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The Chainsmokers are a disc jockey/producer duo consisting of Andrew Taggart (born in 1990) and Alex Pall (born in 1985) from New York City, United States. Andrew Taggart was born in Portland, ME. He was a member of the Love Team. Alex Pall was born in 1985 in New York City. Pall studied art at New York University, while Taggart studied at Syracuse University. In 2012, they came together as a DJ duo. The Chainsmokers formed as electronic dance music producer DJs in 2012 under the management company 4AM in New York City. In 2012, they collaborated with Indian actress...

Southern California's punk-pop quartet Lefty consists of guitarists Dennis Hill and Larry Giovani, bassist Scott Somers, and drummer Kenny Livingston. Friends since grade school, Hill and Somers began playing music together in late 1997; Giovani joined them after hearing one of their early rehearsals, and they began playing gigs in early 1998. A year later they issued their self-released debut album, Sound Secretion Dub, and replaced their original drummer with Livingston. By spring 1999 the word of mouth about their album and energetic live shows caught the attention of Interscope Records, who signed Lefty that fall and released their second...

A Chicago native now living in New York, Jordan Lieb has been creating sound his entire life. With a variety that verges on personality disorder- from his electro duet Tiger Fingers (HFN Records) to his psych-acoustic solo act, Fangs- Jordan's work is constantly expanding into new territories. As an engineer and producer, he has shaped records for many artists such as Jason Poranski, of Beirut, and JD Samson & MEN. He is also an Emmy Award winning composer for his work in television and film. In 2010 Jordan invented Black Light Smoke, helping inspire the inception of the label Scissor...

Bear Hands are a textbook example of contrasting personalities uniting to craft something more than the sum of their parts. Vocalist/guitarist Dylan Rau, the Brooklyn-based quartet’s self-confessed musical Luddite (“I can’t read music, but that’s ok because I’m more of an ideas man,”) peppers his supersonic chatter with an infectious collection of witticisms. By contrast his songwriting partner, guitarist Ted Feldman, grew up playing the cello and carefully selects his answers, admitting to being “a bit of a control freak.” Together, these contradictory characters have combined their strengths to deliver their sophomore album Distraction – a collection in which their...