Tag Archives: Contemporary Pop/Rock

Duo formed in Chalmette, Louisiana, USA, a little town around the advantage of New Orleans, in the first 90s. Al Hodge (acoustic guitar, bass, vocals) and Tag Talamo (drums, consumer electronics) became close friends in senior high school ten years previously, sharing passions in both traditional rock and technology. Nevertheless, …

Solidly in the classic AOR tradition, Atlantic musicians Phil Bates (lead vocals, electric guitar, keyboards), Simon Harrison (electric guitar, keyboards), Glen Williams (keyboards), Chris Taylor (keyboards), Paul Hoare (bass) and Andy Van Evans (acoustic guitar) represent an unfashionably large musical nucleus, complicated simply by the actual fact that drummer Andy …

The collapse of Jagged Edge led Myke Gray (b. 12 Might 1968, Fulham, London, Britain; guitar) to create Taste with Jagged Edge bass participant Andy Robbins, ex-Kooga vocalist and guitarist Neville MacDonald (b. Ynysybwl, Pontypridd, Wales) and drummer Dicki Fliszar, previously with Bruce Dickinson’s live music group, in 1991. Rory …

Produced in 1991, Captain America was one of the rings to emerge in the flourishing milieu centred over the Scottish town of Bellshill. Vocalist/guitarist Eugene Kelly and bass participant James Seenan had been former members from the Vaselines, as the primary line-up also highlighted BMX Bandits guitarist Gordon Eager and …

Shaped in Blackburn, Lancashire, UK indie rock-band the Burn off was founded in 2001 by Daniel Davidson (guitar/vocals), Michael Spencer (guitar/vocals), Graham Rodgerson (guitar), Jason Place (bass), and Lee Walsh (drums/vocals). After attempting around the neighborhood indie circuit to discover the best section of a season, the band had been …

This Los Angeles-based quartet, formed in 1978 by Jeanette Chase (vocals), Lear Stevens (guitar), Ronni Hansen (bass) and David Devon (drums), played hi-tech hard-rock, seen as a Lear’s Brian May-like guitar sound and the powerful vocals of Chase. They included components of Queen, Truck Halen and Styx within complicated, and …

Rhoda Daker (a ex – person in UK group the Bodysnatchers) briefly teamed up using the Particular AKA in 1981. The next year, they supported her in the above mentioned cooperation on “The Boiler”. This outstanding song about intimate attitudes towards females, chillingly evoked an attempted rape, finishing using a …

Formerly referred to as Satan, this Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England band became Pariah in 1988, feeling that their original name may have resulted in misconceptions concerning their style. These were never a genuine black-metal clothing, as their primary moniker recommended, but were rather area of the New Influx Of British ROCK picture. …

This speed-metal trio from NY, USA, was formed by guitarist John De Leon in 1983. Enlisting the solutions of vocalist/bassist Vincent Paul and drummer A.T. Soldier, they produced their vinyl fabric debut having a monitor on Mausoleum’s sampler recording, Metallic Over America, in 1985. Rolling Thunder, made by Rods drummer …

Created in Moscow, Russia, in 1985, Shah include Antonio Garcia (vocals, guitar), Anatoly Krupnov (bass) and Andrei Sazanov (drums). The group had been pioneers of thrash metallic in the USSR and drawn the interest of Velerie Gaina, guitarist with fellow Soviet music group, Kruiz. Gaina helped Shah record their 1st …