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Shaped in 1999, Cigarbox Planetarium–guitarist Andy Charneco and keyboardist Deanna Pineda–plays self-proclaimed “lounge-bossa-tiki-surf-a-nova-spaghetti-westernish-instrumental-pop.” Both began performing instrumental covers like the theme from “THE NICE, the Bad as well as the Ugly,” “Telstar” by English ’60s instrumental music group the Tornados and many bossa nova functions by Antonio Carlos Jobim. The …

A Southwestern alternative rock and roll supergroup of sorts, Arizona’s Close friends of Dean Martinez features past and present people of Giant Fine sand, Calexico, and Naked Victim. Giant Sand head Howe Gelb, though not really a person in the group, has guest keyboards on the debut record, The Shadow …

Composer, bandleader, and inventor Raymond Scott was among the unheralded pioneers of modern experimental music, a physique whose genius and impact have seeped nearly subliminally in to the mass cultural awareness. Like a visionary whose name is basically unfamiliar but whose music is usually instantly recognizable, Scott’s was a profession …

A mostly instrumental browse/lounge/film/bossa nova/pop/golf swing/rock and roll combo from Allston, MA, Seks Bomba is somewhere within the frantic genre hopping of Daring Combo as well as the tongue-in-cheek kitsch of the fellow New Englanders Combustible Edison. The group produced in 1996, naming themselves following the just expression guitarist George …

Buster Poindexter was the pseudonym rock and roll vocalist David Johansen adopted within the mid-’80s for the semi-comic nightclub vocalist act he begun to perform. Eschewing his hard rock and roll solo profession — which implemented a stint as business lead singer of the brand new York Dolls — Johansen …

Because the vibraphonist for Martin Denny’s group, Lyman was instrumental in crafting the audio of exotica. Lyman didn’t stick with Denny for lengthy, however, departing the ensemble in 1957 to start out a solo profession which was almost as effective as Denny’s. To no one’s shock, Lyman’s albums sounded like …

Anita Kerr was the vocal embodiment from the “Nashville Audio” which dominated nation music through the entire mid-’50s and ’60s. Combined with the Jordanaires, her group, the Anita Kerr Performers, had been the seminal support vocal unit from the era, which is approximated that at their early-’60s maximum, they graced …

Mello Cads were formed in LA, CA, by late-night radio-show sponsor, concert promoter, and record-label exec David Ponak. Ponak experienced long wanted to front side his own smooth rock-lounge group, portraying himself like a jet-setting playboy cad; and quickly had done that, encircling himself having a talented group offering local …

Shaped in 1990 by two former punk rockers, Like Jones match the so-called “cocktail nation” of the first ’90s. In a few ways a a reaction to the grunge/substitute influx that swept through America in 1992, the people from the cocktail country celebrated the looks and music from the ’50s …

Tri-continental ambient lounge group the Mild Folks are a bizarre amalgam of influences and affinities, combining the esoteric club tradition from the 1990s using the cocktails-and-tiki-trinkets kitsch from the 1950s, hitting almost every chance for nostalgic, cheesball second-hand embarrassment among. Signed within the U.K. to Richard “Aphex Twin” Wayne’ Rephlex …