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Death Grips are an experimental hip hop group formed in Sacramento, California, United States in 2010. The group consists of Stefan Burnett aka Ride (vocals) and the production team Zach Hill and Andy Morin aka A2B2, often miscredited under the alias "Flatlander". Their live setup consists of Burnett on vocals, Morin on keyboards & laptop, and Hill on drums. The group officially formed December 21, 2010, and released its first single and video for "Full Moon (Death Classic)" on March 8, 2011. On April 26, 2011, they released their debut album, the mixtape Exmilitary. NBCNewYork.com called it "an intense, dark...

Born in a family with a singing mother and a radio producer father and a brother. Since early childhood I’ve been told that I spent late evenings as an infant under a grand piano, thus consuming lots of lieder by Hugo Wolf and Franz Schubert. I would think that this type of immersion into music must some way alter the state of a person. With this musical coating I was soon presented to the recorder, an instrument that was considered the entrance tool for music exploration. After some years I was given the possibility to play cello, and this instrument...

'The natural progression from the Who to the Jam to Oasis' -Village Voice... “Sparkling, insanely catchy psyche-pop”: The Grip Weeds are a critically acclaimed Psychedelic Rock /Power Pop quartet consisting of brothers Kurt and Rick Reil (on drums and guitar respectively), Kristin Pinell (guitar) and Michael Kelly (bass). Surrounded by their vintage equipment, this talented four-piece band records slices of perfect, radio-friendly guitar-pop, psychedelic enough to appeal to record junkies and Sixties-retro fans, but edgy enough to fit into a modern rock set. Strange Change Machine, the new Grip Weeds double CD/LP, is a 24-song tour de force that sees...

Pistol Grip is a street punk band, formed in Los Angeles in 1997. Their sound has been described as a mixture of the UK and LA styles of punk fused with anti-religious and quasi-political lyrics. The band built up a strong local following through playing shows with The Adicts, Agnostic Front, The Generators, Youth Brigade and The Unseen. Their first release was a split album with fellow LA street punk band Fully Loaded. The album caught the attention of BYO Records, who signed the band in 2001. They have since released three full length albums on the label, including 2004's...

gripweed. is an electro-rock band from Italy. Their story begins some time before they decided to name themselves after the character performed by John Lennon in "How I won the War", a movie by Richard Lester. In the shadowy and empty corners of a small village in the Italian far south, the band realized they had to raise their game musically. Comprised of vocalist Cristian Rosa, guitarist Alberto la Riccia and bassist Lucantonio Pignataro, gripweed. made their live debut in 2002. Scoring with an intimate style, a view on autobiographical features and movie fascinations, they self-produced in 2004 their first...