New Zealand-born singer/musician/producer Willy Moon boasted a unique sound and appearance, mixing components of ’50s rock and modern hip-hop in his music and a retro, dressed-to-the-nines closet. Moon was created in Wellington, New Zealand; when he was 12, his mom died from tumor and his dad had to go to …

The project of Damon Albarn, Tony Allen, and Flea, Rocket Juice & the Moon began when the three musicians met on the plane in 2008 if they were likely to Lagos to utilize Albarn’s Africa Express collective. Recognizing how much each of them had in keeping, the three music artists …

Created in 2008, Poor Moon started like a long-distance collaboration between Fleet Foxes/Crystal Skulls players Christian Wargo and Casey Wescott and brothers Ian and Peter Murray from Bay Region band the Xmas Cards. Following preliminary songwriting periods, the band performed several displays at Seattle region house parties, often using different …

LA (via Virginia Seaside) chillwave music group Mansions around the Moon was formed by Ben Hazlegrove (keyboards), Jeff Maccora (bass), Street Shaw (drums), and Ted Wendler (acoustic guitar, vocals). Hazlegrove and Shaw had been previously in the jazz-funk/fusion-inspired digital take action Pnuma Trio. The music group debuted this year 2010 …

Moonface began this year 2010 like a single task of already-incredibly-busy Montreal, Canada multi-instrumentalist Spencer Krug. Krug was at that time perhaps most widely known as the pianist, vocalist, and an initial songwriter for indie rings Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown, but he in addition has logged period with Frog …

Moon Pool & Deceased Band can be an experimental techno duo comprising two veterans of Detroit’s indie rock and roll and experimental music moments, Nate Teen (Wolf Eye) and Dave Shettler (the Places, Koufax). Their gritty analog synth explorations are straight inspired with the enhancements of their city’s techno picture, …

The one-man project of Luis Vasquez, the Soft Moon provides darkly hypnotic sounds of Suicide, Joy Department, Bauhaus, and Krautrock new lease of life using a stripped-down, lo-fi approach. Vasquez can be motivated by his Afro-Cuban traditions as well as the wide-open areas from the Mojave Desert where he grew …

A task of Wooden Shjips’ Erik “Ripley” Johnson and Sanae Yamada, San Francisco’s Moon Duo certainly are a psychedelic Krautrock music group with chilly digital underpinnings and drones motivated by Spacemen 3, Sterling silver Apples, and Suicide. The group shaped in ’09 2009 and started issuing releases promptly, including the …

b. 30 July 1875, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, Britain, d. 5 Feb 1922, London, Britain. Tate and his half-sister Margaret wished for traditional music professions; she became popular as opera vocalist Maggie Teyte. Tate considered songwriting, becoming extremely effective. He staged several musical displays and was orchestral conductor for most. Early in …

Swedish mezzo-soprano Kerstin Meyer enjoyed a complete and satisfying career through great intelligence and using a tone of voice of great, if nearly first-rate, quality. Her device, not large but relatively dark in coloration, was occasionally betrayed by an unequal and pronounced vibrato. However her stage existence was riveting more …