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Vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist T-Model Ford (Wayne Lewis Carter Ford) played a raw-edged, visceral design of blues from your Mississippi Delta, accompanied most of the time by his drummer, Spam (Tommy Lee Kilometers). Ford captured a rest when he exposed on a nationwide tour for Friend Man and his music …

Created in Münster, Germany in 1991, H-Blockx was a punk-tinged alternative steel band named following Irish slang for high-security prison cells. The band’s preliminary lineup featured vocalist/rapper Henning “MC-H” Wehland, guitarist Tim Tenambergen, bassist Stefan “Gudze” Hinz, and drummer Johann-Christoph “Mason” Maass; vocalist/rapper David Gappa was added in 1992. The …

Japanese dance innovator DJ Honda continues to be crafting his funkadelic hip-hop slicing and dicing since his past due teens, yearning to try out as much as American stylings of rock music. Such inspiration led him to try out guitar using the music group Clique, however they didn’t accomplish the …

The band Red Mountain, made up of West Coastline music artists Sam Coomes (keys, vocals), Kyle Bruckmann (twice reeds, analog synth), Scott Rosenberg (reeds), John Shiurba (guitar, bass), and Gino Robair (drums), most of whom are in various other music projects, released their self-titled debut, an assortment of prog, rock, …

Biographers of Georgia Tom Dorsey prefer to help to make comments such as for example “his existence was a full time income testimony of the energy of God.” But there is also the trashy part to the person, expressed greatest in song game titles such as for example “Terrible Procedure …

When NY retro-funk label Desco shut its doorways, co-founder Phillipe Lehman started up a fresh label, Spirit Fire, that was dedicated to launching only the type of rough, organic, lower-fidelity funk Lehman recommended. Calypso Ruler & the Spirit Investigators were the very first music group to concern a full-length record …

Upgrading the rural blues tradition for the present day era, Man Davis was being among the most prominent ambassadors of African-American art and culture of his generation, additionally earning great acclaim for his function in the theatre. The son from the mentioned stars, directors, and activists Ossie Davis and Ruby …

His extroverted antics and multi-colored fright hairpiece might invite the moment dismissal of Cincinnati-based singer Robert “H-Bomb” Ferguson as some kind of comic light-weight. The truth is, he’s among the last survivors from the leap blues period whose once-slavish Wynonie Harris imitations possess mellowed right into a extremely unique vocal …

Garage rock and roll trio Capsula shaped in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1998, fusing the Southern American psychedelia of Os Mutantes as well as the significantly less well-known rings that appear about those grey-market compilations of vintage ’60s Southern American singles using the twin passions of English glam rock and …

Essentially an effort simply by former Pantera frontman (and frontman for Superjoint Ritual and Straight down) Phil Anselmo to revisit the times of ‘pure’ hardcore, Arson Anthem (which not merely harnessed the hardcore sound, but wrapped it along with a wholesome dose of sludge) released their debut EP, the eight …