The band was originally formed in 1975 by college friends Mike Finney (vocals) and Steve Perrin (guitar),[1] alongside Lawrence Tickle (bass) and Tony Trap (drums).[2] The band changed tack with the advent of punk in 1977 and Finney and Perrin recruited a new line-up of Pip Nicholls (bass), Adrian Wright (guitar), and Alec Sidebottom (drums, formerly of The Purple Gang), now mixing punk rock with sixties influences.
one: Owl Eyes is Brooke Addamo, a 19 year old Melbourne singer/songwriter who threads elaborate fantasies of escapism in fictional worlds into breezy, intelligent indie-pop songs. Although she was eliminated from Australian Idol, where she was a contestant during season 6, she is now paving her own way up the charts. On her EP Faces, she teamed up with producer Jan Skubiszewski (The Cat Empire, Phrase, Kram , and has been described as a "honey-voiced Melbournite who has a habit of conjuring up wistful, dreamy pop tunes."
2007 has been a big year for Schadenfreude - Melbourne’s daring dandies of indie-pop and angular post-punk. From playing well received support shows including Canada’s Psycheand Sydney’s Lost Valentinos to wowing Sydneysiders at the Factory during September’s Under The Blue Moon festival, Schadenfreude’s rise rapidly continues. Still to come in 2007 is the launch of their debut single ‘Vertigo’ recorded at Melbourne’s infamous Hothouse Studios...
Parquet Courts is a band from New York City. At the center of the group is A. Savage, who at this point is known for his collaborations with projects like Fergus & Geronimo, Teenage Cool Kids and Wiccans. Savage is joined by three other musicians (“three quarters Texans and three quarters Pisces”) and describes the bands’ debut release as The Fall meets Neil Young. On the band’s debut release, “American Specialties”, this all makes sense. The quartet wonders through the American and British underground, picking away their favorite parts with confidence.
"XRay Eyeballs is OJ and Carly (from NYC rockers Golden Triangle) new drum machine driven dark punk project. Bathed in reverb, low fi sheen, and weirdo grit, XRay Eyeballs sounds like two drifter kids covered in makeup and glitter trying to escape a dead city skyline proclaiming their love for each other as the world just passes them by. Creeped out and charming all at once. If the world died but the songs kept playing." - SDREED, Night-People Records
The March Violets were an English goth rock band in the 1980s, incorporating singers of both sexes, drum machine rhythms and echoey electric guitar, much in the way of scene mates The Sisters Of Mercy.
Future is the name of several artists: 1) a rap artist from the United States.
2) a Dutch funk band from the '80's.
3) an Italian singer, who won San Remo Junior in 1988.
4) an early incarnation of The Human League, see The Future.
5) a five piece band formed during the summer of 2006 utilizing elements of Hip Hop, Reggae and Rock Fusion.
1. - Nagyszentmiklos March 25, 1881–New York September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century.
2. There is also a Post-Punk band from the 1980's that went by this name. Bartok was comprised of John Grant, Simon Werner, Jah Wobble, and Rat Scabies.
Three artists go by the name BFG. BFG is the abbrevation for the russian skinhead band Bound for Glory. BFG is also a DJ from upstate New York whose funky, eclectic approach to beats and blends led to 2007's seamless "Medium Pimpin" mixtape, a full-length mashup of old-school and contemporary dance music. Trained at NYC's Scratch Academy, BFG learned to mix in order to perfect the mixtapes he obsessively made for friends and family. He currently spins in the Albany area and records at Guano Cellar Studios in Schenectady, still trying to perfect the art of the mixtape.