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Charlie McAlister (Charles Monroe McAlister, Columbia, South Carolina, March 4, 1969 - February 26, 2018) was an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and artist. Charlie was born in Columbia, SC, and moved with his family to Georgetown, SC, overseas to Athens, Greece, and eventually to Mount Pleasant, SC in 1979. He attended East Cooper School, then Wando High School, where he excelled in art. He attended the Chicago Art Institute and lived in Paris, France, and Los Angeles, CA, among other places. Read more on Last.fm

Fred Brathwaite (born 1960), more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American Hip hop historian, Hip hop pioneer and former graffiti artist. He was active in New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s. He is credited with helping to broaden the exposure of Hip-hop beyond The Bronx. In late-1980, Freddy was cast along with fellow Lower East Side graffiti writer Lee Quinones in Glen O'Brien's film Downtown 81 (1981). That film showcased artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in his Lower Manhattan environment and the music that surrounded it. Read more on Last.fm

Dehd is an indie rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 2015. The band consists of Emily Kempf (bass, vocals), Jason Balla (guitar, vocals), and Eric McGrady (drums). The band has released five studio albums: "Dehd" (2016), "Water" (2019), "Flower of Devotion" (2020), "Blue Skies" (2022), and "Poetry" (2024). Read more on Last.fm

Alan Lomax's recordings of the 56th annual convention of the United Sacred Harp Musical Association in Fyffe, Alabama, were the first made of four-part shape-note singing – America's most powerful tradition of folk hymnody – in stereo. Lomax had, as he later wrote, "tried and failed, as had many others, to record this music monaurally" at the Sacred Harp Singing Society of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1942. In '59 he hoped to "finally do justice to its haunting beauty. Read more on Last.fm

Wataru Takada. Read more on Last.fm

Spectral Display (1982 - 1984) Geesteskind van synthesizerfreak Michel Mulders die met de single It Takes A Muscle To Fall In Love een bescheiden hit scoort. Bron Popinstituut NL Read more on Last.fm

At least 7 different artists: 1.) Shadow is a melodic death metal band from Osaka, Japan, which was founded in 1993 by Yoshio "Cain" Kudo. In 1997, Shadow recorded their first demos with the following members:- Yoshio Kudo (bass) - Yuichi Sumimoto (guitar) - Shinichiro Okada (guitar) - Mitsuhiro Emomoto (drums). Without a vocalist of their own, Shadow hired a session singer to record their first demos. After distributing the demos worldwide, Shadow released their first album Shadow, under Spikefarm Records. Read more on Last.fm

Michael Hurley (born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on December 20, 1941, † April 1, 2025) was an American folk singer and guitarist who was essential to the New York Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to playing a wide variety of instruments (including the fiddle), Hurley is also a cartoonist and a painter. Hurley's music has been described as "outsider folk". Hurley's debut album, First Songs, was recorded Read more on Last.fm

Orange Can was formed in 1999 by brothers James and Jason Aslett in London, UK. Their first record Entrance High Rise was recorded in their home studio and released by independent label Regal. After signing the brothers recruited bassist Lee Catlin and a drummer, who would later be replaced by Rory Clarke. The quartet recorded The Engine House, and EP that was released just prior to Entrance High Rise. Both the album and EP enjoyed positive comparisons to the Stone Roses and early Pink Floyd Read more on Last.fm

ambient-folk project based in Canberra Australia. Read more on Last.fm