The “5” Royales were a comparatively unheralded, but significant, link between early R&B and early soul within their mix of doo wop, jump blues, and gospel styles. Their industrial success was fairly modest — that they had seven TOP R&B strikes in the 1950s, most documented in the period of …

Forming in the tiny German city of Krefeld, Blind Guardian perfected a fusion of gothic- and fantasy-tinged European power steel with the speed and techie precision of rate metal. People Hansi Kürsch (vocals, bass), Marcus Siepen (electric guitar), André Olbrich (electric guitar), and Thomen Stauch (drums) primarily known as themselves …

Aside from adopting the ever-popular corpse-paint make-up look, Sweden’s Bewitched dollars all of the usual styles of Scandinavian metallic, preventing the prevalent loss of life, black, and Viking strains to accept a retro design of thrash metallic which was popular in the first to mid-’80s. Actually, some may label the …

Nicaragua’s Spirit Vibrations provide ample evidence that non-Jamaican music artists can handle setting out reggae that’s seeing that straight-ahead and rootsy seeing that that of their isle cousins. Philip Montalvan and Raymond Myers, both of African-Caribbean descent and hail from Nicaragua’s Atlantic coastline — which unlike the Pacific aspect, once …

NY trumpeter Steven Bernstein was music director of John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, co-leader from the trio Spanish Take a flight, and served as arranger and leader from the Kansas Town Band (in the Robert Altman film and Verve All-Stars Tour). Bernstein after that started leading his very own groupings and …

THE BRAND NEW Orleans group the Soul Rebels, which combines components of hip-hop with a normal brass band sound, was formed by former drum majors in the marching bands of Southern, Grambling, and Texas Southern School. Lumar LeBlanc (snare drum), Derrick Moss (bass drum), and Damion Francois (tuba) initial played …

Post-bop alto saxophonist Sherman Irby was created and elevated in Tuscaloosa, AL; inspired by his family members to understand music, he originally thought we would play the viola, shifting to some instruments including electric guitar and piano before finally buying the sax as a teenager, soon getting infatuated with jazz. …

b. c. 1975, Britain. Beginning on drums in early child years, Miller performed in music group formed by family and in addition was noticed in chapel. He studied in the Guildhall College of Music and Episode, even though still in his teenagers was a finalist within the BBC’s Youthful Musician …

Sister Like were formed in south London, Britain, by Coral Williams and her companion, Sandra Williams. Both young ladies enrolled Marcia Henry and contacted a collective referred to as Firm X. They organized an effective audition with Greensleeves Information, who have been branching out into fans rock and roll. The …

Among the first & most successful woman songwriters of the first rock & move period, Sharon Sheeley initial earned see for penning Ricky Nelson’s 1958 chart-topping vintage “Poor Small Fool.” A 12 months afterwards, ex-boyfriend Phil Everly presented her to fellow rocker Eddie Cochran, with whom she co-wrote the oft-covered …