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Referred to as “the Godfather of Ska,” Laurel Aitken was Jamaica’s first proper recording star. He was a pioneer in lots of other respects aswell: he was among the initial artists ever release a a ska record, the first ever to work at marketing his music within the U.K., and …

Big Al Downing was a distinctive if unsung figure in the history of well-known music, becoming among the initial African-Americans to take pleasure from success within the white-dominated realms of rockabilly and nation. So mixed and checkered was his lengthy profession that he actually damaged the disco graphs. Given birth …

An electro-tinged, cinematic, instrumental post-rock quintet from Leicester, Britain in the vein of Mogwai, Sigur Ros, and M83, the seed products for Maybeshewill were sown in 2005 when guitarists Robin Southby and John Helps met while learning together at School. Enlisting Tanya Byrne on bass electric guitar and Lawrie Malen …