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Created from the demise of True Western, this duo of vocalist Gavin Blair and lead guitarist Richard McGrath going to the Pacific Northwest to record. In 1989, Fool Killers released its debut recording, From Condition Plates, on California’s Mad Rover label. Called after a brief tale by Stephen Vincent Benet, …

This is an entertaining Philadelphia funk band, fronted by drummer “Body fat” Larry Wayne. Fat Larry’s Music group never obtained any major strikes, but their singles for Stax, Dream, and Omni had been prototypical past due-’70s and ’80s East Coastline jazz-tinged funk. Trumpeter and flutist Artwork Capehart, trombonist and alto …

A Michigan dance-pop music group (1983-1989), these were known for “Breathless.”

Around Easter 1986, Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, previous Minor Threat users, visited London and recorded several experimental, post-hardcore tunes for John Loder of Southern Studios. The trio made a decision to release a solitary beneath the festive name Egg Hunt with Dischord Information, the label MacKaye and Nelson founded …

Arty cowpunk combo shaped within the mid ’80s by ex-Flesheater Chris D.

McComb is really a California vocalist/songwriter whose music runs from nation to folk.

The Uk band Fiction Factory are forgotten one-hit wonders. Best-known for the Depeche Mode-ish solitary “(FEELS AS THOUGH) Heaven,” Fiction Manufacturing plant published soulful, melancholic pop tunes lighted by danceable synthesized rhythms and cool bass lines. Heaven 17 was a clear influence; nevertheless, the deep, ardent vocals of Kevin Patterson …

Astley is more well known for individuals she’s used than her own information. A classically educated United kingdom pianist and flutist who also is actually Pete Townshend’s sister-in-law, she added piano to Townshend’s “Slit Dresses,” and it has performed periods for Siouxsie & the Banshees. Her past due-’70s music group, …

Fiddle Fever was perhaps one of the most eclectic groupings in string music group history. Paced with the three fiddles of Matt Glaser, Evan Stover and Jay Unger, the virtuosic classical guitar flatpicking of Russ Barenberg, as well as the upright bass playing of Molly Mason, the quintet included from …

Fibonaccis rose from the early-’80s punk picture in LA, CA. Sketching from an array of affects including film ratings, circus music, in addition to a pastime in bizarre pop tradition generally, the music group got their name after Leonardo Fibonacci, the 14th hundred years Italian mathematician. The group’s 1st lineup …