Brightblack Morning Light were started by Nathan Nabob Shineywater guitars vocals and Rachael Rabob or Rabinyah Hughes Fender Rhodes vocals two childhood friends from Alabama who played one of their earliest shows under the name Rainywood for 15 peop…

After founding Jerk with a Bomb in the late 90s Stephen McBean had by the mid-2000s transformed the Vancouver-area band into a group called Black Mountain Drawing on blues psychedelia acid rock and the Velvet Underground Black Mountains sound was a c…

By turns cuddly and chaotic San Franciscos Deerhoof mixes noise sugary melodies and an experimental spirit into sweetly challenging and utterly distinctive music The group began as the brainchild of guitarist Rob Fisk and drummerkeyboardist Greg Saun…

Sixties pop diva-turned-avant jazz singer Julie Driscoll was born June 8 1947 in London As a teen she oversaw the Yardbirds fan club and it was the groups manager and producer Giorgio Gomelsky who encouraged her to begin a performing career of her ow…

An indie/garage supergroup consisting of two members of Toledo's Greenhorns, Motor City power-pop songsmith Brendan Benson and the inimitable Jack White, the Raconteurs play a fairly straightforward version of classic rock that contains hints of the …

Perhaps inspired by the east-meets-west solo guitar musings of John Fahey or Robbie Basho former Plague Lounge guitarist Ben Chasny formed Six Organs of Admittance in 1998 in northern California Six Organs self-titled self-released debut was released…

The LA-based psych-rock quartet Darker My Love was formed by high school buddies Tim Presley guitars vocals and Andy Granelli drums in 2001 Initially it was a side project -- Presley and Granelli were playing in other punk-influenced bands both playe…

Widely acclaimed today as the first ever openly and genuinely gay rock star an iconic status which only seems to harden as time passes Jobriath can also be described among the saddest casualties in modern musical history The two albums he cut during …