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Artist: Translucent Disco Dolls
Artist: Frans Brueggen
Brueggen studied at the Muzieklyceum in Amsterdam, where he earned the first diploma awarded for recorder. After brief study at the University of Amsterdam in musicology, he turned to a career in performance and became one of the best recorder players of his time. He possesses a brilliant, translucent tone and fine interpretive powers. He is... [+] Read More
Artist: X-Ray Spex
One of the great English punk bands of the late '70s, there is only one thing wrong with the careers of X-Ray Spex and lead singer Poly Styrene -- they didn't record enough music. Formed in 1976 by school friends Marion Elliot (Styrene) and Susan Whitby (saxophonist Lora Logic), X-Ray Spex exploded onto the punk scene with one of the era's great... [+] Read More
Artist: Neilson Hubbard
Mississippi-based singer/songwriter Neilson Hubbard got his start in a Galaxie 500 cover band, but what's interesting is that was not until his second solo album (after an earlier stint fronting the mid-period Feelies-like artsy college rockers This Living Hand, the group that cover band had transmuted into) that Hubbard's own music showed any... [+] Read More
Artist: Poly Styrene
Patti Smith may get a great deal more credit as the godmother of punk, but the archetype for the modern-day feminist punk should really be traced to Poly Styrene, leader of first-wave London punk legends X-Ray Spex. Styrene was undoubtedly one of the least conventional front-persons in rock history, male or female -- a chubby,... [+] Read More
Artist: Ellis Paul
A troubadour, a singer/songwriter, a folky, and a storyteller -- all fair labels for this artist, but they do not quite suffice. However, the tattoo of Woody Guthrie worn proudly on his arm is a good starting place from which to grasp Ellis Paul, for it is from the Woody Guthrie tradition that he hails, and Maine, as well. Joni Mitchell, Bob... [+] Read More
Artist: Scarve
A self-defined "new age death metal band," Scarve was formed in 1994, in Nancy, France by rhythm guitarist Patrick Martin and drummer Dirk Verbeuren. Highly in-demand as one of extreme metal's top drummers, Verbeuren would regularly lend his services to other European bands (Mortuary, Soilwork, etc.) in years to come, but he also stuck with... [+] Read More
Artist: I Start Counting
Pop experimentalists I Start Counting favored English artiness with a sense of fun. Unlike many other electronic groups from the '80s, I Start Counting never settled into a single formula; the band continued to tinker with its sound, shifting effortlessly from light to dark, accessible to avant-garde. I Start Counting was formed in the early... [+] Read More
Artist: Buddha on the Moon
Buddha on the Moon is the nom de plume four-track of H.K. Kahng. Obviously inspired by artists on seminal British indie labels like 4AD and Sarah, this resident of Houston, TX, creates one-man-band recordings mixing shoegazer atmospherics, twee pop melodies, occasional dabs of space rock hypnotism, and a production style that's more low-key than... [+] Read More
Artist: Luke Slater
Often grouped with similarly influential names such as Cristian Vogel and former labelmates the Black Dog, Luke Slater is generally credited with helping to create a U.K. techno tradition with a strong Detroit foundation. Slater's work is probably the more straightahead of the three (although he's released works ranging from tough, banging... [+] Read More
Artist: Roads To Space Travel
Taking their name from the 1930's book of the same name about the possibility of space colonization the indie rock trio Roads To Space Travel formed in 1995. The nucleus of the group came together when Roman Kubler convinced college pal Tim Baier to relocate back to their hometown of Baltimore in order to start a band after the two had recently... [+] Read More
Artist: Jimmy Carroll
It might perhaps plague him that there is a low-brow standup comic with the same name wandering the earth, but this Jimmy Carroll probably has his nose too buried in a music chart to pay any attention. Jazz fans may perhaps know him as the arranger behind the Bird with Strings sessions, although since some bebop listeners regard this as the... [+] Read More
Artist: My Bloody Valentine
Like the Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, and the Jesus & Mary Chain before them, My Bloody Valentine redefined what noise meant within the context of pop songwriting. Led by guitarist Kevin Shields, the group released several EPs in the mid-'80s before recording the era-defining Isn't Anything in 1988, a record that merged lilting, ethereal... [+] Read More
Artist: Mudhoney
Nirvana may have been the band that put an entire generation in flannel, and Pearl Jam and Soundgarden both sold a lot more records, but Mudhoney were truly the band that made the '90s grunge rock movement possible. Mudhoney were the first real success story for Sub Pop Records; their indie-scene success laid the groundwork for the movement that... [+] Read More
