Perhaps one of the most pleasing pop sets of the alternative period, the Cardigans specialized in sugary confections that could grow annoying rapidly if indeed they weren’t backed by good musicianship and clever agreements. The band’s 1995 breakout record, Lifestyle, shown the Cardigans at their most saccharine — the sun-drenched …

Two hippies, the Canadian Dolly Holmes and Maik Hirschfeldt from Germany, met in London in 1970. Jointly they visited Berlin to execute within the musical Locks. Emtidi was founded as well as the duo began to play the underground night clubs of the town. Their repertoire contains traditional acoustic folk …

Strawberry NOISY ALARMS occupies a peculiar market in the annals of ’60s rock and roll. Their name is really as popular to anyone who resided through the past due-’60s psychedelic period as that of nearly every group you might care to say, mostly from its sheer, foolish trippiness being a …

Anna Sahlene is really a pop singer and celebrity from Sweden. Created in Söderhamn in 1976, she was simply 11 yrs . old when she 1st tasted popularity on the favorite children’s tv program THE KIDS of Bullerbyn. She later on shifted to Stockholm to go on a performing career, …

Toronto rapper Stomach (aka Abs) was the definition of old-skool as well as the antithesis of gangsta rap. Along with his even, easygoing, gently funny movement, mad freestyling abilities, and exclusive, loveable persona, he charmed listeners along with his offbeat stories of everyday activity. Created Andy Bernstein on Feb 7, …

Folksingers don’t usually produce best-selling albums, but Sweden’s Sofia Karlsson can be an exemption. Her breakthrough disk, Svarta Ballader (Dark Ballads), sold an astounding 60,000 copies — a large amount on her behalf homeland — and brought her the Swedish exact carbon copy of a Grammy. What managed to get …

Swedish-born jazz and pop vocalist Fredrika Stahl’s career got heading when she met producer Geef, which resulted in a gathering with pianist Tom McClung, who after that shaped a band around her and helped land her a major-label cope with the French arm of BMG, Vogue Information. Given birth to …

An excellent clarinetist with a stylish mellow tone, Albert Nicholas had an extended and diverse career but his taking part in was always regularly rewarding. He analyzed with Lorenzo Tio, Jr. in New Orleans, and used cornet legends Friend Petit, Ruler Oliver, and Manuel Perez during his teenagers. After 3 …

Nashville-by-way-of-Texas-based bluegrass quintet Cadillac Sky are led by singer/mandolin player/guitarist/violinist Bryan Simpson and show Matt Menefee (banjo, straight piano, drums, glockenspiel), David Mayfield (guitar, percussion), Ross Holmes (mandolin, Mellotron), and Andy “Panda” Moritz (piano, percussion, bass). The group authorized to the Skaggs Family members label and released its debut recording, …

Boasting a mixture of ’60s-designed psychedelic rock, free of charge jazz, Swedish folk, and instrumental atmosphere, Scandinavian collective Dungen may be the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Gustav Ejstes. Elevated in the tiny town of Lanna in Vastergotland, Sweden, Ejstes was weaned on local folk music and ’60s rock and roll at …