From 1989 to 1991, Donna DiChario was rock and roll critic and regular columnist for the Rochester, NY, Democrat and Chronicle. She’s written for Rock and roll & Roll Disk since 1989. Desert Isle Picks Bob Dylan Bloodstream on the Songs Red Floyd Dark Part from the Moon Weapons N’ …

Initially a radio character, drummer, and composer, Michel F. Côté became a member of the collective Ambiances Magnétiques in 1988. Since that time, his activities have got encompassed free of charge improvisation along with his groupings Bruire and Klaxon Gueule, sound-art collaborations with Diane Labrosse and Christof Migone, and composing …

This Detroit-and-Windsor-area trio began in 1994 as an electronica/rock act. The music group released their self-titled debut the next year before launching The Bomb, a six-song EP. Lead vocalist and songwriter Joseph Janisse would frequently get motivation from various vacations to Europe, going to the metropolitan areas of Paris and …

Randy Jackson may be the leader of prog metallic experts Zebra. Jackson was raised in New Orleans hearing the Beatles and Led Zeppelin. As a teenager, he joined an area band known as Shepherd’s Bush. Jackson shortly had taken frontman Felix Hanneman and produced another group with Californian drummer Man …

It all were only available in a small city known as Frostbite Falls, MN. In fact, the state name of the city can be Cottage Grove. I spent 25 years within a frost nova, but apart from the obvious, it had been a great spot to live. I had fashioned …

Milanese five-piece Vanadium were among Italy’s first effective heavy metal rings, liberating a string of extremely popular LPs through the early ’80s, before being outpaced with a quickly evolving nationwide scene as the decade wore in. In fact, the next fifty percent of their profession saw a artistically weakened Vanadium …

After departing (or getting fired from — depends who you ask) Kiss in 1984, guitarist Vinnie Vincent come up with his own outfit shortly thereafter called the Vinnie Vincent Invasion. Filling up the bass slot machine in Vincent’s music group was Dana Strum, a veteran from the L.A. steel scene …

After many years of rumours, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Web page and vocalist Robert Place reunited in 1994, documenting the No One fourth: Jimmy Web page and Robert Vegetable Unledded album for MTV Unplugged. Vegetable and Web page didn’t request bassist John Paul Jones to become listed on the reunion, …

Being a violinist with an array of music passions, Rachel Barton Pine has her hands in a number of projects at any moment. That, and her skilled, communicative musicianship, also provide her broader market charm than many totally classical-oriented musicians. Delivered on Oct 11, 1974, in Chicago, Rachel Barton (Pine …

Cellist Wayne Todd was created into a music family members in Denver, CO. His great-grandfather was a cellist and his grandfather a violinist and conductor. At age five, he performed mandolin in an organization led by his siblings. He started piano lessons in the next grade and turned to cello …