b. 16 March 1893, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, d. 5 Oct 1976, NY, USA. A favorite songwriter, whose primary output emerged in the 20s, Baer went to the faculty of Doctors and Doctors in Boston, and appeared destined to get a profession in dentistry before departing to serve within the American …

AC/DC’s mammoth power chord roar became perhaps one of the most influential hard rock and roll noises from the ’70s, and is currently among the defining noises of rock and roll and steel. In its way, it had been a reaction contrary to the pompous artwork rock and roll and …

More than every other manufacturer, Todd Terry defined NY home through the ’80s, a varied sampladelic smorgasbord blending the noises of basic disco, the greater introspective Chicago audio pioneered earlier within the 10 years, plus a lot of hip-hop attitude and sampling piracy. With two of the very most reputed …

Archie Shepp continues to be at various occasions a feared firebrand and radical, soulful throwback and contemplative veteran. He was seen within the ’60s as possibly the most articulate and troubling person in the free era, a released playwright ready to speak within the record in unsparing, explicit style about …

The consummate sideman, Cliff Williams has held down the bassist post in hard rock greats AC/DC for many decades, yet he’s always preserved a remarkably low profile, rarely speaking publicly and happily shunning the spotlight, generally. Williams was created on Dec 14, 1949, within the London suburb of Romford, however …

While Canadian punk provocateurs Fucked Up play aggressive and incendiary music, that’s barely where their wish to stir up difficulty begins and ends. The group strays definately not the typical template of four-four punk stomp, incorporating prolonged instrumental workouts, uncommon arrangements, and extended experimental passages combined with the furious guitars …

The world of ’60s psychedelia is filled up with rediscoveries that may better have already been remaining buried within the mists of your time, except as artifacts — it is possible to have shelves filled up with the task of no-talent bands and of acts that weren’t even psychedelic (what …

Guitarist/manufacturer Don Fleming and drummer Jay Spiegel formed the pop lifestyle tribute music group Velvet Monkeys in Washington, D.C., in the first ’80s. Both had been veterans of Jad Fair’s long-running sound pop outfit Fifty percent Japanese, with whom they might continue steadily to record through the entire 1980s (Fleming …

b. Delroy Foster, Kingston, Jamaica, Western world Indies. Foster was informed on the Excelsior SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL within the Jamaican capital. While still at college he was motivated by the neighborhood dancehall picture and slipped out after seizing the chance to chat in the mike. He performs within a throaty, …

This bigger than usual, and also bigger than life, string band was one of the ensembles that came together from informal music-making events in the Durham, NC, home of Tommy and Bobbie Thompson. A few of these music artists, including banjoist and playwright Tommy Thompson, would continue to create the …