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Artist: Allen Hoist
Artist: Paul Fox
Though better known as a producer, Paul Fox entered the music industry as the guitarist in the noted U.K. punk outfit the Ruts, who scored a British Top Ten hit in 1979 with "Babylon's Burning." Their debut LP The Crack appeared later that year, but the group's rise was cut short in the wake of frontman Malcolm Owen's drug-related death in... [+] Read More
Artist: Phish
During the early '90s, Phish emerged as heir to the Grateful Dead's throne. Although their music is somewhat similar to the Dead's -- it's an eclectic, free-form rock & roll encompassing folk, jazz, country, bluegrass, and pop -- the group adheres more to jazz-derived improvisation than folk tradition, and they have a looser, goofier attitude.... [+] Read More
Artist: Ducks Deluxe
If the old scientific adage is true -- that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction -- then British pub rockers Ducks Deluxe were purely and simply a reaction. With the mid-'70s English pop scene dominated by glitter/glam rockers like Gary Glitter and Sweet or blustery, chops-heavy art rockers like Yes, Jethro Tull, and Genesis,... [+] Read More
Artist: L. CEDEÑO
L. Cedeño is one of the most inventive and eclectic figures in the Los Angeles music scene. He is the epitome of postmodern chic in an era obsessed with junk culture. Drawing upon a kaleidoscope of influences - pop, surf, psychedelia, soundtrack, indie rock, experimental rock, jazz, lounge - Cedeño is creating a body of work that is at once... [+] Read More
Artist: Adamski
Born in the late '60s, Adamski (born Adam Tinley) appeared to have reached the perfect age for recording twenty years later, square in the middle of Britain's acid house boom. In fact, he had made his chart debut a decade earlier with the adolescent punk band the Stupid Babies. (The group, which also included his five-year-old brother Dominic on... [+] Read More
Artist: Don Murray
The drummer who helped establish the country-rock rhythm section sound of the Charlie Daniels Band is not the same Don Murray who played drums in the Turtles, no more than Charlie Daniels would have been "Happy Together" on a desert island with Mikhail Gorbachev. There is also a guitarist named Don Murray picking country, a recording engineer,... [+] Read More
Artist: Northwest Company
Known originally as the Bad Boys, this vastly-underrated Canadian quintet consisted of Rick McCartey (lead vocals), Ray O'Toole (lead guitar/vocals), Vidor Skofteby (rhythm guitar), Gowan Jurgensen (bass), and Richard Stepp (drums, vocals) -- the successor to Jerry Ringrose. The band hailed from Haney, BC -- a Vancouver suburb. Local radio... [+] Read More
Artist: Jesse Sailes
While many listeners might be flabbergasted that Elmore James and Doris Day shared the same drummer, those knowledgeable about the ways of studio session men wouldn't be surprised at all. Nonetheless, the career of Jesse Sailes is hardly that of the typical studio hack. Most drummers aspire to be adept at a range of styles -- including jazz,... [+] Read More
Artist: Miriodor
As of 2005 and the release of Parade + Live at NEARfest, Montreal avant-prog group Miriodor are still carrying the flag they first hoisted a quarter of a century earlier as one of the first groups on the "rock" side of the Quebec-based musique actuelle equation. At their inception, Miriodor could also be viewed as North American practitioners of... [+] Read More
