Shaped in Rapid City, SD, in 2004, the elements Machines create late-’70s/early-’80s-infused force pop with an indie rock and roll sensibility. Built round the tunes and acoustic guitar playing of “engineer masquerading as musician” Jason Ward, and made up of drummer J. Waylon Miller, bass participant Ali DeMersseman, and guitarist …

As Mafia girl Meadow Soprano on HBO’s runaway smash The Sopranos, dark-haired beauty Jamie-Lynn Sigler makes man viewers’ eye pop. Bada-bing. Little, clean, and fresh-mouthed, her personality may be the Don’s darling. Because of a chance the series provided her to sing in a single event, she also embarked on …

The Royal Vacations, a Detroit-based group, began singing in 1955, and like many sets of the time, started on the road corners and in the parks. The group contains: Vernon Williams (1st tenor/lead), Chester Scott (also 1st tenor/lead), Kenneth Fuqua (second tenor/lead), Jerry Wallace (baritone), and Charles Farley (bass). Having …

b. 24 July 1907, Manchester, Britain, d. 6 Oct 1995, Eastbourne, Sussex, Britain. A songwriter and theater manufacturer, Hughie Charles and his early collaborator Ross Parker, had been in charge of two of the very most fondly remembered well-known anthems of Globe Battle II – ‘There’ll CONTINUALLY BE An Britain’ …

Among the many very great jazz performers living, functioning and teaching in the brand new England region, Dianne Mower never really had a jazz at heart when she started performing professionally in 1973 in age 20. She considered jazz when an impresario in Hartford, CT wished to type a Lambert, …

Having uncovered dance music and DJing on the tail end of the initial disco era in 1979, Detroit local Mike Clark submerged himself in the early-’80s post-disco era and continuing developing his DJing skills through the entire ’80s and ’90s and in to the early 2000s among the Engine City’s …

Both independently and in tandem with longtime collaborator Stanley Mouse, artist Alton Kelley created a few of the most special and enduring images in rock and roll music, his advanced yet irreverent collages adorning countless album covers and concert posters. A indigenous of Houlton, Me personally, he studied commercial style …

A preacher’s child from Tennessee, Julia Rich’s street to learning to be a jazz vocalist is a winding one. Graduating from employment as a performing waitress in 1980, she began performing gigs in night clubs in Chattanooga. During this time period she caused bass participant Eddie Edwards and Stanley Turrentine …

Folk-pop music group the Ginger Envelope had been shaped by Patrick Carey and pedal steel participant Matt Stoessel (who spent some time working with Southern San Gabriel, Summer Hymns, Dark Meat, and Don Chambers & GOAT) in Athens, GA, in 2003. Through the following year, they extended the group right …

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” …