Month: August 2023

Foghat are an English rock band formed in London in 1971. The band is known for the use of electric slide guitar in its music. The band initially featured Dave Peverett (“Lonesome Dave”) on guitar and vocals, Tony Stevens on bass and Roger Earl on drums, after all three musicians left Savoy Brown in 1971. […]

Hisato Takenaka, known professionally as Char, is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He is considered one of Japan’s greatest guitar players. Char started learning piano in elementary school, and playing guitar at age eight. Although he listened to various guitarists, it was Eric Clapton who got him hooked on the instrument. Char began […]

Landscape were an English synth-pop band, best known for the 1981 hits “Einstein a Go-Go” and “Norman Bates”. Formed in London in 1975, the band toured constantly during the mid-to-late-1970s, playing rock, punk and jazz venues and releasing two instrumental EP’s on its own Event Horizon label. The group began experimenting with computer-programmed music and […]

Anneke van Giersbergen & Agua de Annique was the solo project of the former The Gathering vocalist, Anneke van Giersbergen. The project was announced in June 2007, the same day that both The Gathering and Anneke van Giersbergen issued separate announcements that van Giersbergen would leave the band in August. She wanted to have a […]

Shakespears Sister is an alternative pop and rock musical duo based in the United Kingdom that was formed in 1988 by singer-songwriter Siobhan Fahey, a former member of Bananarama. The name was adapted from the title of the song “Shakespeare’s Sister” by The Smiths, which was in turn a reference to Virginia Woolf’s work A […]

Briolette Kah Bic Runga recording as Bic Runga, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist pop artist. She learned how to play drums at the age of eleven, and guitar at about fourteen. Runga also learned to play the keyboard around this time. She attended Cashmere High School joining high school bands and performing with […]

Misaki Itō, (commonly known as Misia and stylized as MISIA), is a Japanese singer and songwriter. Born in Nagasaki, Misia moved to Fukuoka at the age of 14 to pursue a recording career. There, she continued her secondary education and briefly attended Seinan Gakuin University before withdrawing to focus on her musical career. She was […]

Eric Satie (who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884), was a French composer and pianist. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but was an undistinguished student and obtained no diploma. In the 1880s he worked as a pianist in café-cabaret in Montmartre, […]

Lene Lovich was born Lili-Marlene Premilovich in Detroit, to an English mother and American father of Serbian descent. After her father had health problems, her mother took the 13-year-old Lovich and her three siblings to live in Hull. She met guitarist/songwriter Les Chappell when they were teenagers, and he became her longtime collaborator and life […]