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Despite his own solo successes, Tobin Sprout will most likely always be referred to as the onetime four-track wizard and songwriting sidekick to Robert Pollard in Ohio’s lo-fi pop kings Guided by Voices. Though much less prolific than his manager, followers of the group had been quick to observe Sprout’s …

This intriguing early-’70s Southern Californian group featured the talents of singer/songwriter Merrell Fankhauser (who was simply also on the helm of cult classics in the ’60s by Fapardokly and HMS Bounty) and Jeff Cotton, previously slide guitarist with Captain Beefheart. Their lone record (from 1971) is normally a gem from …

Saxophonist Jon Raskin was created in 1954 in Heppner, OR. He examined structure with Dr. Barney Childs and Allaudin Mathieu and saxophone with John Handy, and in the ’70s, helped discovered San Francisco’s substitute art areas the Blue Dolphin as well as the Plantation. Raskin was music movie director from …

Dabbling in complex, heavily hybridized types of from ambient, techno, and dub to rock and roll, jazz, and jungle, German post-techno duo Mouse button on Mars was the mixed effort of Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner (of Köln and Düsseldorf, respectively). Mouse on Mars created in 1993, apparently when …

The electronic-based post-industrial duo Electric motor make sense within the Mute label’s roster. Mr. Nô (from Paris, France) and Bryan Dark (from Minneapolis, MN) fulfilled when the last mentioned saw the previous playing drums at a place in London, Britain. Ahead of 2006’s Klunk, the initial Motor record, the duo …

A co-employee of London experimentalists Nurse With Wound as well as the wife of this outfit’s Steven Stapleton, vocalist Chrystal Belle Scrodd (actual name: Diane Rogerson) released The Inevitable Chrystal Belle Scrodd Record in 1985 about United Dairies. Another recording, Belle de Jour, implemented the next season. In 1987, Scrodd …

Of all jazz music artists, Sun Ra was essentially the most controversial. He didn’t make it possible for people to consider him significantly, for he encircled his ambitious music with outfits and mythology that both appeared backward toward historic Egypt and forwards into research fiction. Furthermore, Ra recorded his music …

Using their trance-evoking mixture of psychedelic blues-rock and folk music, Träd, Gräs och Stenar (Trees, Grass and Stones) played a central move in the introduction of progressive rock and roll in Scandinavia in the first ’70s. These were also one of the primary, and best-sounding, types of the idea that …

The witty theatrical sound from the Lovely Feathers came together in 2004 with Richard Yanofsky (guitar/vocals), Tag Kupfert (guitars/vocals), Noah Bernamoff (bass), Dan Suss (keyboards), and Ted Suss (drums). The conditions that resulted in the Lovely Feathers’ formation just enhance the Montreal group’s exclusive indie rock and roll display. Yanofsky …

An intriguing roots-based folk and blues songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, and key pad participant, Peter Karp spent his youth break up between Leonia, NJ, and a truck park in Business, AL, eventually breaking in to the community music picture in NY as a teenager with They Originated from Homes, a genre-mixing …