jazz, often with his identical twin brother, drummer Alex Cline. Cline has worked with many notable musicians in alternative rock, including Mike Watt, Thurston Moore and Wilco, of which he became a full-time member in 2004. Cline appears on Wilco’s albums Sky Blue Sky (2007), Wilco (The Album) (2009), The Whole Love (2011) and the live ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1994–present) Frontman and principal songwriter Jeff Tweedy formed Wilco – John Stirratt (bass), Nels Cline (guitar), Glenn Kotche (drums), Pat Sansone (various instruments) and Mikael Jorgensen (keyboards) – after disbanding country heroes Uncle Tupelo. Throughout countless personnel ‘changes’ and label squabbles they made a series of five albums (culminating in 2005’s A Ghost Is Born) that moved further ...
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output consisted of six studio albums, two EPs, one concert film, 26 singles and 14 music videos. Styles & Forms | Twenty-First Century | Rock Personalities | Wilco | Twenty-First Century | Rock ...
Volt, a band that isolated his hypnotically ominous, dirge-like contributions to Uncle Tupelo. Tweedy stayed with Coomer, Stirratt and Johnston and recruited guitarist Jay Bennett to form Wilco, a band that drifted steadily from alt.-country to alternative-rock. Wilco became a media sensation when its album Yankee Foxtrot Hotel was turned down by Warner Bros. Records for ...
There have always been avant-garde artists and bands that take elements of country and fuse them with other musical idioms to make their own highly original, often idiosyncratic styles. Many of these artists also address controversial issues that are taboo in the politically correct country mainstream. It was the late-1960s and early 1970s, when America’s anti-war ‘alternative’ sub-culture was ...
to multi-platinum glory. Interestingly, it was young performers taking the pioneering spirit of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers and producing what became known as alt.country – Wilco, Son Volt, The Jayhawks and Whiskeytown among them – that came up with more exciting, if lesser-selling results. The post-Nirvana alt.rock scene was increasingly attacked by ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1990–98) Named after a feminist magazine of the same name, Seattle’s Bikini Kill spearheaded the riot grrrl movement. Kathleen Hanna (vocals), Tobi Vail (drums) and Kathi Wilcox (bass) published the magazine and roped in Billy Boredom on guitar. Musically a mixture of punk and feminist lyrics, the band built up a no-compromise reputation as a live ...
‘When I first heard of the electric guitar, I thought somebody was bullshittin’ me,’ says George ‘Buddy’ Guy. ‘We lived so far in the country I didn’t even know what an acoustic guitar was until my mother started getting mail-order catalogs’. In 2005, Guy, who was born in Lettsworth, Louisiana on 30 July 1936, stands ...
More than any other hard-rock or heavy-metal duo, Iron Maiden guitarists Adrian Smith and Dave Murray (b. 1956) set the standard for twin-guitar harmony lines and riffs. Indeed, their killer riffs and epic songs have helped to make Iron Maiden one of the most influential metal bands of all time. Murray was born in Edmonton, England. Inspired by ...
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