The Postman Symptoms can be an unpredictable, risk-taking alternative rock/alternative metal outfit who changes moods frequently and thrives on intricate melodies in addition to brutal aggression. About a minute, the New Shirt outfit is certainly playing a wealthy melody that could not need been inappropriate for the ’70s progressive rock …

The third-place finalist on season four of American Idol, Vonzell Solomon — also called Baby V — includes a sweet but powerful voice that suited the soul and Motown fare she sang on the show perfectly. We were young in Fort Myers, FL, Solomon analyzed in the Cypress Lake Middle …

Vocalist and banjoist Narvin Kimball was raised through the golden age group of New Orleans jazz and outlived practically all of his contemporaries. Mixed up in Louisiana jazz picture through the 1920s, he liked a lengthy return that started in 1960 at Preservation Hall and lasted until 1999. Narvin’s dad …

Making use of their instrumental prowess and keyboardist Ton Scherpenzeel’s facility at writing lyrics in English, you may be forgiven for mistaking Kayak for the couple of clever proggers from London. But this Dutch music group started in 1968 in the town of Hilversum, where Scherpenzeel and drummer Pim Koopman …

Melvin Vehicle Peebles’ status like a pioneering BLACK filmmaker likely obscures the actual fact that he also busted barriers and blazed paths among the forebears of rap music. If there’s anyone who is able to draw from a big pool of existence experiences, it’s Vehicle Peebles, a supremely innovative individual …

Blessed Elvin Estrela, the guy who become producer No one was raised in LA, exchanging hip-hop mixtapes along with his friends in senior high school, hanging out in the Good Lifestyle Café, and hearing a whole lot of different music, from rap to ’60s psychedelia to electronica, which influenced him …

Gifted Argentinean musician Lito Vitale was created in Buenos Aires, son of Esther Soto and Rubens Vitale. At an extremely young age, inspired by his parents and motivated by way of a piano, Lito began getting involved with music. In 1976 he shaped M.We.A., which stood for Músicos Independientes Asociados …

After many years fronting the acoustic duo referred to as Tattle Story, vocalist Jen Real wood parted ways through the band and her hometown of Seattle in 1996 for Santa Cruz, California. During her yearlong tenure, she documented several heartfelt pop tracks that only contains her and her classical guitar. …

Born the kid of the Vienna composer/conservatory instructor and an opera-singer mom, John Tejada is really a classically trained techno changeling. Since debuting within the middle-’90s, he’s racked up an extraordinary, acclaimed catalog of albums, singles, and DJ mixes which range from minimal techno to melodic IDM/glitch, in addition to …

Like their West Coast contemporaries in Death Cab for Cutie, Rilo Kiley steadily gained traction in indie pop circles through the entire past due ’90s and early 2000s prior to the record industry (and public most importantly) officially took note. Led by previous child stars Jenny Lewis (vocals, electric guitar, …