The Real Tuesday Weld was founded, and is fronted, by Londoner Stephen Coates. The band’s albums include At the House of the Clerkenwell Kid (2001), I, Lucifer (a soundtrack companion to the 2004 book of the same name by Glen Duncan), and The London Book of the Dead, released in 2007 on Six Degrees Records.

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Neko Case’s highly regarded solo albums include her 1997 debut The Virginian, Furnace Room Lullaby (2000), and Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, which topped many critics’ “Best of 2006” lists. Case is also a member of Vancouver-based band the New Pornographers with Carl (A.C.) Newman. The New Pornographer’s albums include Mass Romantic (2000) and Challengers (2008). Newman, who formerly led the band Zumpano, released his 2004 solo effort The Slow Wonder on Matador Records.

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Chris Rehm self-released the album I Am the Hot Potato...I Hope You Work Out when he was 16 years old. Based in New Orleans, he has since released a number of records, including Bayous and Salivary Stones.

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Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Marnie Stern lives in New York City. Kill Rock Stars released her critically acclaimed debut album, In Advance of the Broken Arm, in 2007.

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Busdriver is Los Angeles MC Regan Farquhar, a seminal figure in the alternative hip-hop world known for his hyper-literate, dizzyingly dense rapping style. Busdriver’s albums include Memoirs of an Elephant Man (2001), The Weather (2003), Fear of a Black Tangent (2005), and 2012’s Beaus$Eros.

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Philadelphia-based Man Man is known for the exuberant live performances of its members Honus Honus, Sergei Sogay, Pow Pow, Critter Crat, and Chang Wang. The band’s albums include Six Demon Bag (2006) and Rabbit Habits, released by Anti- Records in 2008.

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Brooklyn-based Langhorne Slim was born Sean Scolnick in Langhorne, PA. He has toured with the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Cake, and the Violent Femmes; his albums include Be Set Free and The Way We Move.

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Ryan Adams has released a number of albums, including Heartbreaker (2000), the Grammy nominated Gold (2001), Rock N Roll (2003), 29 (2005), and Easy Tiger (2007). Adams made three records with the storied alt-country band Whiskeytown prior to his solo career and has since recorded several albums with backing band the Cardinals. The longtime New Yorker has also released myriad EPs and singles and frequently collaborates with other musicians (including Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson, whose album Songbird Adams produced in 2006).

The Bay Area band Gowns is the project of vocalist/guitarist Erika Anderson and vocalist/keyboard player Ezra Buchla (who have been joined on the road by drummer Jacob Felix Heule and bassist Daniel Brummel). Their debut album, Red State, appeared on Cardboard Records in 2007.

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Violinist and singer Catherine McRae has played with Patti Smith, Nick Tosches, Vic Chesnutt, Tom Verlaine, and the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. She currently collaborates with T. Griffin as one half of the Quavers, whose album Lit By Your Phone was released in late 2007. McRae, who lives in Brooklyn, has also worked with filmmaker Jem Cohen and theater director Richard Maxwell.

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Atlas Sound is the solo project of Bradford Cox, who is also the front man of Atlanta psych-rock band Deerhunter. Atlas Sound’s albums include Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (2008) and Parallax (2011).

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Graphic designer Dominic Dyson is the force behind Artificial Workshop. When not working on his “manufactured” electro-art-pop music, Dyson teaches at the School of Graphic Design at the London College of Communication.

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