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Aaron Gillespie, bekannt durch seine Tätigkeit als Drummer und Sänger bei Underoath, gründete 2005 das Nebenprojekt The Almost. Nachdem Fans durch Portale wie MySpace auf deren Geschmack kamen, erscheint 2007 das Album Southern Weather. Dass es ihnen recht gut geschmeckt hat, zeigen wohl die 10.000.000 Plays des Songs Say This Sooner und auch das Album schaffte es auf Platz 35 der US Mainstream Rock Charts. Nicht Weniger bemerkenswert ist, dass Aaron Gillespie alle Instrumente, abgesehen von Bass selbst einspielte und alle Songs aus seiner Feder stammen. Die Zeit fürs Songwriting fand er während den Aufnahmen zum Underoath Album Define The...

Aliens NOT PICTURED! (pictured is British band The Aliens) are a band from Austin, TX. Aliens' first "real" studio recordings were done in 2002, at the home of Virginia Tate. They were recorded on the original "Noise New York" board used extensively by Kramer, The legendary and elusive producer and founder of Shimmy Disc Records. Later Karmer would master ALIENS debut album, Head First which was released on the MISC. MUSIC label. Head First has gained strong reviews and comparisons to SONIC YOUTH, FUGAZI, R.E.M., NIRVANA, and even HAWKWIND. Head First was in the CMJ Top 200 this past summer...

Naoki Maeda (前田尚紀 Maeda Naoki), more commonly called simply Naoki, is a Japanese music composer and producer who works for Konami. Naoki's official title is Konami AM Internal Sound Team. Though Naoki worked on many different video game titles like Salamander, his most known contribution is to the Bemani series: he's the main composer for the Dance Dance Revolution games. Most of his songs are signed with a pseudonym. For example, the two "Sexy Planet" songs are signed as "Crystal Aliens" .

Almost Charlie is an Alt-Pop group formed by musician/composer Dirk Homuth and lyricist Charlie Mason. To this day, Dirk Homuth and Charlie Mason have never met. Yet they have still developed a successful creative songwriting collaboration via the Internet. The strict division of duties between lyricist and composer brings to mind classic song-writing teams such as Elton John/Bernie Taupin or Burt Bacharach/Hal David. Similar to Elliott Smith, Homuth uses a rich palette of melodies to convey devotion and longing - but the apparent simplicity of the songs is deceptive. The compositions are steeped in the knowledge that every magical beginning...