Champaign-Urbana-based trio the wonder Shop perform dark Americana dirges with wicked deadpan drawls. Vocalist/songwriter John Hoeffleur, bassist Ariane Peralta, and drummer Casey Smith perform acoustic rock and roll using a bleak twang on the national discharge Yr Cash or Yr Lifestyle, released in 2001.

Swedish indie pop quartet Crimson Sleeping Beauty was shaped in Stockholm in 1989 by singer Kristina Borg, singer/guitarist Niklas Angergård, guitarist Mikael Matsson from the Shermans, and bassist Carl Johan Näsström. The group debuted in early 1993 using the Marshmarigold EP Pop Noises, followed a calendar year later by initiatives …

The American 4 made one obscure single in 1964 for Selma, a subsidiary of Del-Fi, “Luci Baines”/”Soul Meals.” The group is mainly notable for offering Love head Arthur Lee as vocalist and songwriter, in addition to Appreciate guitarist Johnny Echols, before Appreciate had been produced. According to articles in Goldmine, …

Although chosen because of its deliberately nondescript characteristics, in retrospect the name American Music Membership was an ideal moniker for the lauded San Francisco-based music group led by singer/songwriter Tag Eitzel: during the period of nine acclaimed albums, the group tied jointly the disparate strands from the American music fabric …

Given birth to and raised in rural mid-Michigan, editor/article writer Jason Birchmeier moved to Ann Arbor in 1996 to review at the University or college of Michigan. He majored in advertising there and prepared on pursuing a profession running a business; he also volunteered like a journalist in the student-run …

My music biography begins seeing that kid when, about 15 years ago, I actually fell deeply in love with 3 factors: 1) The rock and roll/jazz/blues/etc. selection of Detroit Community Radio (101.9 FM) 2) The simple to sing along to Oldies on dusk-to-dawn Honey Radio (570 AM). 3) The WQRS …

Through the first weeks of 2007, no other contestant around the sixth time of year of American Idol produced as much press as Antonella Barba. Everything press wasn’t about her performing — she experienced a plain, enjoyable tone of voice — but rather about her appears, specifically how those appears …

For Deadheads of the open-earned persuasion (and susceptible to the greater feedback-drenched versions from the Grateful Dead’s epic “Dark Star”), Phil Lesh and Ned Lagin’s Seastones is something from the ultimate goal of Grateful Useless side tasks. Experimental music fans will find too much to like, too, though even more …

Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. is usually a contributor to Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange and in addition writes book evaluations for The Bloomsbury Review, Indie Publisher, and Foreword Publication. Ronnie lives along with his wife and five pet cats (Xena, Julian, Green Eye, Grey, and Small Dark) in Christiansburg, VA. …

I was created in 1970 in Santa Fe, NM, through the heart from the hippie motion there. After my parents split after i was small, my mom and I relocated out to the Shirt Shoreline. As I was raised, I really adored music of most kinds. I had been constantly …