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Whiskey Blanket is perhaps the world's most unconventional hip-hop group. The multi-talented trio integrates live violin, cello, and turn-tablism into haunting beat-scapes, only to drop their instruments and double as emcees. Add in a drum machine, harmonica, keyboard, some slick three piece suites, and a decade of shared experience, and you've got a show that's not to be missed. Incorporating musical influence that spans from Brazil to Japan and everywhere in between, the group’s four independent studio releases have garnered world-wide attention while never neglecting the rich musical heritage of their own back yard. Listeners find themselves drawn to the...

Blanketarms is a boy and a girl who love each other, music, and quite possibly you. They make music in an attic. They go around in a soccer mom van, meeting new friends and visiting old ones. They like to make fun, but honest music. .

There were many theories about the identity of the musicians in this band. Some thought their one and only album, 'Walls have Ears' was by the Attractions (Elvis Costello's band) whom they superficially resembled. Others noted the "direction" credit to well-known producer (and Costello associate) Roger Bechirian and assumed all songs and instruments must be by Bechirian. Some reviews at the time mentioned the name Pete Marsh as the possible main-man of the band – Marsh was originally a member of Easy Street, a mellow acoustic act of the '70s whose ranks also included Richard James Burgess, who went on...

he is a songwriter and lives in kreuzberg. this is in berlin. he likes folk hymns, hum-along-choruses and the swing of the old musicals. he loves uku lilli. he talks to a monster in his bed. he's hopelessly in love with a vampire and knows a child who desires to ride on a magic red balloon. in his "painted world" he watches life "with a laughing and a crying eye", cause he knows that we're all sailors on the river of time and will have to pass one day. but til that day comes, we should join in and sing...

Blanket Truth, essentially Jon Manning, is an amorphous, folky, indie pop band based in Seattle, WA via Thousand Oaks, CA. They have released many, now out of print, cassette tapes since 2005 and have no intention on stopping. Spurred on by a love of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and the Mountain Goats, Jon realized that it was possible to record songs with very few musical instruments and simple recording devices that can be found in most homes (hand held tape recorder, answering machine, boombox, etc). These songs have mostly been released on his own Lost Sound Tapes imprint, which...