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Artist: Victorian Singers
Artist: Victorian Parents
Artist: Control-Freak
Control Freak TRL FRKMatt Redding aka MJRCurrently creating high energy Drum Noise Bass.Live performance incorporates the triggering of live breaks by means of midi drum pads.Emerged as a solo artist in Southampton, UK circa 1999. Relocated to Tokyo in 2004 and now performing at events such as Midnight Mess, Overfused, Electrock Circus and... [+] Read More
Artist: The Books
The Books' story began in 2000, when Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong met through a friend in New York City. Sharing similar interests but different backgrounds in acoustic music and found sound, Zammuto and de Jong experimented and plunked away with sound. Eventually, with some urging by Tom Steinle of Tomlab Records, they created what would... [+] Read More
Artist: Evening
Nouveau indie rockers the Evening first formed in San Francisco in the late '90s as a project of guitarists Lee Burik and Patrik Sklenar. Both were avant jazz aficionados who freely mixed their training into a shimmery, messy ball of prog, punk, and noise experimentation. Filled out by vocalist Matt Rist, drummer Brian Kim, and bassist Zach... [+] Read More
Artist: Blind Prodigy
Blind Prodigy is an elegant portrayal of emotions. Bringing up the imagery of childhood memories, the music envisions such things as clouds and primary colors; this mixed with the melancholy of loss and the love from within. The music in most instances is very spiritual, seeming to come straight from the heart without much thought. The music... [+] Read More
Artist: Brian Brown
Tenor, soprano sax, bandleader. A self-taught player who emerged in the '50s as a leading figure in Australia and remained prominent through the '80s. Brown was one of first Australian musicians to develop reputation for highly personal, individualistic style that was intense, lyrical and not simple imitation of an American great. He formed his... [+] Read More
Artist: The Alberts
The Alberts were a jazz-comedy outfit with ties to both The Goon Show and the Temperance Seven, and an inspiration to the Scaffold and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. They were founded by Bruce Lacey, formerly a special effects engineer whose background included work on The Goon Show and a bubble-blowing automaton. Dressing in Victorian clothing and... [+] Read More
Artist: Lisa Gerrard
In collaboration with Brendan Perry, Lisa Gerrard is half of the duo Dead Can Dance, which started releasing arty goth rock on the 4AD label in the mid-'80s. Gerrard began her solo career with the 1995 release The Mirror Pool, which contained a lot of work that wouldn't fit comfortably into the DCD oeuvre. Combining these fragments with music... [+] Read More
Artist: Airbourne
All right people/Welcome to the show/Are you ready to rock?/Are you ready to go?/Now weve got what you want/And weve got what you need/So get your ass down here/And let your ears bleed. Stand Up For RockNRollIt is as clear a statement of intent as youre ever likely to hear. One verse that says everything you need to know about... [+] Read More
Artist: Bodhi and the Kung Fu Buddhists
Bodhi and the Kung Fu Buddhists, or B.K.F.B., is a five piece jazz-rock band based out of Columbus, Ohio. The band started in June of 2006 when two friends, Greg Gould and Joey Gurwin, decided to start jamming at Greg's downtown apartment. "I was playing on a pot and Greg was playing on this crappy acoustic guitar when we started... it's amazing... [+] Read More
Artist: Blind Alfred Reed
This West Virginia singer/songwriter and fiddler was one of Ralph Peer's discoveries on the legendary 1927 Bristol field trip that unearthed both the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers. Reed was one of those uniquely Southern contradictions, both reactionary and progressive in his songs. "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" echoed the... [+] Read More
Artist: Franz Ferdinand
Glasgow's art-damaged rock quartet Franz Ferdinand -- named for the Austro-Hungarian Archduke whose murder sparked World War I -- features bassist Bob Hardy, guitarist Nick McCarthy, drummer Paul Thomson, and singer/guitarist Alex Kapranos. In late 2001, Kapranos and Hardy had begun working on music together when they met McCarthy, a classically... [+] Read More
Artist: The Horrors
They might be the most exciting British band since the Sex Pistols, but theres very little that couldve prepared The Horrors for whats happened to them since they played their first gig in September 2005.A mess of sharp elbows, big hair, feedback and monochrome clothes, since that gig at The Spread Eagle in Shoreditch, the band (who all... [+] Read More
Artist: Spiderbait
Three-piece thrash pop group Spiderbait are one of Australia's most distinctive and popular bands of the '90s and 2000s, a group that almost has to be seen live to appreciate their uniqueness. Drummer Mark Maher (or "Kram") is the group's main vocalist. His drums are never set up on a rise, but sit on an equal level with the other bandmembers,... [+] Read More
Artist: Rasputina
The New York City-based trio Rasputina was led by singer/songwriter Melora Creager, a classically-trained cellist who backed Nirvana on the group's final tour. In 1992, Creager placed a want ad seeking other cellists to form a rock band; among those responding was Canadian musician Julie Kent, and with the later addition of Polish native... [+] Read More
Artist: John Doan
Guitarist John Doan is a master of the Renaissance lute, as well as classical and contemporary guitar styles. His signature instrument, however, is the 20-string harp/guitar, originally popular at the end of the 19th century in Europe and America.
Doan began playing guitar at age of 11 when he lived in Venice, California. Given the setting, his... [+] Read More
Artist: Westminster Abbey Choir
Westminster Abbey, the historic church associated more deeply than any other with the pageantry of English history, dates back nearly a thousand years to the time of King Edward the Confessor, the last of England's great pre-Norman monarchs. Edward's palace was located in the City of Westminster (which is now part of Greater London). Edward... [+] Read More
Artist: Plastic Parachute
Plastic Parachute is the band you LOVE because you WANT to....A powerhouse of Musicianship & Dynamic Energy, Plastic Parachute has been likened to the vintage Hollywood stylings of Greta Garbo meshed with the stage antics & unrelenting energy of The Stones. A full time touring act, made up of five smalltown friends from Oklahoma...Plastic... [+] Read More
Artist: Sarah Hopkins
Born in New Zealand in 1958, noted performer and composer Sarah Hopkins moved to Sydney in 1964 to study music at the Sydney Conservatorium. She eventually received a composition degree from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. After her graduation she emerged as one of the most interesting new age/classical hybrids from Australia... [+] Read More
Artist: Nox Arcana
The band's name Nox Arcana is derived from two Latin words, which roughly translate to "mysteries of the night." It is a great interest in ancient lore, gothic literature and classic horror that unites these two composers, Joseph Vargo and William Piotrowski, in their neverending quest into shadowy and dangerous realms. Nox Arcana's music ranges... [+] Read More
Artist: Ed Nimmervoll
Born in Austria in 1947, Ed Nimmervoll's family migrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1956. In 1966, while studying architecture, I started contributing to the first national magazine dedicated to pop culture, Go-Set, at a formative stage of that publication development. I became its sole record reviewer and one of its chief writers. When the... [+] Read More
Artist: The Singing Nuns
The Singing Nuns' music has taken them far from their Washington state home over the years, but never far from their religious roots. They have been recording albums since 1980, mostly Gregorian chants and Catholic hymns. They also have recorded Irish tunes and several Christmas albums.
The religious sisters belong to the Congregation of Mary... [+] Read More
Artist: Harry Reser
When one thinks of pre-bop banjoists, it is of purely rhythmic players whose chordal solos differ little from what they play during ensembles. Harry Reser however was quite a bit different, an outstanding virtuoso who was arguably the finest banjoist of the 1920's. Less an improviser than a brilliant technician who could play novelty ragtime... [+] Read More
