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Artist: VOLA
Balcony Fall 2007 is Niels Dreijer, Asger Mygind, Niklas Sherfig, Jeppe Bloch and Martin Werner. The music is best described as reflective, melodic rock with earth shaking walls of sound and experimenting flavours, that might pass as being progressive elements. Atmosphere and contrasts have become the pivotal points of the compositions in which... [+] Read More
Artist: Rayford Griffin
Jazz drummer Rayford Griffin is an adept studio musician as well as bandleader who has worked with such musical luminaries as saxophonist Gerald Albright, vocalist Will Downing, and percussionist Bill Summers. Born February 6, 1958, in Indianapolis, IN, Griffin gained his love of music and discipline to practice from his minister father and... [+] Read More
Artist: Rod Cless
Clarinetist Rod Cless seems to have emerged from the middle of a potato field somewhere in Iowa and died in the mid '40s after falling several stories from the balcony of an apartment. Named George Roderick Cless, he was related by marraige to the much better known reedman Bud Freeman, but certainly had a respectable career in the Dixieland... [+] Read More
Artist: Neats
Formed in 1979, the Neats were one of the great enigmas in Boston's fertile 1980s club scene. During these years, one did not have to look far for a bill that might include any combination of the roots-rocking Del Fuegos, the Nuggets garage rock-worshipping Lyres, and the drunken hardcore punk slamming of Gang Green. The Neats were yet another... [+] Read More
Artist: Milli Vanilli
Milli Vanilli. The mere mention of the name still calls up the same derision it did when the dance-pop duo's career came to a sudden and ignominious end: Fakers. Frauds. A blatant marketing scam. Their story has been retold countless times: after selling millions of records, Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan were revealed to be models who publicly... [+] Read More
Artist: Raymond & Peter
Raymond Huffman and Peter Haskett were the unlikely and unwilling subjects of a cult phenomenon; a pair of aging alcoholics living together in a crumbling San Francisco tenement building, their endless drunken fights and rants were surreptitiously documented by neighbors, with the recordings eventually achieving legendary status in the... [+] Read More
Artist: The Nashville Teens
The Nashville Teens were one of a brace of British acts competing for attention in the booming days of the early British Invasion and its early purely English phenomenon, the British beat boom. They were distinguished from most of the others by scoring a memorable and serious hit, "Tobacco Road." This put them on the map internationally (even... [+] Read More
