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Maltese Falcon were a Denmark (Copenhagen) heavy metal band active in the 1980's. Forming in 1983, The band was named by Lars Ulrich (Metallica), as he was a friend of the band. The band released a stream of demos, before getting a deal to record a full-length, resulting in theirt best-known effort "Metal Rush" in 1984. Their bassist - Hasse "Hal" Patino has played in several well known acts including King Diamond, Force of Evil, Michael Denner, Blakk Totem, Palladion, Doctor Butcher, Disaster Peace. For more information, check out the band's page on http://www.metal-archives.com .

In June 2013, seventeen young musicians piled into two vans and drove from their hometown of Austin to a brownstone in Queens, where they took up residency for a month. It was Mother Falcon’s first trip outside of Texas and another turning point in a very unlikely story. Years before, when he started what became Mother Falcon, it never crossed cellist Nick Gregg’s mind that his goal to make playing cello as cool as playing quarterback at his football obsessed high school (alma mater of Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees) would get anywhere. Jamming on original material after school with...

On the outskirts of a nuclear war torn city lies RFP. A place where the sounds, soul and trash of a bygone electronic era come to dance the night away. Welcome to the future... .

The Falcon Project Idol Records Doesn't that enigmatic name make you think of some kind of covert government operation focusing on signs of extraterrestrial life and mysterious happenings in deep space? That's just about right for this band's heady sound, which is dominated by mind-bending jams and interstellar grooves. Reverb shimmers everywhere as bright lines of fuzzy guitar duel with lazy keyboard lines beneath stormy percussion that sometimes falls like soft raindrops, sometimes like heavy hailstones. Sometimes this rocket ship goes full-throttle, but more often it's content to drift through the stratosphere. There are occasional stoned-out vocals, but for the...

Born in the swamps of New Jersey, the Hudson Falcons are following a sound that can only be achieved by playing more than 1,300 shows from the Jersey Shore to Germany. The influences of the road have clearly found their way through the well-worn tires of the band van and into the Falcons’ music. More than ever, there are traces of South Texas and a little bit of heartland stomp mixing in with the New Jersey soul and swagger that has come to symbolize the Falcons and brought them a loyal following both in the United States and abroad. Cultivating...