A multi-instrumentalist, record maker, music instructor, and ethnomusicologist, Kelly Russell has helped to create the music of Newfoundland towards the international stage. A founding person in Figgy Duff, Russell has truly gone to perform with the beautiful Grand Music group, an organization that mixed traditional folk music and humor, the …

Exceptional amateur sambista Paulo da Portela wrote sambas which were documented by among the better interpreters from the Fantastic Age of Song in Brazil. He was also the founder from the samba college of Portela, as well as Antônio Rufino, Benício dos Santos, Manuel Gonçalves, among others. Portela was an …

Though these were widely ignored by both press and public throughout their original early-’90s existence, Akron, OH’s Winter’s Bane achieved an urgent taste of cult fame a while after their demise, when their singer, Tim “Ripper” Owens, was chosen to displace Rob Halford in Judas Priest. Initial created in 1991 …

Greenhouse continues to be entertaining North California audiences using their eclectic mixture of traditional Celtic music and new, primary compositions that start using a web host of musical instruments from tin whistle to didgeridoo since 1991. Their debut record, Shelter Cove, premiered in 1995. Vocalist Patricia Casey and multi-instrumentalist Michael …

Merging the nostalgic affects from the Nomads, the Ramones, the Cynics, as well as the Sonics, the Locos brought in their pitch of snotty garage area punk to their house country of Sweden. Upon their stage debut in 1996, the cooperation of Diesel Eyes (electric guitar), Tommy (vocals/electric guitar), Nicklas …

In a job that would appear to dictate deference and reserve, John Wustman, widely hailed as the primary keyboard accompanist of his generation, has achieved an even of success rarely achieved by piano soloists. The set of main performers he’s followed in recital is nearly unlimited: Luciano Pavarotti, Renata Scotto, …

Gottlieb Theophil Muffat was the child of a significant composer, Georg Muffat (1653-1704). Gottlieb became the main key pad composer in Vienna in the 1st half from the eighteenth hundred years. Gottlieb was created after his dad was appointed Kapellmeister to Johann Philipp of Lamberg, Bishop of Passau. It really …

Torture, from Un Paso, TX, was formed in 1986 by senior high school buddies Tom Hicks (electric guitar, vocals), Jerry Norland (drums, vocals), Deric Gunter (bass), and J.D. Robins (acoustic guitar) — most of whom distributed a enthusiasm for the Western thrash of Kreator and early Celtic Frost, aswell as …

Dean’s December just recorded one record, but their significance to Filipino rock and roll & move music transcends the number of their work. Produced in Manila, Philippines, on Nov. 5, 1985, Dean’s Dec quickly set up themselves within Manila’s burgeoning underground music picture. Head Binky Lampano (vocals) was a DJ …

The recording career of classic blues singer Bertha Idaho cannot possibly be set alongside the ample potato crop of her namesake state. Certainly, she cut just four tracks in 1928 and 1929 with music game titles that, if organized correctly, tell a tale right out of the film noir. Initial, …