• Sir Richard Bishop

    Sweet Lips Spiritual – Sir Richard Bishop

    Sir Richard Bishop

    Richard Bishop, self-styled as Sir Richard Bishop, is an American composer, guitarist and singer based in Phoenix, Arizona, who is best known for co-founding (along with brother Alan Bishop) Sun City Girls. In the 1980s he was a member of the Paris 1942. From 2010 he has been a member of Rangda. Bishop’s first official solo record, Salvador Kali, was released by John Fahey’s Revenant Records label in 1998. He began performing as a solo artist in 2005, playing throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Yo La Tengo

    Autumn Sweater – Yo La Tengo

    Yo La Tengo

    Yo La Tengo is an American indie rock band formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984. Since 1992, the lineup has consisted of Ira Kaplan (guitars, vocals), Georgia Hubley (drums, vocals), and James McNew (bass, vocals). Despite achieving limited mainstream success, Yo La Tengo has been called "the quintessential critics' band" and maintain a strong cult following. Additionally, the band is renowned for its encyclopedic repertoire of cover songs both in live performance and on record. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Vivien Goldman

    Launderette – Vivien Goldman

    Vivien Goldman

    Vivien Goldman (born 25 August 1954) is a British journalist, writer and musician. She released only a few songs into the world in 1981, but they are critically acclaimed. Her release, the Dirty Washing EP, had "Launderette" as the A-side, a track that was co-produced by John Lydon (Johnny Rotten). As a journalist, Goldman wrote articles for NME, Sounds and Melody Maker about reggae, punk and post-punk. She sang on the track "Windows" on the debut album of The Flying Lizards Read more on Last.fm

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  • Blind Yeo

    Right Sound of the Round – Blind Yeo

    Blind Yeo

    Blind Yeo est un collectif psyché-expérimental en constante évolution, mené par le musicien britannique Will Greenham. Né pendant le confinement, le projet prend véritablement vie en 2022 lors d’une résidence artistique foisonnante au Cornish Bank — un espace culturel communautaire situé à Falmouth (Cornouailles), devenu l’épicentre d’une scène underground locale florissante. La formation de Blind Yeo est volontairement mouvante Read more on Last.fm

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  • megiapa

    Black Gold of the Sun – megiapa

    megiapa

    As a self-proclaimed bedroom artist, Chicago-based producer and melodist, megiapa, has evolved what first started as sound bites stitched together in Audacity into a wide range of deeply-rooted rhythms, and crisp, futuristic soundscapes. Emerging from Chicago’s underground beat scene with her debut EP, (parenthesis), she displayed a new direction in production from her humble sampling days. In 2017, megiapa revisited those roots in collaboration with Chicago’s notable multi-instrumentalist, Ben LaMar Gay, to release GROWTH EP. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Claude Vasori

    Les Calanques – Claude Vasori

    Claude Vasori

    Claude Vasori (Paris, France, 2 September 1930 – 1 April 2019) was a French orchestra leader, composer and arranger of orchestral music also known as Caravelli. The son of an Italian father and a French mother, Vasori was initially instructed in music by his mother in piano and voicing/harmony at seven years old, and later, when he was thirteen he began to attend the Paris Conservatoire. At twenty he was professionally touring, accompanying singers on piano, and at 26 years old he started as an orchestra conductor. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Pet Shop Boys

    A Man from the Future – Pet Shop Boys

    Pet Shop Boys

    Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo formed in London in 1981. The group consists of vocalist Neil Tennant and keyboardist Chris Lowe. They are among the most commercially successful acts in British popular music, having sold more than 100 million records worldwide. In the 1999 edition of "The Guinness Book of Records", they were listed as the most successful duo in UK music history. The duo achieved 42 top-30 singles in the United Kingdom Read more on Last.fm

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  • Pet Shop Boys

    Only in his death – Pet Shop Boys

    Pet Shop Boys

    Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo formed in London in 1981. The group consists of vocalist Neil Tennant and keyboardist Chris Lowe. They are among the most commercially successful acts in British popular music, having sold more than 100 million records worldwide. In the 1999 edition of "The Guinness Book of Records", they were listed as the most successful duo in UK music history. The duo achieved 42 top-30 singles in the United Kingdom Read more on Last.fm

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  • Derrick May

    Strings of Life – Derrick May

    Derrick May

    Derrick May, also known as Mayday and Rhythim is Rhythim, is an electronic musician from Belleville, Michigan U.S.A. He was born an only child in Detroit in 1963 and began to explore electronic music early in his life. Along with his Belleville, Michigan high school friends Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, commonly known as the Belleville Three, May is credited with developing the futuristic variation on house music that would be dubbed "techno" by Atkins. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Stephen Drury

    In a Landscape (1948) – Stephen Drury

    Stephen Drury

    Stephen Drury (born April 13, 1955) is an American pianist, conductor and electronic musician. Drury has performed and recorded a range of compositions by classical and contemporary composers including Igor Stravinsky, Charles Ives, John Cage, Frederic Rzewski, and John Zorn. He teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music. His CD of Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!" is considered by critics to be the definitive recording of that work. He has performed with Frederic Rzewski at Carnegie Hall as recently as May 1, 2008. Read more on Last.fm

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