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Artist: Meg Christian
Meg Christian recorded Olivia's first album and, along with Cris Williamson, brought the whole field of women's music into its golden age. A singer/songwriter with a folk and classical bent, her music tends to be impassioned and filled with intense feelings, and her sound very elegant and restrained. Although she retired from performing during... [+] Read More
Artist: Witness U.K.
Witness UK formed in Northern England in 1997, and began crafting sweeping, impassioned rock along the lines of Radiohead and the Verve. The group -- consisting of singer/songwriter Gerard Starkie, guitarist Ray Chan, bassist Dylan Keeton, keyboardist/guitarist Julian Pransky, and drummer John Langley -- drew rave reviews from the British press... [+] Read More
Artist: Nationale Blue
Nationale Blue first started in 1999, when three previous bandmates found themselves in Boston together. The group had some locally released material, but their first real album was 2002's A Different Kind of Listening. The album was a blend of Dischord-style angular hardcore and impassioned emo-punk and garnered them rave reviews from several... [+] Read More
Artist: Endicott
Albany, NY-based metal/hardcore hybridists Endicott included vocalist Charles Cure, guitarists Ryan Rapp and Don Naylor, bassist Steve Booth, and drummer Jason Nowak. The band first formed in 2000 and immediately began honing their heavy yet impassioned sound. The hard work practicing and touring paid off in early 2004, when Endicott signed with... [+] Read More
Artist: Alban Berg
An Austrian composer primarily of atonal music in many genres, including opera; known for "Wozzeck" (1925) and "Three Orchestral Pieces" (1915). Webern, Berg, and Schoenberg (Berg's teacher) made up the Viennese School, Berg being the romantically impassioned point of this composer triangle -- highly original and lyrical, with a brilliant sense... [+] Read More
Artist: Isang Yun
The soaring, impassioned Symphonies nos. 1 & 3 of Isang Yun come from the heart of a man persecuted by the paranoia of the state "authorities" -- works written after he was twice imprisoned by South Korean police on suspicion of espionage, even once being kidnapped by them from Europe and forced back to South Korea. (He is, of course, innocent... [+] Read More
Artist: The Charmettes
The Charmettes were a New York City-based trio who cut songs for Hi, Marlin, and World Artists, among other labels. The impassioned "Stop the Wedding" was their 1965 entry on the latter label, a soulful piece of girl group melodrama with a dense arrangement and a beautiful lead vocal performance, especially in the spoken part -- these Charmettes... [+] Read More
Artist: davidaubrun
_ i am sound designer since 20 years ... this is my passion and a new interest is a micro-world ! i work for a scientific fiction video, " gods of the microcosm "Dj, type-setter M.A.O since 1992, impassioned by the soundsÂ… I control the search and the creation for sounds on the synthetizers korg, I exerted the trade of ambient Dj house lounge... [+] Read More
Artist: Steve Kindler
Like his brother Bob, violinist Steve Kindler played in The Honolulu Symphony, but he cut his jazz chops as a member of John McLaughlin's fusion band, Mahavishnu Orchestra. Kindler has also toured and recorded with Jan Hammer, Jeff Beck, and Kitaro. Kindler's smooth yet impassioned violin improvisations are the perfect vehicle for his own highly... [+] Read More
Artist: The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Sprinkling their impassioned brand of alternative rock with touches of screamo, pop-punk, and metal, Middleburg, FL's the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus were originally born in 2003. Writing and rehearsing for about 18 months with no real intentions of performing or recording anything, the bandmembers were later urged by some friends to pursue their... [+] Read More
Artist: Romanovsky & Phillips
Romanovsky & Phillips (R&P) are easily the most popular out-of-the-closet singing duo in history. Having toured extensively in the U.S., Canada, and Australia, R&P have earned the title of Ambassadors of Homosexuality. Prolific and long-standing members of the gay music community, R&P have a hysterically comic bent on contemporary gay life. Each... [+] Read More
Artist: Timmy Thomas
Timmy Thomas is notable for having been a major one-hit wonder with "Why Can't We Live Together?," a song distinguished by its stripped-down production -- soulful organ, played seemingly improvisationally over a rhythm from a primitive drum machine, with Thomas' impassioned vocals layered over both. The result was a 1973 hit for Thomas and for... [+] Read More
Artist: Cold War Kids
Fullerton, CA's Cold War Kids make music with roots that go deep and wide, embracing influences as diverse as Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday, Jeff Buckley, and the Velvet Underground. Matt Aveiro, Matt Maust, Jonnie Russell, and Nathan Willett began crafting their soulful, blues-inflected take on indie rock as Cold War Kids in 2004, recording demos... [+] Read More
Artist: Raul Midón
Singer/guitarist Raul Midón is a contemporary soul singer whose impassioned acoustic guitar playing -- a mix of rock, classical, and flamenco -- has gotten him just as much attention as his smooth voice. Blind since birth, Midón was born in Embudo, NM, to an Argentine father and American mother. He began playing drums early in his childhood... [+] Read More
Artist: Corn Mo
Corn Mo (born Jon Cunningham) is the late-20th century's semi-ironic, postmodern answer to Tiny Tim, belting out impassioned songs that tread the line between vaudeville and cock rock, while accompanying himself on accordion and floor cymbal.
Originally hailing from Denton, TX, Corn Mo first found a musical home accompanying the Flying Couch... [+] Read More
Artist: Kristy Starling
After the first season of television's American Idol became a phenomenal success, a slew of imitators soon followed, including a talent search on NBC's Today Show. Competing as one of six finalists was Kristy Starling, a college student from Oklahoma City, and although she finished second, her impassioned performances impressed Grammy-winning... [+] Read More
Artist: Trinity Shot
An angry impassioned cry that will challenge you to look at your own life and the world around you .
The dense ambience that surrounds Trinity Shot questions the human obsession with self destruction .
Trinity Shot take their influence from luminaries such as , Voivod , Trouble , Coheed and Cambria , Iron Maiden , Black Sabbath , Metallica ,... [+] Read More
Artist: Gary "U.S." Bonds
After moving to the Norfolk, VA, area in the mid-'50s, young Gary Anderson began plying his vocal wares, first in church, later with a local group called the Turks. When he was not yet 21, he was approached by local record producer Frank Guida to join his tiny Legrand label. Guida changed Anderson's name to U.S. Bonds, hoping the first release... [+] Read More
Artist: The Opposition
The Opposition were a South London-based post-punk band that welded the impassioned urgency of early Killing Joke to the graceful but pained atmospheric flourishes of the Chameleons. Marcus Bell, Mark Long, and Ralph Hall formed the band in 1979 and had their first single, Very Little Glory, released through their own Double Vision imprint by... [+] Read More
Artist: TV 21
The new wave band TV 21 formed in the late '70s, comprising drummer Colin Maclean, guitarist Ally Palmer, bassist Neil Baldwin, and vocalist/guitarist Norman Rodger. The band took their name from Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson's fanzine. After releasing their first two singles on Powerbeat in early 1980, they recorded a session for John... [+] Read More
Artist: The Nixons
One of the post-grunge era's most straightforward, impassioned groups, Oklahoma City's the Nixons were founded by singer/guitarist Zac Maloy, guitarist Jesse Davis, bassist Ricky Brooks, and drummer Tye Robinson. The group released their debut EP Six in 1992 on Dragon Street Records and added new drummer John Humphrey before releasing Halo two... [+] Read More
Artist: Sammy Lowe
Arranger/trumpeter/conductor Sammy Lowe's credits include James Brown's number one R&B standard "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" and his 1963 number six R&B hit "Prisoner of Love," as well as recordings by Erskine Hawkins, Nina Simone, Sam Cooke, the Softones, the Tokens, and Little Peggy Marsh. Brown sent Lowe an acetate of what would be his... [+] Read More
Artist: Sambalanço Trio
Before his immigration to the U.S. in 1968 -- and subsequent collaborations with the likes of Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, and Wayne Shorter -- the percussionist Airto Moreira had worked with a number of talented musicians at home in Brazil. Among Airto's cadre of Brazilian cohorts were Mariano Octet, Lennie Dale, Trio Novo, Joyce... [+] Read More
Artist: Against Me!
The roots of Against Me!'s rousing punk-folk sound lie in Tom Gabel's guitar-and-stool troubadourship around his native Gainesville, FL, beginning in 1997. The then 17-year-old Gabel performed as a solo act wherever anyone would have him, drawing much influence from early acoustic protest music. The band around him would eventually solidify by... [+] Read More
Artist: Neil Diamond
In a career that began in the 1960s, Neil Diamond became a major recording artist, an internationally successful touring act, and a songwriter whose compositions produced hits for himself and others. His earliest recognition, in fact, came as a songwriter associated with the Brill Building era of Tin Pan Alley in the early '60s. But he soon... [+] Read More
