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Southern California four piece consisting of Joel, Tim, Luke, and Mike. pre-end.com http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pretend/179233628799153 .

World Leader Pretend is a five-person rock band from New Orleans, featuring Keith Ferguson (vocals/guitar/keyboards), Parker Hutchinson (keyboards), Matt Martin (guitar), Arthur Mintz (drums), and Alex Smith (bass). The band formed in 2002, and their name comes from the 5th track of the album Green by R.E.M.. Their first album, Fit For Faded was released in 2003 on Renaissance Records, a New Orleans label. After some touring with Emerge Music, the band decided to record in The Walkmen's studio in New York. The stars lined up for the bad and a bidding war ensued for World Leader Pretend resulting in...

Noise for Pretend looks like your average indie pop group but sounds nothing like one. Nor do they sound very noisy. A Portland, OR-based trio comprised of standup bassist and lead vocalist Esperanza Spalding, guitarist and vocalist Benjamin Workman, and drummer Christian Cochran, Noise for Pretend instead plays jazz-influenced pop noir, taking cues from Django Reinhardt and Astrud Gilberto far more often than Sonic Youth and Superchunk. They made their recorded debut on a split release with the like-minded Blanket Music in 2001 on Hush. At the time of release, Spalding was 16 years old, belying her mature, confident, studied...

The Pretenders is an English-American rock band founded in Hereford, United Kingdom that came to prominence during the punk and new wave movement of the late 1970s due to their innovative songwriting and charismatic performances. Since then, the band has experienced drug-related losses and numerous subsequent personnel changes, with American-born group founder, songwriter, vocalist, and rhythm guitarist Chrissie Hynde as the only consistent member. Formed in 1978 in London, the original band Hynde, lead and rhythm guitarist James Honeyman-Scott (died 1982), bassist Pete Farndon (died 1983), and drummer Martin Chambers. Save for Hynde, a native of Akron, Ohio, the original...

Lord Pretender, (born Aldric Farrell, September 8, 1917, Tobago island, Trinidad and Tobago — January 22, 2002, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) was a Trinidadian calypso singer. He was a master of “extempo” calypso, during a 72 year long career , in which the performer spontaneously devises songs filled with intricate lyrics and rhymes, usually in response to suggested subjects shouted from the audience. Some musicologists considered extempo a forerunner of modern rap music. Pretender began performing his own songs at age 12, came in third in the first national Calypso Monarch competition in 1939, and won that prestigious...