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 …

The nickname “Crazy Costs” hints that Bill Jones may be trying to create the feeling, to stick out in the throngs or at least be distinctive among the rest of the musicians named Costs Jones. Forceful, punchy trumpet playing is normally his skill and he normally can be an asset …

“Richard Jones is a crazy man,” stated theater composer Stephen Sondheim inside a conversation of different stage directors. He continuing: “…The set was an area with seven doorways as well as the woods around the wallpaper. In the next act, he utilized a giant vision and finger for the large. …

Of all Australian rock sets of the ’60s, there’s non-e that lives on as brightly in the remembrances of these who found them or heard them as the FAMILY MEMBERS. That they had “it,” that unquantifiable quality that transcends the styles of your day, that “something” that’s greater than a …

The Maytones were actually the duo of business lead singer Vern Buckley and backing vocalist Gladstone “Son” Offer. The pair had been neighbors in-may Pencil, a rural marketplace town, a history that deeply inspired their vocal design. Buckley transferred to Kingston initial and eventually started support Trevor Lloyd, who appears …

Originally referred to as “the Annoying Thing,” the helium-voiced, bluish-gray, anatomically correct CGI lump Crazy Frog became a pop culture epidemic in Europe and specifically the U.K., with ringtones, Television commercials, pop tracks, and other styles of (over)publicity. Though Crazy Frog mania started its momentum in 2004, the character’s creation …

The Ribitones, from Brooklyn, NY, USA, were formed in 1978 by Freddy ‘Frogs’ Toscano, a veteran of Fourth Dimensions, an offbeat vocal pop group who had recorded for Columbia Information within the 60s. Then joined up with many jazz and fusion rings within the intervening years, however the Ribitones was …

Though their name might cause you to think that Lonestar were formed in Texas, the quintet actually comes from Tennessee. Originally known as Texassee, the music group features Richie McDonald (business lead vocals, electric guitar), John Affluent (business lead vocals, bass), Michael Britt (business lead guitar, history vocals), Dean Sams …

Presumably taking their name from the very first two songs about Talking Heads’ Naked and jokingly known as the Jethro Tull of shoegazing for his or her frequent usage of flute, Blind Mr. Jones shaped in the first ’90s in Marlow, Britain, quickly becoming seen as a youthful band to …

Easily probably the most cynical from the D.C. Dischord rings, Wise Went Crazy combine the Psychedelic Furs-like ironic and honest portraits of the surrounding picture with well-orchestrated, edgy punk within the vein of Shudder to believe. The band began as a studio room task with Chad Clark (vox, electric guitar, …