Club owners Rob Garza and Eric Hilton formed Thievery Corporation in the
American capital city in 1995, employing various artists on a series of hit
albums on the Eighteenth Street Lounge Music record label that cover styles from
dance to dub to hip-hop, jazz and bossa nova. Artists who have performed with
the duo include Jeff Franca, Racquel Jones, Mr. Lif, Frank 'Booty Lock'
Mitchell, Rob Myers and Ashish Vyas. On their Facebook page, the duo say their
recordings are the result of careful study "of everything from Jamaican dub
reggae to punk to vintage film soundtracks to psych...