The Rods were among America’s unsung blue-collar rock bands from the 1980s — often in comparison to Britain’s Motörhead for their veteran three-piece lineup; their everyman, nearly punk-simple picture; and, obviously, their brash and intensely loud music, that was invariably performed on amplifiers established to 11! The music group achieved …

Ronald Stein was never a significant name in the fraternity of soundtrack composers in the way of Bernard Herrmann or Alfred Newman; certainly, Stein spent the majority of his profession writing ratings for films whose entire costs were scarcely bigger than the amount of money allocated simply for music of …

Salmonella Dub certainly are a long-running dub/root base reggae music group from New Zealand whose audio has incorporated components of rock and roll, hip-hop, drum’n’bass, classical, and traditional Pacific isle music designs. The group provides released many acclaimed, well-known albums in its indigenous nation — two which possess topped the …

Produced in 1970, this fluid but short-lived jazz rock and roll group produced by Ray Russell (guitar) and highlighted many of the UK’s leading youthful jazz musicians, and originally included Harry Beckett (trumpet/flugelhorn), Bob Downes (saxophone), Bud Parkes (trumpet) and Tony Roberts (trumpet/woodwind), Derek Wadsworth (trombone) Alan Greed (vocals) and …

By enough time her songwriting career became popular in 2005, Boston native Lori McKenna had currently released four strong independent albums of her own. McKenna grew up inside a musical family members and published her first tunes as an adolescent, though it wasn’t until her past due twenties that she …

Greatly positive and occasionally crushingly sentimental, Germany’s Mark ‘Oh (Marko Albrecht) is element of a long type of German musicians who threw straight down the mantle of rock amateurism to be able to embrace his country’s post-rave mainstream dance. After disbanding his initial guitar outfit, FALL INTO LINE, ‘Oh began …

Inspired by famous brands Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth, and the brand new York no wave movement, Live Skull shipped the type of relentlessly bleak, abrasive noise rock and roll that produced their better-known contemporaries Lydia Lunch time and Swans into cult underground numbers through the ’80s. The music group usually …

Traveling inside the darkest lines of alternative metallic inspirations, presenting soul-rupturing styles made up of raging guitar strains and fierce and brutal rhythms managed by mind-gazing lyrics, Lifer discharges a new baby variety of ponderous rock seems. Assembling in Wilkes Barre, PA, initially of 1999 by vocalist Nick Coyle, guitarist …

Inspired with the hardcore explosion of the first ’80s, Richmond, VA’s Honor Role produced in 1983 being a run-of-the-mill punk trio but quickly grew right into a distinctive quartet that twisted away bleak, inventive post-punk. Unfortunately, they hardly ever received identification that equaled their wiry, motivated recordings. Jelling around guitarist/vocalist …

While he wasn’t one of the primary titles on Stiff Records, Jona Lewie was one particular irrepressible personas who gave the pioneering British indie label its absolutely unique flavor. Created John Lewis, Lewie got his begin in the early-’70s pub rock and roll picture, playing keyboards for the Sussex group …