With an initial album released in 1973, Octobre (the name originates from the bout of terrorism Quebec lived through in October 1970) preceded with a couple of months the arrival of Beau Dommage and Harmonium over the Quebec music scene, becoming among the first francophone sets of the province (with …

Big Manager Sausage started like a novelty act with comedic intentions, but progressed into a formidable music group, whose music ran the gamut from hard rock and roll and blues to funny, tear-jerking nation ballads. Big Manager Sausage, previously Serf Cowboy Answer, pursued independent methods to communicate its music. Sausage …

The Cacique de Ramos is a still-active bloco carnavalesco. Situated in the confluence of Ramos and Olaria, working-class neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro in the north part, the rehearsals are in a soccer courtroom. Near the region referred to as Leopoldina, because of the homonymous railroad train station which serves …

The sounds of bluegrass and acoustic country music have already been taken to Eastern Europe by Czechoslovakia-based band, Poutnici. Led by acoustic bass participant and vocalist Jiri Pola, who became a member of the music group in 1981, the group proceeds to mix initial music with Czech translations of tunes …

The remarkably eclectic world pop band Ulele may be the brainchild of Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist Winston Damon, whose wide-ranging music talents were previously employed by the favorite Celt-rock group the Drovers. Damon was mainly a drummer and percussionist for the Drovers, but Ulele offered him an opportunity to demonstrate the entire …

Wojczech is a grindcore music group located in Rostock, Germany, which includes been active in a single type or another since 1995, and started peppering the underground grind picture with regular break up CDs and 7″ vinyl fabric singles in the turn from the 21st hundred years. 2002 saw the …

Though Les Rallizes Denudes, also called Hadaka zero Rallizes, were among the earliest & most innovative Japanese psychedelic rock bands, and also have existed on / off through 4 decades, also, they are probably one of the most obscure, barely known actually in their indigenous country. This cult of sound …

Longview, Texas garage area combo the Only Types was formed in mid-1965 by vocalist/bassist Jim Axberg, his sibling drummer John, and guitarists Steve Thornton and Randy Clendenen. Previously dubbed “the Proportions,” the group performed only a small number of gigs before Clendenen exited to create the Noticed, famed because of …

Austin, TX, psych clothing the Lavender Hill Express formed in 1966 — something of an area supergroup, the founding lineup teamed ex – Baby Cakes guitarists Layton DePenning and Leonard Arnold with erstwhile Hairpiece bassist Jess Yaryan and drummer Rusty Wier, along with keyboardist John Schwertner, formerly of why. Roughly …

Kitschy singing and dancing duo Joelma Mendes and Chimbinha shaped Banda Calypso in 1999 in Belém in Pará. Focusing on a multi-colored fusion of northeastern Brazilian rhythms and Caribbean melody, the award-winning Banda Calypso possess marketed over five million information and Dvd videos since their inception. The duo’s most recent, …