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Moby is a oddity. His first album was released in 1991. Since then, he has DJ'd, recorded dance music, rock, classical, heavy metal, you name it. Moby records nearly every instrument on his CDs and has achieved unprecedented success.

Website: Moby
Download MP3: "Quiet Pianos"
Buy CD: Hotel

Ed Miller is a product of the great folk revival of the 1960's. He perfroms songs of Scotland new and old and has an amazing repetoire, not to mention he is an amazing performer. I was fortunate to see him once again the Texas Scottish Festival performing with fiddler John Taylor, including several songs by legendary Scottish songwriter Brian McNeill, who helped produce Ed's latest album, "Many's The Fine Tale".

One of the more beautiful and memorable traditional Scottish songs from the album is "The Band O'Shearers". No, it's not a song about sheep. This is one of many, usually happy, songs associated with the harvest in northeast Scotland, when men and women worked together in the fields, the men shearing the crop with scythes and the women stacking it.


Website: Ed Miller - Songs of Scotland
Download MP3: Ed Miller's Scottish Songs - "The Band o'Shearers"
Buy CD: Many's The Fine Tale

Similar Artists: Adam McNaughtan, Hamish Henderson, Brian McNeill, Archie Fisher, Al O'Donnell, Jimmie Hutchison, any good Scots or Irish singer.

MC Plus+ - MC Plus+ is the founder and indisputably the #1 greatest computer science gangsta rapper ever. He is to CS gangsta rap what a blue screen is to Windows, what Vaseline, maple syrup and sour cream are to a good time. He's putting CS on the map, producing raps for students from computer science departments around the world. With another 4 years still at Purdue, trying to get that PhD, he has promised to keep producing CS hip-hop for all the grad students in the struggle.

Website: MC Plus+
Download MP3: "T.O.M.E.K."
Buy CD: Algorhythms

Similar Artists: Logic the Android, Vitamin Z, Empty Set, Tupac

Amy Speace's 2002 solo debut "Fable" catapults this NYC singer-songwriter to the national level, with Billboard Magazine proclaiming that Speace's music is "undeniably earnest and commercially accessible". Charging onto the scene just a few years ago, armed with an acoustic guitar and a handful of songs, Amy quickly won over audiences and critics alike with her crystalline voice, explosive smile and gift for nailing emotions like heartache and fury.

Amy has spent the past year touring the US, opening for Ellis Paul, Catie Curtis and Eddie From Ohio, and picking up songwriting awards from USA Songwriting Competition and John Lennon Songwriting Contest along the way. "Fable" has been gathering a grassroots buzz among AAA and college DJ's. Jim Graves of Fayetville, NC's WFSS says that "Fable" has "kickbutt lyrics and a feel that goes from hard-edged to tender."

Website: Amy Speace
Download MP3: Rosalie
Buy CD: Fable

Similar Artists: Ellis Paul, Catie Curtis, Dar Williams, Jill Sobule, Suzanne Vega, Liz Phair