Tag Archives: Instrumental Rock

Alongside Minnesota’s Trashmen, the Astronauts (from Colorado) were the leading landlocked Midwestern surf band of the ’60s. They documented several singles and albums and accomplished vast regional recognition, but only obtained one modest nationwide strike, “Baja.” With small material of their very own, they judiciously tapped heavyweights like Lee Hazelwood …

Though mainly overlooked throughout their fairly brief lifespan, Slint started to be probably one of the most influential and far-reaching bands to emerge from the American underground rock and roll community from the 1980s; innovative and iconoclastic, the group’s deft, extremist manipulations of quantity, tempo, and framework solid them as …

Through a brief career of two 45s and something full-length released on Absolutely Kosher, Telegraph Melts were able to make music which was inventive and complex. Instrumentation contains amplified cello, guitar, and percussion, a unusual lineup that supplied a welcome transformation of pace towards the post-rock picture. The Arlington, VA, …

Senor Spirit recorded some good spirit music, usually though not necessarily instrumental, in 1967-70 with Latin and funk tinges. That is the sort of music that Battle took to the very best of the graphs in the 1970s, as well as the similarities between your two rings aren’t a coincidence. …

A six-man, all-instrumental rock and roll & move combo, Noises Incorporated was among the 1st British rock and roll groups to accomplish a lot more than imitate Cliff Richard’s backing music group the Shadows, and finished up supporting several legendary performers while landing several British hits within their personal right. …

San Francisco’s politically astute post-rock trio From Monument to Public features vocalist/percussionist/drummer Francis Choung, guitarist/vocalist/programmer Matthew Solberg, and bassist/keyboardist/programmer/vocalist Sergio Robledo-Maderazo. The music group formed in past due 2000, when Solberg fulfilled Choung via an on the web bulletin plank for local music artists. The duo started playing jointly and …

Dark experimental instrumental post-rock music group Pivot were shaped in 1999 by brothers Laurenz Pike (drums, percussion) and Richard Pike (acoustic guitar, creation), but soon ballooned to some five-piece band using the improvements of Adrian Klumpes (key pad), Neal Sutherland (bass), and Dave Bowman (turntables). It might be de rigueur …

Another off-shoot of San Francisco’s noise/experimental rock picture, Natural Dreamers includes Deerhoof guitarists Chris Cohen and John Dieterich, and Dilute drummer/Deerhoof producer Jay Pellicci. The trio, whose sound extended on the varieties of their other organizations, released their self-titled debut recording on Frenetic in early 2004.

A prolific and genre-defying guitarist within the vein of six-string virtuosos like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Nuno Bettencourt, Chicago-born, NY City-based Joel Hoekstra is among the hardest functioning players for the hard rock and roll circuit. An in-demand program musician and touring person in Evening Ranger, Whitesnake, and Trans-Siberian …

The swirling guitars of Can Sergeant continues to be among Echo as well as the Bunnymen’s distinguishing characteristics because the band’s inception in 1978. In the beginning just playing a one-string acoustic guitar, Sergeant was influenced from the punk movement’s minimalist method of music. Nevertheless, Sergeant was also enamored of …