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Annette Peacock (née Coleman) (born 1941, Brooklyn, New York, USA) is a vocalist, composer, poet and producer mostly active within avant-garde/free jazz, active from the mid 1960s to the present. She is generally appreciated for her adventurous song writing and for her pioneering work with early synthesizers and vocal processing. Music critics are often quick to note that, despite some recent attention and a few re-releases, her work remains remarkably under-appreciated. Read more on Last.fm

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Broadcast was a British ambient pop band formed in 1995 in Birmingham, England. The band's style explored 1960s influences like psychedelic pop and early electronic music through indie neo-psychedelia, heavily influenced by both the 1960s American psychedelic group The United States of America and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, using many of the same electronic effects and atmospheres. Their music fell under the style of British first wave post-rock -adjacent retrofuturistic acts like Stereolab and Pram. Read more on Last.fm

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Alan "Blind Owl" Christie Wilson (July 4, 1943 – September 3, 1970) was the leader, singer, and primary composer in the American blues band Canned Heat. He played guitar and harmonica and wrote most of the songs for the band. He performed at two of the greatest concerts of the 1960s, the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and Woodstock in 1969. His unique high tenor vocals made him instantly recognizable among other vocalists of the era, and are clearly heard on the film Woodstock Read more on Last.fm

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Donnie and Joe Emerson are an American vocal and instrumental duo consisting of brothers Donnie Emerson and Joe Emerson. Living on a family farm in rural Fruitland, Washington, in the late 1970's, the brothers' father, Don Emerson, Sr., encouraged his teenage sons' musical interest as they began writing and playing their own music. Don, Sr. built his sons a state-of-the-art $100,000 recording studio and in it they self-produced and self-released their first album Dreamin' Wild in 1979 Read more on Last.fm

Pete La Roca (born Peter Sims; April 7, 1938 – November 20, 2012) was an American jazz drummer. He adopted the name La Roca early in his musical career when he was a timbales player in Latin bands. Pete La Roca was born in New York City. Between 1957 and 1968 he played with Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Slide Hampton, the John Coltrane Quartet, Marian McPartland, Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Mose Allison, Charles Lloyd, Paul Bley, and Steve Kühn Read more on Last.fm

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