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Cooking Vinyl
Cooking Vinyl is a UK-based independent record company, founded in 1986. Its original orientation was toward contemporary folk music -- notably Billy Bragg, and Michelle Shocked's Texas Campfire Tapes, recorded on a Sony Walkman, one of its first releases. Since then the label has grown and...
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Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks are an English rock band formed in Bolton in 1976, led by singer–songwriter–guitarist Pete Shelley.
They are regarded as an important influence on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label movement, punk rock, power pop, pop...
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- 1976
The Undertones
The Undertones are a punk rock/power pop band formed in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1975.
The original line-up of The Undertones released thirteen singles and four studio albums — The Undertones (1979), Hypnotised (1980), Positive Touch (1981), and...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1975
XTC
The Dukes of Stratosphear was a pseudonym used by the British rock band XTC in the mid to late 1980s, concurrently with XTC's continued musical activities. The project was intended as a homage to 1960s pop and psychedelic music by groups such as The...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1976
Cracker
Cracker is an American alternative rock band featuring singer David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman. They are best known for their platinum-selling 1993 album, Kerosene Hat, featuring the hit songs "Low", "Eurotrash Girl", and "Get Off This"....
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1991
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Supergrass
Supergrass are an English alternative rock band from Oxford. The band consists of brothers Gaz (guitar and lead vocals) and Rob Coombes (keyboards), Danny Goffey (drums and backing vocals), and Mick Quinn (bass and backing vocals).
The main trio...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1993
The Datsuns
The Datsuns are a hard rock band from Cambridge, New Zealand, formed in 2000.
In 1997, while still at school, Dolf de Borst (vocals, bass), Phil Buscke (guitar), and Matt Osment (drums) formed a band under the name Trinket. Christian Livingstone...
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Hanson
Hanson is an American pop rock band formed in Tulsa, Oklahoma by brothers Isaac, Taylor, and Zac Hanson. They are best known for the 1997 hit song "MMMBop" from their major label debut album Middle of Nowhere that earned three Grammy nominations....
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1992
Billy Bragg
Stephen William Bragg (born 20 December 1957 in Barking, Essex, England), better known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician who blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs. His lyrics mostly deal with political or...
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- Dec 20, 1957 (age 52 years)
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1977
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Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen are an English post-punk group, formed in Liverpool in 1978. Their original lineup consisted of vocalist Ian McCulloch, guitarist Will Sergeant and bass player Les Pattinson, supplemented by a drum machine. By 1980, Pete de...
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- 1978
The Prodigy
The Prodigy are an English electronic music group formed by Liam Howlett in 1990 in Braintree, Essex, England. Along with Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers and The Crystal Method, as well as other acts they are pioneers of the big beat electronic...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1990
The Vines
The Vines are an Australian alternative rock band noted for producing a musical hybrid of '60s rock and '90s alternative music. Since 2006 their line-up has consisted of vocalist and lead guitarist Craig Nicholls, rhythm guitarist Ryan Griffiths,...
Soft Cell
Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They consist of vocalist Marc Almond and David Ball on synthesizers. The duo is well known for their huge 1981 worldwide hit - a significantly reworked cover version of...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1980
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1984
The Mission
The Mission (known as The Mission UK in the United States) were a gothic rock band formed in 1986 from the splinters of the freshly-dissolved rock band The Sisters of Mercy.
The band was started by frontman Wayne Hussey and bassist Craig Adams (both...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Dec 1985
Dan Bern
Dan Bern (also known as Bernstein; born 27 July 1965) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, novelist and painter. His music is often compared to that of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Phil Ochs and Elvis Costello.
He is an...
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- Jul 27, 1965 (age 44 years)
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Killing Joke
Killing Joke are an English post-punk rock band formed in October 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England. (Several sources state that they formed in early 1979.) Founding members Jaz Coleman (vocals, keyboards) and Geordie Walker (guitars) have been...
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- 1979
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Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine (frequently shortened to Carter USM) were a British indie rock band formed in 1987 by singer Jim "Jim Bob" Morrison and guitarist Les "Fruitbat" Carter. They made their name with a distinctive style of power pop,...
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- 1988
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- Aug 1997
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Pere Ubu
Pere Ubu is an experimental rock music group formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975. Despite many long-term band members, singer David Thomas is the only constant. The group is named after Père Ubu ("father Ubu"), the protagonist of Ubu Roi ("Ubu, the...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Aug 1975
Kula Shaker
Kula Shaker are an English multi-platinum selling psychedelic rock band who came to prominence during the Britpop era. The band became known for their interest in Indian culture, and numerous tracks such as "Tattva" and "Govinda" were written in...
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The Wedding Present
The Wedding Present are a British indie rock group based in Leeds, England, formed in 1985 from the ashes of the Lost Pandas. The band's music has evolved from fast-paced indie rock in the vein of their most obvious influences The Fall, Buzzcocks...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1985
The Bluetones
The Bluetones are an English indie rock band, formed in Hounslow, Greater London, in 1994. The band's members are Mark Morriss on vocals, Adam Devlin on guitar, Scott Morriss on bass guitar, and Eds Chesters on drums. A fifth member, Richard Payne,...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1994
Maria McKee
Maria Louise McKee (born August 17, 1964, Los Angeles, California) is an American singer.
Maria Luisa McKee is her real name.
A solo artist, McKee was a founding member of the cowpunk/country rock band, Lone Justice, in 1982, with whom she released...
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- Aug 17, 1964 (age 45 years)
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The Lilac Time
The Lilac Time are a British alternative rock band that was originally formed in Herefordshire, England by Stephen Duffy, his brother Nick Duffy and their friend Michael Weston in 1986. The band's name was taken from a line in the Nick Drake song ...
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The Martinis
The Martinis are a rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1993. The band consists of Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago and his wife Linda Mallari. They have released one album under the label Cooking Vinyl, Artist Direct, and Distracted/BMG....
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Prolapse
Prolapse were a musical group formed in Leicester, England active from c.1992 to c.2000. The group's sound was a mixture of punk rock, krautrock and shoegazing styles.
The group's line-up comprised: Mick Derrick (vocals), Linda Steelyard (vocals),...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1992
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 2000
Hayseed Dixie
Hayseed Dixie is an American band which began in the Fall of 2000 with the release of their first album, A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC. The band performs a mixture of cover versions of hard rock songs and original compositions in a style that is a...
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Gaz Coombes
Gaz Coombes (born Gareth Michael Coombes, 8 March 1976 in Oxford) is an English musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the English alternative rock band, Supergrass. He first entered the music scene aged...
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- Mar 8, 1976 (age 33 years)
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Danny Goffey
Daniel Robert Goffey (born 7 February 1974 in Berkshire) is an English musician and singer-songwriter best known as the drummer and backing vocalist for the English Britpop band, Supergrass.
Goffey started his music career as a child when he formed...
Date of birth:
- Feb 7, 1974 (age 35 years)
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Jaz Coleman
Jeremy "Jaz" Coleman (born 26 February 1960, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England) is a musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer. He is notable for his vocal contributions to post-punk/metal/industrial band Killing Joke. In addition...
Date of birth:
- Feb 26, 1960 (age 49 years)
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¡Forward, Russia!
¡Forward, Russia! are an English alternative band from Leeds, formed in early 2004, though are currently on hiatus. Until 2006, the band only named tracks with numbers, in the order that they were written. The band has used Faux Cyrillic, with its...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 2004
Saint Low
Saint Low is a band and vehicle for singer-songwriter Mary Lorson, formerly of Madder Rose.
In Madder Rose, Lorson sang lead vocals, but guitar player Billy Coté wrote the majority of songs on each album, leaving Lorson with a backlog of her own...
Paul McLoone
Paul McLoone (born 11 February 1967 in Derry, Northern Ireland), is the current singer of Northern Irish pop-punk band The Undertones. He replaced Feargal Sharkey when the band reunited for a series of festival appearances in 1999.
Paul, a native of...
Date of birth:
- Feb 11, 1967 (age 42 years)
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Richard Barone
Richard Barone is a rock musician born in Tampa, Florida. He also works as a songwriter, arranger, author, director, and producer, and releases albums as a solo artist.
Barone began his career at age 7 as 'The Littlest DJ' on a local Tampa top-40...
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Danny Farrant
Danny Farrant (born in Weston-super-Mare, England) is the current drummer in the British punk band Buzzcocks. He joined the group following Phil Barker's departure in 2006.
As a schoolboy, Farrant was a member of a short-lived New Wave group called...
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The Wannadies
The Wannadies were an alternative rock band formed in 1988 in Skellefteå, northern Sweden. The band's initial line-up featured Pär Wiksten (vocals, guitars), Christina Bergmark (born 1 March 1963) (keyboards, vocals), Stefan Schönfeldt (born 5 June...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1988
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American Music Club
American Music Club is a San Francisco-based band led by singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel.
Although born in California, Eitzel spent his formative years in Okinawa, Taiwan, Great Britain and Ohio before returning to the Bay Area in 1981. After a brief...
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Seafood
Seafood are a UK band formed in London around 1996.
The current line-up includes chief songwriter David Line (vocals, guitar), Caroline Banks (drums and backing vocals) and Kevin Penney (guitars) who joined the band following the departure of...
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Pete Shelley
Pete Shelley (born Peter Campbell McNeish, 17 April 1955 in Leigh, Lancashire) is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, best-known as the leader of Buzzcocks. His stage name is a combination of his real first name and the name he would have...
Date of birth:
- Apr 17, 1955 (age 54 years)
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AC Acoustics
AC Acoustics (officially typeset as ac acoustics) were a critically acclaimed Scottish indie rock band from Glasgow, formed in 1990 (see 1990 in music). Over their thirteen years of existence, they released a string of singles, EPs and albums on a...
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The Broken Family Band
The Broken Family Band were a British rock band from Cambridge and London.
The band was formed in Cambridge, England by Steven Adams, Jay Williams, Micky Roman and Gavin Johnson in 2001, following the break-up of Adams and Williams’ indie rock band...
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Rockfour
Rockfour (Hebrew: רוקפור) is a Psychedelic rock band, formed in 1988 in Holon, Israel. Most of their catalog is in English, and they regularly tour the United States.
Rockfour began writing and performing in Hebrew, and in 1991 released a single, ...
The Bongos
The Bongos were a pop band primarily active in the 1980s. They formed in Hoboken, New Jersey and were led by Richard Barone (vocals, guitar). The band also included Rob Norris, formerly of the Zantees (bass) and Frank Giannini (drums). James Mastro ...
Clive Gregson
Clive Gregson (born 4 January 1955, Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside, England) is an English singer/songwriter, musician and record producer. He has toured in bands, provided backup for well-known musicians, and written songs that have been covered by...
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- 1955 (age 55 years)
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Goats Don't Shave
Goats Don't Shave were an Irish folk rock band from Dungloe, County Donegal, Ireland. Formed in 1990, the group was fronted by singer-songwriter Pat Gallagher and backed by musicians Jason Philbin (fiddle), Charlie Logue (keyboards), Declan Quinn ...
Marine Girls
Marine Girls were a music group from Hatfield, Hertfordshire. The group was formed in 1980 by two sixth form school friends: Tracey Thorn and Gina Hartman. Originally, Thorn played guitar and Gina was vocalist and percussionist. They were later...
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Frank Black
Black Francis (born Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV on April 6, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the influential alternative rock band Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name...
Date of birth:
- Apr 6, 1965 (age 44 years)
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1997
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 2003
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Colin Moulding
Colin Ivor Moulding (born 17 August 1955 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England) is a bassist, songwriter and vocalist. He is a founding member of the band XTC. Though less prolific than bandmate Andy Partridge, Moulding wrote many of the group's most...
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- Aug 17, 1955 (age 54 years)
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Luka Bloom
Luka Bloom (born 23 May 1955 in Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland as Kevin Barry Moore) is an Irish folk-rock singer-songwriter. He is also the younger brother of Irish folk singer Christy Moore.
In order to avoid the pressure of being related to...
Date of birth:
- May 23, 1955 (age 54 years)
The Rockingbirds
The Rockingbirds were a British country-rock band, formed in London in 1990. They disbanded in 1995, but reformed in 2008 for the Heavenly Records 18th Anniversary shows. They began to tour again in spring 2009 and are booked to play the 2009...
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Immaculate Fools
Immaculate Fools were a pop group formed in 1984, who had their biggest success in 1985 with the single "Immaculate Fools", and continued until 1997, releasing six studio albums before splitting up.
The band was formed in Kent, England by two sets...
