Napalming its way onto the often violent California punk scene of the early 1980s, Damaged (1981) is one of the angriest and most confronting albums ever. Although…
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Britpop wasn’t just about the vanguard of brand new bands spunking forth from Camden’s Good Mixer pub. It was also about older acts tweaking their sound…
Black Oak Arkansas (the band) put their hometown of Black Oak, Arkansas (population 272) on the map in 1973 with their number one remake of…
By the time Cher appeared as the frontwoman in a New Wave-style band called Black Rose, many people were not taking the concept – or her – seriously.…
The definitive heavy metal band, Black Sabbath, emerged from Birmingham in the British Midlands in 1967. Their debut album, Black Sabbath (1970), stormed to #8 in the UK charts.…
Joe Camilleri formed The Black Sorrows in 1983 after dissolving Aussie New Wave/R&B band, Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons. Taking a year off to clear his…
Released soon after Bob Marley’s death, Red seemed a tailor-made pitch for Black Uhuru as reggae’s next global superstars. Here was roots consciousness with an eye on…
Blackfoot Sue formed in Birmingham (UK) from the ashes of a local band called Gift. Signing to the JAM label, their first single was an…
Formed in Prescot, Merseyside, in the summer of 1963 from the remnants of a local group called The Ravons, this Liverpool beat group were resident…
A duo consisting of singer and guitarist Neil Arthur from Lancashire and keyboard player Stephen Luscombe from Middlesex, Blancmange released a non-charting EP in 1981…
Blind Faith was formed by Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker from Cream, Steve Winwood from Traffic and Ric Grech from Family. Britain’s most anxiously awaited…
Combining incredibly fast, catchy, melodic punk rock with a trademark sense of juvenile, irreverent toilet humour, Blink-182 formed in Poway, California, in 1992 amidst the…
In 1968, Mick Abrahams left Jethro Tull to pursue a more bluesy direction than the innovative avenue Ian Anderson was going down. He left behind a sterling…
It was in 1973, at New York’s Boburn Tavern, that former Playboy bunny waitress Deborah Harry met Chris Stein. She was performing as one-third of The Stilettos, who…
This eight-piece group was the brainchild of Al Kooper, former Bob Dylan sideman, Brill Building songsmith and kingpin of The Blues Project, but he had dropped…
Blossom Toes were a quintessentially English psychedelic pop band active between 1967 and 1969. Signed by Yardbirds manager Giorgio Gomelsky to his fledgling Marmalade label,…
When The Blossoms first formed in 1963 it was as a vocal backing group for other artists recording for Phil Spector. The first stars to…
Moving in to fill the vapid-soul vacancy left by Culture Club during that band’s terminal creative drought, England’s Blow Monkeys whipped up a disturbingly familiar-sounding bit of…
This unlikely answer to the Velvet Underground formed in Bristol, England, in the early 80s and endured endless line-up changes. Their original aim – a…
Blue Cheer emerged in 1967 under the cover of the San Francisco psychedelic scene, but there was nothing remotely lyrical about the three-piece from North…