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New York City-based The King of France is journalist Michael Azerrad on drums and Steve Salad (ex-Deformo) on guitar and vocals. The band released their debut album Salad Days on Egret Records in 2003 and their national self-titled release on Echo Records in 2005. Steve Salad is originally from Minneapolis and his brother is performer Peter Salett. Neither a stranger to fame, Michael Azerrad wrote Our Band Could Be Your Life and the Nirvana bio Come As You Are, and is a frequent music critic and commentator on television and in magazines. The King of France's original keyboardist was Tom...

Coming from Caernarfon, Wales Masters in France write and perform in both English and Welsh, so if you haven't quite grasped the beautiful Welsh language, be prepared to get your head around titles like Yn y Ddinas. With "lap dance from an O.A.P" listed as one of their achievements, maybe they've peaked too early. They do however have some seriously heavy rock n roll riffs behind them. Keep up to date with the band at their website mastersinfrance.com .

Frances White is a composer working primarily in the medium of music for instruments and tape. Her more recent works include Resonant Landscape (1990), an interactive computer-music installation which was presented for two weeks in 1990 at the Kelvingrove Art Galleries in Glasgow, Trees (1991) for strings and tape, Nocturne (1992), a tape piece commissioned by the Groupe de musique experimentale de Bourges, and Winter Aconites (1993) for six instruments and tape, a commission by The ASCAP Foundation in memory of John Cage. Ms. White lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with her husband, writer James Pritchett, their two cats, and...