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Secondhand Serenade is a one man band from Menlo Park, California. John Vesely, 30, sings and plays guitar and piano. His music is characterized by multitrack recording so he can create the sound of a band by himself. He uses multitrack recording to create vocal harmonies, and a lead acoustic guitar over strummed chords. After the breakup of Sounds Like Life, featuring himself and Ronnie Day, Vesely started writing and performing his songs solo under the name Secondhand Serenade. (Secondhand, because his wife, Candice, hears all his songs firsthand.) He rented a studio for 8 days and recorded his 10-track...

Olvido comes to life during early 2006 in Girona (Catalonia, Spain) with the proposal of taking to itself varied styles and influences of rock and metal, from the more comercial side of both genres to those classified as underground, reflected thus the preferred styles of all of its varied members. The lyrical part of the repetoire of the band takes inasmuch from varied sources; deepest sentimentality, mysticism, vision, metaphore, mystery, joining, introspection, prophecy and darker landscapes still. https://www.facebook.com/grupolvido Olvido might be classified succinctly as a bombastic and dark band... at least by those who can glimpse the flashes of humor...

There are at least 5 artists with the name Serenade: 1) Serenade was an Egyptian metal band. 2) Serenade is a Japanese Doujin band. For this, please fix your tags to セレナーデ. 3) Alias of hardcore producer Dave Curtis. Also works under the name Dee C. 4) Doom/death metal band from UK (Glasgow, Scotland). Discography: - 1994 - Let Loose The Beauty Within (demo) - 1995 - The 28th Parallel - 1996 - Let Loose the Beauty Within / The Radiance from a Star (split with Harmony) - 1998 - The Chaos They Create - 2000 - Plague of Time...

R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders are an American retro string band playing songs from, and in the style of, the 1920s: old-time music, ragtime, "evergreen" jazz standards, western swing, country blues, hokum, vaudeville and medicine show tunes. Their three 33⅓ rpm albums, all recorded in the 1970s on the Blue Goose label, were titled R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders (1974), R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders No. 2 (1976), and R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders No. 3 (1978); the latter two have been reissued on the Shanachie label as Chasin' Rainbows and Singing...