Month: May 2023

Blind Faith were an English supergroup featuring Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Ric Grech. They were eagerly anticipated by the music press following on the success of each of the member’s former bands, including Clapton and Baker’s former group Cream and Winwood’s former group Traffic, but they split after a few months, producing […]

Wink was a Japanese idol duo in the late 1980s and early-to-mid-1990s composed of Sachiko Suzuki and Shoko Aida. They released their first single in April 1988, and their final release was in March 1996. In 1987, Sachiko Suzuki and Shoko Aida both entered a beauty contest given by the magazine Up to Boy. Suzuki […]

Joep Beving is a Dutch composer and pianist. Music has been a passion of Beving’s since childhood. The son of a schoolteacher, he formed his first band at the age of 14. He later won a place at a conservatoire, but repetitive strain injury to his wrist forced him to abandon his piano studies after […]

Republica are an English alternative rock band formed in 1994. The height of their popularity spanned from 1996 to 1999. The current line-up consists of Saffron (vocals), Tim Dorney (keyboards), Johnny Male (guitar), Conor Lawrence (drums). The Republica sound was described by the band as “technopop punk rock”. Republica released the first single “Out of […]

Akina Nakamori is a Japanese singer and actress. She is one of the most popular and best-selling artists in Japan. She was born in July 1965, in Ota, Tokyo, the fifth child and third daughter of six brothers and sisters. Her mother named her “Akina”, which means “a bright nanohana flower”. Her mother, a fan […]

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra is a Canadian post-rock band that formed in 1999, originating from Montreal, Quebec. The group uses the shorthand SMZ and its name is most often simplified to Silver Mt. Zion. The group was founded by Efrim Menuck, who was joined by fellow Godspeed members Sophie Trudeau and Thierry Amar. […]

Superfly is a Japanese rock act that debuted in April 2007. Formerly a duo, the act now consists solely of lyricist and vocalist Shiho Ochi with former guitarist Kōichi Tabo still credited as the group’s composer and part-time lyricist. Superfly’s first two studio albums were certified double platinum by the RIAJ, and their first four […]

GoGo Penguin are an English band from Manchester, featuring pianist Chris Illingworth, bassist Nick Blacka, and drummer Jon Scott. Scott joined the group at the start of 2022 after the departure of Rob Turner, who cited creative differences. The name came from a drunken incident with a weird looking stuffed penguin. ‘We got our first […]

The B-52’s is an American new wave band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1976. The original lineup consisted of Fred Schneider (vocals, percussion), Kate Pierson (vocals, keyboards, synth bass), Cindy Wilson (vocals, percussion), Ricky Wilson (guitar), and Keith Strickland (drums, guitar, keyboards). Ricky Wilson died of AIDS-related illness in 1985, and Strickland switched from drums […]