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Artist: Ateed
Artist: Henry Ate
Henry Ate was the brainchild of Karma-Ann Swanepoel, a singer/songwriter from Johannesburg, South Africa. The formation of the band came in 1996, when guitarist Julian Sun was playing at a music festival with the band Urban Creep. Inviting Karma out of the audience to sing, the results of this impromptu performance encouraged them to form their... [+] Read More
Artist: Alison Ate
Artist: Sharks Ate Ricky
From the ashes of Rickey Henderson's retirement rose Sharks Ate Rickey [+] Read More
Artist: Robot Ate Me
Artist: Eminem
A protégé of Dr. Dre, rapper Eminem emerged in 1999 as one of the most controversial rappers to ever grace the genre. Using his biting wit and incredible skills to vent on everything from his unhappy childhood to his contempt for the mainstream media, his success became the biggest crossover success the genre had seen since Dre's solo debut... [+] Read More
Artist: Born Suspicious
Detroit-based rap duo Born Suspicious teamed Krazee ATE (born Cedric Greenhill) and APX (Aaron Packer); the flagship act on NBA star Derrick Coleman's 44 Ways label, they issued their debut LP World of Madness in mid-1999. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Karma
Karma-Ann Swanepoel disbanded Henry Ate in 1998 following a change in record companies. That band's 1997 release Slap in the Face had been one of the biggest South African releases of the late 1990s, but Swanepoel decided to drop the band's name to reflect the fact that their releases were, by and large, her solo work.
Retaining only guitarist... [+] Read More
Artist: Honcho Overload
Indie rock band Honcho Overload was active in the Champaign-Urbana, IL, scene for the first half of the '90s. The group was made up of musicians from previous Champaign-Urbana bands, and consisted of singer Bill Johnson and guitarist Jeff Dimpsey, both of Bad Flannel, guitarist K.C. Driscoll of We Ate Plato, bassist Matt Talbott from We Ate... [+] Read More
Artist: Maggotron
Maggotron have the distinction of being one of the very first groups to recognize the developing Miami bass scene and use its growing popularity to launch an underground movement. Beginning with the classic The Bass That Ate Miami, the group would go on to release countless more compilations and full albums for a variety of labels. They used a... [+] Read More
Artist: Franz Xaver Gruber
One would be remiss in not knowing the fact that Franz Gruber composed the Christmas hymn "Stille Nacht" (Silent Night). When mice ate the bellows of the organs, so the story goes, the first performance of the song had to be with a guitar accompaniment, though that was not the original setting. Gruber composed the music at the request of the... [+] Read More
Artist: Modest Mouse
Issaquah, WA, indie rock trio Modest Mouse was formed in 1993 by vocalist/guitarist Isaac Brock, bassist Eric Judy, and drummer Jeremiah Green. After honing their muscular sound in "The Shed" -- a makeshift practice space built by Brock on the land next to his mother's trailer -- Modest Mouse entered Calvin Johnson's Dub Narcotic Studios to cut... [+] Read More
Artist: Norman Greenbaum
Best-known for his 1970 hit "Spirit in the Sky," singer/songwriter Norman Greenbaum was born November 20, 1942, in Malden, MA. He began his musical career while a student at Boston University, playing area coffeehouses before relocating to the West Coast during the mid-'60s and forming a kind of psychedelic jug band dubbed Dr. West's Medicine... [+] Read More
Artist: Mayhem
Formed around 1985 by Necrobutcher and guitarist Euronymous (born Oystein Aarseth), Mayhem was the first death metal band from Norway to make much of an impact in their homeland, which in the early '90s developed a burgeoning underground scene rife with violent, sometimes anti-Christian activity -- as evidenced by Mayhem's non-musical history.... [+] Read More
Artist: Able Tasmans
One of the many bright lights of the New Zealand pop scene of the 1980s, Able Tasmans formed in Auckland in 1984. Originally a trio comprised of keyboardist Graeme Humphreys, bassist Dave Beniston and drummer Craig Baxter, they initially offered a tongue-in-cheek, '60s-influenced aesthetic typified by songs like "Nelson the Cat?!!"; however,... [+] Read More
Artist: Boney James
A solid saxophonist whose style falls on the R&B-ish and pop side of jazz, Boney James (who is heavily influenced by Grover Washington, Jr.) is a consistent best-seller who can always be relied upon to put on a colorful live show. Born James Oppenheim, he grew up in New Rochelle, NY. The future Boney James studied clarinet when he was eight,... [+] Read More
Artist: Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope were arguably the most eclectic band of the psychedelic era, weaving together folk, blues, Middle Eastern, and acid more often and seamlessly than any other musicians. The California group were formed under the nucleus of multi-instrumentalists David Lindley and Chris Darrow in the mid-'60s. Adding fiddle, banjo, and various exotic... [+] Read More
Artist: Current 93
With a glut of industrial-pop hybrids on the market in the 1980s and '90s, several bands stayed true to the experimental nature of early industrial music. The Psychic TV axis alone spawned many creative artists, including Current 93's David Tibet, who blends Gothic chanting and haunting atmospherics with industrial noisescapes courtesy of tape... [+] Read More
Artist: ALFASETE
A banda teve início por volta de 1998, por incentivo de Osmar (pai de três integrantes, e tio dos outros dois) que tinha em mente a preferência de tocarmos na igreja. Começamos a tocar na Igreja, mas com o passar do tempo resolvemos fazer musicas que falassem sobre os sentimentos que todas as pessoas sentem (amor, dúvida, revolta,... [+] Read More
Artist: Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band
Odder than the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, and more aligned with the straight folk/jug band tradition than the Holy Modal Rounders were, Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band were among the more notable 1960s groups that updated the old-timey/jug band spirit with a modern attitude and rock influences. Most known as the starting point for leader and... [+] Read More
Artist: Ted Donnelly
Lovers of music and food sometimes play a game in which players whose names have edible associations are combined in order to create a musical banquet of the mind. Adding Ted "Muttonleg" Donnelly to any such list might be the difference between a full meal and a snack . The man's involvement with classic big band music is fully of the former... [+] Read More
Artist: Joe Harris
While the nearly three decades of trombonist and vocalist Joe Harris' career were filled with admirable service to jazz combos and orchestras, he would have done well to stay out of cars. In the late '30s he was out of action for more than a year after fracturing his skull in one crash and a later pile-up wound up finishing him off completely.... [+] Read More
Artist: Cosmic Slop Shop
After controversies over their label head and the horrific actions of group member Big Lurch, Cosmic Slop Shop's brief musical career will probably be better-remembered for the strange situations that resulted from it. Composed of rappers Doonie Baby, Lurch, and producer Rick Rock, the group came together in the San Francisco Bay Area's Slop... [+] Read More
Artist: Four Star Mary
Four Star Mary first got their big break by playing "Dingoes Ate My Baby" in Oz's fake band on the popular WB syndicate Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They aren't a real band on the show, of course, but outside TV teendom Four Star Mary is an honest, rollicking five-piece from Los Angeles.
Formed in 1997, the members of Four Star Mary come from all... [+] Read More
Artist: Kieron "Spud" Murphy
Despite an interestingly obscure background with Horslips, an Irish folk-rock outfit with a cult following, Kieron "Spud" Murphy is most famous for his series of photographs of John Lennon. He also contributed photos to other major rock events, such as Electric Warrior by T. Rex, considered the birth of glam rock. But it was the fact that Lennon... [+] Read More
