Mixing up the heartfelt angst of the singer/songwriter using the cocky brashness of the garage area rocker, Ryan Adams reaches once mostly of the artists to emerge in the alt-country scene to attain mainstream commercial success and the main one who most strongly refused to become defined with the genre, …

As a guitarist developing up in the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Region, Charlie Hunter wanted ways to stick out in the ’80s. His major influences had been jazz great Joe Move and the liquid Tuck Andress (from the electric guitar/vocal duo Tuck & Patti), both six-string guitarists who had …

Blessed in 1970 in Berne, Switzerland, Swiss/Dutch jazz vocalist Susanne Abbuehl demonstrated a pastime in music at an extremely early age, composing music and composing lyrics as a little child, in addition to learning harpsichord. She transferred to LA in 1987 to review tone of voice and spent period touring …

Five friends — all involved with separate, outside tasks — wished to play music together. Simply, this desire is exactly what led to the forming of the tiny Willies in 2003. Made up of Lee Alexander (bass), Norah Jones (piano/vocals), Richard Julian (acoustic guitar/vocals), Dan Rieser (drums), and Jim Campilongo …

Blessed in Waitsfield, Vermont, Sophistication Potter was raised in a family group that inspired her artistic pursuits in areas from music to movie theater, the latter which she was their studies at St. Lawrence School when drummer Matt Burr noticed her performing at an open-mike evening in 2002 and asked …

Daniele Luppi is really a well-known film composer, in addition to an arranger and maker of dance and pop music, and it is a recording designer in his personal right. Given birth to and elevated in Rome, Luppi was classically qualified on piano and in addition learned to try out …

Brian Burton, the person better referred to as designer/producer Risk Mouse, was created to some schoolteacher father along with a sociable worker mom in White colored Plains, NY, but spent a lot of his years as a child upstate in Springtime Valley. When he was 13, his family members moved …

Steeped within the evocative, open-road Americana of rings like Gin Blossoms and Whiskeytown, NY City-based alt-rockers the Candles produced in ’09 2009 around frontman Josh Lattanzi. A experienced vocalist/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with an extended réamounté of collaborations under his belt, including Albert Hammond, Jr., the Lemonheads, and Ben Kweller, Lattanzi …

In 2006, after 6 years within the building, singer/producer Mike Patton (Trust FORGET ABOUT, Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk, Fantômas) added Peeping Tom to his amazing list of completed projects. Influenced by movie director Michael Powell’s 1960 cult thriller of the same name, Patton spent years sending songs to potential collaborators as …

Dubbed “the classical Spice Girls” within the web pages of Britain’s Guardian Unlimited, teenage vocal quartet All Angels surfaced in 2006 using the fastest-selling classical debut in U.K. graph background. All Angels had been the brainchild of manufacturer/supervisor Steve Abbott, who previously have scored with traditional crossover works the Choirboys …