Angels of Mons were a power trio located in Dublin, Ireland. Highly affected by Nirvana and Pixies, Angels of Mons assumed the Seattle scene’s desired quiet verse/noisy chorus powerful and sludgy dissonance and place their own spin within the genre, seen as a frontman Steve Robinson’s special, high-pitched vocals and …

A FRESH York quintet focusing on a crossbreed of Prince-styled R&B — and sexuality — and Speaking Heads design punch, Peephole — Kent Odessa (vocals), Chesty Wellington (guitars), Drew Cervantes (bass), Brion Bionic (keyboards), and Andrew Baxter (drums) — came out in the 2008 CMJ Music Event in NY. As …

Norwegian country singer Heidi Hauge began her career in the past due ’90s singing with her husband, Bjørn Arild Hauge. Although music was only a hobby on her behalf, she continued to become among the best-selling nation performers in Scandinavia, launching numerous gold information and learning to be a main …

Heavily inspired with the ’80s electro-pop/Fresh Romantic scene, three-piece Matinee Club have survived several lineup changes, name changes, and a chart-rigging scandal since forming in 2001. Originally comprising synth players Nathan Cooper and Chi Tudor-Hart, duo Dirty Blonde became the present day in 2003 after recruiting vocalist Emma Cooke, guitarist …

One of the most colorful and charismatic pop performers to emerge in Mexico through the early 2000s, Natalia Lafourcade debuted in 2003 with a remarkable solo work before turning to a rock-band format, Natalia con la Forquetina, and proved herself worth acclaim in whatever guise she chose. Created Natalia Lafourcade …

Dennis Marsh may be the biggest superstar on New Zealand’s nation music picture, a vocalist whose warm, emotionally powerful tone of voice and easygoing executing design have helped him earn six platinum and four silver albums in his homeland. Dennis Marsh was created on Feb 22, 1951 in Te Kuiti, …

This UK techno band comprised the apparently surname-less Ashley and Chris whose origins lie in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, where in 1982 Chris bought his first synthesizer after seeing a Tangerine Dream gig. Both had been originally within an indie music group the Merkins (the name extracted from a pubic hairpiece …

The Teen Jazz Rebels are an outgrowth of Madlib’s Yesterdays World project, another of his alter ego groupings that actively pursued the interplay between funky soul and groove jazz and hip-hop. This ensemble’s activity may be the turn side of this coin: primarily the intersection of free of charge jazz …

An artful and atmospheric pop group from Scotland, Hit the Colors were the brainchild of vocalist, violinist, and songwriter Jenny Reeve, a previous person in the group Eva who in addition has caused Snow Patrol, Idlewild, and Arab Strap, amongst others. In 2005, Reeve was developing discouraged with her placement …

The Academy of Santa Cecilia (L’Accademia di Santa Cecilia) was, historically, the dominant secularly established music organization in Rome and its own orchestra was the first in Italy to by devoted exclusively towards the symphonic repertory. (That’s, it was no opera theatre orchestra that also gave symphony concerts.) Roman music …