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Artist: Eyes Adrift
Featuring one member from Meat Puppets, one from Nirvana, and one from Sublime, Eyes Adrift began when Curt Kirkwood was touring solo throughout the West Coast of the United States in late 2001. Former Nirvana bass player Krist Novoselic met Kirkwood in Seattle and asked if the two could work together at some future point. As the tour continued... [+] Read More
Artist: Toxic Church
After their first single appeared on a compilation and recieved some radio airplay, Christian industrial band Toxic Church was signed by the Blonde Vinyl label. The company folded soon after and left the Milwaukee group adrift, until they formed their own MTF (More than Flesh) label in 1994 and released Systems Failure. Toxic Church also appear... [+] Read More
Artist: Max-A-Million
An early progenitor of the pop-soul/reggae/hip-hop stew that would come to define Top 40 in the early 2000s, Max-A-Million included A'Lisa B., Duran Estevez, and Tommye. Overseen by Chicago producers Charlie "Baby" Rosario and Manfred Mohr (whose 20 Fingers Productions would later score with the cheeky club hit "Short Dick Man"), Max-A-Million's... [+] Read More
Artist: John Leyton
Like the better-remembered Adam Faith, John Leyton had a lot of success in Britain in the early '60s with lugubrious teen idol pop that was only tenuously related to rock & roll. Not much of a singer, his hits are most notable for Joe Meek's inventive production, which utilized ghostly female backup vocals, variable-speed pianos, and swirling... [+] Read More
Artist: P.M. Dawn
Comprised of brothers Prince Be (Attrell Cordes) and DJ Minute Mix (Jarrett Cordes), the early-'90s group P.M. Dawn straddled the gap between hip-hop and smooth '70s-style soul, creating an innovative urban R&B that owed as much to pop as it did to rhythm and blues. The brothers recorded their debut single, "Ode to a Forgetful Mind," in 1988,... [+] Read More
Artist: Final Conflict
Final Conflict is a neo-progressive band in the vein of Saga, later Marillion and Galahad. Song oriented, the group fuses together art rock with hard rock and pop stylings. Final Conflict formed in Stoke on Trent, England, in 1985 by two vocalists/guitarists Andy Lawton and Brain Donkin, Mark Price (keyboards), Tony Moore (bass), and Arnie... [+] Read More
Artist: Tony Hadley
For a decade, suave Tony Hadley was the voice and image of Spandau Ballet, guiding the one-time New Romantic act to global success, crooning a string of smash hits like "To Cut A Long Story Short, "True," "Gold," and "Through The Barricades." Born on June 2, 1960 in Islington, Hadley had won a small singing competition in 1974 with his rendition... [+] Read More
Artist: The Battlefield Band
The Battlefield Band has proven to be one of the longest running institutions of Scottish music. At their inception in 1969, they were one of the most adventurous young groups around, mixing traditional music with some rock and pop, and even in the time since, they've remained somewhat abreast of trends, although not as much as those who've... [+] Read More
Artist: Clyde Brown
Vocalist Clyde Brown had a brief solo career with Atlantic in the '70s, but had the success of The Drifters to keep him from going adrift during much of his career voyage. While this vocal group was popular enough to break off into splinters and franchises, lawsuits and copyright judgements bubbling in the background, Brown was always... [+] Read More
Artist: Nick Nicely
Nick Nicely's 1982 single "Hilly Fields (1892)" is revered by some collectors and cult aficionados as one of the greatest post-1980 retro-psychedelic rock records ever released. Like many such cult items, it might not live up to its hype to some listeners, but it did bear strong influences from the likes of Syd Barrett, the "Strawberry Fields... [+] Read More
Artist: Cavity
Florida-based Cavity were proponents of the Southern-American genre known as Sludgecore, and, though perhaps less well known than such peers as Eyehategod and Crowbar, their superlative songwriting talents and apparent phobia of the spotlight has transformed them into quite the cult act.
Formed in Miami circa 1992 by vocalist Rene Barge and... [+] Read More
Artist: Larry Sparks
Larry Sparks has said that he's the youngest old-timer around, and the self-description is an apt one. Emerging from the Stanley Brothers' Clinch Mountain Boys band, Sparks carried on with the sounds created by bluegrass music's first generation. His style was no knock-off, however; it had a distinctively bluesy tinge anchored by Sparks' own... [+] Read More
Artist: Kilburn & the High Roads
Kilburn & the High Roads were one of the most-respected bands on London's early-'70s pub rock scene, and were just as important (if not more so) for beginning the career of beloved new wave cult figure Ian Dury. Label difficulties prevented the group from leaving much of a recorded legacy, but their eclecticism, offbeat stage presence, and droll... [+] Read More
Artist: Sweet 75
Sweet 75 was ex-Nirvana member Krist Novoselics first (albeit short lived) band after Kurt Cobains 1994 suicide. Novoselic and ex-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl originally contemplated remaining together and working on a set of songs that Grohl had penned, but ultimately opted to go their separate ways (with Grohl using those songs for the Foo... [+] Read More
Artist: The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers were not only among the most important and best early rock & roll stars, but also among the most influential rockers of any era. They set unmatched standards for close, two-part harmonies and infused early rock & roll with some of the best elements of country and pop music. Their legacy was and is felt enormously in all rock... [+] Read More
Artist: Jimmy Miller
Although American, Jimmy Miller will always be most famous for his work with several top British rock groups of the late 1960s and the early 1970s, which included some of the best albums by the Rolling Stones and Traffic. Miller entered the British scene via Stevie Winwood and the Spencer Davis Group in the mid-1960s. It's been reported (though... [+] Read More
Artist: The Drifters
The history of rhythm and blues is filled with vocal groups whose names -- the Orioles, the Cadillacs, the Crows, the Flamingos, the Moonglows, the Coasters, the Penguins -- are held in reverence by fanatics and devotees. The Drifters are part of an even more exclusive fraternity, as a group that managed to carve out a place for themselves in... [+] Read More
