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Artist: TApe iNVaders
TApe invaders – DIY Indie Pop - Influenced by a host of bands and independent labels, their plan is to play wherever anyone will want them and to record and release songs from time to time. TApes released a trilogy of singles on their own label Insufficient Records in the latter part of 2006. Recorded at Super Minstrel the songs range from... [+] Read More
Artist: Brian
Brian was the alias of Dublin-born, London-based indie popster Ken Sweeney, who first surfaced in 1989 with the single "A Million Miles"; the follow-up, "You Don't Want a Boyfriend," was two years in forthcoming, and after releasing the Setanta full-length Understand in 1992, he spent the better part of the decade on the sidelines, working a day... [+] Read More
Artist: Kevin Hannan
Modern rock singer/songwriter Kevin Hannan was born in New York City on November 3, 1970, honing his craft in the New York and New Jersey areas. He spent several years working in studios before committing himself to a music career in the late '90s. Influenced by the adventurous music and oblique lyrics of modern rockers R.E.M. and Tori Amos, he... [+] Read More
Artist: George "Happy" Johnson
What was George "Happy" Johnson so happy about? Perhaps it was being able to play both tenor saxophone and trombone, an instrumental double that few instrumentalists can claim to have mastered. The usual result of trying such a combination on a musician's chops can be compared to a marathon stretch of gnawing barbecued goat, although in terms of... [+] Read More
Artist: Subhead
The prolific U.K. techno collective known as Subhead originally formed in 1995, conceiving a label to release their music and a series of parties to host their music. Subhead members Jason Leach and Phil Wells originally met in East London in the mid-'90s; soon, Jamie Lidell joined the ambitious duo and helped them get their blossoming label... [+] Read More
Artist: Keiji Haino
When attempting to describe what Keiji Haino does to a guitar, the verb "play" seems terribly insufficient. Mauling might be a more appropriate choice, maybe even destroying. Whatever, whether it is as a solo performer or leading his tremendous trio Fushitsusha, Haino has been leading the loud, free form, noise-loaded, jazz/rock guitar movement... [+] Read More
Artist: Carrie Akre
Somehow, the thunderous, wailful vocals of Carrie Akre became lost in the deluge of Seattle's male-dominated grunge acts. In the early '90s, Akre was the lead singer of Hammerbox, a potent alternative rock outfit with guitar hooks as sharp as Nirvana's but without the record label push the group deserved. In August 1993, Hammerbox performed at... [+] Read More
Artist: The Blue Notes
Pianist Chris McGregor formed this South African group in 1962 with Dudu Pukwana (alto), Mongezi Feza (trumpet), Nick Moyake (tenor), Johnny Dyani (bass), and Louis Moholo (drums). In 1963, the Blue Notes won the country's Best Jazz Group award, but the tightening rules following anti-apartheid uprisings made life impossible in South Africa for... [+] Read More
Artist: Evemaster
Like At the Gates and In Flames (both from Sweden), Finland's Evemaster is among the Scandinavian death metal/black metal bands that has embraced the style known as "melodic death metal." Evemaster isn't death metal in the grindcore sense; they don't sound like Carcass, Cannibal Corpse, or Cancer, who are among the bands that have epitomized the... [+] Read More
Artist: Roy Brooks
Roy Brooks towered alongside the premier percussionists of the hard bop generation, honing his explosively rhythmic style across now-classic dates led by Horace Silver, Yusef Lateef, and Sonny Stitt. A co-founder of Max Roach's pioneering Afro-jazz vehicle M'Boom, he also headlined several acclaimed LPs including the classic The Free Slave... [+] Read More
Artist: Georg Kulenkampff
Georg Kulenkampff was one of Germany's most beloved violin virtuosos of the first half of the twentieth century, and a teacher to many younger stars of the violin. Kulenkampff gave the premiere performance of Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto, and made the first recording of the piece; additionally, his performances of the violin concertos of... [+] Read More
Artist: Ira Robbins
As an editor of Trouser Press magazine, Ira Robbins was vital in disseminating information about punk, new wave and underground music, past and present, to a U.S. readership from the mid '70s to the mid '80s. Since that time, he's maintained serious involvement with the indie/alternative rock scene as editor of the Trouser Press Record Guides.... [+] Read More
Artist: Crowded House
An institution in their homeland, a two-hit wonder in the U.S., and, during the last half of their ten-year career, bona fide stars in the U.K. and most of Europe, Crowded House recorded some of the best pop music of the late '80s and early '90s. Leader Neil Finn's carefully crafted songs, meticulous eye for lyrical detail, and gift for melody... [+] Read More
Artist: Kid Thomas
Kid Thomas, aka Tommy Louis, aka Tommy Lewis, was and is one of the great unsung heroes of that crazy kind of music that skirts the fine line between blues and straight-out rock & roll. Though success constantly eluded him throughout his career, it wasnt for lack of talent. With a powerful voice that could emit banshee wails and Little Richard... [+] Read More
