Category: Music
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The Wreckers
In 2004, Michelle Branch took a break from her successful solo career to team with friend and touring backup singer Jessica Harp in a new project called the Wreckers. Previous to the Branch collaboration, Harp had been working as a singer/songwriter in Nashville, and those country music elements mixed with Branch’s pop sensibilities to inform…
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Rufus Wainwright
THE HISTORY It is a peculiarity of the English language that the most profound human emotions are conveyed in the simplest of words – words like love, hate, find, lose, save, kill, need, want. Rufus Wainwright chose the last of these resonant four-letter words as the title for his third album. “I called the record…
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Tom Waits
Thomas Alan Waits was born on the eighth anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He was born on December 7, 1949 in Pomona, California. He and his two sisters grew up moving around from city to city in California. His parents who are both school teachers divorced when he was 10. They then moved…
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The Walkmen
Matt Barrick – Drums Peter Bauer – Bass Hamilton Leithauser – Vocals, guitar Paul Maroon – Guitar Walter Martin – Organs Since the 2002 release of The Walkmen’s debut, Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone, fans and critics have often described them as having the sound of two different bands: one with a…
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The Wallflowers
Jakob Dylan : vocals, backing vocals, guitar Rami Jaffee : keyboards, vibes Greg Richling : bass, Mini-Moog Mario Calire : drums, backing vocals “I kind of stumbled upon writing a record this time,” says Wallflowers singer, songwriter, and guitarist Jakob Dylan, explaining the origins of Red Letters Days. For the dual Grammy Award-winning band, their…
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The Waterboys
After a hiatus of nearly 10 years, Mike Scott & Co. deliver A Rock in the Weary Land, and the consensus is in: it was well worth the wait! Produced by Mike Scott and featuring original Boys member Anthony Thistlewaite, A Rock in the Weary Land is The Waterboys’ return to the epic sound and…
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The White Stripes
One of a new breed of back-to-basics rock acts to emerge from Detroit, Michigan, USA, the White Stripes comprises enigmatic bass-free duo Jack White (b. John White, Detroit, Michigan, USA; guitar/vocals) and Meg White (b. Detroit, Michigan, USA; drums). The Whites, variously assumed to be brother and sister or husband and ex-wife, but both denied,…
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The Who
The Who began as The Detours, a band started by guitarist Roger Daltrey (born March 1st, 1944) in London in the summer of 1961. In early 1962 Roger recruited John Entwistle (born October 9th, 1944), a bass guitarist who had been playing in bands based at their mutual school of Acton County Grammar. John then…
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Vision of Disorder
Nineteen days… that’s all it took for Vision of Disorder to get all their music on tape and make it sound like five guys going totally berserk in a small space. They wound up making a record that exceeded all expectations: harder and more melodic, ringing with a newfound depth and individuality, a record that’s…
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Vitamin C
In less than 14 months, Vitamin C has gone from pop’s ‘it girl’ to a pop culture dynamo, conquering radio, video, fashion mags, movies, and even America’s teen prom circuit (with her chart topping school anthem “Graduation”), all thanks to her self titled platinum-plus debut. Now, busy putting the finishing touches on her much anticipated…