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Chicago neo-soul duo Brown’s Handbag paired Ward Dark brown and Sherrod Dark brown (simply no relation), both longtime veterans from the Windy Town music scene. Relating to Bob Mehr’s profile in the June 30, 2006, release from the Chicago Audience, Ward Dark brown grew up nearby to blues immortal Muddy …

Originally formed like a punk rock outfit in 2001, Chicago, IL-based Caw! Caw! would develop and mature — not forgetting heading from a quartet to a trio — right into a blissed-out, spacy experimental pop group. The bandmembers honed their abilities and explored fresh territory within their hometown, carrying out …

Celebrated among the main architects from the classic Chicago blues sound, bassist Dave Myers was created Oct 30, 1926, in Byhalia, MS. He and guitarist sibling Louis discovered the blues from Lonnie Johnson, who resided in the family’s cellar. By his teenagers, Myers was a staple at regional rent house …

Mahjongg combine the edgy timber of consumer electronics, the ironic wit and melodic feeling of indie rock and roll, as well as the rhythmic abandon of funk and Afro-beat and fuse them right into a clever, dance-friendly audio that’s made them one of the most talked-about acts in the bustling …

The Scotland Lawn Gospel Choir, an indie pop ensemble hailing from Chicago, could very well be the furthest thing from an evangelistic singing group. Founded by university graduates with area of expertise levels in music, the music group took form in summertime 2001 when Ellen O’Hayer (cello/bass) and Welsh-born Elia …

Not really a distinctive singer but a genuine vocal question, Al Hibbler featured with Duke Ellington’s Orchestra through the entire 1940s and recorded several hits (“Unchained Melody,” “Following the Lights DECREASE Low,” “He”) by himself for Decca and Atlantic through the ’50s and ’60s. His regular usage of a Cockney …

Seemingly wanting to give themselves probably the most “internet search engine averse” name this side from the The, since every try to learn online information regarding the band spits away an incredible number of hits approximately Ricky Gervais and Steve Carell, fresh wave revivalists Office formed in Chicago in 2001. …

Chicago post-punk revivalists the Ponys formed in early 2001, inaugurated by singer/guitarist Jered Gummere within the months ahead of dissolution of his previous project, regional punk device the Guilty Pleasures. He started writing and performing with partner and bassist Melissa Elias, and after adding previous Mushuganas drummer Nathan Jerde, the …

Owls began in 2001, splintering from an extended lineage of high-concept rock and roll rings all centralized throughout the initiatives of several close friends who’d been using together since their early high-school times. This staff of musicians began playing spirited and screamy melodic emo as Cap’n Jazz, surviving in comparative …

Calling their design of music “acoustic pop,” Chicago-based quartet Down the road (Levi Britton, Derek Fawcett, Dan Myers, and Dave Rothkopf, non-e of these Chicago natives) make use of electricity limited to the bass guitar, otherwise counting on acoustic guitars, djembe, harmonica, mandolin, and violin, plus their voices. It’s a …