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The Books’ story began in 2000, when Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong met through a pal in NEW YORK. Sharing similar passions but differing backgrounds in acoustic music and discovered audio, Zammuto and de Jong experimented and plunked apart with a variety of melody, consumer electronics, and ethereal atmospherics. …

Grand Corps Malade was the alias of People from france rapper and metropolitan poet Fabien Marsaud, something of Paris’ difficult north suburb Seine-Saint-Denis given birth to July 31, 1977. A diving incident experienced on his 20th birthday remaining Marsaud permanently handicapped, uplifting the Grand Corps Malade moniker — approximately translated, …

Within a business that reinvents itself at every turn, Alex Chilton thrived for four decades using a three-fold career — his early recordings using the Box Tops, the albums he did with Big Star within the middle-’70s and following the group re-formed with a fresh lineup in 1993, as well …

Alan Sparhawk and his wife Mimi Parker shaped the minimalist slowcore group Lower in 1993 to counter-top the then-burgeoning grunge picture of Duluth, MN. As vocalist and guitarist, Sparhawk led the important indie clothing to more common attention using the much-lauded Points We Lost within the Fire, as well as …

Saxophonist/flutist/vocalist Arthur Doyle is hardly by itself in his placement being a marginal jazz body. In an talent known because of its many studies and tribulations (both creative and economic), Doyle hasn’t produced his circumstance any less complicated by wanting to carve one path across the music’s outskirts. The actual …

Building on an extraordinary technique along with a fertile creativity, France trombonist Yves Robert has generated an extremely personal world which sometimes expands beyond the confines of jazz but never bows to style. Yves Robert examined flute and trombone on the Music Conservatory in Vichy. Early in his profession, Robert …

Progressive metallic outfit No Hour was shaped in the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay area in 1993 by brothers Troy (bass) and Jasun Tipton (guitar), alongside longtime friend Mike Man (drums). The visit a vocalist appeared to be over when Frank Mendez (previously of Rogue’s Gallery) became a member of …

Among Japan’s more eccentric and intriguing great music exports from the past due ’80s and ’90s, self-professed “progressive hardcore trio” Zeni Geva (their name derives from a historical Japanese term for “cash” along with a corruption from the German “gewalt,” or assault) forcibly fused components of rock, hardcore, industrial music, …

The Archers of Loaf were darlings from the indie world in the first to middle-’90s, because of an off-kilter sound which was edgy and challenging, yet melodically accessible at exactly the same time. Cornerstones from the Chapel Hill, NC, indie picture that also spawned Superchunk and Polvo, the Archers’ main …

Dutch multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen continues to be involved in a variety of tasks in his two-decade-plus profession. Perhaps most obviously among these was rock band Vengeance within the 1980s, and in the ’90s, the steadily experimental Ayreon, whose every record featured visitor vocalists like Kingdom Come’s Lenny Wolfe, Marillion’s …