A Vancouver band using a folk-pop undertake alternative rock and roll, 54-40 formed in 1981 being a trio comprising bassist Brad Merritt, drummer Darryl Neudorf, and vocalist Neil Osborne. (The music group took their name from Adam K. Polk’s presidential advertising campaign slogan, “Fifty-Four 40 or Combat,” which searched for …

Pet Collective were shaped in Baltimore Region, Maryland, by longtime friends and musical collaborators Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Carry (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb), and Geologist (Brian Weitz). Having a penchant for genre-hopping and studio room experimentation, the group started drawing evaluations to everyone from your Residents as well …

A hard-candy alterna-pop quartet originally from New Haven, CT, such as Words to Cleo or Eve’s Plum, the Swansons deserved an improved destiny than they got. Vocalist Lauren Fay, guitarist Alec Hodel, bassist Matthew Swift, and drummer Dave Faye agreed upon with Resident X Information, a Washington, D.C.-structured pseudo-indie funded …

Ironically plenty of for an act built round the tensions of sibling rivalry, the Smothers Brothers were the longest-lived comedy team ever sold; originally a folk duo, the brothers tempered their childlike, irreverent musical laughter with plenty of sly satire and delicate politics commentary to generate both an ardent pursuing …

Jackmaster (Jack port Revill) is a Glasgow-based DJ known for his eclectic blend sessions aswell for co-founding label and golf club night Amounts. While his name obviously references Chicago home pioneer Farley Jackmaster Funk, he doesn’t confine his DJ models to one design or picture, spanning Detroit techno, U.K. garage …

Perhaps one of the most respected of most jazz manufacturers, Orrin Keepnews had an extended and productive profession. He graduated from Columbia School in 1943 and was originally mainly thinking about Dixieland. Keepnews composed for The Record Changer beginning in 1948, that was began by his friend Costs Grauer. Four …

Friendly, talented Otis Leavill Cobb was created Feb 8, 1937, in Dewey Rose, GA. The Cobb family members relocated to Chicago 2 yrs later and resolved in the Londale region within the Westside. Leavill experienced four brothers and two sisters. His dad pastored the First Chapel of Deliverance on South …

Mike Curb has led an extended and varied profession in and away of music. Blessed in 1945, he was a university dropout who were able to discovered his very own record label in his early twenties, sell it for the six-figure amount, and parlay his popularity in the music sector …

In 1988, Brooklyn was residential to many growing rap artists. For John Borusso, aka Jonny Bro, plus some of his college friends, the seed products for any potential musical profession had been planted. In 1994, after hearing a multitude of performers in areas of rap and traditional rock and roll, …

Music may not be the very first thing you imagine of when somebody mentions talk present web host and entrepreneurial powerhouse Merv Griffin, but he earns more in royalties from his tv themes than most music artists do off their entire catalog. Blessed in San Mateo, CA, Griffin got his …