There are songs by (at least) two artists to be found on this page: - the Swedish indie dance/pop band Bird People (e.g. "Smiling", "Pygmalion") - the Austrian psychedelic/drone band Bird People (a.k.a. Telepathic Transmission from the Ancient Mystery Cult of Bird People). Bird People is the main musical outlet of Feathered Coyote Records founder Uli Rois.
Psychedelic acid rock-band from Japan. High Rise is an explosive power trio comprised of bassist/vocalist asahito nanjo (南条麻人), guitarist Munehiro Narita, and a succession of drummers that has included Yuro Ujiie and Pill in the past and free-improv veteran Shoji Hano at present. High Rise mixes the jazz-influenced improvising of Cream with the brutal amphetamine-inspired rock of Blue Cheer. Narita is one of rock's unsung guitar players, and his dexterous fingering incites eruptions of pure electric joy in his listeners.
Naked On The Vague (NOTV) were born out of discontent with the malady of nothingness. This nothing fuels their stabbing assault of doom laden experimental punk.
Naked On The Vague, a duo from Sydney, Australia, fell into existence about one and a half years ago with a found organ, a broken bass guitar, a borrowed drum and some old doom poetry. Lucy Cliché executes distorted keyboard melodies, while Matthew P Hopkins plays brutal, psyched out bass guitar, which is all kept together with pounding drum machine beats.
There are at least 7 bands called Hammerhead:
1) A noise-rock band from Fargo, North Dakota
2) A german hardcore punk band
3) A Tasmanian based melodic-hard rock band
4) A Heavy Metal band from the Netherlands active in 1983-85.
5) A Finnish Heavy Metal band from Central Finland
6) A Dutch Gabber artist named Richard Geurkoop
7) A Thrash band from S
Parquet Courts is a band from New York City. At the center of the group is A. Savage, who at this point is known for his collaborations with projects like Fergus & Geronimo, Teenage Cool Kids and Wiccans. Savage is joined by three other musicians (“three quarters Texans and three quarters Pisces”) and describes the bands’ debut release as The Fall meets Neil Young. On the band’s debut release, “American Specialties”, this all makes sense. The quartet wonders through the American and British underground, picking away their favorite parts with confidence.
Shellac (sometimes referred to as 'Shellac Of North America') is an american rock music group formed in chicago, illinois, in 1992 by Steve Albini (guitar and vocals), Bob Weston (bass guitar vocals) and Todd Trainer (drums). They have been classified as noise rock and math rock. Albini has claimed they refer to themselves as 'Shellac of North America', "when we're being pretentious."
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The duo of Michael Flower and John Moloney (known from Sunburned Hand of the Man) issued an EP under this monicker on the Manhand label that was reissued as part of Three Lobed Recordings "Oscillation III"-series in 2008. Dubbed by the label as "biker psych for the third eye rider" it featured three extra live tracks not on the original issue.
GROPETOWN are a band from Glasgow, formed in spring 2010. They play a racket of discordant, energetic, irrational noise-rock/post-punk. myspace.com/gropetown
Lee M. Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, probably best known as a co-founder of the rock band Sonic Youth. Ranaldo was born in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, and graduated from Binghamton University. He has three sons, Cody Linn Ranaldo, Sage Ranaldo and Frey Ranaldo and is married to the experimental artist Leah Singer, with whom he has performed many live installation pieces with improvised music.