Tag Archives: 1980s – 2000s

Few fresh wave groups were as well-known as Culture Club. Through the early ’80s, the group racked up seven directly Top Ten strikes within the U.K. and six TOP singles within the U.S. making use of their light, infectious pop-soul. Though their music was radio-ready, what brought the music group …

This Swedish glam-metal quintet was formed in 1988 by vocalist Andy Pierce and guitarist Jonnie Wee, with Dick Qwarfort (bass), George Swanson (drums) and Roger White (keyboards) completing the line-up. They pursued a industrial hard rock path in the design of Bon Jovi and Whitesnake, debuting with Gigolos On Parole …

Chris Rock is really a standup comedian who first rose to country wide stardom when he appeared on Sunday Night Reside in the late ’80s and early ’90s. The first ’90s had been Rock’s well-known heyday, when he often appeared in movies; he released his initial comedy record, Blessed Think, …

Though N.W.A got a lot of the identification, Compton’s Most Wished also did very much to popularize and proliferate early-’90s Western world Coastline gangsta rap. Led by potential single musician MC Eiht and renowned West Coastline electro manufacturer the Unidentified DJ, this Compton, CA, group (also called CMW) reveled in …

Perhaps one of the most influential hip-hop companies from the 1980s, Kurtis Mantronik returned within the mid-’90s using a single profession that showed him installing in well using the legion of big defeat artists he previously inspired. Because the nominal head of Mantronix, he created an excellent half-dozen early rap …

Ex – Nirvana bassist Chris Novoselic is certainly among rock’s many politically minded music artists. Delivered Krist Anthony Novoselic on, may 16, 1965 in LA, CA, to Croatian immigrants, Novoselic and his family members continued to be in California until 1979, if they transferred to the small logging city of …

Having a glut of industrial-pop hybrids available on the market within the 1980s and ’90s, several bands stayed true to the experimental nature of early industrial music. The Psychic Television axis only spawned many innovative performers, including Current 93’s David Tibet, who mixes Gothic chanting and haunting atmospherics with commercial …

As uncontrollable as glam rock and roll got in the later ’80s, few performers could best the degrees of debauchery and surplus attained by England’s Canines d’Amour. Led by vocalist, guitarist, songwriter and warped poet Tyla, the group’s albums hardly ever captured on using a wider mainstream market, but became …

Bay Area golf swing diva Lavay Smith incorporates blues, New Orleans R&B, salsa, leap blues and bebop into her two information with her music group, the Crimson Hot Skillet Lickers: 1 HOUR Mama and Everybody’s Talkin’ ‘Bout Miss Point!!!. Smith began performing in 1988 with an L.A. trio known as …

Vocalist Shelley Hirsch composes, improvises, and levels musical functions in venues around THE UNITED STATES and Europe. She was created in East NY, Brooklyn, in 1952, and resided there before age group of 17. A three period artist-in-residence at STEIM (Amsterdam) with Harvestworks/Studio Move in NY, she also resided and …