Tag Archives: 2000s – 2010s

Rapper Porta found out underground fame while an adolescent on the web, via MySpace and YouTube, before putting your signature on a recording agreement with Universal GROUP and releasing his major-label debut, En Boca de Tantos, in 2008. Created in 1988 in Barcelona, Spain, Porta was influenced by hip-hop tradition …

Italy’s Hortus Animae (which means “garden from the spirit”) were formed in 1997 by Martyr Lucifer (vocals/bass), Shred Blast Hypnos (acoustic guitar), Bless (keyboards), and Thomas (drums). Getting an extremely theatrical feeling of burlesque to their gothic/dark metallic sonic amalgam, they documented their first demonstration, the spectacularly called an Abode …

Roger Espinoza spent years understanding the Spanish nylon electric guitar before establishing himself among the LA area’s leading professionals, both being a program musician and single artist. Blessed in Granada, Nicaragua, but elevated in LA, where he continuing to reside in, Espinoza learned very much about music from his dad, …

Chris Bathgate is a celebrated vocalist/songwriter whose stark, heartbroken tunes (similar in firmness to the people of Can Oldham or Damien Jurado) earned him a solid community following throughout Southeast Michigan. Bathgate was raised in Pecatonica, Illinois and began playing music when he was 16, investing in a few years …

Iestyn Davies is well known for the suppleness, power, and organic sound of his countertenor tone of voice, whether in early opera, Baroque sacred music, or in modern functions. Davies was mixed up in early 1990s like a son soprano, but didn’t pull wide notice like a countertenor before early …

Made up of virtuosic sisters Sarah, Hannah, Eva, and Liza Holbrook, Colorado-based indie folk quartet SHEL (an acronym of their initial brands) cast a distinctive spell, weaving together folk, rock and roll, Celtic, pop, and almost anything else off their drain of affects. Their creative abilities had been nurtured from …

Jake Heggie is known as a member of family rarity among contemporary composers — a person who may write music that’s not just challenging, but rewarding for performers and viewers aswell. Though most widely known for his vocal composing, including art track, track cycles, as well as the extremely acclaimed …

Having a sound that mixes 21st century indie tones as well as the past due-’70s new wave attitude of Speaking Heads or the present day Lovers, NY City’s the Virgins were formed in 2006 by lead singer/songwriter Donald Cumming. A genuine item of N.Con.C., Cumming was raised in Tribeca. His …

Liturgy is a dark steel group from Brooklyn, NY, made up of Hunt Hendrix, Greg Fox, Tyler Dusenbury, and Bernard Gann. Impressed by the extreme blastbeats, cyclical electric guitar riffs, and howling vocals, 20 Buck Spin agreed upon Liturgy because of their first record, Renihilation, in ’09 2009. Afterwards, the …

Along with his raspy, almost spoken phrase vocal style and his literate, poignant, and carefully observed songs that grapple using the beauties, complexities, and little tragedies of the world, Sam Baker has very much in keeping with other Texan songwriters like Robert Earl Keen, James McMurtry, Townes Van Zandt, and …