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Delivering tough but hook-laden pop/rock and roll with lyrics that combine the witty as well as the cynical, the Pittsburgh-based group the Breakup Culture grab where leader Ed Masley’s former group, the Frampton Brothers still left off…actually. The Break up Society’s story started when vocalist, tempo guitarist, and songwriter Masley, …

Named for the classic album with the Flamin’ Groovies, Tremble Some Action! is certainly a music group from Seattle, WA, steeped in the affects of common pop in the ’60s through the ’90s. Tremble Some Actions! was produced by vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Adam Hall, an Australian émigré who gained …

First noticed in 1998, the band Polbo came collectively when five college students from the College or university of Puerto Rico in Humacao began combining their love of ’60s icons just like the Doorways as well as the Beatles and with the ’90s sounds of Weezer and Nirvana. After 2 …

Now unfortunately relegated to footnote position, England’s Fingerprintz were mostly of the bands that lent trustworthiness towards the marketing-inspired expression “fresh wave.” Produced by Scottish-born vocalist/guitarist Jimmie O’Neill in 1978, the ‘Printz slowed up punk’s careening electric guitar rock, adding smart, rhythmic twists and transforms, and providing up deftly created …

To check out the career of Researchers is, essentially, to check out the career of Kim Salmon, probably one of the most lively musical skills to emerge from Australia in the 1970s. Not really that he was the only person. Nick Cave, for instance, may have produced even more of …

Just like the Welsh outfit McLusky, British rockers Beachbuggy draw directly from the zany, golden punk of the first Pixies. But while McLusky functions more using their forebears’ inclination towards revved-up psycho-sexual venom, Beachbuggy will go the tweaked, punk, browse rock path. Infamous for pulling up within a truck and …

This NY City-based psychedelic/garage rock combo played a big role in the mostly underground ’60s revival through the 1980s. Led from the enigmatic Rudi Protrudi, the Fuzztones had been among the main “successes” (especially in European countries) from the revival that flourished in 1984 which also boasted the Chesterfield Kings, …

Often tagged simply because garage rock revivalists, the Fleshtones mix the fuzz electric guitar and Farfisa organ sounds of this genre with rockabilly, ’50s and ’60s R&B, and surf right into a potent retro stew the group loves to contact “very rock.” The group produced in 1976 in Queens, NY …

This band is quite on top of the “whatever occurred to…” list. Sometimes they used such ferocity and comprehensive over-the-top abandon that it had been an easy task to proclaim them one of the better English rings in age range. But after three information (all excellent) and about five years …

Among the least-known & most inventive of free of charge jazz pianists was Richard Grossman. Though he arrived up in a relatively regular jazz lineage in Philadelphia, going out and using Jimmy Garrison, Henry Grimes, and Odean Pope. Hearing Ornette Coleman and the brand new Viennese college of composers transformed …