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The archetypal sex kitten, Brigitte Bardot was the first foreign-language star ever to achieve an even of international success much like America’s most widely used homegrown talents. As the the greater part of her movies didn’t rank also remotely near to the greatest of her indigenous France’s prodigious New Wave-era …

Stevie Question is really a much-beloved American icon and an indisputable genius not merely of R&B but popular music generally. Blind practically since delivery, Wonder’s heightened knowing of audio helped him generate vibrant, colourful music teeming with existence and ambition. Almost everything he documented bore the stamp of his sunlit, …

Recognized to some as “the Seaside Boys from the Midwest,” the Boys NEARBY were one of the relatively few competent emulators from the Seaside Boys/Jan & Dean vocal/warm rod/surf sound, and certainly among the few competent emulators to emerge from beyond California. Created in Indianapolis, they released several singles in …

In the first days of British psychedelia, three bands were consistently cited as first-generation figureheads from the London-based underground sound: Green Floyd, the Soft Machine, and Tomorrow. Green Floyd became superstars as well as the Soft Machine important cult legends, but Tomorrow is mainly remembered (if) for offering Steve Howe …

Called for the cheerfully rude “raspberry” noise created by blowing with the lips and tongue, Bronx Cheer was a good-time Uk rock and roll outfit who started playing away in the first ’60s because the Jug Trust. Made up of Brian Cookman (electric guitar, harmonica, and vocals), John Reed (electric …

Tommy Wayne & the Shondells — the reference to their name, even to a person who doesn’t really find out their music, evokes pictures of dances and the type of fun that rock and roll & move represented before it redefined itself on much more serious conditions. And between 1966 …

Pub rock and roll, the English root base rock and roll motion of the first ’70s, could not have got earned a cult following if it wasn’t for Brinsley Schwarz. Primarily, Brinsley Schwarz was a rambling, neo-psychedelic folk-rock music group that borrowed seriously from Crosby, Stills & Nash as well …

Created in Stockholm by childhood friends Adam Olenius (vocals), Ted Malmros (bass), and Carl von Arbin (guitars), RAISE YOUR VOICE Louds discovered a global audience through the early 2000s making use of their peppy Swedish pop. The lineup started taking form in 2001, with drummer Eric Edman and keyboardist Bebban …

Songwriter Kate Earl was raised in Chugiak, Alaska, where she began her profession by mixing the phrasing of Kitty Power and Björk using the folk-chanteuse impact of Joni Mitchell. Although greatly associated with her regional church, Earl relocated to LA in 2004 and quickly produced an impression out, rating airplay …

Brenton Wood’s charmingly unpredictable phrasing and his infectious feeling of memories made the steady uptown spirit of “The Oogum Boogum Melody” and “Gimme Small Indication” into strikes in 1967. Despite his skill being a pop-soul vocalist, Hardwood was never in a position to match such levels again, however those two …