Mostly of the ska-revival rings to emerge from Tx, the Houston-based octet the Suspects was formed in 1993. Made up of vocalist Thomas Escalante, guitarists Alan Hernandez and Expenses Grady, bassist Charlie Esparza, keyboardist Joe Cote, trombonist Hunter Close, saxophonist Chuy Terrazas and drummer Claudio DePujadas, the Suspects released their …

Through the late-’90s golden era of No Limit Reports, Perfect Suspects released only 1 album of their have, Guilty Til Proved Innocent (1998), yet added heavily to people of their colleagues: Excel at P’s Ghetto D (1997), C-Murder’s Life or Death (1998), and Soulja Slim’s Provide It 2 ‘Em Raw …

Born from the bustling indie rock-centric borough of Brooklyn, NY, Cape Cod-bred rockers Highly Think formed in ’09 2009 across the skills of Johnny Stevens (acoustic guitar, vocals, synths) and twin siblings Ryan (drums, vocals) and Affluent (bass, vocals) Meyer. A muscular, hard-hitting power trio in the vein of Queens …

Inspired by the most common grindcore suspects (Napalm Loss of life, Carcass, Exhumed, et al.), Denver, CO’s evocatively called Catheter created in 1997, and offers since released over twelve break up LPs and 7″s with like-minded functions such as Dark Marketplace Fetus, Fukrot, and F.U.B.A.R. They’ve also toured thoroughly, and …

By the past due ’90s, TV talk/variety displays had become increasingly stale (with MTV’s nonmusic video development about as fresh and exciting like a saltine cracker overlooked in the desert). And there is Tom Green, who exploded within the scene having a display that was irreverent, confrontational, and amusing — …

The Ivory Coast’s premier music export from the 1970s, Ernesto Djédjé is widely credited as the creator of his homeland’s first truly distinctive nationwide music, fusing international sounds and styles using the rhumba rhythms from the Congo to introduce what’s now referred to as ziglibithy. Given birth to in 1948 …

Stephen Thomas Erlewine — otherwise referred to as Tom Erlewine — continues to be in any way Music Information since its inception in 1991. Erlewine went to college in the University or college of Michigan, where he majored in British. While he was students, he worked in the college student …

In the first ’80s, the punk movement lived its second life, which was also true in France, where an early on and intense first wave had didn’t garner attention. Several bands, the majority of which survived for a long period, produced this second motion really interesting, and Bérurier Noir continues …

The Ballroom just issued a unitary during their short existence, as well as that 1967 45 may have never managed to get in to the shops. They’ve achieved a reasonable degree of acknowledgement, however, because of the cult pursuing that arose many years later on round the group’s innovator, songwriter/performer/arranger/maker …

Torture, from Un Paso, TX, was formed in 1986 by senior high school buddies Tom Hicks (electric guitar, vocals), Jerry Norland (drums, vocals), Deric Gunter (bass), and J.D. Robins (acoustic guitar) — most of whom distributed a enthusiasm for the Western thrash of Kreator and early Celtic Frost, aswell as …