent the permanent vacation lifestyle, the Savannah, Georgia-based Passafire prefer a more punchy, punky, and progressive version of reggae-rock. Formed in 2003 with the Savannah College of Art and Design as their home base, the four-piece launched their career through rigorous touring and a self-titled, self-released album that appeared in 2006. Two years later, they signed with fellow rock-reggae group Pepper's imprint LAW and released their sophomore effort, Submersible, with Everyone on Everynight following on the label in 2009. With guidance from the people at LAW,...

Ramin Djawadi (born 1974 in Duisburg, Germany) is an Iranian-German composer of orchestral music for film and television. His father was an immigrant from Iran. Ramin Djawadi composes music for film and television. Djawadi has been numerously credited as a composer for additional music, orchestrator and as an assistant composer to Hans Zimmer. His work for films include Blade: Trinity, Ask the Dust, and Open Season. For television, Djawadi's work includes Threshold, Blade: The Series, Person of Interest and Prison Break, for which he received an Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Main Title Theme Music" in 2006. In 2007 he composed...

1. Música Popular Brasileira septet from Champaign, Illinois: Elis Artz (vocals) Nikos Vergis (drums) Gabriel Motta (guitar) Luciano Tosta (mandolin/percussion) Tom Paynter (flute and melodica) Giraldo Rosales (congas) David Cubberly (bass) 2. Rock quintet from Austin, Texas: Anthony Bice (bass) Paul Stautinger (drums) Barry Jones (guitar) Aaron Winslow (guitar) David Jones (vocals) .

Born in 1969 Dakar, Didier Awadi grew up in the district Friendship. A pioneer of the hip-hop movement in Senegal and West Africa, Awadi founded the group Positive Black Soul (PBS) with Doug-E-Tee (Amadou Barry) in 1989. Their first album, Boul Faalé (1994) was a success. Awadi released his first solo album Kaddu Gor (word of honor) in In 2002. The album won the Radio France Internationale World Music award in 2003. In October 2005, Awadi released his second solo album Another World is Possible in the French market. The album is a plea for more humane international policies and...