Artists - B
Butterfield Blues Band, The
Singer and harmonica player Paul Butterfield headed up his Chicago-based Blues Band, accompanied by ace guitarist Mike Bloomfield. They recorded their first album for Elektra in 1965 and spawned a spate of imitators.
Having defined electric...
Butthole Surfers
Given they spent the last few decades plumbing new depths of musical blandness embracing the corporate dollar, it's hard to imagine drug-crazed Texans Butthole Surfers were ever an underground force to be reckoned with, even...
Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks was formed in Manchester in 1975 by guitarist/singer Pete Shelley (real name Peter McNeish) and singer Howard Devoto (real name Howard Trafford).
They shared common interests in electronic music, the idiosyncratic work of British musician...
Byrds, The
In 1964, Jim (later Roger) McGuinn, David Crosby and Gene Clark began playing folk music in coffee houses around Los Angeles, calling themselves The Jet Set.
They eventually got a rhythm section - drummer Michael Clarke...
