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The short-lived Atlanta septet the Ottoman Empire were sort of Georgia indie supergroup starring guitarist Bob Elsey (formerly of regional legends POOL Q’s), bassist Rob Gal (formerly from the jangle pop ironists the Coolies and music partner of former POOL Q’s singer Anne Richmond Boston), guitarist Tag Harper (ex-Bogues), his …

Mainly an interpreter, Minnesota-based Prudence Johnson has recorded songs for children in addition to adults.

Bursting onto the L.A. punk picture in 1985 just like the proverbial breathing of oxygen, self-proclaimed Jewish lesbian folksinger Phranc provides perhaps one of the most gorgeous vocal instruments available. Delivered Susan Gottlieb in LA in 1957, Phranc started being a folksinger within the ’70s before signing up for L.A. …

Martin Luther Lennon (MLL) may be the stage name of Los Angeles-based force pop singer/songwriter Tony Perkins. (He certainly couldn’t make use of his true name without obtaining baffled with the man who performed Norman Bates, therefore he took his stage deal with from an interview with Paul McCartney where …

b. 1959, Cannock, Staffordshire, Britain. Influenced by T. Rex, Lloyd performed in several rings that under no circumstances escaped the rehearsal space. He left college at age 16 and began to follow the Sex Pistols around on the Anarchy Tour. At among the displays he persuaded a promoter to provide …

Irish given birth to, United States-based singer/songwriter Tag Dignam crafts available, politically billed, witty, and reflective observations of life, love, and death within the spirit of Vehicle Morrison, Billy Bragg, John Wesley Harding, and Josh Ritter. Originally a Dublin busker (alongside Structures/Swell Period frontman Glenn Hansard), Dignam released many albums …

John Wesley Harding might take his name from a Bob Dylan album and become a modern-day folksinger, but with the biting, cynical observations in his music and a clear love of life combined with being successful melodies, he implies that his true forefathers are Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe using …

LA power pop singer/songwriter/guitarist Walter Clevenger includes a rootsy, laid-back audio highly similar to Nick Lowe and Rockpile. Clevenger was raised listening to nation music and found out the Beatles in 4th grade, later on branching into power pop and developing a music group in senior high school. Nonetheless it …

Dutch songwriter/guitarist Advertisement van Meurs began playing keyboards inside a folk-rock music group called Deirdre within the mid-’70s. Following the punk trend, he turned to acoustic guitar and created the punk music group Bleistift. By the first ’80s, the group experienced become an experimental sound music group, including vehicle Meurs’s …

Lemonheads vocalist/guitarist/songwriter (and sometimes drummer) Evan Dando was among option rock’s most publicized performers through the early ’90s, before medicines derailed his profession and nearly killed him. Given birth to on March 4, 1967 and elevated within the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts, Dando experienced gravitated toward such important ’80s punk …