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The Smugglers are a garage-rock outfit from Vancouver, B.C., Canada. The Smugglers formed at Hillside Secondary School in West Vancouver, BC, Canada. Heavily under the influence of Black Label beer, hashish, and the raw rock’n’roll sounds of the Sonics, the Cramps and the Stones, the five teenagers were dubbed “The Smugglers” by their high school buddy Nardwuar The Human Serviette. Over their adventurous career, The Smugglers have bounced from label to label, always independent, including Vancouver’s Nardwuar Records, Seattle’s PopLlama Products, and Vancouver’s Mint Records. From Mint, the Smugglers have licensed records around the world to such labels as Berkeley,...

We Are Smug is a side project by Darren Hayes and Robert Conley. The album was released for free download on May 8th, 2009. The album contains content in the same vein of songs from Hayes' 2007 release "This Delicate Thing We've Made" but more electronic/experimental (think Bombs Up In My Face rather than Who Would Have Thought). Darren Hayes is best known as the voice of Savage Garden but has since released a series of solo albums: Spin, The Tension & The Spark, This Delicate Thing We've Made and 2011's Secret Codes and Battleships. While those albums have become...

Smugglers is polish folk-rock band. For Canadian garage-rock band, go here: The Smugglers. Smugglers perform mostly shanties and sea-songs. The band was formed in 1989 as a continuation of the band Packet. Current lineup is: Beata Bartelik (voc, flute) Adam Golicki (drums) Krzysztof Janiszewski "Jachu" (bass) Krzysztof Paul (el. guitar) Mariusz Wilke (el. guitar) Łukasz Zięba (violin) Members of this band also take part in the project Szela - folk-rock band performing polish tranditional songs. Notable previous bandmembers include: Piotr Góra Jacek Jakubowski Krzysztof "Johnson" Jurkiewicz --Krzysztof Jurkiewicz Andrzej Kadłubicki Józef Kaniecki Waldemar Mieczkowski Ryszard Muzaj Dariusz Ślewa "Stłukla" (acc....

A maverick trio of eccentric UK-based DJ/producers, namely Timmy Christmas (b. Tim Sheridan), Keith Binner and Chico Ijomanta. The three bearded Yorkshiremen met in the mid-80s when they DJed on the well-known Leeds student dance music scene, where they could regularly be found behind the decks at the "Mile High Club" nights at The Gallery, a venue which also gave rise to the Utah Saints. It was this same scene that was the fertile breeding ground for celebrated nights such as "Vague" and the legendary "Back To Basics" and "Manumission". Famous for marathon DJing sets, Timmy Christmas later played for...