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Rogue Wave is an alternative rock band from Oakland, California, formed in 2002. They are headed by Zach Schwartz (aka Zach Rogue), who created the band after losing his job in the dot-com bust. Their first album was Out of the Shadow which was written, recorded and produced entirely by Zach Rogue (except the drums) - released privately in 2003 and finally re-released in 2004 on Subpop. In the autumn of 2004 they went on a national tour of the US, which lasted two years. They have been compared in the music press to The Shins. Their second album, Descended...

Austin, Texas-based duo The Wind and The Wave are Dwight Baker and Patricia Lynn. (Dwight is “The Wind” and Patty is “The Wave.”) The two met in 2009 when Dwight, a touring musician turned songwriter and producer, who’s worked with such artists as Bob Schneider and Brandi Carlile, was urged by his wife to actually leave his studio (“I’m kind of a hermit,” he says) and go see a friend’s band. Patty’s previous band was opening the show. The album "From the Wreckage" glows with a rootsy golden tone that encompasses everything from indie-folk, to alt-country, to blues-rock to Southern...

Billie Ray Martin describes herself as “a kid from Hamburg’s red-light district, who wanted to be a soul singer, but ended up playing repetitive machine music, while still trying to be a soul singer". Dubbed the "queen of electronic soul", Billie first came to prominence as a guest with S'Express before leading the acclaimed deep house act Electribe 101, her unique voice hitting both the house scene and charts with a strong infusion of soul. Electribe 101 scored a brace of hits including the classic Talking With Myself and the album Electribal Memories, gaining rave reviews worldwide, before Billie departed...

Het idee voor ‘New Wave’ komt van platenlabel Top Notch en is mede mogelijk gemaakt door de Buma Music Academy. Buma Music Academy is een initiatief van Buma Cultuur om de muziekles weer terug op de middelbare school te brengen in een boeiende en eigentijdse vorm. De eerste twee weken van februari werd Schiermonnikoog overspoeld door een nieuwe generatie hiphopartiesten. In deze ‘snelkookpan’ is keihard gewerkt, zijn bijzondere combinaties ontstaan en is een veelheid aan uiteenlopende tracks gemaakt: van straatraps tot potentiële pophits. Of zoals De Correspondent hun reportage kopte: ‘Let maar op: de volgende hiphopsensatie komt van Schiermonnikoog’. .