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In 2005 Karate announced their demise, quietly closing the door on a 12-year run that included 6 studio albums and almost 700 performances in 20 countries. They exited the indie rock world without much fanfare, except from the small enclaves of devout fans who have followed their music since Geoff Farina's early 90's work with The Secret Stars. The band’s beginnings in the early-90's Boston indie scene, their love for improvised music and classic rock, and their adherence to the DIY punk ethos of their youth made them freaks in any scene, defying classification with their strange fusion of punk,...

Ernesty International was founded by Ernst Tiefenthaler in November 2007 when he recorded a couple of songs in the house where his grandparents had lived and where he had spent many summers as a child. In 2009 the first album "Ernesty International" was released on the small Styrian label pumpkin records, followed in 2010 by "It could be the Sun, Mr. President", and in 2011 by "Not a Ship an Aeroplane" - the first album of the newly founded label EMG (Ernesty Music Group). In November 2012, exactly 5 years after the first click on the record button, EMG publishes...

International Orange was a short lived band from North Carolina featuring Robert Sledge of Ben Folds Five fame, singer/songwriter Django Haskins of The Old Ceremony, Snuzz of Bus Stop and Ben Folds, and the drumming of Jason Fagg. .

Audio Karate is a pop punk band from Rosemead, California formed in 1995. Audio Karate signed to Kung Fu Records in fall 2001. They put out their debut album, Space Camp, on May 14, 2002. The album featured the songs "Nintendo 89," "Rosemead," and "Senior Year." After the release of Space Camp, Audio Karate toured the world with bands such as The Ataris, NOFX, Blink-182. After the heavy touring, the band decided to take a break to write their next record. The result was an album named Lady Melody that was produced by Bill Stevenson of the Descendents. Lady Melody...