Boyd Rice (born 1957) is an American experimental sound artist, archivist, actor, photographer, prankster and writer best known for his pioneering industrial noise music under the name Non and Boyd Rice and Friends. he has collaborated with numerous artists. For a WEALTH of info, see Boyd's official website at http://www.boydrice.com
Avey Tare (born David Portner on April 24th, 1979) is a musician and founding member of Animal Collective. Avey Tare met Animal Collective's Deakin (Josh Dibb), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), and Geologist (Brian Weitz) in high school. For years, the four of them swapped homemade recordings, shared musical ideas and performed in different group configurations. Avey Tare recorded the Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished album with Panda Bear, and initially released the recording on the band's own Animal label in 2000.
Mason Rack is a songwriter/performer from Australia,Gold Coast.
He playes the Weissenborn lap slide guitar.
He plays influenced by blues, southern stop swamp, classic rock and alternative music. He has notched up a number of prestigious achievements such as scoring in the Top 5 for Blues at the Musiz Oz Awards, and being dubbed
Sorrowfall are a Belfast based "epic, blackened" metal band, formed in April 2004 by Chris Collins and Steve Reynolds with Chris Polin and Conor Edgar completing the four piece line-up. The band wasted no time diving headlong into the metal abyss and began writing and gigging original material shortly after their initial conception. In 2004 Sorrowfall released their first demo entitled "Welcome To The Killing Floor" however it was the follow up release, 2005's "Insanity's Memoirs" which really hearalded the arrival of the Sorrowfall horde.
Known for a few old school classics, the Skinny Boys made a lasting impression. The trio features Jock Box (Jacque Harrison), Shockin' Shaun (Shaun Harrison), and Super Jay (James Harrison), and had a record deal with Jive. Though they aren't often cited as being one of the more influential old school rap groups, their 12"s remained popular with hip-hop DJs, "Rip the Cut" and "Skinny & Proud" being two of their more popular tracks.
Michael Mittermeier is a famous German comedian.
In 2001 he made the single Kumba Yo ! featuring Guano Apes. In Germany it reached chart position 3.