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Artist: Crazy Frog
Originally known as "the Annoying Thing," the helium-voiced, bluish-gray, anatomically correct CGI lump Crazy Frog became a pop culture epidemic in Europe and especially the U.K., with ringtones, TV commercials, pop songs, and other forms of (over)exposure. Though Crazy Frog mania began its momentum in 2004, the character's creation took several... [+] Read More
Artist: The Amnesia Quartet
The Amnesia Quartet formed in January of 1994 as a house band for their local Phoenix bookstore/show space known as the Metropophobobia (meaning fear of Phoenix). Original members Peter Ragan and David Oliphant would play two weekly sets of improved jazz and noise that was mixed with a digital manipulation of tape loops and samplers. By 1995,... [+] Read More
Artist: Public Enemy
Public Enemy rewrote the rules of hip-hop, becoming the most influential and controversial rap group of the late '80s and, for many, the definitive rap group of all time. Building from Run-D.M.C.'s street-oriented beats and Boogie Down Productions' proto-gangsta rhyming, Public Enemy pioneered a variation of hardcore rap that was musically and... [+] Read More
Artist: John Zorn
It is possible to call John Zorn a "jazz" musician, but that would be much too limiting a description. While jazz feeling is present in a good deal of his work, and the idea of improvisation is vitally important to him, Zorn doesn't operate within any idiom's framework, drawing from just about any musical, cultural, or noise source that a fellow... [+] Read More
Artist: Bret Hunter
Bret Hunter is a singer / songwriter looking to place his songs with established artists. Born 2nd half, 20th century. Half of the former infamous songwriting team of Hunter & Fisher. Fisher died in 1999 in a tragic vomiting accident. Mother was third alternate grip for nomadic gypsy theater company. Father was one-eyed beatnik poet widely... [+] Read More
Artist: Friend/Enemy
Friend/Enemy was formed in 2001 as the next in a series of projects fronted by ex-Cap'n Jazz and Joan of Arc leader Tim Kinsella. The band's core members include Kinsella, Todd Mattei (also of Joan of Arc), and Jim Becker (Califone). Friend/Enemy can best be described as a loose folk-punk somewhere between T.V. Smith and Captain Beefheart.... [+] Read More
Artist: Mundo Livre S/A
This band formed in Recife (Pernambuco) in 1984, out of the remains of three deceased punk bands (Trapaça, Serviço Sujo, and Câmbio Negro). Mundo Livre S/A spent several years playing under massive booing, especially when they played the tamborim (a percussion instrument traditional in the samba genre). In 1987, the band's instruments were... [+] Read More
Artist: Frédéric Roverselli
As a performer, Frédéric Roverselli surfaced in the late '90s as the bassist of Montreal avant-prog group Papa Boa. But he was shortly known as a composer of electro-acoustic music. Since the early '90s, he works as a sound designer on corporate and artistic projects with a focus on new audio-visual digital technologies.
Roverselli studied... [+] Read More
Artist: Psychic TV
After Genesis P-Orridge dissolved the seminal industrial-rock outfit Throbbing Gristle, he and Gristle cohorts Peter Christopherson and Cosey Fanni Tutti, plus Geoff Rushton, formed Psychic TV in 1979 as a means of continuing their confrontational, shock-oriented approach to music and their multimedia live performances. Psychic TV draws much of... [+] Read More
Artist: Genesis P-Orridge
Making music on the fringe since punk ignited in the late 1970s, Genesis P-Orridge has developed an impressively large and uncompromising body of work as a member of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, among others. Initially shunned for his attempts to expose the hidden taboos of what he considered a corrupt and complacent society, P-Orridge's... [+] Read More
Artist: Evil Mothers
The industrial noise band Evil Mothers formed in Texas in 1990; comprising frontman Curse Mackey, guitarist Jason Ucab, bassist Patrick Sane and drummers Roland Bobles and B.O.B., the group released its debut album Crossdresser on the Invisible label two years later. After returning in 1994 with Pitchforks and Perverts, the Evil Mothers... [+] Read More
Artist: Parts & Labor
Brooklyn's Parts & Labor create a boisterous delivery of electric guitars, sparse electronics, and rackety vocals. The experimental/noise rock collective came together in 2002 with keyboardist Dan Friel and bassist B.J. Warshaw. Friel and Warshaw originally met three years prior while the two were working at the Knitting Factory. Both had... [+] Read More
Artist: Coil
Initially established in 1983 as a solo outlet for vocalist and percussionist John Balance, the experimental sonic manipulation unit Coil became a full-fledged concern a year later following the arrival of keyboardist/programmer Peter Christopherson, a founder of Psychic TV as well as a member of Throbbing Gristle. After debuting with the... [+] Read More
Artist: Kelly Osbourne
As the scion of a well-healed heavy metal icon and his clever manager wife, Kelly Osbourne's celebrity was perhaps inevitable. Still, it was a curious blend of bizarre reality TV success, talent for performance, typical teenage petulance, and a flair for Courtney Love-like self-promotion that ultimately posited Kelly fully in the public's... [+] Read More
Artist: Farofa Carioca
Formed in 1995 in Rio de Janeiro by guitarist Jorge Mário da Silva (Seu Jorge, who was living on the streets since four years earlier, was raised in the poor and violent neighborhoods of the Baixada Fluminense and had two brothers killed), French flutist Bertrand Doussain, and Gabriel Moura, Farofa Carioca evidenced the disposition of mixing... [+] Read More
Artist: Liam Fender
North-east singer songwriter Liam Fender sings with soul and humanity to a honesty seeking audience, jaded by over packaged music.Influences: The Who, Led Zep, U2, Dr. Who, Bob Marley, Drink, Tarzan (pub), Oasis, The Prince Of Wales (pub) patter, Ray Davies (Kinks), Paul Whitehouse, my mum and dad, Bruce Springsteen, Charlie Higson, Donny... [+] Read More
Artist: BBC Radiophonic Workshop
For decades the BBC Radiophonic Workshop has produced the majority of incidental electronic music broadcast over British airwaves, their adherence to cutting-edge technology pioneering countless creative innovations. The department was formed in 1956, when senior studio manager Desmond Briscoe and music studio manager Daphne Oram agreed upon the... [+] Read More
Artist: White Noise
By the time White Noise's debut album, An Electric Storm, arrived in 1969, the Moog synthesizer had already started to make tentative appearances on pop records by the likes of the Monkees and Simon & Garfunkel. More primitive tone generators had also provided spacy effects for bands like the United States of America. But no other pop or rock... [+] Read More
Artist: 1AD7
1AD7 officially started in 2006. Landing shows opening for KottonMouth Kings, Hed P.E., The Reyes Brothers & Cypress Hill. 1AD7 has sold out such famous venues as the House of Blues Sunset, the Key Club & The Viper Room. The band has taken to the road where they have played on the "Bring the Noise Tour" in where the band performed in front of... [+] Read More
Artist: Frank Cotolo
Frank Cotolo was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1950 and has been involved with music and the industry, in one way or another, for all of his adult life. He began composing music from the day that he learned how to play his first instrument, the guitar. He states that his early musical influences were not rock & roll, but rather classical, film... [+] Read More
Artist: The Telescopes
Dream pop cult icons the Telescopes formed in Burton-on-Trent, England, in 1986 -- singer/guitarist Stephen Lawrie, guitarist/singer Jo Doran, lead guitarist David Fitzgerald, bassist Robert Brookes, and drummer Dominic Dillon comprised the original lineup, which in 1988 issued its first single, Forever Close Your Eyes, a split flexidisc with... [+] Read More
Artist: Subway Sect
Much like Mark Perry in Alternative TV, Vic Godard's career has gone on much longer than his limited talent warrants. But despite being part of the early days of English punk rock, he's still recording (albeit infrequently), and still must have fans -- somewhere. Godard's best moments were with his punk-era band Subway Sect, and are available in... [+] Read More
Artist: The Lemon Kittens
With no "proper" musical skills upon their formation in Surrey, England, the Lemon Kittens epitomized the "anything goes" spirit of late-'70s post-punk in the U.K. Karl Blake, who cut his teeth in numerous outfits prior to the Lemon Kittens, started the band with Gary Thatcher and a revolving cast of others (which at one point included future... [+] Read More
Artist: Steel Pole Bath Tub
Enigmatic noise rock trio Steel Pole Bath Tub crafted a grungy, droning, offbeat sound from a palette of fuzzed-out bass riffs, blasts of guitar feedback, and tape loops, plus a raft of alternately kitschy and disturbing dialogue samples from vintage TV shows and movies. Additionally, the band had a penchant for deconstructive covers of rock... [+] Read More
Artist: Celebration
Baltimore, MD's cabaret-punk trio Celebration features vocalist/percussionist Katrina Ford, multi-instrumentalist Sean Antanaitis, and drummer David Bergander. Ford and Antanaitis -- who are also husband and wife -- started out in Ann Arbor's chaotic, early-'90s noise-punk band Jaks, where Ford began to explore the formidable vocal style that... [+] Read More
