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Detroit's Paradime has been one of the city's most highly touted emcees since his arrival on the scene in 1999. The winner of handfuls of Detroit Music Awards, Detroit Hip Hop Awards, and Real Detroit and Metro Times reader polls, Dime is a favorite of Motown's music fans. When Dime isn't rocking his own crowds, he is a member of Kid Rock's Twisted Brown Trucker band, and works the turntables for the American Bad Ass all over the world. .

When Jenn Wasner isn't busy with her band Wye Oak, she makes music as Flock of Dimes. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Flock-of-Dimes/191590407552375 http://soundcloud.com/friendsrecords/flock-of-dimes-prison-bride .

Forbidden Dimension started out in 1988, just as Jackson Phibes's (aka Aleister Hexxx) previous combo, Color Me Psycho, was calling it quits. Thematically, it was (and remains) dedicated to illustrating a world where Coffin Joe and Julian Karswell run a Rest Home for the Terminally Bewildered in the Old Dark House on Spider Baby Hill. After 18+ years of slogging it out on the Western Canada dive bar/punk club circuit and leaving a small trail of cryptic (yet, as they say in the business, "rockin'") recordings with various line-ups, labels, etc., Phibes blindly figures there still ain't no end in...

Sediment is a rhythm and noise band from new york. They formed in the spring of 2008, and have released a 7" EP on softspot records. they draw from no wave, soul, funk and distorted stuff. "The Sediment Club meld their wide-raning influences into something original and great in its own right. The group features Austin on guitar and vocals, Lazar on bass and accompanying vox, Jack on drums, and Amina on synth. They played ten originals plus covers of Pere Ubu/Rocket From The Tombs Life Stinks and The Residents Hello Skinny." Jason Sigal, WFMU Band Members: Jack Mcdermott-drums Amina...