The electronic-pop project Sister Soleil was primarily a vehicle for Chicago-based singer and composer Stella Katsoudas who first surfaced as a backing vocalist on records from industrial acts including Die Warzau and Chemlab In 1997 she released the…

Singersongwriter Adam Schmitt first won acclaim in the early 90s when his 1991 debut album World So Bright and 1993 follow-up Illiterature had critics hailing him as a young pop genius However when his label Reprise didnt want to release a third albu…

Nebraskas lone entry into the dream pop world For Against initially consisted of bassist and vocalist Jeffrey Runnings guitarist Harry Dingman and drummer Greg Hill Dingman and Hill left after 1988s December to form the Millions and they were replace…

With the stylings of 80s new wave and indie-pop maintaining a strong bond amongst the members of Morellas Forest they wanted to introduce this sound to their home of Dayton Ohio Consisting of Sydney Rentz vocals guitar Sean McCorkle bass Shawn Johnso…

While power pop stars Weezer did a whole lot of nothing from mid-1997 to mid-2000 drummer Patrick Wilson kept himself busy with his own project Dubbed the Special Goodness Wilson took the name from a mantra he coined while with Weezer expressing the …

Grand Drives brothers Danny Wilson lead vocalsguitar and Julian Wilson keyboards were originally from Australia but grew up in the stony southwest London suburb of Sutton in the 70s In school they met bassist Ed Balch and formed their first group Sou…

On the strength of two strong rock anthem singles and the groups vivacious dreadlocked teenage female singer Killing Heidi emerged as the act dominating the Australian sales charts at the turn of the new Millennium Like every overnight sensation Kill…

The Manchester duo of Richard Woolgar and Gly Thomas came into being when the promoters of a local club challenged the pair to compose an hours worth of music Influenced by New Order and Depeche Mode the two took the name Alpinestarsfrom Thomas mount…