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Artist: Left Wing Fascists
Artist: Queen
Few bands embodied the pure excess of the '70s like Queen. Embracing the exaggerated pomp of prog rock and heavy metal, as well as vaudevillian music hall, the British quartet delved deeply into camp and bombast, creating a huge, mock-operatic sound with layered guitars and overdubbed vocals. Queen's music was a bizarre yet highly accessible... [+] Read More
Artist: Giuseppe Blanc
Blanc studied with Bolzoni in Turin. A composer of operettas, songs and dances, he is known chiefly for his composition of the song that became the official Fascist hymn, Giovinezza. ~ Lynn Vought, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Matvey Blanter
Blanter received his education at the music institutes of Kursk and Moscow. Mainly a composer of songs, dances and light music of the theatre, Blanter worked at theatres in Moscow, Magnitogorsk and Gorky. His work is lyrical with a distinct Russian character. The song Katyusha (1938) was internationally popular, and it became the anti-Fascist... [+] Read More
Artist: Bruno Maderna
Bruno Maderna was one of the leading composers and conductors on the post-War avant-garde music scene.
He was an authentic child prodigy who started to study music at the age of four. At seven, under the patronage of the Princess Edmond de Polignac he performed as a conductor and violinist under the name "Brunetto."
He studied at the Verdi... [+] Read More
Artist: Angelic Upstarts
Formed in South Shields, England in 1977, the Angelic Upstarts was one of the period's most politically-charged and thought-provoking groups; though technically a skinhead band, their records attacked the racism and fascism so prevalent throughout the skinhead community, and while also technically a punk unit, their music quickly evolved beyond... [+] Read More
Artist: Supreme NTM
The hard-hitting, frequently polemical French hip-hop group Supreme NTM was formed in 1989 by Dee Nasty, Joeystarr, and Koolshen with their DJ, Détonateur S. They debuted one year later with a track on the compilation Rapattitude and their first single, "Le Monde de Demain." Authentik, the Supreme NTM debut full-length, appeared in 1991, and... [+] Read More
Artist: Mikis Theodorakis
Mikis Theodorakis is a renowned Greek troubadour and one of his country's greatest composers. He wrote many symphonies, cantatas, several ballets and operas, plus popular songs including "Zorba the Greek," famous from Herb Alpert's instrumental hit. Born in 1925 on the Greek island of Chios, Theodorakis began writing songs quite early. He formed... [+] Read More
Artist: Laibach
Laibach is an industrial group whose members prefer to be known as a collective rather than reveal individual names; they've been seen as fascists and of practicing Germanophilia because of their music's Wagnerian thunder and their military attire. According to Laibach, "We are fascists as much as Hitler was a painter." Since fascism needs a... [+] Read More
Artist: Asian Dub Foundation
Asian Dub Foundation formed in 1993 as an outgrowth of the documentary Identical Beat, a film shot at London's Farringdon Community Music House, the site of a series of summer workshops designed to teach Asian children the essentials of music technology. In charge of the workshops were tutor Aniruddha Das and youth worker John Pandit, also a... [+] Read More
Artist: Phranc
Bursting onto the L.A. punk scene in 1985 like the proverbial breath of fresh air, self-proclaimed Jewish lesbian folksinger Phranc has one of the most beautiful vocal instruments in the business. Born Susan Gottlieb in Los Angeles in 1957, Phranc began as a folksinger in the '70s before becoming a member of L.A. hardcore bands Catholic... [+] Read More
Artist: Fabrizio De André
With the death of Fabrizio De André from cancer on January 11, 1999, Italy lost one of its most modern singer/songwriters. Inspired by the songwriting of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, De André's songs encompassed Genoese folk songs, French protest/social commentary, beatnik "stream of consciousness" poetry, and the soundtracks of Italian film... [+] Read More
Artist: Gianni Basso
Gianni Basso was one of the lights who began shining on the European jazz scene following the end of World War II. He began as a clarinetist and first played professionally in Germany and Belgium in the late '40s with the Raoul Falsan Big Band. By the beginning of the next decade, he was established as a commercial "GB" or "general business"... [+] Read More
Artist: Death in June
Industrial innovators Death in June emerged in 1980 from the remnants of the punk unit Crisis, reuniting singer/multi-instrumentalist Douglas Pearce and bassist Tony Wakeford; drummer Patrick Leagas completed the original lineup, which made its live debut late the following year with an opening slot for the Birthday Party. The 12-inch "Heaven... [+] Read More
Artist: Metal Urbain
Known as the first band to use synthetic percussion in a punk rock context, Metal Urbain used heavily distorted guitars, aggressive vocals, a synthesizer, and a drum machine to create some of the most original music of the punk era. Formed in Paris in 1977, this quartet's unique approach called into question the very nature of rock & roll... [+] Read More
Artist: Horst Fisher
Horst Fisher was a teenager during the second World War and a young man when his hometown of Chemnitz, Germany, was renamed Karl Marx Stadt and became something of a symbol of the so-called "Communist experiment." In a transition from manifesto to manifestation, the town had a giant bust of Karl Marx created that looked like a pool ball with a... [+] Read More
Artist: Laver Bariu
The ancient, polyphonic singing tradition of southern Albania, in which one voice rides above a vocal drone (the ISO), has been preserved through the playing of multi-instrumentalist Laver Bariu . The son of a singer and llaute (Albanian lute) player, Bariu was inspired by the music that he heard his father play each night. Although he initially... [+] Read More
Artist: Barbara Thalheim
The recipient of the 1994 German music critics' Preis Des Deutschen Schallplatten award, Barbara Thalheim is one of the most successful artists of post-reunification Germany. With her stunning vocals and artistic vision, Barbara Thalheim has continued to expand on the cabaret and musical theater traditions of her homeland. Thalheim's life has... [+] Read More
Artist: Ian Dust
Ian Dust - Lonesome Traveling Madman In Ian DustÂ’s bio (as short as it is) he muses being a reincarnation of Guthrie or some other lonesome traveling madman. ItÂ’s assumed that he is referring to Woody Guthrie who had a guitar labeled "This machine kills fascists." If you are wondering what kind of music Guthrie played you can listen to one of... [+] Read More
Artist: Les Rythmes Digitales
More akin to French nu-disco compatriots like Daft Punk than his Wall of Sound label-mates, Jacques Lu Cont's Les Rhythmes Digitales project bridges the gap between the quintessentially early-'80s phenomenon of synth-pop and more contemporary styles like acid-house and trip-hop. Lu Cont is actually of British origin, however; he was born Stuart... [+] Read More
Artist: Heaven 17
Taking their name from the Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange, the U.K. techno-pop trio Heaven 17 grew out of the experimental dance project the British Electric Foundation, itself an offshoot of the electro-pop outfit Human League. The core of Heaven 17 was comprised of Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh, a pair of onetime computer operators... [+] Read More
Artist: Stan Brenders
For the repressive forces of Nazism and the uninhibited creativity of jazz to co-exist may have seemed an impossibility, but jazzmen kept many aspects of their music happening throughout World War II in countries such as Belgium. The resulting gigs, recordings, and performing careers acquired an additional level of interest from intrigue alone.... [+] Read More
Artist: Racetraitor
Racetraitor shook up the punk and hardcore scenes' consciousness with their radical politics and scorching, uncompromisingly brutal metalcore sound like few bands before or since. They were so on fire with their attitude and music that they managed to grace the covers of both Maximum Rock N' Roll and Heartattack before even having a record out... [+] Read More
Artist: Bob Roberts
A musician born in Wah Wah, Ontario, is probably destined to be either an electric guitarist or a trumpet player. Bob Roberts took the latter course, but never really payed tribute to his hometown, at least not sonically. Rather than making "wah wah" sounds with his plunger mute as he might have been asked to do in the Duke Ellington or Count... [+] Read More
Artist: Oscar DuConge
Oscar DuConge was the grand old man of one of the many musical dynasties of New Orleans music. Wendell DuConge, who played on vintage Fats Domino records in the '50s, would have called him grandpapa. Oscar DuConge produced a brace of his own musically inclined sons, notably multi-instrumentalist Peter DuConge, pianist Adolphus DuConge, trumpeter... [+] Read More
