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Artist: Happiness
Artist: The Pursuit of Happiness
Toronto's Pursuit of Happiness serves as a vehicle for the wry romantic ponderings of singer/guitarist/songwriter Moe Berg and plays a brand of power-pop influenced by Todd Rundgren, who produced their first two albums. In addition to Berg, the band was filled out by guitarist Kris Abbott, bassist Johnny Sinclair, drummer Dave Gilburg, and... [+] Read More
Artist: Happy the Man
Often compared to Yes for their melodicism and Gentle Giant for the complexity of their compositions, Happy the Man add their own high-caliber musicianship, a sense of symphonic drama, odd time signatures, spacy sound, and occasional whimsy to their brand of art-rock. Although their largely instrumental oeuvre is rather inconsistent, Happy the... [+] Read More
Artist: Happy Mondays
Along with the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays were the leaders of the late-'80s/early-'90s dance club-influenced Manchester scene, experiencing a brief moment in the spotlight before collapsing in 1992. While the Stone Roses were based in '60s pop, adding only a slight hint of dance music, Happy Mondays immersed themselves in the club and rave... [+] Read More
Artist: The Happy Accidents
The Happy Accidents play rock & roll music. Just like too many ingredients can ruin the best soufflé, simplicity is the watchword, the mission. No scratching, no samples, no raps. The plan is to make the world safe for loud guitar rock again. This is not revisionist. It does not ape the past, and it does not pander to the present. Good songs... [+] Read More
Artist: Black Happy
Black Happy began as a Christian heavy metal band named Sacramen in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. After a novelty funk song with a horn section became more popular than their normal repertoire, the group reorganized as the funk/metal Black Happy with guitarists Greg Hjort and Paul Hemenway, lead singer Paul Hemenway and bass player Mark Hemenway joined... [+] Read More
Artist: Happy Hamsters
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Artist: Happy Ghosts
Happy Ghosts are Adelaide Australia based duo Andrew Muecke and Ashley Starkey. Andrew writes the music, plays the instruments and does the engineering. Ashley does the singing, videos and graphics. The Happy Ghosts musical style is a cross somewhere between ambient and electronic music from the edge. [+] Read More
Artist: Happy Flowers
Evoking the nightmare world of childhood trauma with insight, humor and surprising heart, the duo of ex-Landlords members Mr. Anus (guitarist Charlie Kramer) and Mr. Horribly-Charred Infant (vocalist John Beers) teamed as the Happy Flowers in their native Charlottesville, Virginia in 1983. They debuted the following summer with a pair of EPs,... [+] Read More
Artist: Happy Caldwell
With his nickname, Happy Caldwell comes across as having a more upbeat attitude than the stereotyped disgruntled jazzman. His long career may have contributed to the smiles, although the nickname dates back to his childhood and the days when he was studying to be a pharmacist. He was 16 when he began playing clarinet, beginning in the Eighth... [+] Read More
Artist: Happy End
Between 1970 and 1973, Happy End explored the possibilities of blending Western folk singing with Japanese melodies. Unlike many other bands of this era, Happy End, led by Haroumi Hosono and Takashi Matsumoto, sang in Japanese, a highly influential gesture in this anglophone-dominated era. Hosono later went on to form the Yellow Magic Orchestra.... [+] Read More
Artist: The Happy Six
Any group that gets to make nearly 100 records for the Columbia label over a three-year period would probably be happy. The Happy Six, however, join an enduring if not overwhelming number of musical ensembles whose names come right out and announce emotional ecstasy. One of many projects organized by bandleader Harry Yerkes, the Happy Six were... [+] Read More
Artist: Happy Family
Formed in 1987 at Tokyo's University of Meiji, the instrumental quartet Happy Family describes its music as chamber jazz-rock driven by the fast and heavy rhythms of hard rock. Reference points include Magma, Univers Zero and Henry Cow, but Happy Family stakes out its own turf with its stunning, sometimes furious, intensity.
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Artist: Slapp Happy
Avant-pop cult favorites Slapp Happy formed in Hamburg, Germany in 1972; there vocalist Dagmar Krause, a veteran of the folk group the City Preachers, first met British experimental composer Anthony Moore, who had previously issued a pair of solo LPs, Pieces of the Cloudland Ballroom and Secrets of the Blue Bag, on Polydor. When the label... [+] Read More
Artist: Happiness Boys
The phrase "known as the Happiness Boys" drops in through the mist of montage and aural crud on a classic Firesign Theatre album, sparking some listeners' interest in old-time radio and vintage recording artists. Anyone seriously studying these subjects would certainly come across the Happiness Boys -- the pairing of two virtuoso singers, tenor... [+] Read More
Artist: Happy Apple
Named after a child's toy from the 1960s, jazz trio Happy Apple was formed in Minneapolis, MN, in 1996 by saxophonist Michael Lewis and drummer David King, with bassist Erik Fratzke joining soon after. Their clever and melodic small-combo improvisations have been termed "jazz punk," but Happy Apple has a grasp of the entire history of jazz, and... [+] Read More
Artist: Happy Rhodes
Multi-instrumentalist and studio engineer Happy Rhodes (b. Aug. 9, 1965; Poughkeepsie, NY) began recording her own compositions in the mid-'80s, and had amassed enough songs for two albums by the time she met Kevin Bartlett, the owner of Aural Gratification Records. During 1986, Bartlett released three cassettes of Rhodes' music (Happy Rhodes,... [+] Read More
Artist: The Happy Family
Not to be confused with the avant-prog group of the same name, Edinburgh's Happy Family was one of the 4AD label's early acts. They originally consisted of Nick Currie, David Weddell (ex-Josef K), Paul Mason, and future Win member Ian Stoddart. Debuting with the Puritans single in March of 1982, Stoddart eventually parted, with Ronnie Torrance... [+] Read More
Artist: Happiness Factor
Playing hard-edged power pop with the energy and bitter wit of such classic new wave acts as Elvis Costello, the Jam, and the Damned (but with a 21st century sense of speed and precision), the Happiness Factor are primarily the brainchild of Salim Nourallah, the pop-obsessive singer/songwriter who first gained fame with the considerably more... [+] Read More
Artist: The Happy Boys
The Happy Boys are a two-man DJ team from the Robbins label that released a wave of successful trance-oriented mix albums in 2003. The first volume of Techno Party, the third volume of Trance Party, and Dance Party (Like It's 2004) all reached the Top Ten of Billboard's top electronic albums chart. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Horns of Happiness
Horns of Happiness is the exuberant side project of Aaron Deer, whose work with Impossible Shapes and John Wilkes Booze might already be well known to some. Where those bands reach for the arty side of indie pop, Horns of Happiness revel in fuzzy D.I.Y. production and down-home melodic sense. Though it's technically a solo project, the... [+] Read More
Artist: Happy Campers
Las Vegas musicians have often been stereotyped as Wayne Newton disciples, but in fact, the city's music scene also offers everything from jazz to alternative rock, hip-hop, and urban contemporary. And Vegas is the home of the Happy Campers, an emo/punk-pop/alternative pop/rock trio along the lines of Green Day. The group was formed in 1996 by... [+] Read More
Artist: Happy Bullets
The psychedelic pop band the Happy Bullets was formed by singer/songwriters Jason Roberts and Timothy Ruble in Dallas, TX, in 2003 after the two met that February while working together at an art gallery. They originally planned only to make records, but local airplay encouraged them to organize a performing group, and Roberts taught his wife,... [+] Read More
Artist: Happy Traum
Happy Traum is a singer/songwriter based in Woodstock, New York who served as editor of Sing Out! magazine for three years and currently runs Homespun Tapes, a company that sells instructional tapes narrated by well-known folk and rock musicians for aspiring musicians. Born in the Bronx, Traum attended the High School of Music and Art, where he... [+] Read More
