Gong
Gong is a progressive/psychedelic rock band formed by Australian musician Daevid Allen. Their music has also been described as space rock.
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Third Ear Band
Third Ear Band evolved within the London alternative and free-music scene of the mid 1960's with members coming from The Giant Sun Trolley & The People Band to create a uniquely improvised music drawing on Eastern raga forms, European folk, experimental and medieval influences.
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Vampire Rodents
The Vampire Rodents, a project of Toronto guitarist/vocalist Anton Rathausen (real name Daniel Vahnke) and keyboardist Victor Wulf, were possibly the greatest composers of collage-music of the decade.
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Pop Group
The Pop Group was a post-punk band from Bristol, England whose uncompromising, dissonant sound spanned punk, free jazz and dub reggae. Their lyrics were, more often than not, political in nature.
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Residents
The Residents are an avant garde music and visual arts group. They formed in 1972 and released their first record that year, a double-disc 45 RPM recording entitled Santa Dog.
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Van Morrison
Van Morrison OBE (born August 31, 1945 as George Ivan Morrison) is a singer-songwriter from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Suicide
Suicide is an American rock music group intermittently active since 1971 and composed of Alan Vega (vocals) and Martin Rev (synthesizers and drum machines).
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Foetus
Foetus is the main entity of industrial music pioneer J. G. Thirlwell. An entity that has varied wildly in name, as in music.
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Neu!
Neu! (the German word for "new", pronounced "noy") was a German band, probably the archetypal example of what the UK music press at the time dubbed Krautrock.
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades.
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Morphine
Morphine was an alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman and Dana Colley in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in 1989.
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Lisa Germano
Lisa Germano (born 1958) is a multi-instrumentalist Dream pop singer/songwriter who has released seven albums featuring her distinctive violin and confessional lyrics. Her album Geek the
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Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter and occasional actor, best known for his work in the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and his fascination with American music and its roots. He currently resides in Brighton & Hove, in England.
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Klaus Schulze
Klaus Schulze is a German electronic music composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried. He was briefly a member of the electronic bands Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel before a pioneering and prolific solo career of 40+ albums (totalling 110+ CDs) in 30+ years.
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Red Crayola
The Red Crayola was a psychedelic, avant-garde rock band from Houston, Texas, formed by art students at the University of St. Thomas (Texas) in 1966.
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Tim Buckley
Buckley often regarded his voice as an instrument, a talent most exploited on his albums Goodbye and Hello, Lorca, and Starsailor. He was married to Mary Guibert, with whom he had a child, musician and singer Jeff Buckley, also known for his three-and-a-half octave voice, who died in 1997.
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Nico
Christa Paffgen (October 16, 1938 – July 18, 1988) was a singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress, keyboard player and Warhol superstar, best known by her pseudonym Nico.
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Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground (sometimes abbreviated as The Velvets or VU) was an American rock band first active from 1965 to 1973. Its best-known alumni are Lou Reed and John Cale.
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John Fahey
John Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who pioneered the steel-string guitar as a solo instrument.
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Royal Trux
Royal Trux, often credited as Adam & Eve, was an American rock band, founded by Neil Hagerty (vocals, guitar) and Jennifer Herrema (vocals). From 1987 to 2001, the band explored every inch of the rock-and-roll cliche from sub-underground nihilism to major-label biz for hire, without abandoning their unique romanticism and artistic integrity.
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Pere Ubu
David Lynn Thomas, b. 1953 in Miami FL. Raised in Cleveland OH. High School Graduate. Son of an American literature professor from New York City and an illustrator / amateur architect from Georgia.
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Popol Vuh
Popol Vuh is a German cosmic music band founded by pianist and keyboardist Florian Fricke in 1970 together with Holger Trulzsch (percussion) and Frank Fiedler (electronics). Other important members during the next two decades included Daniel Fichelscher and Bob Eliscu.
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The Doors
The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles by keyboardist Ray Manzarek, vocalist Jim Morrison, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger.
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Faust
A chronology of the group released by Klangbad
1969: Zappi Diermaier, Hans Joachim Irmler, Arnold Meifert (all formerly of Campylognatus Citelli) and Jean Herve Peron, Rudolf Sosna and Gunter Wusthoff (all formerly of Nukleus) coincidentally meet in Hamburg and begin casually creating music together.
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Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt was a founding member of the Soft Machine, who along with Pink Floyd Helped to transform the late sixties psychedelic scene in the UK into something more lasting.
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Captain Beefheart
In 1974, Trout Mask Replica was my favorite record album. I would sit cross-legged on the deep shag carpeting of the basement floor, slide open the door of the gigantic fifties model stereo-TV console, and flip through the albums.
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Husker Du
Zen Arcade is the third full-length album from the American hardcore punk band Husker Du, released in July 1984 on SST Records.
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