This British funk group started as Hott Waxx in the first ’70s before becoming Hi-Tension. Business lead vocalist, principal songwriter, and keyboardist David Joseph, bassist Ken Joseph, guitarist Paul Phillips, percussionist Jeff Guishard, saxophonist Paul McLean, drummers David Reid and Paapa Mensah, trumpeter Man Barker, trombonist Peter Thomas, and saxophonists …

Scottish singer/songwriter Al Stewart continues to be a wonderfully prolific and effective musician across 50 years, employed in a dizzying selection of stylistic settings and musical genres — quite simply, he’s had a genuine career, and did it without concerning himself an excessive amount of about trends and the general …

While Bob Gibson’s recordings might appear to be run-of-the-mill folk to contemporary listeners, he played a significant part in popularizing folk music to American viewers in the 1950s at the start of the folk growth. His 12-string acoustic guitar style affected performers like Gordon Lightfoot and Harry Chapin; he was …

THE TRUNK Porch Bulk was one of the large folk music ensembles which were popular through the first half of the ’60s. Combined with the Serendipity Performers, they were regarded as competitors and imitators of the brand new Christy Minstrels, however they got a closer romantic relationship towards the second …

Although she under no circumstances reached the commercial heights of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, Mandy Moore became one of the most resilient members from the past due-’90s teen pop explosion. Producing her studio room debut at age 15, Moore primarily modeled her music after her teenaged contemporaries, a method …

Purely Ballroom was founded in past due 1994 by way of a couple of former KXLU DJs — guitarist/singer Chris Gunst, second guitarist Paul Larson, bassist Jimmy Tamborello, drummer Ian MacKinnon, and keyboardist/percussionist Jimmy Hay. The band’s audio was referred to as “Enocore” from the press and followers at that …

Four years before Paul Simon and Artwork Garfunkel (who have already been “Paul and Artie” regardless) brought their folk-based vocalizing to Columbia Records, the label was host to a fairly different duo using the same given names: Artwork & Paul. Artwork Podell and Paul Potash had been young denizens from …

Manufacturer and promoter Harold Leventhal was the star-maker who all galvanized the U.S. folk revival of the first 1960s, especially presenting a Bob Dylan in his initial major concert-hall functionality. Delivered May 24, 1919 in Ellenville, NY, Leventhal grew up in NY City’s Decrease East Aspect. He started his music …

Dutch EDM producer Fedde Le Grand (given birth to in Utrecht in 1977) is most beneficial known for striking the top from the U.K. graphs using the 2006 one “Put THE HANDS Up for Detroit.” A DJ since his teenage years, Le Grand can be known for his creation and …

The Mumps were probably one of the most obscure, but distinctive, NY bands from the past due ’70s, performing an absurdly theatrical fusion of pop, punk, and glam rock and roll. Led by vocalist Lance Loud, the group’s music was an affectionate satire of ’70s kitsch tradition, predating the comparable …