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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...

Geneviève Beaulieu is one half of Montreal-based Menace Ruine (Alien8 Recordings/Aurora Borealis) as well as having been involved in a variety of earlier ventures, always at the core of the creative process, principally as a guitarist, vocalist and lyricist. James Hamilton has been active in experimental music circles since the end of the 80’s, running the Dystonia EK label (1989-2009), and making ascetic electroacoustic/acousmatic music as Column, Annihilist and since 1999 as Nebris. Preterite is their collaboration. Utilising primarily acoustic, though occasionally electric, instrumentation and centred on Genevieve’s distinctive voice, Preterite represents a shift away from the denser sounds of...

Preteen Pornstar, based out of San Diego California is the collected work of Suzy Baker, age 12. .

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...