Tag Archives: Chris Connelly

The Bells certainly are a past due-’90s gathering of music artists from rings including Ministry, the Revolting Cocks, and Gastr del Sol, amongst others, leading to unexpectedly soft, lush, and introspective pop music. Called after the famous Albert Ayler launch on ESP as well as the Lou Reed recording that …

While traveling past a billboard advertising campaign to get a Panda Hut, Chris Connelly jokingly asked his bandmates if the Chinese buffet string served steaming panda bear on grain. This spawned the name Sizzling Panda — an properly cheeky name to get a cheeky indie pop group. With an accepted …

Arguably, the market leaders (plus some would say founders) from the industrial metal movement are Ministry, led simply by frontman/guitarist/producer Al Jourgensen. Created in Havana, Cuba, on Oct 7, 1959, Jourgensen and his family members ultimately relocated to america — 1st in Denver CO, before settling in Chicago, IL. In …

Rumor has it all the gents who all constitute Revolting Cocks discovered the name by their usual debauchery. Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen was out for a difficult night of taking in with some close friends, so hard which the bartender threw them out, declaring them a couple of revolting cocks. …

Scottish commercial dance-rockers Fini Tribe originally shaped in the middle-’80s, made up of members Chris Connelly, David Miller, Philip Pinsky, Simon McGlynn, Thomas McGregor, and John Vick. 1984 noticed the group’s 1st release, the Styling & Extending EP, adopted up by 1985’s Peel off Classes and such further EPs as …

While his contributions to Ministry, the Revolting Cocks, and Pigface have earned him a reputation being a ferocious industrial rocker, singer/songwriter Chris Connelly’s solo career has explored softer music that’s even more consistent with Nick Cave, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, as well as the afterwards function of Scott Walker. Blessed …

The Harm Manual are old, loud, and snotty — a post-punk/industrial all-star affair made up of legends which have pretty much caused one another sooner or later within their endlessly intersecting careers. Including picture pioneers Martin Atkins (PiL, Pigface), Jah Wobble (PiL), Geordie Walker (Getting rid of Joke), and Chris …

Moreau, formerly referred to as Cousteau, debuted in 1999 using a self-released, eponymous work showcasing their chocolate-smooth mixture of Bacharach-style songwriting with modernist flourishes of groove and consumer electronics. The brainchild of experienced songwriter and piano guy Davey Ray Moor, Cousteau also included lead vocalist Liam McKahey, guitarist Robin Dark …

The Washington, D.C., synth rock and roll group Soft Organic feature Shane German (vocals), Chris Connelly (electric guitar/tips), Full Dejong (drums), Mike Harbin (bass), and Alexia Kauffman (cello/keyboards). Developing a hypnotic brand-new wave-influenced audio that echoes the refined items of the Smiths, the Treat, and New Purchase, the indie rock …

Until Nine Inch Nails crossed to the mainstream, Ministry did a lot more than any other music group to popularize industrial dance music, injecting huge dosages of punky, over-the-top aggression and roaring rock electric guitar riffs that helped their music look for favor with steel and alternative viewers beyond industrial’s …