New Zealand’s Katchafire started like a Bob Marley covers music group named after Capture a Open fire, the debut album from the Wailers. They discovered success using their personal songs, nevertheless, creating their personal brand of sunlit ska and reggae. In 1997 Katchafire was a five-piece jamming inside a garage …

The electropop trio TV Eye were formed in 2000 by drummer/producer Brian Reitzell (Redd Kross, Air), keyboardist Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. (Jellyfish, Beck), and vocalist/guitarist Jason Falkner (Jellyfish, the Grays). Following conclusion of his use the French duo Surroundings on the soundtrack for the Virgin Suicides film, Reitzell was contacted …

Milford Graves continues to be among the flashiest drummers in the free of charge mode, known for skillful addition of Asian and African rhythmic substances into his solos. He examined Indian music thoroughly, including learning the tabla from Wasantha Singh. He provides unfortunately not documented much, specifically on American brands. …

Having a stage name just like a Communist sympathizer who is suffering from indigestion, this Kentucky performer documented several historic early bluegrass tracks offering fiddler Tex Logan in the past due ’40s, where time the banjo-licking Belcher had recently been active on the Appalachian music scene for a lot more …

Trend Against the device earned acclaim from disenfranchised supporters (rather than insignificant derision from critics) because of their bombastic, fiercely polemical music, which brewed sloganeering leftist rants against commercial America, cultural imperialism, and federal government oppression right into a Molotov cocktail of punk, hip-hop, and thrash. Trend formed in LA …

At Stiff Files, nothing at all was sacred; usually the label’s slogans and unorthodox advertising were mainly because memorable mainly because the truly influenced music they released. With teenage Rachel Lovely, whom they promoted like a “jailbait” nation singer (and later on like a leather-clad kid abductor), it could appear …

MGA Entertainment’s Bratz type of dolls and accessories debuted in 2001 being a hip option to Mattel’s Barbie, and quickly became the longstanding doll brand’s biggest competitor. The Bratz — trademarks Cloe, Sasha, Jade, Yasmin, and Roxxi — had been “Young ladies with a Interest for Style.” Known as “life …

The brother of Tx bluesman Willard “Ramblin'” Thomas, Jesse “Babyface” Thomas never really had the success of his even more famous sibling. Given birth to in the hamlet of Logansport, LA, close to the Tx boundary in 1911, Jesse Thomas and his sibling were individually close developing up, often employed …

Not to end up being confused with trumpeter Joe “Crimson” Kelly, this noted jazz bassist was created Thomas Raymond Kelly in Shelby, MT, about August 29, 1927. He battled polio like a toddler, even though his first device was the drums — he used a fife-and-drum music group organized in …

Even though the first instrument young Jel (given birth to Jeffrey Logan) played — very much to his chagrin — was the cornet, when he previously saved up more than enough money he bought his first (in support of) drum machine/sampler, the SP 1200, when he is at senior high …