Tag Archives: Brian Ritchie

The textbook American cult band from the 1980s, the Violent Femmes captured the essence of teen angst with remarkable precision; organic and jittery, the trio’s music discovered little commercial achievement but nonetheless surfaced as the soundtrack for the lives of stressed adolescents around the world. The group shaped in Milwaukee, …

Within an era of odd and fascinating musical obscurities, Milwaukee-native Sigmund Snopek III could be perhaps one of the most fascinating artists to emerge from the later ’60s and early ’70s. By himself and along with his music group the Bloomsbury People, he started playing an unconventional combination of avant-garde …

Along with his band the Violent Femmes, Gordon Gano helped define post-punk’s nerdy cool face of the 1980s and ’90s while also crafting himself into among modern rock’s finest singer/songwriters. Gordon Adam Gano was created to some Baptist minister dad along with a musical mom on June 6, 1963. He …

Ritchie is most beneficial referred to as the bassist from the Violent Femmes. He offers recorded several single albums discovering a very much wider selection of music than his regular music group, concentrating specifically on folk, jazz, and globe music designs. His voice is definitely nothing at all to marvel …

Best-known because the drummer for the Violent Femmes through the entire 1980s, Victor DeLorenzo arrived to his own within the mid-’90s using a single career. Though he previously released a single project as soon as 1990 (Peter Corey Sent Me on Dali/Chameleon), he documented only sporadically through the early ’90s, …

El Destroyo may be the brainchild of Jimmy Friedman, a veteran from the San Francisco choice scene dating back again to his times in the past due ’70s using the Wolverines. His business lead vocals differ in approach, with regards to the materials; sometimes he appears like a higher-pitched Lee …