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Tame Impala - 100% match to Mgmt

The Strokes - 81% match to Mgmt

Formed in New York City, USA, in 1999, by the end of the following year the Strokes were being hyped as the most important rock band of the new millennium and hailed as the second coming of the Velvet Underground. Other, less forgiving critics dismissed them as a group of rich kids offering a pale pastiche of any number of great guitar rock bands.Julian Read more

Arctic Monkeys - 65% match to Mgmt

The remarkable rise of this UK indie rock outfit can be attributed to the power of the Internet in helping promote unknown bands. The Arctic Monkeys were an underground phenomenon who gained mainstream recognition when their witty, literate post-punk stomper ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor’ reached the top of the UK singles chart in November 2005.

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Foster The People - 61% match to Mgmt

Vampire Weekend - 61% match to Mgmt

Ezra Koenig (guitar/vocals), Rostam Batmanglij (keyboards), Christopher Tomson (drums), and Chris Baio (bass) first met while studying at the prestigious Columbia University in the Manhattan, New York. During this period Koenig and Tomson recorded a series of singles in the ‘comedy rap’ duo L’Homme Run, but it was after teaming up with Batmanglij and Baio at the Read more

Arcade Fire - 47% match to Mgmt

The Horrors - 45% match to Mgmt

Franz Ferdinand - 42% match to Mgmt

One of the most intriguing UK guitar bands to emerge in the early years of the twenty-first century, Franz Ferdinand derive their name from an Austro-Hungarian royal whose assassination proved to be the catalyst for the World War I (via a racehorse named Archduke Ferdinand that the band had seen on the television). The Glasgow, Scotland-based quartet, Alex Kapranos (Alexande Read more

Crystal Castles - 40% match to Mgmt

Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada this experimental electronica band was formed in 2003 by multi-instrumentalist Ethin Kath. Taking the project’s name from a castle in the animated television series She-Ra: Princess Of Power, Kath recruited Alice Glass to overdub vocals on a number of his demo tracks, and it was during these sessions that the duo contemplated wiring an old Read more

The Killers - 34% match to Mgmt

Passion Pit - 32% match to Mgmt

Kasabian - 29% match to Mgmt

This charismatic UK band was formed towards the end of the 90s by main songwriters Tom Meighan (Thomas Meighan, 11 January 1981, Leicester, England; vocals) and Sergio Pizzorno (b. 15 December 1980, Newton Abbot, Devon, England; guitar/keyboards). Raised in Leicester, the duo originally began writing together while still at school. Meighan and Pizzorno were subsequently join Read more

Two Door Cinema Club - 28% match to Mgmt

Neon Indian - 25% match to Mgmt

The Libertines - 25% match to Mgmt

One of the UK’s most fêted bands of the early 00s turned out to be the Libertines, an outfit whose sound was comparable to early punk purveyors such as the Clash and the Jam. The Libertines story began when leaders Pete Doherty (12 March 1979, Hexham, Northumberland, England; guitar/vocals) and Carl Barât (b. Carlos Barât, 6 June 1978, Basingstoke, Ham Read more