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Similar to the obscure provenance from the name — Mox Nix — that they chose for themselves (produced from the American spelling of the German expression, “macht nichts,” meaning, “it creates simply no difference”), this rock quartet through the Houston, TX, suburb of Pasadena led a secret existence during its …

This California-based synthesist and guitarist honed his chops in the progressive rock-band Amber Route. His single albums firmly condition his like of effective, rock-anthem-style electronic items inspired partly by Tangerine Desire and Red Floyd. Holland in addition has been instrumental in assisting the essential underground electronic picture that continues to …

A video series featuring jazz performers, using the music for sale separately as individual recordings.

Tommy Bruce was an unusual area of the pre-Beatles Uk rock and roll scene but still totally unidentified in the us, although he did have a single big Uk strike when his debut one “Ain’t Misbehavin'” surely got to number 3 in 1960. Bruce acquired an exceptionally low, hoarse tone …

Although they in some way got both Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford to sing backup on the third and last album, Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (probably these were favors for the band’s supervisor, Michael Browning — formerly mounted on AC/DC), Australia’s Heaven are actually only barely kept in mind for …

Ezy Rider was an extremely obscure New Influx of British ROCK music group featuring vocalist Ian Perry, guitarist John Streicher, bassist Gabriel Malagodi, and drummer Richard Keetch that documented an unbiased album entitled Power, in 1981, after that vanished into oblivion.

Although their unremarkable career only yielded an individual album (and a thoroughly unsuccessful one at that), LA hard rockers Max Havoc have were able to evade complete historical oblivion because of the fame achieved somewhere else by a lot of its musicians. Originally founded in 1981 by vocalist Pat McKeon …

“Love Lifted Me personally” was the mega-hit within this performer’s songwriting collection. Howard Smith also turns up on myriad various other recordings being a hired history singer.

Among the earliest from the Midwest’s hardcore rings, Lansing, MI’s the Repair played ferocious music in a recklessly fast swiftness, literally burning up through the arc of the band from delivery to crash in only 22 months. Comprising guitarist Craig Calvert, vocalist Steve Miller, drummer Jeff Wellman, and bassist Mike …

Bongos, Bass, & Bob is a music humor trio whose associates are Penn Jillette (from the humor/magic duo Penn And Teller) (bass), Dean J. Seal (bongos), and Rob “Working” Elk (electric guitar). The group’s lone album, Never Brain the Sex Pistols, Here’s Bongos, Bass, and Bob (What the heck Were …