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Damien was born in Dublin, Ireland in December 1973 and grew up in Celbridge, Co Kildare, Ireland.  There are four main band members who play with Damien: Lisa Hannigan (vocals), Vyvienne Long (cello), Tom Osander (drums, percussion) and Shane Fitzsim

Acoustic rock, Complex, Contemplative, Indie rock, Intense, Intimate, Melancholy, Sincere, Tense, Tranquil

Alex Chilton (born named William Alexander Chilton, on December 28, 1950, in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American songwriter, guitarist, singer and producer best known for his work with the pop-music bands the Box Tops and Big Star. Chilton's early commercial sales success in the 1960s as a teen vocali

Absurd, Agitated, Angry, Anxiety, Classic rock, Clever, Contemplative, Cool, Dreamy, Eclectic, Elegant, Ethereal, Implosive, Melancholy, Playful, Pop, Power, Primal, Queer, Quiet, Quirky, Self-reflection, Serene, Singer/songwriter, Smarty arty pop, Spare, Tense, Tragic, Wise assy

Sonic Youth was one of the most unlikely success stories of underground American rock in the '80s. Where contemporaries R.E.M. and Husker Du were fairly conventional in terms of song structure and melody, Sonic Youth began their career by abandoning any pretense of traditional rock & roll conventions

Atmospheric, Composed, Contemplative, Cool, Deconstructive, Dissonant, Distorted, Dreamy, Eclectic, Elegant, Expansive, Experimental, Fuzzy, Hallucinatory, Intense, Layered, Lyrical, Pioneering, Political, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Quirky, Rhythmic, Rough, Sensual, Slangy, Smart, Sophisticated, Sprawling, Subtle, Tense, Trippy, Urban

The bleakest, filthiest junkhouse in the mansion of rock 'n' roll serves as a crash pad to the memory of this band, which romanticized every deadly vice and self-destructive habit known to man. Founded in the early 1960s by Lou Reed, an educated Jewish junkie, and the classical violist John Cale, the

Agitated, Anxiety, Distorted, Fuzzy, Minimal, Moody, Noise rock/art rock, Psychedelic, Religious, Spare, Tense