Although praise & worship band MercyMe were founded in 1994, vocalist Bart Millard says the group’s birth was an activity God began in him during senior high school. Millard recalls, “My father and my old brother had been both soccer players. So normally, that’s what I needed to do aswell. …

Israeli singer Meira Asher has earned a reputation on her behalf unflinching tunes of protest that concentrate on subject matter which range from incest to Middle Eastern politics, often combining traditional music and scripture with modern settings. Having analyzed percussion and dance in Ghana as well as the Ivory Coastline, …

The Uk new wave band Re-Flex had one nearly forgotten Top 40 smash, 1983’s “The Politics of Dancing,” that became a staple of ’80s compilation CDs in the ’90s. Featuring Baxter (vocals, electric guitar), Paul Fishman (keyboards), Nigel Ross-Scott (bass), and Roland Vaughan Kerridge (drums), Re-Flex had been shamelessly derivative, …

Vocalist Kim Waters and German-born multi-instrumentalist/manufacturer Hans Christian comprise Rasa, a San Francisco-based duo focused on Indian devotional music. Waters includes a parallel profession as an illustrator, because of her mastery of traditional Indian art designs, while Christian proved helpful as a program musician in LA through the ’80s and …

California’s Transistor Radio — a melodic Christian rock-band that falls somewhere within groups like Home of Heroes and Relient K — found life in the first 2000s, its users banding together around their initial two loves: God and music. But though their motives were commendable and their collective like for …

As the first choice from the seminal pub rockers Brinsley Schwarz, a manufacturer, and a solo artist, Nick Lowe held considerable influence within the development of punk rock and roll. Using the Brinsleys, Lowe started a back-to-basics motion that flowered into punk rock and roll in the past due ’70s. …

A protégé of John Lee Hooker, Maxwell Road Jimmy Davis was a Chicago blues organization throughout the second option half from the 20th hundred years. Given birth to Charles W. Thompson on March 2, 1925 in Tippo, MS, he discovered to play acoustic guitar from Hooker while still an adolescent, …

Something special for composing hook-laden tracks and sensitively interpreting the task of American singer/songwriters has taken Rab Noakes towards the forefront of Scottish pop music. His 1970 debut record, Do You Start to see the Lighting, included “Jointly Forever,” which became a folk-pop strike for Lindisfarne. His second record, Rab …

An excessive amount of effort can simply be spent endeavoring to classify Ram-Zet, which is towards the group’s credit, because they create a significant dynamic and distinct progressive racket. Probably for their Norwegian homeland’s background of noisy dark metallic, the term continues to be used occasionally to spell it out …

Gorgeous Creatures were led by that experienced denizen from the Sunset Strip Joe Leste, who had spent a lot of the 1980s with glitter rockers Bang Tango. For Beautiful Animals, he traded locks spray as well as the two-dimensional ’80s audio for locks dye and a variety of glammy hooks …