Given birth to and raised in rural mid-Michigan, editor/article writer Jason Birchmeier moved to Ann Arbor in 1996 to review at the University or college of Michigan. He majored in advertising there and prepared on pursuing a profession running a business; he also volunteered like a journalist in the student-run …

She was created in NJ, however the mentality and music of Kate Bennett is shaped and molded with the top features of her adopted California house, the sea and mountains surrounding Santa Barbara. Immediately after arriving in the town through the 1970s, Bennett started performing locally in the vocalist/songwriter circuit. …

Known because of their volatile personalities, Seattle group Swallow came jointly in 1987. The group contains Fishing rod Moody (aka Fishing rod Ho) on electric guitar and vocals, Andy Scheen (aka Andy Springsheen) on bass, Chris Pugh on electric guitar, and Scott Schickler (aka Electric guitar) on drums. Right from …

Who’s Ernie? It’s Ernie of Bert & Ernie of PBS’ Sesame Road. The Muppet duo from the long-running, innovative educational children’s display was breakout personas, instantly favored by viewers. The tone of voice of Ernie was Muppets inventor Jim Henson, the tone of voice of Bert was his partner Frank …

For a part of 1966, Peter Van Gelder was bassist in the fantastic Society, the pioneering SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA psychedelic group most well-known for having a pre-Jefferson Airplane Grace Slick. Vehicle Gelder — whose name may also be spelled “Vandergelder,” actually in Great Culture guitarist Darby Slick’s autobiography — …

Featuring a couple of luminaries around the Southern indie rock and roll scene, the Rock and roll*A*Teens (never to become confused using the Rock-a-Teens, the Virginia-based strap who scored popular in 1959 with “Whoo-Hoo”) execute a swampy but emphatic mixture of indie rock and roll, rockabilly, garage rock and roll, …

Most Seattle rock and roll bands from the past due ’80s (Soundgarden, Nirvana, Mudhoney, etc.) had been considered a response against the then-prevailing glam steel scene that acquired MTV and radio in the hand of its hands. But there is at least one Emerald Town band that could’ve match the …

With very much influence through the ’60s garage rock and roll of 13th Ground Elevators, the raw, barroom indie rock and roll of 1986 is manufactured by Giorgio Angelini (vocals, guitar), Cully Symington (drums), and Drew Pennebaker (bass). Angelini, who was simply the drummer for indie pop music group the …

Referred to as an anti-folk songstress, Newcastle Upon Tyne’s Beth Denims Houghton mixes angelic vocals and classical guitar with samples, keyboards, and glam rock and roll elements to get a sound that’s more fantastical than right down to earth. Houghton started writing and executing while still in her teenagers, first …

Keyboardist/songwriter Dennis Richardson wrote Quick Funk’s seminal classics “Zero Stoppin’ That Rockin’,” “Everybody,” (co-wrote), “Slap Slap Lickedy Lap,” the skaters’ beloved “Gotta LIKE THIS” (co-wrote), and “It’s Your Like on My Brain.” For the band’s coach singer/songwriter/manufacturer Bunny Sigler, he co-wrote “Incidentally You Dance,” aswell as “I’ll Preserve You Warm” …