(Vocal/instrumental group, 2002–present) Although recent years have seen the group’s future thrown into question as a direct result of singer Craig Nicholls being diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, Australia’s Vines – Nicholls, Ryan Griffiths (guitar) and Hamish Rosser (drums) – continue to make their neat fusion of Nirvana-style noise and 1960s melodicism. Despite no longer touring as a result ...
with Contra. The album made the UK Top 3, the decision to abandon university seeming a smart one. Styles & Forms | Twenty-First Century | Rock Personalities | The Vines | Twenty-First Century | Rock ...
black music history by everyone from Sly Stone and Grandmaster Flash to The Wailers, simply seemed to fit the music perfectly. It’s A Jungle Out There Cascading like tangled vines, the polyrhythmic breakbeats almost gave the dance floor the feel of a sonic jungle. As producers experimented with new techniques such as time-stretching, an identifiable sound emerged. The ...
White Stripes on their prestigious front cover, touting the minimalist pair as the ‘next big thing’. Among the acts snapping at the heels of this elite bunch are The Vines, the Australians whose debut album Highly Evolved debuted in August 2002 at No. 11 on the Billboard 200, plus fellow Detroit combo The Von Bondies, New Zealand’s ...
Nobody who has heard Led Zeppelin would ever need their memory jogged. As somebody once said of the band’s music: ‘Hoary blues motifs were pumped up to enormous proportions, clubbed senseless by Bonham’s colossal wallop, panicked to distraction by Page’s crazed air-raid riffs, pummelled by Jones’s slum-demolishing bass-lines, and strangled by Plant’s lascivious shrieks of lust.’ ...
Grunge guitarist Kim Thayil (b. 1960) was born in Seattle, Washington. He was inspired to play guitar by Kiss, subsequently backtracking to the music which inspired them – The New York Dolls, MC5, The Stooges and The Velvet Underground. He bought his first guitar, a Guild S-100, which he would use throughout his career, ...
Inspired largely by heavy metal founders Black Sabbath, the doom metal bands based their sound on the slower and more ‘sludgy’ elements of Sabbath’s sound, as can be heard on ‘Planet Caravan’ from Paranoid (1970) and ‘Sweet Leaf’ from Master Of Reality (1971), rather than the faster and more brutal elements of their music. As the name suggests, ...
Occasionally, a town or city is so integral to a style of music that the music takes its name from the place. In the early 1960s, Liverpool gave rise to the Mersey sound and Merseybeat; in the late-1980s and early 1990s, England’s Manchester spawned so–called Madchester. As much a clubbing scene and youth sub-culture as a style of ...
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