Tag Archives: 1998

Guitarist Josef Ostransky and drummer Pavel Koudelka, both from the legendary Czech group Dunaj, formed Boo in early 1998 with cellist Andrea Konstankiewicz (of Rale) and Metamorphosis vocalist/violinist/guitarist Christoph Pajer. The quartet quickly began to tour thoroughly in Europe, creating a small group of fans that prompted the Czech label …

The indie soul combo Pearly Sweets & the Platonics formed in 1998 when vocalist/pianist Sweets (born Abraham Levitan) grew sick and tired of playing solo piano gigs in New Haven, CT’s nightclubs. The group’s fusion of spirit and new influx gained them gigs with Yo La Tengo, the Mooney Suzuki, …

Latin rock-band from San José, Costa Rica, shaped in January of 1998 by previous classmates in Don Bosco’s College. The name of the music group can be an abbreviation of 13 millas de libertad (13 mls of independence). In August of 1999, 13 ml journeyed to Panama to start out …

Glam pop music group the brand new Electrics were formed in Birmingham, Britain, by drummer Pete Dabbs, vocalist/guitarist Nick Ingram, bassist/vocalist Tag Lees, and guitarist/vocalist Ben Marsden. The band’s initial release, Beautiful Brain, premiered in a restricted pressing by Interior. Fruition attained the privileges to it and reissued the one …

Jimmy Campbell was an effective drummer in jazz during among that music’s so-called fantastic eras. He was a preferred sideman of players such as for example Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, and Maynard Ferguson, signifying Campbell was a powerhouse big music group drummer whose big sound and powerhouse chops had been …

The Michigan indie rock duo Lost Child continues to be honing its experimental space rock because the mid-’90s, when schoolhood friends Brett Zylstra and Steve Fowler formed a common bond with alternative music. Both found a electric guitar and distributed the affects of R.E.M., Radiohead, Cracker, and Sparklehorse, and in …

Oz Bach was one of the most ebullient and outgoing abilities in 1960s folk and pop music. Aside from creating a name that was difficult to ignore, he was also one particular ubiquitous statistics that just held arriving either at or near plenty of actually nice musical phenomena. Bach researched …

Bobby Gimby, given birth to in 1919 in Saskatchewan, Canada, is most beneficial known for saving 1967’s “Canada: A Centennial Music.” Famous as the “Pied Piper of Canada,” he worked well in radio (on Content Gang) as well as for CBC-TV (Juliette). Gimby also made up “Malaysia Forever,” that country’s …

The trio of Tag (guitar/vocals), George (bass), and Ian (drums) originally went beneath the name Triphammer upon their 1995 formation. But also for the sake of legal reasons, the band ultimately resolved on Tucker while staying with their label of distorted emo. By 1998, Tucker got spent 3 years gigging …

Although Karkwa just released three albums through the band’s 1st decade collectively, the Canadian group garnered substantial critical acclaim throughout that period, ultimately becoming the 1st francophone band to win the Polaris Music Prize. Created in 1998 by vocalist/guitarist Louis-Jean Cormier, keyboardist François Lafontaine, bassist Martin Lamontagne, drummer Stephane Bergeron, …