Shy
"Shy" refers to 6 artists:
1. Shy, a British classic rock band featuring Tony Mills, Steve Harris, Roy Davis, Joe Basketts and Bob Richards. Their website is www.shyonline.co.uk
2. SHY, a female Japanese singer
3. SHY, an Austrian pop band from Linz, that comprises Andreas Kump, Peter Lang, Heinz Fleischanderl, Mario Valenti and Hans Riener. Their web site can be found at: www.shy.at
4. Shy, a super sweet minimal dj from Luxembourg.
5. The Shy, an early 80's Detroit power-pop band.
Naked Lunch
More than one artist share this name: 1) Naked Lunch is a band from Klagenfurt, Austria, founded in 1991. They started out as an alternative rock band mixing hard rock guitars and fragile vocals. In the nineties, they connected with the German The Notwist/Weilheim musical scene with whom they still have their ties. In fact, their producer, Olaf Opal, is also a working for The Notwist. Songs for the Exhausted was recorded after a long hiatus (a time when the band nearly collapsed) and saw the band abandon their rock roots and turn to a more experimental, electronic approach to their songs.
Monk
Monk, for purposes of disambiguation, can refer to: 1. Ric Hordinski's post-Over the Rhine recording project in the late 90's / early 00's. 2. Minneapolis rapper Simpson Bradley IV, who debuted in 2005 with Writer's Block. 3. An Austrian alt-rock trio, fronted by Susanna Sawoff; listen here to full tracks from The Man Who Sleeps On His Breath. This Monk is responsible for the bio below (orig. at myspace.com): 4. Antti Mäkynen, a finnish chiptune compose
Mayfair
A progressive metal band with three albums through the 90's. They come from Austria. Their music is sentimental and intense. They had covered in a live performance the track "Just a Penny for a Poor Man" of Warlord fame.
Hans Koller
Hans Koller, one of Europe's most beloved jazz performers and an acclaimed abstract painter, died of pneumonia on Monday, December 21, 2003 in his hometown of Vienna. He was 82 years old. A saxophone prodigy, Koller immediately impressed the faculty of the Vienna Music Academy upon his arrival at the age of 14. Within a few years he was playing professionally in jazz and dance bands. In 1941 Koller was drafted into the Nazi army; he spent most of the war as an American POW, at which time he organized a detention camp band.
Serenity
There are several bands with the name Serenity: 1. Austria (power/prog metal) 2. UK (trad. doom) 1. Serenity is a power progressive metal band from Austria. They released two demos - Starseed V.R. and Engraved Within, and also recorded a tribute to Rage. In 2007 they joined the Austrian metal label Napalm Records which brought their first full-length album Words Untold & Dreams Unlived to life. The band's second full-length album is Fallen Sanctuary, was released on August 29, 2008.
Maniac
Maniac is known to be the name of six musical artists:
1. A new project of The Matches frontman Shawn Harris and Something With Numbers frontman Jake Grigg. Formed in 2009 under the name Maniac, they currently have a blog for posting song clips of their covers of the current Billboard Hot 100 number one single. They have so far covered "I Gotta Feeling" by the Black Eyed Peas and are set to release their debut album in 2010. Their debut album, Mania, can be previewed and purchased from their official website at http://maniacmania.com/
Bird People
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.
Seer
There are multiple bands going by this name, a NY rock band, an Austrian pop band and a Canadian post-hardcore band. 1) Starting as a reunion of childhood friends Eric Zirlinger (vocals, guitar, keyboard), Wayne Silver (lead guitar), and Michael Denton (drums), SEER officially formed in late 2003 with the addition of Paul Komsic (bass). The foursome began writing and rehearsing five nights a week in a small, rundown rehearsal studio in Long Island, New York.