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Artist: Armand-Louis Couperin
French composer, organist and harpsichord player who inherited the position of his father at St. Gervais. Through his musical children he was able to maintain simultaneous positions at St. Barthelemy, St. Jean-en-Greve, Sainte-Chapelle, Notre-Dame and Carmes Billettes as well. Compositions, most notably for the harpsichord, included sonatas,... [+] Read More
Artist: Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra was arguably the most important popular music figure of the 20th century, his only real rivals for the title being Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and the Beatles. In a professional career that lasted 60 years, he demonstrated a remarkable ability to maintain his appeal and pursue his musical goals despite often countervailing trends.... [+] Read More
Artist: Miquel Lopez
An organist and composer Lopez was a student of the Escolania of Montserrat as a choirboy. He served as an organist for the monastery of Saint Martin in Madrid while studying theology at Salamanca University. Lopez was the choirmaster for Montserrat and the organist for the monastery of Saint Benito in Valladolid. The extant music of Lopez... [+] Read More
Artist: Don Elliott
An extremely popular player in the '50s, Don Elliott was a fine soloist in swing mode. He first studied piano and accordion, then played baritone horn and mellophone in his high school band. He switched to trumpet whe playing in local dance bands, and as a teen worked with fellow teen Bill Evans. Elliott studied harmony at the Institute of... [+] Read More
Artist: Sun Also Rises
Sun Also Rises was the duo of Graham Hemingway and Anne Hemingway, who put out a self-titled album in the British acid folk style on the small Village Thing label in 1970. The record very much reflects the influence of the foremost exponents of the style, the Incredible String Band, with its wavering harmonies and use of glockenspiel, vibes,... [+] Read More
Artist: Johann Mattheson
At an early age Mattheson was performing various roles, even female roles until his voice changed, in the Hamburg Opera. He played a number of different instruments for certain performances as well. When his voice developed further he took on the performance of many solo tenor parts appearing in compositions written by Handel, who became... [+] Read More
Artist: They Might Be Giants
Combining a knack for infectious melodies with a quirky, bizarre sense of humor and a vaguely avant-garde aesthetic borrowed from the New York post-punk underground, They Might Be Giants became one of the most unlikely alternative success stories of the late '80s and early '90s. Musically, the duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell borrowed... [+] Read More
Artist: Grotto
Twin City punk group Grotto first began playing together when they were freshmen in high school, in the winter of 1995. Their first shows were sporadic and scattered around the punk clubs of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and other than releasing one 7" in the spring of 1998, the band dwelt in relative underground obscurity. The band took a short... [+] Read More
Artist: Bz Bz Ueu
The power-charged avant-punk group Bz Bz Ueu is Italy's answer to Ne Zhdali. Backing cut-and-paste quirkiness with the use of horns (sax and trumpet) and tons of children toys, this band's music is one hell of a ride. There are only a few CD EPs and singles available, all released in Italy.
The nucleus of Bz Bz Ueu formed around 1992. Bassist... [+] Read More
Artist: Ethel Finnie
This classic blues singer was one of a number of such talents recorded in the mid-'20s by producers such as Joe Davis. Ethel Finnie cut a total of five sides between 1923 and 1924, most famous of which is "You're Gonna Wake Up Some Morning, But Your Papa Will Be Gone," originally issued as one of the Edison company's "Diamond Discs" in 1924 as... [+] Read More
Artist: MaG
Hip-Hop/Rap artist MaG,known as Mr. MaG by his peers, was born and raised in the birthplace of Hip-Hop, Bronx, NY. MaG began his emceeing career at the age of 18. Now 25, MaG can be heard on new mixtapes by Chanudon ("Carnage"), Rich London, DJ Denox, and DJ Wristpect, among others. In June 2007, MaG released the mixtape album "Reaganomics",... [+] Read More
Artist: Brian Dewan
A strikingly independent and original talent, Brian Dewan blends whimsy tradition and a subversive sense of humor into his many projects, which include (and sometimes combine) music, artwork, and furniture-making. A resident of Brooklyn's Williamsburg section, Dewan plays an orchestra's worth of quirky instruments, including the autoharp,... [+] Read More
Artist: Jesse Walker
Jesse Walker, associate editor of Reason magazine and author of Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America , has written for a wide range of publications, from The New Republic and The New York Times to No Depression and Alternative Press Review. He has also worked as a DJ, a dishwasher, and a miscellaneous office grunt, and... [+] Read More
Artist: Julian Laine
This trombonist, who spent most of his life and career in the Big Easy, comes from a different Laine family of New Orleans than that of drummer Papa Jack Laine. During the late '20s, Julian Laine was often heard blasting away on his horn in one of the rowdy gambling and miscellaneous enterprises of sin located in towns such as Biloxi along the... [+] Read More
Artist: Three13
I am the only member of my band. I have been into music as long as I can remember. Wanted to play drums since I was 3, but I got a guitar for Christmas when I was 8. Was in my first "real" band in 1989 when I was 17. We played Slayer and Metallica covers. It was a few friends with alot of talent and no creativity.Then in 1990 I graduated high... [+] Read More
Artist: Lieutenant Pigeon
A truly odd popular music ensemble for 1970s Britain, Lieutenant Pigeon enjoyed a fairly long and successful recording career with their offbeat, mostly instrumental music. Not exactly easy to categorize as rock, it's nonetheless hard to know what else to call their mix of martial percussion (similar to that heard in Napoleon XIV's infamous hit... [+] Read More
Artist: Yusef Lateef
Yusef Lateef has long had an inquisitive spirit and he was never just a bop or hard bop soloist. Lateef, who does not care much for the name "jazz," has consistently created music that has stretched (and even broke through) boundaries. A superior tenor-saxophonist with a soulful sound and impressive technique, Lateef by the 1950s was one of the... [+] Read More
Artist: Brendan Power
A master of the chromatic harmonica and blues harp, New Zealand-born and London-based Brendan Power has proven equally adept at playing pop, classical, rock, and traditional Irish music. In addition to playing on albums by such Celtic bands as Altan and Arcadia and Irish vocalists, including Paul Brady, Arty McGlynn, Nollaig Casey, and Mary... [+] Read More
Artist: Reed K. Holmes
Reed Holmes was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in 1952 and studied at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. His principal teachers there were Allen Johnson, Kenneth Jacobs and David Van Vactor. He received his Ph.D. in Music theory from the University of Texas at Austin where he studied composition with Barton McLean. He was for some time... [+] Read More
Artist: Blank Paiges' Power Plant
Novi Sad, Serbia -- Andrej Popovitch has been coming to Rainglow Beach every weekday since its inception. When the retired philosophy teacher learned that a national public health organization wanted to shut the area down because of contamination concerns, he doused his body in neon orange lead paint and jogged down the streets of downtown... [+] Read More
Artist: Neil Aspinall
Neil Aspinall has been an important assistant to the Beatles since the early 1960s, first as their road manager, and then as an administrator of their financial company, Apple. Aspinall was studying to be an accountant when he first met the Beatles in late 1960, as a result of renting lodgings at the house of their drummer at the time, Pete... [+] Read More
Artist: Toshimaru Nakamura
Toshimaru Nakamura belongs to a small group of Japanese improvisers who in the late '90s dropped whatever they were previously doing to develop a new minimalist music; free improvisation based on silence and tiny gestures. This scene was later dubbed "onkyo" and Nakamura became one of its leading figures, thanks to his regular participation to... [+] Read More
