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Toto Miranda, Josh Lambert, and Yvonne Lambert will be the primary members from the junky, dirty, hook-heavy electronic trio referred to as the Octopus Task. On-stage, the group change between musical instruments, including drums, guitars, and consumer electronics; additionally, Yvonne has a Theremin. The group’s lively stage existence and exclusive …

Modern gospel’s preeminent group, the Mighty Clouds of Pleasure carried the torch for the original quartet vocal design throughout a time dominated by single acts and choirs; pioneering a distinctively funky audio that as time passes gained grudging approval actually among purists, they forced religious music in fresh and unpredicted …

For an interval in the 1920s, Miff Mole was (before the introduction of Jack Teagarden) the innovative trombonist in jazz. He previously gained a solid reputation using the initial Memphis Five (beginning in 1922) and his many recordings with Crimson Nichols during 1926-1927 discovered him taking uncommon period jumps with …

This Indiana group was still in senior high school if they were tapped with the Strangeloves production team of Feldman-Goldstein-Gottehrer as a car because of their material in 1965. Their initial effort, “Hold on Sloopy,” was a monster number 1 smash, constructed around a riff and chorus that rates with …

Like Dave Edmunds, guitarist/pianist/vocalist Mickey Jupp was a champ of traditional rock and roll & roll through the past due ’70s, a period when it turned out basically discarded. Unlike Edmunds, Jupp composed nearly all his own materials, which up to date ’50s rock and roll & roll using a …

Like Gogol Bordello and Flogging Molly, New Orleans quintet the Zydepunks pull from two divergent styles — folk and punk — to produce music that pushes traditional limitations without abandoning its origins. The group, known because of its manic interpretations of Western and Louisiana folk music and a multilingual repertoire …

Although this duo is mainly remembered being a one-hit act — for “Like Is Strange,” which reached number 11 in 1957 — they in fact recorded a number of exciting hybrids of R&B and rock and roll & move in the mid- and later ’50s. Playing on countless ’50s periods …

Tejano vocalist/accordionist Michael Salgado gained prominence in the mid-’90s by seeking back again to the norteño audio influenced by Ramon Ayala, and introduced the design to younger era. He arranged his backing music group — brothers Ernie and Adam on electric guitar and drums, respectively, with bass participant Joe Tanguma …

A local of Chicago, IL, Michael Manson took curiosity about the guitar at age 14. Influenced with the music of Al Jarreau and intrigued with the technique of Jarreau’s bass participant Abe Laboriel, Manson’s like of music shortly began to change to the bass electric guitar. At 15, he and …

Because the mid-’70s, Michael Doucet continues to be among the dominant statistics from the Cajun music revival, respected for his scholarship or grant and admired for his showmanship. On the main one hands, Doucet dredges up historic Cajun music with middle ages French root base, and on the various other, …