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Another product from the indie pop hotbed of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, Wolfie’s origins date to nov 1991, when bassist/singer Joe Ziemba and singer/guitarist Mike Downey 1st met in senior high school. Despite common musical passions, both performed in separate rings for another couple of years, with Downey quickly becoming a member …

A smooth jazz keyboardist, Marcus Johnson incorporates the rhythms of rap using the spirit of R&B. Johnson was raised listening to a wide selection of music: his mom played traditional piano and his initial memorable concert knowledge was viewing an Earth, Breeze & Fire present with his dad. His curiosity …

The Detroit-based indie pop group Godzuki formed in 1993 from the band members’ shared passion for science and new wave music. Vocalist/keyboardist Erika Hoffman, drummer Scott Michalski, guitarist/bassist Chris Fachini, and guitarist Dion Fischer performed in additional Detroit-area indie rock and roll bands such as for example His Name Is …

A moniker lifted from the Aged Testament by overall performance designer/multi-instrumentalist John Ringhofer, Half-Handed Cloud specializes in creating economically organic pop. His tenure using the quirky Wookieback over, Ringhofer offers carved out a distinctive market for himself along with his insistence on seriously truncated song constructions. Equipped with a 1960s …

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA duo Girls produce druggy, ethereal play the nature of Spiritualized and Ariel Green. Christopher Owens was created in Florida to a mom and dad who were positively mixed up in Kids of God cult, and spent the majority of his years as a child drifting. After …

Proclaimed the International Ambassador of Nation Music because of his performances all over the world through the 1970s, George Hamilton IV started his job in the past due ’50s much less a country artist but being a teen-oriented pop star. After his initial strike, “A Rose and an infant Ruth,” …

Studied piano with Madame Maurina-Press, comp. with Wallingford Riegger, Stefan Wolpe. Was Edgard Varése Teacher at State School of NY at Buffalo. Began visual works, with open up pitch and tempo, and music “clear of a compositional rhetoric” in early ’50s, eg. Buildings for string quartet (1951). Music with pitches …

The world’s cutest band, St. Louis-based cuddlecore trio Bunnygrunt originally comprised guitarist Matt Harnish, drummer Karen Ried, and bassist Renee Dullum, all three of whom swapped vocal responsibilities. Created in early 1993, the group debuted later on that year using the Silly Moo label solitary “Criminal Young man”; some other …

Before ’70s superstardom, also before Humble Pie, Peter Frampton got his first taste of celebrity being a singer and guitarist in the Herd, who chalked up several hits in Britain in 1967 and 1968. Frampton was just 17 when the one “Through the Underworld” went in to the British TOP …

Keyboardist/arranger “Captain” Daryl Dragon and his wife, vocalist/pianist Toni Tennille, scored some pop/rock strikes within a light, intimate vein in the next half from the 1970s, one of the most successful which was the initial, “Love COULD KEEP Us Jointly.” The few met in the summertime of 1971, when Dragon …