Tag Archives: 1970s – 2010s

After departing the Buzzcocks in 1977, vocalist Howard Devoto formed Mag with guitarist John McGeoch, bassist Barry Adamson, keyboardist Bob Dickinson, and drummer Martin Jackson. Among the initial post-punk bands, Mag held the edgy, anxious energy of punk and added components of artwork rock, particularly making use of their theatrical …

Among the brightest France pop stars from the 1980s, Jean-Jacques Goldman debuted because the frontman for Tai Phong, but afterwards continued his own and recorded the country’s most widely used record of 1986, Non Homologué. Blessed in Paris in 1951, the kid of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Germany, Goldman …

Canadian guitarist and singer/songwriter David Wilcox started his lengthy and accomplished professional profession by landing an area within the Ian and Sylvia Tyson music group the fantastic Speckled Parrot. A couple of years afterwards, Wilcox stepped in to the spotlight before his own music group, the Teddybears. In 1977, he …

To the exterior observer, Searching Glass were among the luckiest bands to appear through the early ’70s — and doubly so, appearing out of NJ in 1972 with lots one hit, 3 years before anyone was considering Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, and obtaining radio perform on the …

Ideal remembered for “Magnet and Metal,” his easy singer/songwriter smash from 1978, pop singer/songwriter Walter Egan was created July 12, 1948 in Jamaica, NY. Together with guitarist John Zambetti, he 1st surfaced inside a surf rock-band dubbed the Malibooz, which gained a devoted regional following and also performed in the …

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra was established like a municipal ensemble with funding from municipality agencies. The orchestra’s 1st concert occurred in the Lyric Theater on Feb 11, 1916; its players had been mostly local music artists joined by way of a few users from the Philadelphia Orchestra. Gustav Strube was …

Best known while guitarist and vocalist using the seminal power pop music group Shoes or boots, Jeff Murphy was created and raised in Zion, Illinois and developed a enthusiasm for both music and saving technology at a age, finding a record participant along with a 45 of “Rock and roll …

Best known because the co-founder of Redd Kross along with his sibling Steve McDonald, Jeff McDonald is really a guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and vocalist whose eclectic profession has present him dealing with punk, hard rock and roll, glam, power pop, psychedelia, and a lot even more, frequently with tongue firmly …

Among ’70s rock’s one-hit miracles, Dean Friedman spent the springtime and summer months of 1977 as you of a little army of music artists invading the pop graphs from NJ. He was there, within the wake of Bruce Springsteen, Phoebe Snow, and Patti Smith, with an infectious Best 30 hit …

Before he embarked on a solo career, David Pack was strongly entrenched within the core from the very soft rock movement from the mid-’70s in to the early ’80s because the lead singer for Ambrosia. His 1st solo effort in 1985 spawned the strike “I SIMPLY Can’t RELEASE,” which presented …