Dance-popsters Clueless, led by vocalist Gina Pincosy, released a cover of Zero Doubt’s tragic ballad “Don’t Speak” while their debut solitary in early 1997.

Turkish guitar heroes were not as lucky as their colleagues overseas. Solo record offers have become hard to acquire, label managers are clueless plenty of to inform them what things to play, due to financial problems they can not find appropriate possibilities to record and side-projects are unavoidable. In that …

Similar to the obscure provenance from the name — Mox Nix — that they chose for themselves (produced from the American spelling of the German expression, “macht nichts,” meaning, “it creates simply no difference”), this rock quartet through the Houston, TX, suburb of Pasadena led a secret existence during its …

Significant amounts of the groundwork for the mid- to later-’90s explosion of ska and ska-metal was laid with the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, who had been among the first rings to combination high-energy ska with hardcore punk and rock and who also helped change its tone toward testosterone-filled party music. The …

By enough time these were introduced towards the West by 1985’s Thunder in the East album, Japan’s Loudness had arguably currently hit their maximum. Their previous work, Disillusion, was the 4th chart-topping release within their homeland, not forgetting a crucial triumph among people of the Western press. However when confronted …

Among the many organizations lumped (perhaps unfairly) in to the New Influx of British ROCK trend, London, England’s Xero were formed in 1979 by vocalist Moon Williams (already a single designer with some encounter on the neighborhood pub picture), guitarist Expenses Liesegang, bassist Benefit Gould, and drummer Barry Fitzgerald. Wanting …

Demetri Martin isn’t your normal standup comedian. Within the design of contemporaries like Eugene Mirman and Zach Galifianakis, Martin exercises the limitations of the proper execution into something resembling a kind of Borscht Belt overall performance art, as though Laurie Anderson’s main influences have been Steven Wright and Peter Retailers. …

Crazy Man Fischer was to singing what Jean Dubuffet was to painting and sculpture. When the French expert of Artwork Brut exposed a whole genre of manifestation for artists not really “legitimated” by culture, Larry Fischer was the archetype from the Performing Outsider. If one queries beyond the anecdotal gossip, …

Guitarist/vocalist Peter Astor and drummer Dave Morgan shaped the jangly Climate Prophets directly after their earlier music group, the Loft, break up in 1985. Astor have been preparing his defection through the Loft for quite a while and was stressed to start out anew with an increase of control. The …

Guitarist/vocalist Anna Waronker embarked about a solo profession when her music group, that doggie., disbanded in 1997. The band’s last recording, Retreat From sunlight, was initially made up as Anna’s 1st album, nonetheless it will be another five years until she’d try once again. The child of famed maker Lenny …