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Transmitting, aka the Transmitting Trio, was originally a quartet formed in Ann Arbor, MI, in the mid ’90s, even though most of its users were going to the University or college of Michigan College of Music. Saxophonist/clarinetist Colin Stetson, clarinetist Stuart Bogie, bassist Eric Perney, and drummer Andrew Kitchen gigged …

In another of the odder episodes of past due-’60s English pop/rock, ex-Zombies lead singer Colin Blunstone issued three singles beneath the pseudonym of Neil MacArthur. The 45s boasted grandiose orchestral creation (by Mike Hurst) even more bombastic than anything the Zombies experienced released. Yet these were similar for some from …

A singer, songwriter, and guitarist who eventually began releasing music under his personal name, Richard Edwards was most widely known throughout his twenties for the bittersweet indie rock and roll of his music group Margot & the Nuclear Thus and So’s. Called after the personality Margot Tenenbaum in the Wes …

Prolific indie singer/songwriter Josh Woodward represents the quintessential self-made artist of the web age. Since 2004, the Findley, Ohio indigenous provides documented and released almost twelve albums of thoughtful, well-crafted folk pop, providing everything free of charge from his internet site. Now located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the talented multi-instrumentalist …

Rhythm Fantasy includes performers/songwriters Marylin Lo and Reiko Nishida. Lo, an American of Taiwanese/Japanese descent, fulfilled Nishida in 1998 while she was functioning as an British instructor in Japan. The duo after that contacted manufacturer/instrumentalist Tatsuhiko Watanabe, who acquired placed a categorized ad for feminine singers. They started collaborating on …

“Bayeté” is one of the musical monikers particular by composer and keyboardist Todd Cochran, as well as the name he utilized to headline two albums for Prestige in the 1970s. Cochran was created and elevated in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. He was a musical prodigy who was simply giving traditional …

The quietly magnificent L.A. indie pop music group Let’s Proceed Sailing created in 2002 and released their nice but world-weary debut, The Chaos to be able, in Apr 2007. The years between weren’t spent holed up inside a studio room perfecting subtle tunes: vocalist/songwriter Shana Levy, as well as guitarist …

U.K. music group Mumm-Ra (called after a ThunderCats personality) is normally guitarist Adam “Tate” Arguile, bassist/vocalist Niall Buckler, business lead vocalist/guitarist Adam “Noo” New, guitarist/vocalist Oli Frost, and drummer Gareth Jennings followed by live keyboardist Tommy B. The associates produced the group while schoolmates, and early gigs often ended with …

Susan Levine continues to be a lot of things — a graduate of Harvard, a waitress, an celebrity, a mom, and a music therapist — but she’s been a musician. After a years as a child spent performing in Medford, MA, Levine discovered guitar in university and spent period after …

An award-winning American singer/songwriter using a deep love of nation, folk, and blues, Chuck Murphy spent his formative years bathing in the noises of Adam Taylor, Marshall Tucker, the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, as well as the Charlie Daniels Music group. The Palmdale, California-based, Bloomington, Minnesota-raised musician broke in to …