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To rock viewers, Jim Carroll’s crowning achievement was the near-hit “INDIVIDUALS WHO Died,” a brutally emotional punk record saluting the victims of the brand new York medication culture. In reality, however, Carroll’s creative legacy was somewhat more complicated and far-ranging — an acclaimed diarist, poet, professional, and spoken term performer, …

Once the Velvet Underground was America’s most admired avant-garde rock-band, it had been an easy task to imagine solo success for principal songwriter Lou Reed and enigmatic Welsh multi-instrumentalist John Cale, but no-one might have predicted that among the better solo recordings from a former person in this seminal band …

Though he’s hardly a cult persona, Jerry Harrison has didn’t be named a crucial physique in the annals of punk rock and roll, a portion from the music which influenced it, as well as the styles which had grown from punk a lot more than 15 years later on. Best …

A Britpop music group with energy and grit aside from the apparent melodic flair and arrogant airs, Longpigs formed within their hometown of Sheffield in 1994, around vocalist Crispin Hunt, guitarist Richard Hawley, bassist Simon Stafford and drummer Dee Boyle. Although these were agreed upon to a significant label just …

Jonathan Richman was among rock’s most eccentric and unpredictable cult figures, a performer whose eternally childlike public persona and seeming naiveté — typified by songs like “Glaciers Cream Guy,” “HI Small Insect” and “I’m just a little Aeroplane” — tended to obscure the dexterity and craft of his music, which …

The very first Belgian-based indie act ever to sign to a significant international label, the improvisational avant-grunge group dEUS was originally made up of vocalist/guitarist Tom Barman, bassist Stef Kamil Carlens, drummer Julle De Borgher, violinist Klaas Janzoons, and guitarist Rudy Trouvé. Shaped in Antwerp in 1991, dEUS started their …

At the same time when Australian rock and roll meant pub rock and roll and almost every other band sounded like Cold Chisel, Died Fairly were something of the anomaly. Influenced even more from the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, as well as the Doorways than these were by early Icehouse, …

Billy Yule played a short role within the Velvet Underground tale, filling in simply because drummer for a couple a few months when Maureen Tucker was pregnant in 1970. Yule got the gig because he was young sibling of bassist Doug Yule (who got only experienced the music group since …

Though criminally overlooked within their very own lifetime, Galaxie 500 afterwards emerged among the pivotal underground sets of the post-punk era; dreamy and enigmatic, their minimalist dirges presaged the rise of both shoegaze and slowcore actions from the 1990s. The group produced in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986 and comprised vocalist/guitarist …

Magic Hour may be the brainchild of Bostonian Wayne Rogers, that has released many solo albums in the Twisted Community label within the 1990s, in addition to sporadically leading the garage area/psychedelic music group Crystalized Movements within the ’80s (which were able to release five albums in Twisted Community). In …