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Artist: The Soft Pink Truth
Drew Daniel's the Soft Pink Truth grew from a dare. While Daniel was performing in Paris with Martin Schmidt as Matmos, Matthew Herbert challenged him to make a house record. Daniel responded with 2001's Soft Pink Missy 12", which Herbert released on his Soundslike label. Daniel went beyond the dare and kept the project going -- a smart decision... [+] Read More
Artist: Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu
Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu is a strong point in the otherwise largely overlooked field of traditional hula chanting. His early work consisted of local hula and Polynesian shows around his home island, eventually moving up the ranks in another hula halau (school), gaining a good deal of experience in traditional chanting. Within a few years, he was... [+] Read More
Artist: phluidbox
phluidbox was formed in 1998 in orlando, originally dubbed THE FLUID BOX, and consisted of a couple cassette tapes and crude artwork. artist joseph fitzpatrick conceived phluidbox while attending the university of central florida and studying psychology and religion, which became a source of inspiration for many of the concepts implied in the... [+] Read More
Artist: Everyday People
In 1970, singer and guitarist Bruce Wheaton found himself without a band after the members of Stitch in Tyme went their separate ways. He quickly solved the problem by moving to Toronto and forming a new group, Everyday People. The other artists he teamed up with were singer Pamela Marsh, keyboardist David Hare, guitarist Christ Paputts, bassist... [+] Read More
Artist: The Irish Weavers
The Cork-based Irish Weavers are a comedy folk band that formed in 1993. Their music is spirited and fast-paced and often includes generous helpings of humor that have helped sell out live concerts held in the U.S., the U.K., and throughout Europe.
The group consists of a trio of multi-instrumentalists. Barry Looney plays flute, mandolin,... [+] Read More
Artist: Orgy
Spawned by the fertile L.A. alt metal scene, Orgy adds catchy melodic hooks to the familiar mix of crushingly loud riffs and electronic-tinged production. Formed in late 1997, Orgy consists of vocalist Jay Gordon, guitarist Ryan Shuck, guitar synthesist Amir Derakh, bassist Paige Haley, and drummer Bobby Hewitt. Shuck had collaborated on... [+] Read More
Artist: Mushroomhead
Known for its theatrical live show and the black masks that most of its members wear on stage, Mushroomhead is one of the more unique and adventurous alternative metal outfits that emerged in the 1990s. And the Cleveland band's music is as interesting as its image; Mushroomhead's forceful yet melodic alterna-metal incorporates elements of... [+] Read More
Artist: Needlework
1997 was becoming 1998 and the basement of a small duplex, just outside of Cleveland, Ohio was becoming a recording studio. Armed with a 4 track recorder, boxes of cassettes, and several Radio Shack microphones, Neil Mihalich, founding member of Needlework, gave life to the industrial groove metal project, 43. After relocating to Bradenton,... [+] Read More
Artist: Dislocation Dance
Dislocation Dance can be seen as the unsung forebears of mid-'80s jazz-inflected acts such as Swing Out Sister and Matt Bianco; their influence can also be heard on Stereolab. Formed in the early '80s by Andy Diagram (trumpet, vocals), Ian Runacres (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Paul Emmerson (bass), and Richard Harrison (drums), Dislocation Dance... [+] Read More
Artist: Grant Fullerton
Canadian guitarist Grant Fullerton first stepped into the public spotlight in the '60s as part of a Nova Scotia group called the Untouchables. The band later signed with Yorkville Records and became known by fans as Stitch in Tyme. In 1967 the renamed gathering released a debut single, "Got to Get You Into My Life." During his career Fullerton... [+] Read More
Artist: Joe Thomas
Lab assistant Igor was sent off to the statistics bureau in order to stay out of trouble, returning with some interesting facts concerning this black gospel producer. It is unfortunate that Igor's interest is most likely not in the healing genre itself, but rather in the mechanisms of arranging as many victims in one place as possible.... [+] Read More
Artist: Phish
During the early '90s, Phish emerged as heir to the Grateful Dead's throne. Although their music is somewhat similar to the Dead's -- it's an eclectic, free-form rock & roll encompassing folk, jazz, country, bluegrass, and pop -- the group adheres more to jazz-derived improvisation than folk tradition, and they have a looser, goofier attitude.... [+] Read More
Artist: Miami Sound Machine
One of the most successful Latin crossover acts of the '80s, Miami Sound Machine was formed in 1975 as the Miami Latin Boys, by keyboardist Emile Estefan, Jr. Performing at a wedding shortly afterwards, the group was joined by guest vocalists Gloria Fajado and her cousin, Merci Navarro Murciano. The two singers impressed the band so much that... [+] Read More
Artist: Girl in Park
The rain-drenched misery of Girl in Park belie their sunny, tropical roots. Often recalling the dream pop of the Cranberries and the introspective female fury of Sinéad O'Connor, Girl in Park crawled from the alt rock underground in the Philippines and released an album in the U.S. before their own native land. Fronted by Jaja Manuel (vocals,... [+] Read More
Artist: Lil' Mo
Lil' Mo is short in stature, not even hitting five feet in height, but there's nothing little about her drive, heart, or talent. Born Cynthia Loving, she was raised on Long Island but suffered frequent moves as the family followed her dad through the course of his military career transfers. The lack of permanent roots didn't keep her from... [+] Read More
Artist: Blitzkrieg
The lifelong obsession of indefatigable vocalist Brian Ross, Blitzkrieg were among a handful of lesser known New Wave of British Heavy Metal acts who should have faded into rock and roll obscurity long ago had it not been for Metallica covering one of their songs. Ross first founded Blitzkrieg at the end of 1980, when he joined a Leicestershire,... [+] Read More
Artist: David Sedaris
David Sedaris is a best-selling author, playwright, commentator, and National Public Radio humorist. Sedaris was born on December 26, 1957. His first collection of short stories, entitled Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays, was published by Bay Back Books in 1994. The collection became a national best-seller and was selected as one of the Village... [+] Read More
Artist: Theodore McCord
The apparently highly swinging music department at Ohio's Wilberforce University was responsible for a surprising number of accomplished jazz musicians in the early 1920s including one of the genre's rare sets of twin brothers, Castor McCord and Theodore McCord. Both were reed players, and in some details their careers were nearly identical. The... [+] Read More
Artist: 3 Mustaphas 3
Before the term world music was a twinkling in anyone's eye, 3 Mustaphas 3 were doing it, mixing up different cultures into a gleeful grab bag of music and leaving a heritage that has influenced musicians all over the world. Legend -- their own legend -- has it that the Mustaphas were smuggled out of their mysterious Balkan hometown of Szegerely... [+] Read More
Artist: Jack Hylton
Born in Great Lever, this artist was one of Great Britain's greatest big band leaders and theater producers. Jack Hylton's father and mother were employed in a cotton mill and as a school teacher respectively; near the close of the 19th century Hylton began taking piano lessons. A few years later his father moved from the mill to running his own... [+] Read More
Artist: Ralph Blizard
Fiddler Ralph Blizard is the only kind of blizzard folks in the Appalachians would feel good about arriving, since the weather kind tends to mess up the roads, and perhaps even make it impossible to get to that still way back up in the holler. This Blizard is a legendary old-time long-bow fiddler whose own house as a child was the scene of... [+] Read More
Artist: Building Rome
They say Rome wasn't built in a day. Building Rome is proving them wrong. In one week, Building Rome opened for Fall Out Boy and +44 on the Honda Civic Tour, sold out a headlining show in their hometown and received two fan shoutouts on MTV's Total Request Live. Originally formed in St. Louis in the winter of 2003, lead singer and songwriter... [+] Read More
Artist: Prince Far I
One of the many voices of the roots era, Prince Far I was absolutely unique. He certainly cannot be categorized as a singer, although at times -- especially during chanted passages -- there was definitely a singsong quality to his vocals, and in that respect the closest comparison was to Winston Rodney of Burning Spear. However, that group... [+] Read More
Artist: Peter Tosh
Singer, musician, composer, and rebel Peter Tosh cut a swathe through the Jamaican musical scene, both as a founding member of the Wailers and as a solo artist. He toured with the Rolling Stones and had an international hit with a duet with Mick Jagger, then toured again to equally rapturous world audiences as the headlining act. His words would... [+] Read More
Artist: I'm Being Good
Brighton, England's underground music scene was thriving during 1991. Guitarist/vocalist Andrew Clare was a musician in the city who had been running a cassette-only label called Graphic Death since the age of 16. It was under his direction that the pop/rock band I'm Being Good began that year. According to Clare, the project was developed to... [+] Read More
