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[blipfm http://] Mauri Antero Numminen (born 12 March 1940, Somero) is one of the best-known Finnish artists, who has worked in several different fields of music and culture. In the 1960s M.A. Numminen was known particularly as an avantgarde/underground artist, stirring controversy with such songs as Nuoren aviomiehen on syytä muistaa (”What a young husband should remember”; the lyrics of the song [...]
[blipfm http://] Monkey3 started during the year 2001 as a musicians’ community dedicated to jam-sessions. The overall intonations of this improvisations, due to everybody’s influences, was in a stoner-rock vibe. Attracted by this experience, the band was finally formed as a quartet, Picasso – Bass, Walter – Drums, Boris – Guitar and Mister M. – Sampler [...]
[blipfm http://] Sunna were a British industrial rock/hard rock band who released one album in 2000. The band toured with A Perfect Circle during the year 2000, as well as The Smashing Pumpkins on their final European tour. They released their only album to date, One Minute Science on Massive Attack’s Melankolic label, that year, with the singles “I’m [...]
The Roots, also known as The Legendary Roots Crew, The Square Roots and The Foundation, are an influential, Grammy winning hip hop group based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, famed for a heavily jazzy sound and live instrumentation. Inspired by the “hip-hop band” concept pioneered by Stetsasonic, the Roots themselves have garnered critical acclaim and influenced [...]
House of Pain was an Irish-styled American hip-hop group who released three albums in the early to mid 1990s before lead rapper Everlast decided to pursue his solo career again. The group is best known for its 1992 hit single “Jump Around”, which reached #3 in the United States, #6 in Ireland and #8 in the United Kingdom. The band’s history starts with a failed short [...]
Franz Ferdinand is a indie rock band that formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 2001. Named after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the band consists of Alex Kapranos (guitar/vocals), Nicholas McCarthy (guitar/backing vocals/keyboard), Paul Thomson (drums/backing vocals), and Robert Hardy (bass). The band has also adopted a new member, Andy Knowles, ex-drummer of The Fiery Furnaces. Andy plays guitar, drums, and keyboard. The band first experienced chart success when their second single “Take Me [...]
Guns N’ Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through numerous line-up changes and controversies since their formation. The band has released five studio albums, two EPs and one live album during their career. After more than [...]
[blipfm http://] Ryuichi Sakamoto is a Grammy-winning Japanese pop producer and composer. Alva Noto (known to many more in Europe as Carsten Nicolai) is a multimedia artist concerned with connections, circuitry and interactivity between different media. Creativity for Noto is inherently dialogical, and on Insen, he and Sakamoto continue the artistic dialogue they began with their [...]
Cake is a band formed in 1991 in Sacramento, California. It has had several hits throughout the 1990s and 2000s from its five recorded albums. Although Cake’s music is often classified as alternative or indie rock, it combines multiple musical genres, such as funk, ska, pop, jazz, rap, and country. Cake’s music features droll lyrics rife [...]
I thought love was only true in fairy tales…   “I’m a Believer” is a song composed by Neil Diamond and recorded by the band The Monkees in 1966 with the lead vocals by Micky Dolenz. The single, produced by Jeff Barry, hit the number one spot on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart on December [...]