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Artist: The Chemical Brothers
The act with the first arena-sized sound in the electronica movement, the Chemical Brothers united such varying influences as Public Enemy, Cabaret Voltaire, and My Bloody Valentine to create a dance-rock-rap fusion which rivalled the best old-school DJs on their own terms -- keeping a crowd of people on the floor by working through any number... [+] Read More
Artist: Magazine
After leaving the Buzzcocks in 1977, vocalist Howard Devoto formed Magazine with guitarist John McGeoch, bassist Barry Adamson, keyboardist Bob Dickinson, and drummer Martin Jackson. One of the first post-punk bands, Magazine kept the edgy, nervous energy of punk, adding elements of art rock, particularly with their theatrical live shows and... [+] Read More
Artist: Even in Blackouts
While in Sicily to visit his friends in the Manges, musician and punk rock renaissance man John "Jughead" Pierson decided to rent a flat and spend some time finishing up a novel. Eventually, though, the ex-Screeching Weasel guitarist missed making music. After borrowing a secondhand acoustic guitar from a pal, Jughead began to think about how... [+] Read More
Artist: Michael Baker
Time may be infinite, but the list of sidemen associated with the Time is not, even if it appears otherwise once membership in various spin-off combos is factored in. The undersung guitarist Michael Baker was a member of one such outfit, a band led by fellow axeman Jesse Johnson, an Illinois funk and soul player who may not have been the leader... [+] Read More
Artist: Role Model Official
Hello! Wassup? Welcome to my official MySpace page! Well... Lets start with me.. Ok? So... I'm really new to singing but not guitar. I am not trained on singing but I was in guitar. Well... I have been playing for 3 years now and I enjoy playing it. My real name is Trish and I live in USA BABY!!! When I was really young I didn't get to play... [+] Read More
Artist: Howard Devoto
Howard Devoto (born Howard Trotter) was on the cutting edge of British post-punk rock during the late '70s and '80s. A founding member of new wave/pop band the Buzzcocks, Devoto went on to form similar-minded bands Magazine and Luxuria. Although he retreated from music during the 1990s, he returned to the studio with former Buzzcocks bandmate... [+] Read More
Artist: Moonshake
Experimental pop outfit Moonshake was led by Dave Callahan, the onetime frontman of the C-86 group the Wolfhounds; after several years away from the music scene, he resurfaced in early 1991, placing an ad in Melody Maker calling for bandmates. Among those who responded were vocalist Margaret Fiedler, bassist John Frenett and drummer Michael... [+] Read More
Artist: Herbert
Although his methods may provoke more discussion than his music (at least among chin-stroke types and the British and American dance music presses), Matthew Herbert is an experimentalist of a subtle stripe, combining his love for all styles of dance-based electronic music with a desire to push their modes of expression into new areas. Although... [+] Read More
Artist: Boro Vukadinovic
Bosnian bassist Boro Vukadinovic had only a couple hundred dollars to his name when he had had to choose between buying a secondhand bass amp or a one-way ticket back to his native Yugoslavia. The decision to stay in Los Angeles ended up being the right thing for him to do as the struggling musician became a multimillionaire textile tycoon.... [+] Read More
Artist: Alex Mardas
The mysterious Alex Mardas, often known as "Magic Alex," does not have any solid credit tying him to the production of any record, and was not a musician. Nevertheless, he deserves a place in history as one of the most colorful characters of the many that drifted into the Beatles' orbit. For a brief time he was head of Apple Electronics, though... [+] Read More
Artist: Honey Wilds
Revisionist history has largely erased the name of Honey Wilds from country music lore. His importance to the music's evolution remains unassailable: a Southern humorist and regular performer on the Grand Ole Opry between 1932 and 1952, Wilds was the creative force behind the Opry's first tent tours, which were instrumental in bringing rural... [+] Read More
Artist: Carl Perkins
While some ill-informed revisionist writers of rock history would like to dismiss Carl Perkins as a rockabilly artist who became a one-hit wonder at the dawn of rock & roll's early years, a deeper look at his music and career reveals much more. A quick look at his songwriting portfolio shows that he composed "Daddy Sang Bass" for Johnny Cash, "I... [+] Read More
Artist: Peter Tosh
Singer, musician, composer, and rebel Peter Tosh cut a swathe through the Jamaican musical scene, both as a founding member of the Wailers and as a solo artist. He toured with the Rolling Stones and had an international hit with a duet with Mick Jagger, then toured again to equally rapturous world audiences as the headlining act. His words would... [+] Read More
Artist: Bob Koester
As the founder of Chicago's independent Delmark Records label, Bob Koester has been responsible for recording and releasing some of the finest jazz and blues of the last half of the 20th century. Always as much of a music fan as he was a businessman, Koester was noted for giving his artists complete freedom in the studio; since Delmark was often... [+] Read More
Artist: Jimmie Driftwood
Jimmie Driftwood was almost an anachronism in the years he was at his commercial peak, from 1957 through 1961. A schoolteacher by training, he originally started writing songs as a way of helping his students learn about history, and subsequently composed (or collected and re-composed) over 5,000 songs, many of them dealing with some element of... [+] Read More
Artist: Joe Jackson
In his 1999 memoir, A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage, Joe Jackson writes approvingly of George Gershwin as a musician who kept one foot in the popular and one in the classical realms of music. Like Gershwin, Jackson possesses a restless musical imagination that has found him straddling musical genres unapologetically, disinclined to pick... [+] Read More
