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Like many bands assembled to order by Shrapnel Records owner Mike Varney in the 1980s, Le Mans were built around a set of talented young guitar shredders in Chicago native Derek Frigo and Bay Area son Josh Ramos. But Le Mans — which also included vocalist Peter Marrino, bassist Richard …

A performing/recording designer and educator located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Andrew Bishop absolutely avoids a rigidly idiomatic method of jazz. The saxophonist/clarinetist’s wide-ranging perspective offers led him to traverse stylistic limitations in his personal projects while developing innovative alliances with collaborators over the jazz range, from Midwestern post-boppers to Brooklyn-based …

D.L. Hughley’s achievement story is one which runs parallel to numerous African-American entertainers from the 20th hundred years. Born in another of the roughest, impoverished, and crime-filled regions of the country (south central California), Hughley led a existence of juvenile delinquency and eventually ended up a part of one of …

The solid young Mississippi blues drummer Calvin Jackson began recording in the first ’80s and by the finish from the millennium had produce his own group and exciting direction, Calvin Jackson & Mississippi Bound and Goin’ Down South, respectively. Because of this effort for the Beatville Blues imprint, Jackson protected …

Composed of previous associates of 88 Fingertips Louie, King for the Day, and Tomorrow’s Eliminated, the five associates of the Tale So Far met up in July of 1999 and started playing shows using the Suicide Devices, Child Dynamite, and Boy Pieces Fire, amongst others. Thier debut EP, When Lot …

Trevor W has led many groups beneath the name Moiré Music, with all writing a concentrate on structure and globe rhythms in clear comparison to his previous involvement in Uk improvisation. These groupings have ranged in proportions from a trio to 14-piece group, starting being a ten-piece group in 1982. …

Feed started in 1995 when Maya Saito and Shinsuke Komiyama, both juniors at Tokyo’s International Christian College or university, began performing music collectively for fun like a duo; quickly, Akifumi Ikeda, who was simply a senior in the college or university and an associate of the music group Love Circus, …

Vocalist/songwriter Julia Dark brown was raised in Richmond, VA. The oldest of four kids, Brown’s mother provided her early contact with music through her are a classically educated pianist in an area gospel church. Beginning when she was just 12 years of age, she started composing, writing a huge selection …

Having uncovered dance music and DJing on the tail end of the initial disco era in 1979, Detroit local Mike Clark submerged himself in the early-’80s post-disco era and continuing developing his DJing skills through the entire ’80s and ’90s and in to the early 2000s among the Engine City’s …

Winston-Salem, NC’s Evoka Task comprises Matt Taylor, Bryan Ledbetter, Brian Knott, Pete Little, and Zack Plemmons. Taylor shaped the group with Ledbetter in-may 2000; Ledbetter, who also works the label Hero Documenting Co., got them some studio room time as well as the music group documented their debut EP, Stranger …