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Artist: Star Strangled Bastards
Artist: Tool
Tool's greatest breakthrough was to introduce dark, vaguely underground metal to the preening pretentiousness of art rock. Or maybe it was introducing the self-absorbed pretension of art rock to the wearing grind of post-thrash metal -- the order really doesn't matter. Though Metallica wrote their multi-sectioned, layered songs as if they were... [+] Read More
Artist: Beerzone
British punk quartet Beerzone was formed in mid-1997 by frontman Iain, guitarist Adam, bassist Spike and drummer Bryza. Their debut EP Beer Here Now appeared later that year, followed in 1998 by Life in the Beerzone; a 1999 single, "Gazza Gazza," preceded the release of the group's first full-length effort, They Came, They Saw, They Conquered.... [+] Read More
Artist: Todd Grant
Armed with only his acoustical guitar, "two bottles of liquor, (a) stormy weekend of Valentine's Day...and no ideas," singer/songwriter Todd Grant wrote a handful of gentle songs with a thick layer of melancholy. Added with a reflection of Lou Reed and Julian Cope, -ismist Records released Grant's one and only album, Strangled Soul, in the... [+] Read More
Artist: The Music Machine
Most famous for "Talk Talk," a Top 20 single from 1966 that was one of the most manic '60s garage-punk hits, the Music Machine had much more depth and songwriting talent than the typical one-hit wonders of the day. Lead singer and songwriter Sean Bonniwell's strangled lyrics and dark, verbose vision paced the group's wiry psychedelic guitar... [+] Read More
Artist: CAINAM
Falk Wussow works as a digital media designer in Germany. Besides his work for advertising agencies, it's a life-task for him to produce trance music in all varieties.His career started in the age of 6 years: He attended a music school for playing violin, cello and piano. After nine years, he quit the music school in 1995. He wanted to use his... [+] Read More
Artist: Peccatum
Peccatum is a Norwegian post-black metal project formed in 1998 by Emperor leader Ihsahn (real name: Vegard Tveitan) and his wife, Star of Ash's Ihriel (Heidi Tveitan), along with her brother, Lord PZ (Pål Solberg). Seeking to push beyond the stylistic restrictions of black metal, the trio of classically trained vocalists (Ihsahn also handling... [+] Read More
Artist: Keiji Haino
When attempting to describe what Keiji Haino does to a guitar, the verb "play" seems terribly insufficient. Mauling might be a more appropriate choice, maybe even destroying. Whatever, whether it is as a solo performer or leading his tremendous trio Fushitsusha, Haino has been leading the loud, free form, noise-loaded, jazz/rock guitar movement... [+] Read More
Artist: Chicago Underground Trio
The mercurial and improvisatory Chicago Underground debuted as the Chicago Underground Orchestra in February of 1998 with Playground. Though the term orchestra is usually reserved for ensembles with ten or more musicians, the Chicago Underground Orchestra were actually a quintet (Rob Mazurek, Jeff Parker, Chris Lopes, Sarah P. Smith, and Chad... [+] Read More
Artist: Hunters & Collectors
Ending up with the intensity and passion of a U2, Hunters And Collectors carved a unique path and place for themselves in Australian rock culture. The group was originally formed in post-punk 1981 in Melbourne as a collective rather than a band, an excursion into funk-rock rhythms and industrial Krautrock. They named themselves after a song by... [+] Read More
Artist: Gene
Gene will forever be haunted by comparisons to the Smiths, especially since lead singer Martin Rossiter favors the same strangled croon and tortured loneliness of Morrissey. Nevertheless, under the direction of guitarist Steve Mason, Gene developed a tougher sound than the Smiths, drawing not only from the fey tradition of British indie-pop, but... [+] Read More
Artist: Tom Verlaine
Famed for his trailblazing work as the singer and guitarist for the seminal New York punk band Television, Tom Verlaine also carved out an acclaimed and eclectic solo career. Born Thomas Miller in Wilmington, DE, in 1949, Verlaine (who borrowed his name from the French symbolist poet) was trained as a classical pianist, but gravitated toward... [+] Read More
Artist: The Maladies
Michael Parente - bassJoe Spencer – drumsErik Gillberg – guitar and vocalsPatrick Adams - guitar and vocalsHistory:History is cool. It has stories about things that happened before today. Some of those stories have sword-fighting.Influences:The Maladies have been influenced most by older diseases like Smallpox and the Black Plague.... [+] Read More
Artist: Mia Zapata
The Seattle rock scene of the late '80s/early '90s is strewn with musicians whose promising careers were cut short. But one of the most tragic stories was that of Gits leader Mia Zapata, who was murdered just as her band seemed to be receiving the attention it deserved. Zapata was born on August 25, 1965, and grew up in Louisville, KY, where she... [+] Read More
Artist: The Primitives
In the mid-1960s, Lou Reed took a job as a staff songwriter and studio musician at Pickwick, the budget/exploitation label in New York. His most fully realized effort from this period, though hardly a notable artistic accomplishment, was the 1964 single "The Ostrich"/"Sneaky Pete." Pretty outrageous by standards of the time, "The Ostrich" was... [+] Read More
Artist: Sarah Vaughan
Possessor of one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century, Sarah Vaughan ranked with Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday in the very top echelon of female jazz singers. She often gave the impression that with her wide range, perfectly controlled vibrato, and wide expressive abilities, she could do anything she wanted with her voice.... [+] Read More
