Looking like a new wave band sharply dressed in skinny ties bleached hair and plastic sunglasses retro-punks the Briefs blasted onto the Seattle music scene in the last part of 1999 The charmingly snotty quartet took sonic cues from late-70s British …

Before their debut on the 1998 split EP with the Hammicks Otto Matik vocals Nikki Holiday keyboards and Julius Siezure keyboards traded in their guitars for synthesizers adopted pseudo British accents and called themselves the Prima Donnas With an an…

This all-female indie rock band was formed in 1999 by Jenny Hoyston (vocals/trumpet), Sara Jaffe (guitar), Bianca Sparta (drums) and Ellie Erickson (bass). Based in San Francisco, California, USA, the quartet had already completed work on a demo befo…

Not to be confused with the later California death rock band of the same name the Phantom Limbs were an indie-label rock combo from Tucson AZ influenced primarily by Bob Dylan and the Violent Femmes plus touches of new wave and pre-British Invasion r…

As Suicide, New York City's Alan Vega and Martin Rev created a type of music unlike anything else going on around them in the punk era. Combining Vega's punk/futurist Presleyisms with the electronic squeaks and squawks of Rev's keyboards and rhythm m…

b. 1 November 1936, Bessemer, Alabama, but raised in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Williams has made his lasting mark in the R&B industry as a recording artist, songwriter, and producer of the first doo-wop vocal groups and then soul acts. He is noted for …

One of the first wave of punk groups during the late 1970s, Wire was neither nihilistic in the Sex Pistols tradition nor political like the Clash. With its brief, caustic songs, Wire was closest to the Buzzcocks' brand of poppy punk, but its art-scho…

Hailing from New York City, New York, USA, Radio 4 was originally formed in spring 1999 by Greg Collins (drums), Anthony Roman (bass/vocals) and Tommy Williams Jnr. (guitar/vocals). The trio adopted their unusual name not from the UK radio station, b…

The short-lived 1980s Boston outfit Mission Of Burma was one of the most influential American post-punk bands, combining fiercely modernist sonic layers with sheer brute-force, high-volume rock. Eclectic leader Roger Miller subsequently went on to th…