Leslie Feist — most widely known simply while Feist — was a respected person in the Canadian alternate music community before getting a global pop sensation using the success on her behalf albums ALLOW IT Die as well as the Reminder. Feist was created in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada on …

The Modesto, CA, five-piece Traveling Blind continues to be honing it’s snarling rock & roll style because the tail end from the ’90s, carving a name for themselves around their hometown. Made up of Scott Beck (drums), Keith Cole (acoustic guitar), Jeff Green (acoustic guitar), Andrew Franca ($bass), and Matt …

The folk pleasure that’s Lavender Gemstone originally found life in Parrot Songs from the Bauharoque, a punk operetta inspired by the task of American painter/architect Paul Laffoley. Vocalist Becky Stark had written and developed the piece with a pal while surviving in Providence, RI, and starred as Lavender herself, a …

Trumpeter Cuong Vu has gained considerable reputation through his live performances and session use a few of today’s best avant-garde jazz music artists, his membership within the Pat Metheny Group, and his command of the jazztronica trio/quartet also featuring bassist Stomu Takeishi alongside some of the most exciting drummers over …

When novices uncover the experimental music from the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, they’re surprised to discover that there is absolutely no one named Jacob Fred — the group’s name is intended to become clever and ironic. Novices also find out that this Tulsa, Oklahoma outfit’s mildly avant-garde mixture of jazz, …

Merging the eclecticism of Beck, the pop-based experimentation from the Flaming Lips, as well as the bushy undesired facial hair of Rip Van Winkle, Benji Hughes can be an eccentric singer/songwriter hailing from Charlotte, NC. A previous housepainter, Hughes became a member of the roster of New Western world Records …

b. Larry Paul McNeely, 3 January 1948, Lafayette, Indiana, USA. A talented multi-instrumentalist, right from the start of his teenage years McNeely discovered successively to try out piano, acoustic guitar, banjo and harmonica. He do therefore with such skill that in his mid-teens he was playing appropriately using the Pinnacle …

More spoken term than rap — even though impact of hip-hop is usually undeniable — Cottonmouth, Texas began attracting media interest in the past due ’90s following the industrial success of iconoclastic white rapper Beck. Led by Jeffrey “Chate” Liles (vocals), Cottonmouth, Tx has its origins inside a hip-hop group …

Blessed Jeff Ruff, Cody Bryant grew up in Whittier, CA. The kid of Bob Ruff, an associate from the Square Dance Hall of Popularity, Cody was raised throughout the music business since his dad also founded Wagon Steering wheel Information and Windsor Information, two California brands that not merely provided …

Produced in 1979 around songwriter Billy Vera (b. William McCord, 28 Might 1944, Riverside, California, USA; vocalist, guitarist), Billy AS WELL AS THE Beaters was an aggregation made up of Los Angeles studio room music artists. A 10-piece group, whose best-known member apart from Vera was Steely Dan / Doobie …