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The “trippy country meets stoner rock” of Vancouver’s Pink Mountaintops may be the brainchild of Stephen McBean, who’s also the singer/songwriter/guitarist for Dark Mountain, that was formerly referred to as Jerk using a Bomb. McBean’s single task was also known by another name, ONE PARTICULAR Skag. He started using Jerk …

MC Lars (true name: Andrew Nielsen) began building hip-hop-based tapes even though still a youngster, but was sidetracked from rap by such traditionally essential issues (to teens) as using guitar within a punk music group and finding accepted to some college. Nielsen visited Stanford and do an exchange stint at …

Playing a revved-up combination of punk, rockabilly, hard rock and roll, country, and soiled boogie, New Orleans natives Dash Rip Rock and roll are probably one of the most long lasting acts within the Southern “cowpunk” scene, playing rowdy, sweat-soaked displays and producing bold, raucous files more than a quarter-century …

Brooklyn’s darkly hypnotic rock outfit Vietnam may be the brainchild of vocalist/guitarist Michael Gerner and guitarist Josh Grubb. Upon finding that both had been motivated by Bob Dylan, the Moving Rocks, the Velvet Underground, and Sonic Youngsters, the pair started composing and playing music together, eventually growing into a complete …

A founding person in the groundbreaking Bauhaus, Shades on Tail, and Like and Rockets, guitarist, singer, and songwriter Daniel Ash distinguished himself in the wonderful world of alternative rock and roll through the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s. Ash was created in Northampton, Britain, on July 31, 1957. As a kid, …

Helstar was among America’s better kept rock secrets through the entire 1980s, composing a string of consummate LPs that earned the music group many critical accolades, but didn’t sell off in large amounts. Probably, the band’s continuous dealings with unreliable unbiased labels, coupled with incessant workers turnover, were the principle …

By age five, Nashville native KeAnthony Dillard was an associate of his family gospel group, dubbed the Gospel True Notes. Whatever potential he previously, musical or elsewhere, was sidetracked when he was convicted of aggravated robbery, a rsulting consequence being converted into law enforcement by his longtime companion. He spent …

Using their first hit in 1974 through their heyday within the ’80s, Daryl Hall and John Oates’ smooth, catchy undertake Philly soul brought them enormous commercial success — including six number 1 singles and six platinum albums. Hall & Oates’ music was amazingly well built and created; at their finest, …

A knack for firing off cutting-edge, observational laughter in a hyper speed took Dane Make from little comedy clubs towards the forefront of modern-day standup comedy within the 2000s. Given birth to on March 18, 1972, the Boston indigenous spent his teenagers learning the routines of previous and present comics, …

Man were perhaps one of the most promising rock and roll bands to emerge from Wales in the first ’70s. Alongside Brinsley Schwarz, they helped create the core from the pub rock and roll sound, however they performed louder and in addition had a intensifying element of their function that …