The very center of NORTH PARK emo-inflected post-hardcore outfit Pierce the Veil is based on two brothers, vocalist/guitarist Vic Fuentes and drummer Mike Fuentes. They initial started playing jointly as the music group Before Today while learners in senior high school. The two shaped the group in Dec of 1998, …

Chicago indiepop clothing analog radio was led by singer/bassist Dann Morr, who previously spent many years being a sideman backing Windy Town acts including Tom Daily and Crimson Superstar Belgrade. After recruiting vocalist/guitarist Brian Royer and drummer Mike Madzinski, Morr booked studio room time and energy to record a small …

The sound from the Go! Group, a six-piece group from Brighton, Britain, is a sensational mixture of indie rock and roll guitars, police display styles, hip-hop beats, and schoolyard chants constructed on examples and augmented by live instrumentation. The founder and innovator of the Group is usually Ian Parton, who …

Composer Rafael Escalona revolutionized his local Colombia’s vallenato folk custom, modernizing the music’s tough, accordion-based audio via the addition of vividly detailed narratives causing the rhythms and rigors of working-class lifestyle. Delivered Rafael Calixto Escalona Martínez within the Atlantic coastline city of Patillal on, may 27, 1927, he originally dreamed …

Probably one of the most popular performers from the ’40s and ’50s in Brazil, Dalva de Oliveira is known as a most expressive interpreter of Brazilian popular music. Her biggest strikes are “Olhos Verdes” (Vicente Paiva), “Ave Maria” (Vicente Paiva/Jaime Redondo), “Tudo Acabado” (J. Piedade/Oswaldo Martins), “Kalu” (Humberto Teixeira), “Fim …

Making use of their keyboard-driven Cumbias and airy pop sound, los Fugitivos dominated the onda grupera scene from the ’90s. Brothers Jaime and Edi Espinoza shaped the music group in 1985 as Grupo Kariño. However in 1991, using the addition vocalist/keyboardist Roberto Nieto, the music group became los Fugitivos. The …

A significant figure in Sweden’s rock history, guitarist/singer/composer Roine Stolt led two of his country’s most effective progressive rock bands: Kaipa in the 1970s as well as the Rose Kings in the 1990s onward. His distinct guitar style mixed David Gilmour’s debonair mid-tempo, Steve Howe’s sharpened sides, and Frank Zappa’s …

Like and Rockets comprised guitarist/vocalist Daniel Ash, bassist/vocalist David J, and drummer Kevin Haskins, all past members from the pioneering goth music group Bauhaus. Nevertheless, the group didn’t audio nearly the same as its 1st incarnation. Instead, Like and Rockets emphasized the strains of psychedelia and glam rock and roll …

Since it did with other far-flung areas across the world, American rock and roll & move and British beat music indeed were able to get its way across and over edges to Latin America in the 1960s (many South American countries had outstanding garage area scenes). Nevertheless, when it found …

Among the top songwriters from the rock and roll period, Robbie Robertson was created July 5, 1943 in Toronto, Ontario. The kid of the Jewish dad and Mohawk mom, Jaime Robbie Robertson’s initial clean with live music emerged on the Six Countries Booking, his mother’s girlhood house; at age five, …