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Artist: Eggs
Eggs was one of Washington, D.C.'s best indie-pop bands of the early 1990s, but were often lost in the shadows of their labelmates Unrest, another excellent D.C. indie-pop group of the time. Led by Andrew Beaujon, formerly of Scaley Andrew, Eggs carved out a niche for themselves in the early 1990s among a slew of other sugarcoated guitar-pop... [+] Read More
Artist: Grace Griffith
With a crystal-clear vocal tone that has been compared with the late Sandy Denny, Washington, D.C.-based vocalist Grace Griffith has brought the songs of the Celtic Isles to the United States. A former member of Celtic folk trio, Connemara, Griffith has continued to expand on Celtic traditions as a soloist. The Washington Area Music Association... [+] Read More
Artist: Magic Hour
Magic Hour is the brainchild of Bostonian Wayne Rogers, who has released several solo albums on the Twisted Village label in the 1990's, as well as sporadically leading the garage/psychedelic band Crystallized Movements in the 1980's (which managed to release five albums on Twisted Village). In 1994, the band gained recognition when Rogers and... [+] Read More
Artist: Forest for the Trees
Forest for the Trees is the brainchild of Carl Stephenson, the co-writer/producer of Beck's "Loser" single, as well as much of Beck's DGC full-length debut, Mellow Gold. Around the time "Loser" began its rapid rise to the upper reaches of the pop singles chart in 1993, Stephenson had completed the majority of what would later be released in 1997... [+] Read More
Artist: Baaba Seth
Charlottesville, VA-based worldbeat jam band Baaba Seth was formed in the fall of 1990 by singer/guitarist Dirk Lind, guitarist Kevin Lynch, trumpeter John Murphy and percussionist Len Wishart; by the time of the group's debut gig the following spring, the lineup expanded to include bassist Eric Biltonen and drummers Jason Mcleod and Drex... [+] Read More
Artist: Sugar Drive
Sugardrive formed in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1993, and became one of that country's more popular pop acts of the late 1990s. Comprised of Paul Flynn (vocals and guitar), Michael Westwood (guitar), Gavin Wienand (bass) and Garth McLeod (drums), Sugardrive began their existence playing riff-heavy alternative rock, but later their sound... [+] Read More
Artist: Alice Coltrane
Music obviously ran in Alice Coltrane's family; her older brother was bassist Ernie Farrow, who in the '50s and '60s played in the bands of Barry Harris, Stan Getz, Terry Gibbs and especially, Yusef Lateef. Alice McLeod began studying classical music at the age of seven. She attended Detroit's Cass Technical High School with pianist Hugh Lawson... [+] Read More
Artist: Shooglenifty
The musical traditions of Scotland have been combined with modern influences of rock, pop, jazz, and urban dance music to create the hypno-folkadelic/ambient/traditional sound of Shooglenifty. According to the Ottawa Sun, the Edinburgh-based sextet is "setting the world on fire with their super trippy blend of Celtic staples and everything from... [+] Read More
Artist: Joni Mitchell
When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century. Uncompromising and iconoclastic, Mitchell confounded expectations at every turn; restlessly innovative, her music evolved from deeply personal folk stylings into pop, jazz, avant-garde, and even world music,... [+] Read More
Artist: Kittie
Schoolgirls Mercedes Lander (drums) and Fallon Bowman (guitar) met in gym class and said, "Let's play together!" And thus, Kittie was born. At least, that's how legend has it, and it's not that far from the truth. Four teenage girls with a love of heavy metal, a desire to prove naysayers wrong, and a passion to rock formed the hard-sounding... [+] Read More
Artist: Mr. T Experience
The Mr. T Experience came out of the same Berkeley/East Bay Gilman Street punk rock scene that eventually spawned Green Day, but they are often left out of the history of this scene, or at least, they rarely fit prominently into the punk rock genealogy. The Mr. T Experience (or MTX for short) have been playing the same... [+] Read More
Artist: Blast off Country Style
Taking their name from a Moog record, Blast Off Country Style emerged from the ashes of Sexual Milkshake and Two Faced Judy to become one of the Teenbeat record label's best and most unique acts of the 1990s. Formed in Harrisonburg, Virginia by former Sexual Milkshake drummer Chris Callahan, Two Faced Judy and Don't Panic bassist Phil Sweeney,... [+] Read More
Artist: mikmorley
Give Myself, Mik Morley's independent solo debut, introduces the world to a soulful and enigmatic young artist. The brief 5 song collection is a first-class debut effort, offering both raw mood and catchy radio ready song crafting, which has already been drawing fans to the 25-year-old singer/songwriter/guitarist's music. "They're perfectly... [+] Read More
Artist: Coyle & Sharpe
Jim Coyle and Mal Sharpe were two pranksters who appeared to be straitlaced on the outside, but were in fact very twisted on the inside. The two walked the streets of San Francisco in the early 1960s with weird ideas and a hidden microphone in search of suckers who might be lured into their elaborate put-ons. They carved out their own genre,... [+] Read More
Artist: Sexual Milkshake
Formed in the late-1980s in Harrisonburg, VA, Sexual Milkshake originally consisted of three members: Sexua, Lmil, and Kshake (also known as Greg Allen, Chris Callahan and Todd/Rusty Massie, respectively). Their musical philosophy could best be summed up in a comment Greg Allen once tossed off: "Tune, schmoon, just play!" Too dumb to be called... [+] Read More
Artist: Seafood
British indie rock quartet Seafood first came to the attention of the music press via a series of limited-edition singles on the independent Fierce Panda and Kooky labels. The band had come together in 1996 when bassist Kevin Hendrick and drummer Caroline Banks spotted an advert vocalist/guitarist David Line and guitarist Charles McLeod had... [+] Read More
Artist: Pat McAuley
Pat McAuley (sometimes known as John McAuley) was one of the many numerous players in the history of Them, which boasted one of the most unstable lineups of any major 1960s group. Sometime in mid-1964, he joined Them -- which had just started to record -- on organ, replacing Eric Wrixon. He was only on keyboards a short while before switching to... [+] Read More
Artist: Miss Holly Harrison
*****WIN EXCLUSIVE SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHS OF ***HOLLY HARRISON*****!!!!!! **EMAIL MVSS@HOTMAIL.CO.UK NOW!!!**HOLLY HARRISON' it's time for the new breed, Holly Harrison is here... SimplyThis extremely beautiful, talented young lady, hails from the remote South East of England village of Meopham. in Kent. At the tender age of 14,... [+] Read More
Artist: The Queers
Sometimes they are mistaken for a queercore band like labelmates Pansy Division, but one listen to the Queers' adolescent-boy-who-never-grew-up lyrics ("she got no tit," "I'm really goo-goo over you/I'm mentally retarded too," "she's my Burger King Queen," etc.) will dispel that misconception. While some of their songs border on sexism and... [+] Read More
Artist: Joe Derrane
The Boston-born son of Irish immigrants, Joe Derrane is ranked among the finest button accordionists in the history of Celtic music. Although he recorded a series of Irish tunes on 78 rpm in the 1940s and '50s, he disappeared from the traditional music circuit until performing at the Irish Folk Festival at Wolf Trap Farm Park for Performing Arts... [+] Read More
Artist: Funky 4 + 1
Funky 4 + 1 were one of the first hip-hop groups that contained a female MC and were certainly the first group of their kind that released records commercially. Further, the group were the among the first wave of Bronx crews to release records after the initial success of the Sugarhill Gang in 1979. The Funky 4 consisted of DJ Breakout, K.K.... [+] Read More
Artist: Cold Crush Brothers
The Cold Crush Brothers were one of the first rap crews to emerge from the Bronx soon after hip-hop's birth in the mid-'70s. Along with Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Grand Wizard Theodore & the Fantastic 5 MCs, and the Funky Four Plus One, these four NYC natives were already well-established long before the Sugarhill Gang made rap a... [+] Read More
Artist: El Vez
Because Elvis has become an international institution that can communicate across national and cultural boundaries, it comes as no surprise that El Vez -- the self proclaimed "Mexican Elvis" -- has come along. El Vez, aka Robert Lopez, has been kicking around the L.A. underground music scene for nearly twenty years. He first appeared in the... [+] Read More
Artist: The Belfast Gypsies
The Belfast Gypsies were a direct spin-off of Them, featuring two members who had been in Them for differing spells in the mid-'60s: singer/organist/multi-instrumentalist Jackie McAuley and his brother, drummer Pat McAuley (sometimes also known as John McAuley). With a style very similar to early Them, the Gypsies hooked up with Kim Fowley on... [+] Read More
Artist: Dave Goodman Drums
DAVE GOODMAN BIOBorn in Tamworth, NSW, Australia in 1977, Dave Goodman began playing organ at the age of seven. After playing for some years he also began playing trumpet until he began playing drumset on 7th March 1989. He then went on to perform regularly with the Tamworth Regional Music Centre Big Band under the direction of ex-Sydney... [+] Read More
