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BLANKEY JET CITY was a popular Japanese rock band formed in Tokyo, active between 1990 and 2000. It has been said that front man, guitarist and lead singer Asai Kenichi chose to try his luck as the leader of a rock band, and if this failed, his plan was to spend his days as motorcycle gang member. The band's rise to fame got a kick start when they participated in a TV-broadcast competition for newcomer bands. They didn’t win the competition, but nevertheless their participation scored them a contract with major label Toshiba EMI. The band stayed with this label...

Holly Henry (born Holly Mae Heinrich, March 31, 1994) is a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist from Minnetonka, Minnesota, USA. She was a competitor on Season 5 of The Voice. Her audition song "The Scientist" charted in the Top 10 on two Billboard charts and maintained a 4 week run. She won her Battle Round with "Torn" but was eliminated in the Knockout Round singing "Creep." Holly maintained her fan base after elimination by releasing weekly covers on SoundCloud and YouTube, as well as four original singles on Bandcamp. She released her first album, "The Immigrant" as an EP on iTunes on Dec. 16,...

Pierre Henry (9 December 1927 – 5 July 2017) was a French composer, considered a pioneer of the musique concrète genre of electronic music. Pierre Henry was born in Paris, France, and began experimenting at the age of 15 with sounds produced by various objects. He became fascinated with the integration of noise into music. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen, and Félix Passerone at the Paris Conservatoire from 1938 to 1948 (Dhomont 2001). Between 1949 and 1958, Henry worked at the Club d'Essai studio at RTF, which had been founded by Pierre Schaeffer in 1943 (Dhomont 2001). During...

THE BLANK TAPES is the moniker of Los Angeles & San Francisco based musician & artist, Matt Adams, who has produced over 10 albums of 1960's psychedelic-surf-pop-folk-rock on an old 8 track cassette tape recorder in various garages, basements, sheds & bedrooms across the California Coast. Matt is also the artist behind his band's posters & album covers, and along with his band mates, Pearl, DA, & Will, they've toured throughout America, Brazil, Europe, & Japan. They just released a 7" with 20-Sided Records and a few new cassette tapes with Burger Records, Curly Cassettes & Dome of Doom. They...