Category: Music

Blackmore’s Night is a British-American neo-medieval folk rock band formed in 1997, consisting mainly of Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night. Candice Night was a Rainbow fan, and first encountered Ritchie Blackmore to ask him for an autograph in 1989, while she was working for a local New York radio station. The two started living together […]

Before even releasing an LP, Pascal Letoublon had already left his mark on history – he is a young producer, who, almost overnight and thanks to TikTok’s viral pull, hoisted himself to the top of the Asian charts, was programmed in clubs throughout China and caught the eye of European record labels. All this down […]

Halestorm is an American rock band from Red Lion, Pennsylvania, consisting of lead vocalist and guitarist Elizabeth ‘Lzzy’ Hale, her drummer brother Arejay Hale, guitarist Joe Hottinger, and bassist Josh Smith. In its earliest days, Halestorm was referred to as a Christian rock band, and the theme of their tours focused on encouraging teens to […]

Maria Rosa Canelas better known as Rosinha de Valença, was a Brazilian composer, arranger and musician. She is considered one of the best acoustic guitarists in Brazilian music. She was born in 1941, in Valenca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She became interested in playing acoustic guitar as a child, after seeing her brother playing it. […]

Maria Muldaur is an American folk and blues singer who was part of the American folk music revival in the early 1960s. Muldaur was born in Greenwich Village, New York City, where she attended Hunter College High School. Muldaur cites as early musical influences classic country music, early rhythm and blues and doo-wop. Muldaur began […]

Spooky Tooth were an English rock band originally formed in Carlisle in 1967. Prior to Spooky Tooth, four of the band’s five founding members had performed in the band Art. Following the dissolution of Art, the members of that band’s final line-up (guitarist Luther Grosvenor, vocalist Mike Harrison, drummer Mike Kellie and bassist Greg Ridley) […]

Frumpy was a German progressive rock/krautrock band based in Hamburg, which was active between 1970–1972 and 1990–1995. All of the band members met as performers with Germany’s first folk rock band City Preacher, formed by Irishman John O’Brien-Docker in Hamburg in 1965. In 1968, the band had split, with O’Brien-Docker and several other members parting […]

Third World is a Jamaican reggae fusion band formed in 1973. Third World started when keyboard player Michael “Ibo” Cooper and guitarist (and cellist) Stephen “Cat” Coore who had originally played in The Alley Cats and then Inner Circle, subsequently left to form their own band along with Inner Circle singer Milton “Prilly” Hamilton. They […]

The Longest Johns are a British folk musical group from Bristol. They formed in June 2012 after first singing together at a friend’s barbecue. The original line up consisted of Josh Bowker, Andy Yates, Jonathan Darley and Dave Robinson. About a week later, they posted their first video on YouTube, singing “Haul Away Joe.” The […]

Visage were a British synth pop band formed in London in 1978. The band became closely linked to the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement of the early 1980s. Founding members Midge Ure and Rusty Egan started working on Visage to produce music to play at the clubs Egan was DJing at. Egan alongside Steve Strange […]