Genre: Rock/Pop
LIGHTNING HAND is a Blues-based Rock 'n' Roll band from Sacramento,Ca. We are between that "Jamband" sound and Classic Rock. We have been described as cross between the Grateful Dead, The Band, Rolling Stones, Allman Brothers and traditional Blues & Country. LIGHTNING HAND is currently touring all over California as well as parts of the West... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
We are TimetoBurn, the Psychadelic Hip Hop experience. Our mission is to get you to tune in and drop out to our unique sound and inovative lyrics.
TimetoBurn consists of two members currently, Joe Harley, and Kyalo Crosson (a.k.a Venacular). These two combine to create the Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead - Roots lyricism sound that will but you...
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Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
Bob Dylan's influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, he pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from confessional singer/songwriter to winding, hallucinatory, stream-of-conscious narratives. As a vocalist, he broke down the notions that in order to perform, a singer had to have a conventionally good voice,... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
After serving as road manager for the Spencer Davis Group and meeting Steve Winwood, singer/guitarist Dave Mason found fame as one of the founding members of the jazz/rock/pop fusion group Traffic. However, conflicts between Winwood and Mason over the group's direction led to the latter's departure in 1969 after three albums. Mason moved to Los... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
C’est en 2000 que le projet iThAK naît de l’imagination de Sébastien Saint-Lézin (alias Seb El Ezin). S’associe bientôt à lui le batteur Erick Borelva ( aka Dr. Fonkaphobia), qu’il rencontre par l’entremise de la chanteuse japonaise Mami Chan. Commence alors la longue quête du saxophoniste baryton prêt à joindre... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Charlie Costa - Keys, Vocals
Dan Gasse - Guitar, Keys, Percussion, Vocals
Sean Hartter - Bass, Keys, Mix Master, Vocals, Percussion
Doug Salvador - Live Drums, Percussion
Influences: Medeski, Martin and Wood, Herbie Hancock, The Cure, String Cheese Incident, Nine Inch Nails, Phish, Ministry,...
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Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Jorma Kaukonen was born and grew up in Washington, D.C., where he first turned to the guitar. He lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early '60s, playing backup to singer Janis Joplin in local clubs. In 1965, Kaukonen became a founding member of Jefferson Airplane, which soared to fame in 1967. Though... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
Though they had all the trappings of a Southern-fried blues band, Little Feat were hardly conventional. Led by songwriter/guitarist Lowell George, Little Feat was a wildly eclectic band, bringing together strains of blues, R&B, country, and rock & roll. The bandmembers were exceptionally gifted technically and their polished professionalism sat... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 60s, 70s
One of the best West Coast folk-rock/psychedelic bands, Love may have also been the first widely acclaimed cult/underground group. During their brief heyday -- lasting all of three albums -- they drew from Byrds-ish folk-rock, Stones-ish hard rock, blues, jazz, flamenco, and even light orchestral pop to create a heady stew of their own. They... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 60s, 70s, 80s
One of the best '60s San Francisco bands, Moby Grape were also one of the most versatile. Although they are most often identified with the psychedelic scene, their specialty was combining all sorts of roots music -- folk, blues, country, and classic rock & roll -- with some Summer of Love vibes and multi-layered, triple-guitar arrangements. All... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
Pink Floyd is the premier space rock band. Since the mid-'60s, their music relentlessly tinkered with electronics and all manner of special effects to push pop formats to their outer limits. At the same time they wrestled with lyrical themes and concepts of such massive scale that their music has taken on almost classical, operatic quality, in... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s
The band that became Quicksilver Messenger Service originally was conceived as a rock vehicle for folk singer/songwriter Dino Valenti (b. Nov. 7, 1943), author of "Get Together." Living in San Francisco, Valenti had found guitarist John Cipollina (b. Aug. 24, 1943, d. May 29, 1989) and singer Jim Murray. Valenti's friend David Freiberg (b. Aug.... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
The story of the Allman Brothers Band is one of triumph, tragedy, redemption, dissolution, and a new redemption. Over nearly 30 years, they've gone from being America's single most influential band to a has-been group trading on past glories, to reach the 21st century as one of the most respected rock acts of their era.
For the first...
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Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 90s
After the mega-platinum success of Dire Straits' 1984 Brothers in Arms LP, the group's frontman, guitarist extraordinaire Mark Knopfler, opted to temporarily shift gears by forming the Notting Hillbillies, a one-off country side project. Among the band's first recruits was Steve Phillips, a fellow guitar player whom Knopfler had first met in... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 60s, 70s, 90s
Though it ultimately must be considered an interim vehicle for singer/songwriter/keyboardist/guitarist Steve Winwood, Traffic was a successful group that followed its own individual course through the rock music scene of the late '60s and early '70s. Beginning in the psychedelic year of 1967 and influenced by the Beatles, the band early on... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
One of the many neo-hippie jam bands inheriting the road-warrior mantle left behind by the Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic established a devout grassroots following on the strength of constant touring and a loose, rootsy brand of Southern rock informed by jazz and blues textures. The group's origins dated to 1982, when vocalist John Bell and... [+] Read More
