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The Cardinall’s Musick is among England’s highly acclaimed early music choral ensembles. It is an expert in pre-Reformation British vocal and choral music, though they have sung repertoire as latest as the Gloria of 20th hundred years French composer Francis Poulenc. The Cardinall’s Musick was founded in 1989 by Andrew …

Formed through the ashes of C-86 giants Talulah Gosh, Heavenly spearheaded the twee-pop charge from the 1990s, getting the legendary Sarah Details label’s biggest international stars. The four founding people of Heavenly — vocalist Amelia Fletcher, her drummer sibling Mathew, guitarist Peter Momtchiloff and bassist Robert Pursey — had been …

Emerging in the same Oxford, England pop scene which also yielded Radiohead and Supergrass, the Candyskins had been produced in 1989 by frontman Nick Manage, his guitarist sibling Indicate, lead guitarist Nick Burton, bassist Karl Shale and drummer John Halliday. Debuting with the united kingdom hit one “Submarine Melody,” the …

Sooner or later in the first 21st century, Radiohead became something greater than a band: they truly became a touchstone for precisely what is fearless and adventurous in rock and roll, inheriting the throne from David Bowie, Pink Floyd, as well as the Speaking Heads. The last mentioned group provided …