After a long time being a sideman to singers like Betty Everett, Donny Hathaway, Gene “Duke of Earl” Chandler, Brook Benton, and several other prominent classic R&B singers, guitarist and singer/songwriter D.C. Bellamy released his debut record for the Rooster Blues label, Drinking water to Wines, with America’s Many Wanted, …

As the word goes, most are called but just a few are chosen, which certainly pertains to Bang’s disappointing career in the picture as a whole of early-’70s hard rock and roll and rock. Quickly hyped as best contenders fighting for picture supremacy, as soon as praised as America’s response …

Merging the melodic jangle of post-Smiths indie guitar pop using the lilting, trance-inducing sonic textures of late-’80s fantasy pop and adding hook Celtic tint, the Cranberries became one of the most successful teams to emerge through the pre-Brit-pop U.K. indie picture of the first ’90s. Led by vocalist Dolores O’Riordan, …

Swedish composer, accordionist, and keyboardist Lars Hollmer was a very much much loved artist who escaped the notice of several during his lifetime but who nevertheless handled listeners around the world from Europe to Asia to THE UNITED STATES. Provided his longstanding account in the quirky Samla Mammas Manna, he …

Creme D’Cocoa emerged through the height from the disco era, from 1978 to 1982, and lasted lengthy enough release a two albums and seven singles on Project Information. The lineup contains three previous Ambassadors, Herley Johnson, Orlando Oliphant, and Bobby Todd, plus an ex-Ebony (“It’s Forever”) Jennifer Holmes. The Ebonys …

La Monte Young’s place close to the center from the 1960s NY artwork community — a group that included such symbols as Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol, starkly contrasts along with his rustic origins. Young was created on Oct 14, 1935, in a little vacation cabin in Bern, Identification. His …

The J. Geils Music group had been probably one of the most well-known touring rock and roll & roll rings in America through the ’70s. Where their contemporaries had been influenced from the weighty boogie of English blues-rock as well as the ear-splitting sonic activities of psychedelia, the J. Geils …

The Koobas were among the better failed rock rings in England through the mid-’60s. Their peers, being among the most talented band of the early United kingdom beat boom to never make it, included the Roulettes, the Chants, as well as the Cheynes. Favorites from the press and well-known for …

The Males were perhaps punk’s saddest casualty. They could — certainly, should — have already been tremendous. Certainly these were among the finest live functions around, but nonetheless these were to languish in comparative obscurity, with actually their Continental achievement seemingly operating against them. A whole lot worse, when their …

An British hard rock institution whose influence about heavy metal can’t be overstated, Dark Sabbath not merely pioneered the genre, they helped release the career of 1 of its most colourful and questionable characters in Ozzy Osbourne. The music group distilled the smoke cigarettes and strife of its commercial hometown …