Masters of disguise for over 15 years, the seven individuals who make up TISM never revealed their faces nor their identities – save to a…
Browsing: Music – 1990s
This girl group – initially named ‘2nd Nature’ – was formed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1990, by record producer Ian Burke and teenage singer Crystal…
Formed in Santa Barbara, California, in 1986, Toad the Wet Sprocket blended jangling, folk-infused pop-rock with introspective songwriting and lush vocal harmonies. While trying to…
Tori Amos was born Myra Ellen Amos in August 1963. Raised, as Amos put it, with “a peace pipe in one hand and a cross…
Reversing the usual process by which groups break up and give way to solo careers, The Traveling Wilburys were a group made up of successful…
One of the most popular intelligent techno acts to emerge during the genre’s ascendance during the 1990s, Underworld began life in the late 80s as…
Formed in the downtown late 80s New York scene which threw up the likes of Pussy Galore, Cop Shoot Cop and Boss Hog, Unsane underwent…
Urge Overkill formed in Chicago in 1985 and made their full-length debut four years later with Jesus Urge Superstar, a heavy and riffcentric effort produced by…
It’s understandable why Robert Van Winkle chose not to use his real name when embarking upon a career in Rap music. A white rapper was…
On 15 August 1990, an unnamed band played its first gig at the Honeysuckle pub in Poolstock, Wigan. It would be six months before they…
There was a time when I thought I hated Jazz. I hadn’t listened to anything worth a second listen and Dixieland really got up my…
The Vines formed in Sydney, Australia, in 1994 when co-founders Craig Nicholls (vocals/guitar) and Patrick Matthews (bass) met while working together at a local McDonald’s.…
Discovered in Los Angeles in 1979 by Peter Gabriel, Vivabeat were the first American signing to the British Charisma label. The band came and went,…
This rapid-fire band of jangly punk/poppers was formed in Leeds in 1984 by guitarist, vocalist and songwriter David Gedge and bass player Keith Gregory who’d…
Formed in Los Angeles in 1992, Weezer signed to Geffen Records in 1993. In the early 1990s, singer Rivers Cuomo had an awkward girlfriend who…
Alfred Matthew Yankovic was born in Downey, California, on 23 October 1959. He graduated in 1975 from Lynwood High School as valedictorian of his senior…
Formed in Stourbridge, West Midlands, in 1986, The Wonder Stuff amassed a sizeable local following and released an EP, It’s A Wonderful Day, in 1987. Along…
Centered around the prolific songwriting skills of singer/guitarist Tim Rogers, You Am I is one of the most successful and internationally admired Australian bands of…