The Sacramento, CA, hardcore metal quartet Can Haven originally formed within the mid-’90s using the trio of vocalist Grady Avenell, guitarist Jeff Irwin, and bassist Mike Martin being the group’s mainstays (several drummers did time using the music group — Wayne Morse, Dave Hulse, & most recently, Mitch Wheeler). A …

Internationally acclaimed Turkish ska/punk rock-band Athena — also profiting from having less similar album-recording local bands — quickly became among the best-selling rock bands in the united states. Their success tale, however, doesn’t rely solely on the singularity on the market. Solid adaptations of Turkish folk tracks, good working understanding …

Without question probably the most smart, artistic rap group through the 1990s, A Tribe Called Quest jump-started and perfected the hip-hop option to hardcore and gangsta rap. Essentially, they deserted the macho posturing rap music have been built upon, and concentrated rather on abstract beliefs and message paths. The “sucka …

With Cibo Matto, being a collaborator, and in her solo function, Miho Hatori has always displayed an eclectic, playful touch that’s worldly in the very best sense of the term: fusing her love of from bossa nova to hip-hop to steel and rock and roll with her Japanese heritage, Hatori’s …

German hip-hop group Massive Töne began in the first ’90s, when close friends Schowi (Jean-Christoph Ritter) and Ju (João dos Santos), inspired by performers just like the Beastie Young boys, Public Enemy, as well as the Ultramagnetic MC’s, made a decision to begin rapping themselves. Quickly Wasi (Wasi Ntuanoglu) and …

A founding person in Luscious Jackson, Jill Cunniff was created and raised in NEW YORK, where she met upcoming bandmates Kate Schellenbach and Gabby Glaser on the punk night clubs where they used to hold out. She trained herself how exactly to play your guitar at age group 14, and …

New Jersey-born producer Roger Moutenot made his career as an anachronism: a Nashville-based producer/engineer who had zero fascination with recording nation music. You start with ten years of studio function in Manhattan studios with both mainstream and avant-garde works, Moutenot slowly constructed a customers of idiosyncratic rock and roll rings, …

The positive lyrics that rapper Kaboose provides to the rap game result from surviving a hard childhood. His delivery parents’ divorce, an abusive stepfather, along with a move from his birthplace of San Jose, CA, to north Minnesota all drove the youthful Kaboose to consider solace in music. After getting …

Dennis Coffey remains to be an unsung hero in the halcyon period of Detroit spirit, contributing electric guitar to landmark information issued over the Motown, Ric-Tic, and Revilot brands furthermore to cutting some initiatives under his own name, especially the cult common blaxploitation soundtrack Dark Belt Jones. Blessed and raised …

After stars reach a particular point, you can forget what they truly became well-known for and concentrate exclusively on the personas. Madonna can be such a celebrity. She rocketed to stardom therefore quickly in 1984 it obscured the majority of her musical virtues. Appreciating her music became even more complicated …