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The Orange Alabaster Mushroom is really a one-man band project by Ottawa, Ontario-based singer/songwriter Greg Watson. While an associate from the Fiends (not really the LA punk group, but several Ottawa-based garage area rockers), Watson started recording his personal, more psychedelically affected solo materials in early 1991. Although Watson continuing …

Originally referred to as “the Annoying Thing,” the helium-voiced, bluish-gray, anatomically correct CGI lump Crazy Frog became a pop culture epidemic in Europe and specifically the U.K., with ringtones, Television commercials, pop tracks, and other styles of (over)publicity. Though Crazy Frog mania started its momentum in 2004, the character’s creation …

After goth pioneers the PARTY called it quits in 1983, singer/songwriter Nick Cave assembled the Poor Seeds, a post-punk supergroup offering former PARTY guitarist Mick Harvey on drums, ex-Magazine bassist Barry Adamson, and Einstürzende Neubauten guitarist Blixa Bargeld. Using the Poor Seeds, Cave continuing to explore his obsessions with religious …

The slick electro-rock sounds from the Heaven Boys feature Jeff Fare (vocals/synthesizer), Bertie Pearson (drums/vocals), Ian Zazueta (guitar), Andrew Burmeister (bass), and Lindsey Byrnes (synthesizer). Hailing from SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, the Heaven Boys initially began like a DJ collective with Pearson and Fare in 2003. Two singles, “Gonna CAUSE …

Best remembered for his or her 1964 smash “Breads and Butter,” Nashville pop vocal trio the Newbeats teamed singer Larry Henley with brothers Dean and Tag Mathis. The Mathises previously performed because the duo Dean & Tag, notching a strike in 1959 using the solitary “SIMPLY TELL HIM No”; 3 …

Led by singer and guitarist Greg Strzempka, Raging Slab is well known because of its highly exclusive Southern-rock boogie sound, with affects from punk and steel. Area of the group’s effect comes from slip guitarist Elyse Steinman, who acts as a rhythmic anchor and occasionally adds consistency — unusual features …

Filling up the void remaining from the breakup of Fresh Turf Revival, Radio Flyer combines solid musicianship having a newgrass appear. The band contains guitarist Dudly Murphy, fiddler and mandolinist David Wilson, bassist Steve Duede, and banjoist Roger Matthews.

Following end of the underachieving glam supergroup Plane in 1976, the air Stars were produced by ex-John’s Children vocalist Andy Ellison,Sparks exile Martin Gordon (bass, songwriting), and Ian MacLeod (guitar) in 1977. Afterwards adding Steve Perry on drums, the group agreed upon to Chiswick Information and released its debut record, …

Inspired just as much by breakfast cereal and kiddie TV as by rock music, punk-pop cult group Redd Kross had been the brainchild of Steve and Jeff McDonald, brothers in the LA suburb of Hawthorne (also residential of the Shore Boys) who started playing music together before either acquired strike …

German hip-hop group Massive Töne began in the first ’90s, when close friends Schowi (Jean-Christoph Ritter) and Ju (João dos Santos), inspired by performers just like the Beastie Young boys, Public Enemy, as well as the Ultramagnetic MC’s, made a decision to begin rapping themselves. Quickly Wasi (Wasi Ntuanoglu) and …