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Having a Southern rock-influenced make of metallic that incorporates punk, grunge, and pure melodic hard rock and roll in to the blender, Texas Hippie Coalition at their finest appear to be Molly Hatchet and Charlie Daniels crossed with Pantera running after the rock and roll ghost of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Their …

The jazz avant-garde has produced a large number of notable improvisers (and in addition, since improvisation is arguably the music’s defining element) but relatively few great composers. Henry Threadgill is certainly a member of this exclusive club. Along with his fellow Chicagoans Anthony Braxton and Muhal Richard Abrams, he’s perhaps …

Vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist D. Charles Speer may be the followed moniker of Dave Shuford, an associate from the infamous No-Neck Blues Music group from Brooklyn, NY. He writes root base Americana songs in the weird aspect of American lifestyle, causing the past, representing today’s, and predicting the near future …

Sketching from emo, indie rock and roll, avant electronica, and more, Chicago-based indie rapper Serengeti gained a reputation to be an immensely prolific writer, evidenced by his barrage of long-players, all imbued along with his oddball personality and abstract rhymes. Given birth to David Cohn, the whimsical MC spent most …

Delivered in Kinshasa, People from france hip-hopper Youssoupha is an associate of the African music legacy. Child of Congolese rumba forefather Tabu Ley Rochereau, often called “Seigneur Ley,” maybe it’s stated that Youssoupha was destined for musical greatness. Though extremely influential, Youssoupha’s contact with his father’s musical genius was short-lived. …

Although hugely effective in Germany, Berlin-based rapper RAF Camora was originally from Switzerland. Blessed in Vevey in June, 1984, Camora — recognized to his Italian mom and Austrian dad as ‎Raphael Ragucci — immersed himself in hip-hop lifestyle from his early teenagers. Originally rapping in French, he helped type several …

A fantastic and highly interesting singer/songwriter who’s based in NEW YORK, Curtis Eller has successfully brought a number of affects to his unorthodox folk-rock eyesight. The banjo-playing Eller’s function comes with an old-time experience, drawing on a good amount of immediate or indirect affects in the ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s …

San Francisco’s “drum punk” trio Mi Ami feature guitarist/vocalist Daniel Martin-McCormick, bassist Jacob Long, and drummer Damon Palermo. Martin-McCormick and Long originated from Dischord’s kinetic, percussive group Dark Eye, who disbanded in 2004; both wanted to consider their music within a freer path, and played jointly briefly as the free …

Letting loose an instant assault of fierce rhymes, Montreal-by-way-of-Florida rapper Bleubird appears to employ a quantity of different rap personas — witty, sarcastic hipster, nerdcore lyricist, off-the-wall comedian, and zealous anti-establishmentarian. His out-from-left-field musical sensibilities, that are equivalent parts B-boy swagger and indie rock and roll experimentalist, add depth to …

Wetdog, an indie pop trio whose gritty, puckish music provide a nod to Lung Lower leg, Huggy Bear, as well as the Raincoats, created in the springtime of 2007 round the skills of guitarist Rivka Gillieron (previously of Reverend Pike & the Spirits), drummer Sarah Datblygo (also from the Spirits), …