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Drummer Francis Clay was a linchpin from the postwar Chicago blues and jazz picture, most notably using the Muddy Waters Music group during its past due-’50s heyday. Blessed November 16, 1923, in Rock and roll Isle, MS, Clay was the merchandise of the musical family members — his dad, a …

Ulaan Khol is way better referred to as guitarist Steven R. Smith, the primary identity inside a string of musical alter egos which range from psychedelic rock and roll (Crown of Marches) to Eastern European-influenced noises (Hana Strana) to experimental organizations Thuja and Mirza. As Ulaan Khol, Smith started liberating …

Mort Garson features perhaps one of the most exclusive and outright bizarre resumés in popular music, spanning from easy hearing occult-influenced space-age electronic pop — all in exactly the same 10 years, no less. Delivered July 20, 1924, within the Canadian town of St. John, New Brunswick, Garson went to …

Hammond B-3 participant Merl Saunders recorded with numerous renowned performers beginning in the first ’70s and led a lot of his own times in a number of styles from jazz to blues to modern to rock. Given birth to on ROMANTIC DAYS CELEBRATION, 1934 in San Mateo, California, Saunders started …

San Francisco-based rock and roll group CCR Headcleaner create a sleazy, riff-heavy, feedback-drenched make of psych in shape for alleyways and troublemaking. The music group is made up of Alex Cargile and Justin Plants — former users of Athens, Georgia rockers Lengthy Legged Female — and a solid of revolving …

As freaky and cool as Hot Chip hung through to prog rock, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA duo Adonisaurus came jointly in 2008. It had been then that people Derek Schmidt and Danyol Leon uncovered their similar loves of Soft Cell, Diplo, and disco, therefore they shaped Adonisaurus, originally an “analog …

A rootsy nation, R&B, and blues-soaked music group, San Francisco-based Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers are centered around vocalist Bluhm and her hubby, guitarist/keyboardist Tim Bluhm. Shaped around 2006 while Nicki was piecing together a live ensemble to market her single debut, 2008’s Toby’s Tune, the Gramblers feature different Bay …

A short-lived task from garage-psych mastermind Ty Segall, the original Fools existed throughout a short window following the separation of his early group the Epsilons and before his single career took keep. THE ORIGINAL Fools performed a cheerfully lo-fi cocktail of old-school punk, ’60s garage area rock and roll, and …

The Royal Baths certainly are a San Francisco-based indie rock-band whose music is a dark but curiously engaging combination of garage rock sneer, Velvet Underground-style buzz, psychedelic murk, and post-punk throb. Founded in middle-2008 by vocalist/guitarists Jeremy Cox and Jigmae Baer (the second option a former person in Thee Oh …

Produced in 2008 by Clean & Onlys backup singers Sophistication Cooper and Heidi Alexander, along with drummer Roxy Brodeur of Pillars of Silence, San Francisco-based lo-fi pop trio the Sandwitches mix world-weary folk, ’60s girl group swagger, and infectious, Fleetwood Mac-inspired indie pop right into a sound that’s portion gothic …