Tag Archives: 1970s – 2010s

In 1992, Meg Hentges began recording being a solo artist, launching an EP along with a full-length album for the Portland, Oregon indie label Tim/Kerr Information. It had been a monitor from these periods, an early edition of the tune “This sort of Appreciate,” that fascinated the unlikely interest of …

Bristol, England-based post-punk music group Maximum Pleasure were formed in 1979 by trumpeter and saxophonist Tony Wrafter — following a separation of his previous music group Glaxo Infants — and vocalist and clarinetist Janine Rainforth. Bassist Dan Catsis and drummer Charlie Llewellin, both of whom had been also in Glaxo …

Among the common Washington, D.C. go-go serves, Rare Fact transported the torch in the boisterous style’s early-’80s heyday well in to the following three years. Founded in 1976, the music group began because the Youthful Dynamos. Following a transformation of name along with a lineup extension, Rare Fact made their …

An early on and influential music group in the brand new Wave of United kingdom Heavy Metal motion, Raven were an organization whose lean, hard audio helped anticipate the rise of thrash steel, though they desired to spell it out their energetic and physical audio as “athletic rock and roll,” …

Merging a Philadelphia spirit sound with a solid appreciation of Marvin Gaye, Maze offering Frankie Beverly was among the very best R&B acts from the late ’70s and ’80s. The unique Maze and its own charismatic lead vocalist, founder, maker, and songwriter Beverly didn’t possess many pop strikes, but they …

Belgian post-punk music group the Names shaped in past due 1977 because the People, with drummer Mike S. Christophe den Tandt, guitarists Marc Deprez and Robert Franckson, vocalist Isabelle Hanrez, and bassist Michel Sordinia because the lineup. Franckson and Hanrez still left by the start of 1978, and Sordinia eventually …

More than any kind of music group that arrived of later-’70s England, the Mekons (the name extracted from the favorite sci-fi comic Dan Dare) have possibly the most dedicated fans of any kind of music group even remotely linked to punk rock and roll. And why not really? During the …

Best-known because the singer/toaster and co-frontman from the British Beat and PUBLIC, Ranking Roger was created Roger Charlery in Birmingham, England, in February 21, 1961, and became a punk rock fan as an adolescent. He became a member of ska revival pioneers the British Defeat in 1978, where he teamed …

After goth pioneers the PARTY called it quits in 1983, singer/songwriter Nick Cave assembled the Poor Seeds, a post-punk supergroup offering former PARTY guitarist Mick Harvey on drums, ex-Magazine bassist Barry Adamson, and Einstürzende Neubauten guitarist Blixa Bargeld. Using the Poor Seeds, Cave continuing to explore his obsessions with religious …

The country-rock music group McGuffey Street was founded by guitarist Terry Efaw and bass guitarist Steve Reis, who have been working together being a duo called Scotch & Soda. They added business lead vocalist/acoustic guitarist Bobby Gene McNelly and transformed their name to McGuffey Street after a street Reis resided …