Category: Music

Shoka Okubo is a Japanese musician, guitarist, singer, songwriter, and drummer. She started playing the drums at 7 years old, before moving on to learn the guitar at age 13. After watching a movie on the ‘Blues Brothers’, she developed an interest and love for blues music. Some of her favourite blues musicians include T-Bone […]

The Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major (K545), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who described it in his own thematic catalogue as “for beginners”, and it is sometimes known by the nickname Sonata facile or Sonata semplice. Despite this, the sonata is actually not an easy work to perform and can hardly be described as […]

The Sundays were an English alternative rock band, formed in the late 1980s, which released three albums throughout the 1990s. The band’s beginnings came with the meeting of singer Harriet Wheeler and guitarist David Gavurin while attending Bristol University. Wheeler had played gigs with Cruel Shoes, an early incarnation of the band Jim Jiminee. The […]

The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim and William Reid, who are the two founders and only consistent members of the band since its formation. They are recognized as key figures in the development of […]

‘Til Tuesday was an American new wave band formed in Boston, Massachusetts. The band, consisting of Aimee Mann (lead vocals, bass), Robert Holmes (guitar), Joey Pesce (keyboards), and Michael Hausman (drums), was active from 1982 to 1989. ‘Til Tuesday first gained fame six months after its formation when it won Boston’s WBCN Rock & Roll […]

Catatonia were an alternative rock band from Wales who gained popularity in the mid-to-late 1990s. The band formed in 1992 after Mark Roberts met Cerys Matthews and Kirsty Kennedy. The first major lineup featured Dafydd Ieuan of Super Furry Animals on drums, Paul Jones on bass, and Clancy Pegg on keyboards. With this line-up the […]

Maisie Peters is an English singer-songwriter. Peters began singing around age eight, performing in choirs. She wrote her first song at age nine and began writing songs regularly at the age of 12, after borrowing her friend’s guitar for a school project. She attended Steyning Grammar School, where she won the 2015 annual talent show […]

Tessa Violet Williams is an American singer-songwriter, social media personality, actress, music video director, and former child model. Violet grew up in Ashland, Oregon and performed in theatre productions while in high school. She created her YouTube channel under the name Meekakitty in July 2006. In 2007, Violet began making daily vlogs for a school […]

Faun is a German band that was formed in 1998 and plays, darkwave, and medieval music. The originality of their music style is that it falls back to “old” instruments, and the singing is always the centre of attention. The vocals are performed in a variety of languages, including German, English, Latin, Greek, and Scandinavian […]