The Go-Go’s were typically the most popular all-female band to emerge in the punk/new wave explosion from the later ’70s and early ’80s, becoming among the first commercially successful female groups that wasn’t controlled by male producers or managers. While their strike singles — “We Got the Defeat,” “Our Lip …

Playing hard-stomping glam rock and roll with singalong choruses aswell as more straightforward romantic pop, the Glitter Group were named because of their association with glam idol Gary Glitter. The music group originally came jointly in 1972, pursuing Glitter’s very own breakthrough using the strike “Stone.” Along with his initial …

A lively issue ensues whenever this issue is posed: Who was simply the initial vocal group to record or possess a substantial record from Cleveland? Many will state the Moonglows, who documented their initial record, “I SIMPLY Can’t Inform No Rest,” on Cleveland’s Champaign Information in 1952; they didn’t record …

Among Illinois’ most legendary music artists, Bobby Davis was an excellent multi-instrumentalist who all appeared on a huge selection of saving sessions between your past due ’20s and the first ’50s. He was among the early exponents from the soprano saxophone, but a lot more essential was his commitment to …

Shaped in Santa Ana in 1962, the Chantays had been five senior high school buddies — Brian Carman (guitar, vocals), Bob Spickard (guitar, vocals), Bob Marshall (piano, keyboards), Warren Waters (bass), and Bob Welch (drums) — varying in age group from 13 to 17. Playing regional dances, they customized in …

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton only notched a single national strike in her life time, nonetheless it was a genuine monster. “Hound Pup” kept down the very best slot machine on Billboard’s R&B graphs for seven lengthy weeks in 1953. Alas, Elvis Presley’s rocking 1956 cover was a great deal …

Russell Osiecki (vocals/ acoustic guitar) and his sibling Derek (bass) have already been playing in rings collectively since their middle college days of gigging throughout their indigenous Las Vegas. By using their friend Eddie Cleland (drums), the Generics resulted for several years before Russell shifted to LA to create Great …

While punk rock and roll was always said to be about driving the envelope, couple of post-punk bands appeared willing to move quite up to now to creatively confront their market as Big Black. The group’s guitars alternately chopped up such as a machete and surface such as a dentist’s …

Digital music pioneer Tristram Cary drew in his background as a global Battle II naval radar engineer to make a sprawling body of sound and tape manipulations spanning from film scores to concert pieces. As founding movie director of Electronic Music Studios, he also helped to create the VCS3 portable …

Big Costs Broonzy was created William Lee Conley Broonzy within the small city of Scott, Mississippi, only over the river from Arkansas. During his years as a child, Broonzy’s family members — itinerant sharecroppers as well as the descendants of ex-slaves — shifted to Pine Bluff to operate the areas …