Through the ’70s, the notoriously decadent Dragon was among the largest rock rings in New Zealand, getting sustained success around the Australian circuit. Dragon’s background starts with brothers Todd and Marc Hunter, natives from the North Isle city of Taumarunui; from child years on, the siblings performed expertly within their …

Elijah’s Mantle may be the productive alter ego of London-based multi-instrumentalist and composer Tag Ellis, frequently in cooperation with Brendan Perry of Deceased May Dance, with whom Ellis sometimes appears privately. Elijah’s Mantle is really a project of nearly obsessive specificity of theme, a style which can just be described …

The career from the noisy guitar unit Eleventh Dream Day — probably one of the most resilient and criminally underappreciated bands to go up from your Midwestern underground community — was a textbook study in alt-rock endurance; despite a nightmarish major-label tenure, ill-timed roster adjustments, and industrial indifference, the group …

b. 30 Sept 1942, Washington Heights, NY, USA, d. 28 Feb 1968, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Frequently billed because the ‘guy question’, Lymon initial got into the music business after teaming up with an area all-vocal quartet, the Premiers. The second option comprised Jimmy Vendor (b. 10 Feb 1940, NY, …

Despite having the official discography that clocked in at significantly less than 40 a few minutes, New Jersey’s Individual Remains became heavily influential in the even more experimental edges from the grindcore and loss of life metal scenes, and a essential influence in the so-called noisecore picture that developed in …

This artist, who literally decreased dead while on tour with Cab Calloway, left out a catalog of songs with hysterical titles and a pile of recordings with Calloway and Jelly Roll Morton. It had been Edwin Swayzee, frequently coronated using the nickname of “Ruler,” who decided that “Father’s Got His …

Though various other performers sold even more records and received better fame, few had as deep a direct effect on contemporary music as Emmylou Harris. Blessed using a crystalline tone of voice, a remarkable present for phrasing, along with a restless innovative spirit, she journeyed a singular creative path, proudly …

After forming in 1993, Stockholm, Sweden’s Encounter Down attemptedto trip Pantera and Machine Head’s groove-metal gravy train (and just why not really?) with a set of amazing (however, not amazing enough) middle-’90s albums: 1995’s Mindfield and 1997’s The Twisted Guideline the Wicked. Yet the band may today be best appreciated …

Unquestionably probably the most influential guitarist to emerge from the later-’70s/early-’80s U.S. hardcore/punk motion was Dark Flag’s Greg Ginn. Under no circumstances afraid to include other musical designs into his playing (specifically jazz fusion and Dark Sabbathy rock), in addition to squealing responses from his amplifier, Ginn’s electric guitar also …

Called in tribute towards the notorious serial killer, Ed Gein’s Car had been the spirited wiseasses of NY City’s mid-1980s hardcore punk scene. The group’s roots dated to 1982, when bassist Tim Carroll and guitarist Eric Hedin created the Deadhead Assassins while going to university in New Paltz, NY; within …