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Hailing from Sydney, Australia, punk rockers X labored through a quintessential punk existence; banned from playing venues, harassed by the police, and suffering through several lineup changes — including the untimely death of guitarist Ian Krahe — they eventually achieved legendary status after years of performing

X were the quintessential LA punk rockers before they grew into a world-class rock & roll band and live band; however, enthusiasm for their unique, intelligent and humorous work never quite reached critical mass

Cuban singer/songwriter X Alfonso (aka Equis Alfonso) blends jazz, hip-hop and funk with traditional mambo and bolero rhythms His debut album Real World was released in spring 2000 on the Velas label and also featured performances by guitarist Elmer Ferrer, percussionist Oney Cumba and vocalists Ele Valdes, Lien Diaz and Eme Alfonso

A good number of Afrocentric, politically oriented rap groups put out records during the late ’80s and early ’90s Very few of those groups were on the level of the hard-hitting X Clan, a Brooklyn-based collective that released a pair of stellar albums — 1990’s To the East, Blackwards and 1992’s Xodus — before breaking up

In 1991, Detroit techno group Underground Resistance licensed a few of its productions to Tresor, an upstart label based in Berlin Rather than release the tracks under its own name, Underground Resistance released them under the moniker X-101

Following a successful release for the Berlin, Germany-based label Tresor as X-101, Underground Resistance returned with a second release in the three-part X-10… project, Explores the Rings of Saturn

Back in 1993 when the Detroit techno collective Underground Resistance still included Jeff Mills and Robert Hood, the two producers licensed some of their work to Tresor Records in Berlin as the anonymous moniker X-103

In the early 2000s, X27 reminded listeners that punky alternative rock could be discordant, noisy, jagged and distorted but still be infectious, hooky and not without a willingness to groove

Xalam
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Genre:Jazz

Xalam was founded in Senegal in 1970 but moved, in 1973, to Paris, where its distinct fusion of African percussion and jazz licks garnered it great praise Xalam have played with many Western performers, including Dizzy Gillespie, Crosby, Stills, and Nash, and the Rolling Stones

Xande Figueiredo Biography, Photos, Pictures

Xande Figueiredo, appointed by Guitar Player magazine as one of the best Brazilian instrumentalists, has been working as sideman for artists like Vittor Santos, Simone, Leny Andrade, Johnny Alf, Baby do Brasil, Dudu Nobre, Ângela Rô Rô, Léo Gandelman and Nico Assumpção, among others, in tours through Europe, Asia, and South America

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