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• Abby Travis
  Abby Travis
  Abby Travis is an American musician, songwriter, and performer. She is the daughter of Alice Travis Germond, the current Secretary of the Democratic National Committee and Emmy award winning cameraman Larry Travis.Abby Travis began her performance career in 1986 as the bassist in Los Angeles band...
  
  
• Amanda Palmer
  Amanda Palmer
  Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer , sometimes known as Amanda Fucking Palmer, is an American performer who first rose to prominence as the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the duo The Dresden Dolls...
  
  
• Andi Sexgang
  Andi Sexgang
  Andi Sexgang was vocalist of the band Sex Gang Children who were a prominent act in the Gothic rock movement of the 1980s, his band played once at the infamous Batcave club...
  
  
• Antony and the Johnsons
  Antony and the Johnsons
  Antony and the Johnsons is a music group presenting the work of Antony Hegarty and his collaborators.-Career:British experimental musician David Tibet of Current 93 heard a demo and offered to release Antony's music through his Durtro label. The debut album, Antony and the Johnsons, was released...
  
  

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• Cabaret De L'Impasse
• Charlie Khan
• Charming Hostess
  Charming Hostess
  Charming Hostess is a band that grew out of the Oakland avant-rock scene in the mid-1990s.-Current work:Today, the music primarily springs from three women with an emphasis in the body—voices and vocal percussion, handclaps and heartbeats, sex-breath and silence. The work grows from diaspora...
  
  
• Circus Contraption
  Circus Contraption
  Circus Contraption is the name of a one-ring circus, vaudeville and dark cabaret troupe based in Seattle, Washington. The troupe, which employs about a dozen performers, uses live, original music paired with old-style circus performances, heavily influenced by cabaret and vaudeville acts...
  
  
• Czesław Śpiewa

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• Devendra Banhart
  Devendra Banhart
  Devendra Obi Banhart is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San...
  
  
• The Dresden Dolls
  The Dresden Dolls
  The Dresden Dolls are an American musical duo from Boston, Massachusetts. Formed in 2000, the group consists of Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione...
  
   (Amanda Palmer
  Amanda Palmer
  Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer , sometimes known as Amanda Fucking Palmer, is an American performer who first rose to prominence as the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the duo The Dresden Dolls...
  
   and Brian Viglione
  Brian Viglione
  Brian Viglione is the drummer for The Dresden Dolls. Additionally, he was a prominent member of New York City's cabaret punk orchestra, The WORLD/INFERNO Friendship Society...
  
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• Hannah Fury
  Hannah Fury
  Hannah Fury is an American singer-songwriter with a following based on her independently-produced melancholic recordings inspired by Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novel Wicked.-Career details:...
  
  
• Harlequin Jones
• The Hellblinki Sextet
• Hurdy-Gurdy
• H.U.M.A.N.W.I.N.E.
  H.U.M.A.N.W.I.N.E.
  H.U.M.A.N.W.I.N.E. is a band based out of Boston, Massachusetts. Their name is an acronym of the phrase, "Humans Underground Making Anagrams Nightly While Imperial Not-Mes Enslave". This is a reference to the subtly-coded lyrics that comprise most of their songs...
  
  

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• Jason Webley
  Jason Webley
  Jason Webley is an American musician known for his fusion of folk, experimental and alternative music. He began as a busker, playing accordion in the streets of Seattle, Washington, but has since moved in-doors and on stage, playing various venues....
  
  
• Jill Tracy
  Jill Tracy
  Jill Tracy is a singer, pianist, writer, composer, and performance artist based in San Francisco.Known for her dark, evocative, cinematic style, Jill Tracy states that some of her biggest childhood influences were film score composers such as Bernard Herrmann, and classic suspense tales, including...
  
  
• Joe Black

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• Kaizers Orchestra
  Kaizers Orchestra
  Kaizers Orchestra is a Norwegian alternative rock group formed on January 1, 2000. The two leading members, vocalist Janove Ottesen and guitarist Geir Zahl, had known each other for years, and first played together in a band called Blod, Snått & Juling in 1989.Kaizers Orchestra are notable for...
  
  
• Klaus Nomi
  Klaus Nomi
  Klaus Sperber , better known as Klaus Nomi, was a German countertenor noted for his wide vocal range and an unusual, otherworldly stage persona....
  
  
• The Kransky Sisters
  The Kransky Sisters
  The Kransky Sisters are an Australian musical comedy trio created, written and performed by Annie Lee and Christine Johnston in collaboration with Michele Watt and Carolyn Johns ....
  
  
• Katzenjammer Kabarett
  Katzenjammer Kabarett
  Katzenjammer Kabarett is a four-piece dark cabaret band from Paris, France. Aesthetically inspired by German Weimar-era cabarets and burlesque shows, the band also chose a name of German origin that literally translates to "cat's wail cabaret" with Katzenjammer also generally meaning "discordant...
  
  

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• Majandra
• Man Man
  Man Man
  Man Man is an experimental band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Man Man is known for their exuberant live performances. When performing, the members of the band sometimes coordinate their outfits, often seen in white outfits and, more commonly, war paint....
  
  
• Marc Almond
  Marc Almond
  Marc Almond is an English singer-songwriter and musician, who originally found fame as half of the seminal synthpop/New Wave duo Soft Cell...
  
   (also Marc & The Mambas)
• Marcella and the Forget-Me-Nots
  Marcella Puppini
  Marcella Puppini is a singer and song-writer. She is the founder of The Puppini Sisters, a musical trio specializing in 1940s-style close harmony vocal music.-Biography:...
  
  
• Meret Becker
  Meret Becker
  - Life and career :Becker was born in Bremen, the daughter of the actors Monika Hansen and Rolf Becker. She is the sister of Ben Becker, stepdaughter of Otto Sander and granddaughter of Claire Schlichting....
  
  
• Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen
• Momus
  Momus (artist)
  Nick Currie , more popularly known under the artist name Momus , is a songwriter, blogger and former journalist for Wired...
  
  

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• Ray Childish
• Reverend Glasseye
• Rosin Coven
  Rosin Coven
  Rosin Coven is a theatrical music ensemble based in San Francisco, USA.Rosin Coven's sound can be described as part of the Dark Cabaret movement, with strong jazz, rock, lounge, theatre and klezmer influences, amongst others. Most all of their music performed is original, with very occasional covers...
  
  
• Rozz Williams
  Rozz Williams
  Rozz Williams was an American vocalist and musician of several varieties, most famous for fronting the band Christian Death, then later Shadow Project with musician Eva O, though his main project throughout his career was the industrial, Premature Ejaculation...
  
  

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• Salon Betty
  Salon Betty
  Salon Betty is the raucous and sleazy dark cabaret art rock project formed by singer, songwriter and performance artist Betty X during years of 1994 to 1997...
  
  
• Schneewittchen
• Scunner
• Sex Gang Children
  Sex Gang Children
  The Sex Gang Children are a positive punk group that formed in the early 1980s in England. Although the original group only released one official studio album, they remain one of the more well-known bands out of the early Batcave scene and have reformed for new albums and touring various times...
  
  
• Squid Lid
• Stolen Babies
  Stolen Babies
  Stolen Babies are an American avant-garde metal band with significant influences from dark cabaret, signed to The End Records.-History:Stolen Babies formed from a 12+ member high school performance troupe named the Fratellis; the band takes its name from one of the skits performed by the group...
  
  
• Sxip Shirey
  Sxip Shirey
  Gene "Sxip" Shirey is an American composer, performer, and story-teller. He grew up in Athens, Ohio and currently resides in New York City. Sxip started experimenting with found sound composition and extended instrument techniques when asked to compose music for Ohio University’s modern dance...
  
  

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• The Carnival
• The Tallyman's Dark Omnibus
  The Tallyman's Dark Omnibus
  The Tallyman's Dark Omnibus is a stage/kabaret performance by a masked storyteller from England who uses song and video to describe a bleak view on our present world. The bleakness is offset by an emotional depth that demonstrates a very real empathy with his characters, many of whom are based on...
  
  
• The Tiger Lillies
• Tom Waits
  Tom Waits
  Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...
  
  
• The Tragic Tantrum (London Below)
• The Muncie Brothers

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• Voltaire
  Voltaire (musician)
  Voltaire , is a popular dark cabaret Cuban-American musician...
  
  
• Vagabond Opera
• Vermillion Lies
  Vermillion Lies
  Vermillion Lies are a cabaret band from Oakland, California. The band consists of sisters Kim Boekbinder and Zoe Boekbinder. They are known for incorporating elements of circus and folk into their music...
  
  
• Vespertina

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• World/Inferno Friendship Society
• What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?
• Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys