Tag Archives: 1980s – 2000s

The “Queen of Afro-Zouk,” Monique Seka has embraced, not merely the music of her homeland, but influences from around the world. During an early-’90s interview, she described, “WHILE I sing, I don’t find Africa, but I find all the Dark people.” Descended from a family group of music artists, Seka …

One of the biggest college bands from the ’80s, Throwing Muses was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Kristin Hersh and her half-sister guitarist/vocalist Tanya Donelly having a couple of friends from senior high school. In 1986, the group’s debut recording was released by the exclusive English label 4AD; Throwing Muses …

Hungarian electro-acoustic composer Tibor Szemzö was created in Budapest in 1955, starting his musical research in the Kodály method college at age 6. Initally playing the violin, his following discoveries of rock and roll prompted a proceed to electric guitar; the impact of John Coltrane and Charles Mingus next motivated …

b. Lena Annie Whitehead, 16 July 1955, Oldham, Lancashire, Britain. Whitehead became a member of her college’s brass music group attempting to play tuba, but – a sign from the patronising behaviour she is constantly on the have problems with as a grown-up, professional musician – had not been permitted …

Best known seeing that the backing music group in G.G. Allin’s Murder Junkies LP, ANTiSEEN was a longstanding “destructo” punk work that initial noticed the light of time in 1983. Located in NEW YORK, ANTiSEEN embraced a unusual mix of redneck rock and roll, punk, pro-wrestling, and on-stage antics that …

The Deep Hearing Music group was formed in later 1988 by Pauline Oliveros (accordion and electronics), Stuart Dempster (trombone and didjeridu), and Panaiotis with David Gamper (keyboards and electronics) becoming involved 1990; Panaiotis still left in 1993. The group provides selected acoustically interesting documenting areas, including caves and a two …

Anthony Raynard Watson possesses a flexible voice that’s with the capacity of rumbling bass and a falsetto thus piercing dogs may get it up a mile apart. The Chi-lites couldn’t possess found an improved alternative to Eugene Record than Watson, who toured and documented using the Chi-town diehards in the …

Despite their background (punk), geography (Seattle), and label affiliation (Sub Pop), the Walkabouts were not a grunge band; dark, haunting, and elegiac, their function rather sprung forth from your storytelling customs of American origins music as well as the kinetic enjoyment of rock and roll & move. The Walkabouts had …

Known for his or her socially conscious anthems a lot more than their big, sweeping worship ballads, the Steeles certainly are a Tennessee-based Southern gospel group (never to become confused using the African-American gospel band of the same name) with a family group nucleus of couple, Jeff and Sherry Steele, …

The older sister of Hot Rize member Tim, bluegrass performer Mollie O’Brien was raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, where during senior high school she and her brother teamed up like a folk duo. After learning voice in university, O’Brien relocated to NEW YORK, where she worked well as a purchaser …