Of two jazz organizations using the name Contraband, this is the first ever to be smuggled onto the jazz picture. Another Contraband became mixed up in late ’80s, centered from the Netherlands properly enough. At that time, the initial Contraband was the same as a clear stash container, having released …

California-based roots rock-band Dawes were shaped in the LA suburb of North Hillsides by brothers Taylor Goldsmith and Griffin Goldsmith (lead vocals/guitar and drums, respectively), Wylie Gelber (bass), and Alex Casnoff (guitar). These were previously in the music group Simon Dawes, but after guitarist Blake Mills still left the group, …

Focused in Chicago and using a name motivated by director Bela Tarr’s 2000 film, Wrekmeister Harmonies was founded by sound artist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer J.R. Robinson, who continues to be its only continuous member. Robinson is normally a audio installationist known for his ambient functions in spaces like the Andy …

Just a Pete Frame family tree may do justice towards the complicated history of Earl Preston AS WELL AS THE TTs, which is entwined with therefore a great many other Merseybeat groupings. In 1961 the group acquired emerge from the ashes of Faron AS WELL AS THE Tempest Tornadoes. Joey …

Rocky O’Reilly (guitar, keyboards, vocoder) and Shaun Robinson (vocals, drums) will be the quirky digital pop duo Oppenheimer. Produced in 2004, the Irish duo produced a significant splash in Britain in 2005 when BBC Radio 1 DJ David Holmes championed their melody “Breakfast time in NYC.” Following that, Oppenheimer continued …

Among jazz’s great unsung saxophonists, Harold Vick could be put into a category with famous brands Booker Ervin, David “Fathead” Newman, Wilton Felder, and Adam Clay — hard-toned, aggressive, funky tenorists who have placed an focus on the blues even while they embodied state-of-the-art bop-derived modernism. Although he led fairly …

North California-based reggae group Groundation were shaped by guitarist/singer/lyricist Harrison Stafford, keyboardist Marcus Urani, and bassist Ryan Newman in 1998. All of those other band personnel offers fluctuated. By 2009, it included a horn section comprising David “Diesel” Chachere (trumpet), Kelsey Howard (trombone), and Dr. Jason Robinson (saxophone), aswell as …

Among Britain’s most promising spirit vocalist/songwriters, Nate Wayne is also possibly the most independently spirited. Created on the U.S. Atmosphere Force foundation in Lakenheath in 1979, Wayne grew up hearing his parents’ spirit music collection, especially Marvin Gaye and Stevie Question, and from an early on age began carrying out …

As the first choice from the seminal pub rockers Brinsley Schwarz, a manufacturer, and a solo artist, Nick Lowe held considerable influence within the development of punk rock and roll. Using the Brinsleys, Lowe started a back-to-basics motion that flowered into punk rock and roll in the past due ’70s. …

No musician in the annals of nation music has already established a far more stylistically diverse profession than Marty Robbins. Hardly ever content to stay just a nation vocalist, Robbins performed effectively in a amazing array of designs during a lot more than 30 years available. To his credit, Robbins …