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Dolly Rebecca Parton (January 19, 1946 - August 25, 2026) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, philanthropist, and businesswoman. After initial success as a songwriter for other artists, she released her debut album, "Hello, I'm Dolly", in 1967. Her career spans around six decades and more than 50 studio albums. Known as the "Queen of Country", Parton is regarded as one of the most successful and widely honoured female country music performers in history. Read more on Last.fm

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There are multiple artists under the same name: 1) A 1970s funk band, best known for launching the career of their lead singer, Chaka Khan. Major hits during their career include "Tell Me Something Good," "Sweet Thing," and "Ain't Nobody" Rufus gained a fan in Stevie Wonder thanks to their cover of his "Maybe Your Baby." Wonder gave them a new composition, the slowly grinding "Tell Me Something Good," that he'd written specifically with Khan's vocal style in mind. Read more on Last.fm

The Amps are an alternative rock band from Dayton, Ohio, USA and were formed by Kim Deal in 1995 after The Breeders went on hiatus. They first began touring as "Tammy and the Amps" but it was later shortened to "The Amps." Their album Pacer was released on Halloween of 1995. It is widely believed to consist mostly of songs intended for the follow-up album to the platinum Last Splash. Kim Deal originally intended to play all of the instruments herself Read more on Last.fm

Kucha, Zeimani, and BG were singing before they could walk. They grew up on stages and in studios all over the world, singing behind their parents as well as their Uncle Bob. No matter where they called home—London, Thailand, Amsterdam, Kenya, West Virginia, the Bahamas—music and family were always a constant at the center of their lives. As they grew up, each with their own journeys and heartaches, they found their own voices and their own way. Read more on Last.fm

There is more than one artist with this name. 1) Johnny Thunder is the professional stage name of Gil Hamilton (born August 15, 1932).[1][2] He is an American R&B and pop singer, whose biggest hit was "Loop De Loop" in 1963. Gil Hamilton was born in Leesburg, Florida, and started singing in church and on street corners when in his teens. Aiming to start a singing career in the late 1950s, he moved to New York City, where he joined a touring version of The Drifters for a few months Read more on Last.fm

DIIV (previously known as Dive) is the ongoing project of Zachary Cole Smith, who has already made a name for himself in the New York music scene playing for bands such as Beach Fossils, Darwin Deez and Soft Black. Smith formed DIIV in Brooklyn in 2011 as his solo project, but soon put together a live band with Devin Ruben Perez, his childhood friend Andrew Bailey, and ex-Smith Westerns drummer Colby Hewitt. DIIV's first release, the single Sometime , was released as 7" on Captured Tracks on Oct. Read more on Last.fm

Talib Kweli Greene (born October 3, 1975 in Brooklyn, New York) is a North American MC known as one of the most prominent rappers in underground hip-hop, and is critically acclaimed frequently, despite not being commercially successful. Kweli first gained recognition through Black Star, a collaboration with fellow MC Mos Def. He released his solo debut album Quality in 2002 and has since released 2004's The Beautiful Struggle, 2005's mixtape album Right About Now, 2007's Eardrum, 2011's Gutter Rainbows and 2013's Prisoner of Conscious. Read more on Last.fm

The Anemic Boyfriends were 80's post-punk band from Anchorage, Alaska. Their lyrics are delivered with a mocking leer, and then a goofy little melodica hook punch-lines them, sounding exactly how Ashlee Simpson’s embarrassed Saturday Night Live dance looked. So yeah, “Guys Are Not Proud” is an amazing song, apparently a favorite of John Peel’s (for more on that, go here, the only place I could find anything about these gals) and clearly a cut worthy of the post-punk pantheon — the lyrics so coy and fun Read more on Last.fm

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