Michael McDonald (born February 12, 1952, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American R&B/soul singer (sometimes described as a "blue-eyed soul" singer), known for his trademark husky baritone voice. McDonald played in several local bands (such as Mike and the Majestics, Jerry Jay and the Sheratons, the Reebtoors, and The Guild) while attending McCluer High School in his hometown of Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.
There are several bands called Performance:
A french funk band in the 80's, a french new wave/synthpop band in the 80's and finally the band described below: Performance are now (We Are) Performance. Visit the new page which is complete with new versions of Surrender, Short Sharp Shock and more. Plus, you can pre-order the album now from myspace.com/weareperformance (We are) Performance. Crucially, we are not diamond wankers. We’re musicians. We met in Manchester three years ago. We wrote our album in Ancoats, East Manchester, in an old cotton mill.
Litfiba is an Italian rock band formed in Florence in early 1980 that is still active.
The meeting of 5 punk (though it was then on the decline), new wave and simply rock music fans with then no musical background gave birth to Litfiba. The band was born in Florence in 1980. The name Litfiba is the mixing of several words: Localit
There are several artists known as The Elements:
1. The Elements was an 80's band formed in Keighley, West Yorkshire. In December 1982. The Elements evolved into the post-punk/goth group Skeletal Family (http://www.last.fm/music/Skeletal+Family). 2. a four-piece from Birmingham formed in 2001. They are an indie band heavily influenced by rock 'n' roll. They have toured the UK supporting such artists as Paul Weller and The Bluetones. 3. Christian hard-rock/prog metal band from Slovakia. They've released two albums so far, Out of the Dark and Inner Fight for Freedom.
Pedro the Lion was an indie rock band from Seattle, Washington, comprising David Bazan and TW Walsh. Because of the biblical references in many of their songs, Pedro the Lion were seen by some to be a Christian band, but they did not consider the band to be such. Pedro the Lion was formed by David Bazan in 1994 and released their debut EP Whole in April 1997. Despite the band's many lineup changes, Bazan remained the primary artist and musician behind the group, exemplified by his singing and playing every instrument on the band's first two full length albums...
Fluke are an electronic band formed in 1988 at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, UK, by Mike Bryant, Jon Fugler and Mike Tournier. The group are noted for their diverse range of electronic styles spanning the house, techno, ambient and blues genres. Fluke started out making dreamy pop before the explosion of acid house influenced them. It was the growing electronica sound that influenced their early singles (Thumper, Joni, Slid) and their techno-rock debut album The Techno Rose of Blighty (1991). In the same year they released a live album entitled Out (In Essence).
Remodel are a guitar band, this is obvious by virtue of the fact they have a guitar player. They are also a pop band, but pop in the sense of bands like the Who, The Smiths and Blur. Like all classic British pop bands they are a fourpiece. Frontman Mr Leigh Swinn is quite tall and dark, the sort people see in crystal balls. Always smartly attired and often caustic with his words. Guitarist Mr Mark Heffernan is small and angry. He likes noise and cricket. He is also fond of tea.
Peter Kernel is a swiss/canadian pop noise band. Founded in 2005 by Aris (guitar), Barbara (bass)
and Däwis (drums), the initial idea was to give
a voice to moving images. Their rehearsal room
enhances the desire to evade (musically speaking),
a filthy and dank attic of a fry house.
Highly influenced by experimental moviemaking
of the bass player Barbara (videomaker as well),
they begin to assemble tunes around the end
of November 2005.
Mode Moderne is a band from Vancouver, BC Canada The three core members of Mode Moderne (Felix, Clint and Phillip) spent Winter 2008 in a small recording studio, drinking tea, getting stoned and listening to New Order, Jesus and Mary Chain, and OMD records... That winter the band recorded 9 songs which would become the GHOSTS EMERGING EP. The band released a small run of 100 CDs which sold quickly through word of mouth, then finally officially released the same album on vinyl in the fall of 2009...