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Helen Cash is the executing alias of Alison Chesley, a Los Angeles-based cellist and composer that has appeared on recordings by Bob Mould, Broken Public Scene, Japanese music group Mono, and a large number of various other artists. Her intense, extremely inventive cello playing utilizes various transformative effects, and it …

Though never main hitmakers, the Los Angeles-based Vibrations were consistent performers through the ’60s. The lineup included Wayne Johnson, Carl Fisher, Richard Owens, Dave Govan, and Don Bradley. They started documenting as the Jayhawks, after that scored several novelty hits carrying out as the Marathons. Neither “The Watusi” nor “Peanut …

Gladys Bentley was created August 12, 1907 (some accounts list the birthday as January 12), in Philadelphia, PA. As a woman she transferred to NY City’s well-known Harlem region, where, dressed up in her personal tuxedo and best hat, she started singing at lease celebrations and speakeasies, creating a graphic …

The Hollywood Argyles were a quickie act thrown together by producers Kim Fowley and Gary Paxton and featuring Sandy Nelson. Fowley produced his initial recordings with drummer Nelson through the past due ’50s and acquired already produced several short-lived groupings — like the Paradons as well as the Innocents — …

The Lettermen’s close-harmony pop songs with light and easy arrangements made them a significant successful group with adult audiences through the 1960s, when changing styles and tastes made many older listeners feel just a little left behind within the music world. Produced in 1960 by vocalist Tony Butala, alongside two …

Blessed and raised in LA, Steve Wynn, seeing that founder from the Wish Syndicate, almost single-handedly tuned the ears of college-age rock and roll fans in the first ’80s to both prior years of guitar-drenched rock and roll that inspired him among the founding fathers from the Paisley Underground motion. …