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Wattie Buchan and the band The Exploited’s brief history

Blind Willie Johnson emerged as one of the most influential gospel blues musicians of all time. But his life was marked by hardship, poverty, and obscurity.

Obscure and unpopular, you won’t like it

The story of Nekromantix

Best Ska Band in the World

In 1985, a band called Killer Banana submitted a video to the MTV Basement Tapes, which later ended up on VHS tapes of obscure indie music that circulated from VCR to VCR along the American West Coast. It’s the only song known by them. The resemblance with “Smells Like Teen […]

Brody Dalle was born Bree Joanna Alice Robinson on January 1, 1979, in Melbourne, Australia. As the granddaughter of Al Costello, a well-known wrestling champion in the 1950s, she initially trained to become an Olympic swimmer. After her parents divorced and she was expelled from two Catholic high schools, Dalle […]

Your favorite songwriter’s favorite songwriter and the most influential composer since Beethoven. Story of Alabama country western legend Hank Williams.

This is the story of Clifford Trahan, whose promising rockabilly career in the 1950s came to an end after he recorded several racist songs under the alias Johnny Rebel in the late 1960s.

Reverend Deadeye (Brent Burkhart) marches on, guitar in hand, one eye fixed on the road ahead and the other on the heavens above. His gospel is one of fire and brimstone, whiskey and blues— for the broken, the weary, and the damned, but one that offers hope to all who […]