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Early Work: The pre-2002 Charming Hostess (also known as Charming Hostess Big Band) was a rock band that embraced a genderfuck sensibility (the women often wore mustaches while the men wore dresses). Early Charming Hostess music drew on women's vocal traditions (primarily from Eastern Europe and North Africa), and integrated them with American folk forms both white and black. Charming Hostess was founded in the fertile anarchy of Barrington Co-op (aka Barrington Hall), and nurtured by the West Oakland arts community, along with other coeval bands such as Fibulator and Eskimo. Half of Charming Hostess was also in Idiot Flesh/Sleepytime...

Prior to forming The Gaslight Anthem, Brian Fallon was the singer of the punk rock outfit This Charming Man. The band was formed in 2004 by Fallon along with Michael Volpe, Chris Clementi and Mike Leboeuf. Fallon and Volpe were the only original members when Benny Horowitz and Alex Levine joined in late 2005. In early 2006, Michael Volpe decided to leave the band and Alex Rosamilia was brought onboard, forming the present lineup of The Gaslight Anthem. This Charming Man released one 6 song e.p. entitled "Every Little Secret" on New Jersey based label XOXO Records. It is This...

Discharming Man is a solo project by Keita Ebina. (5B Records,ex-Kiwiroll) .

NAME: Prince Charming’s name is a tribute to the royalty of classic Jazz, Ska, and Reggae performers such as Duke Ellington, Prince Buster and King Tubby. ILLBIENT: Prince Charming has always followed his own musical taste and interests rather than try to fit in with a specific scene; while he enjoys Illbient music, his association with this scene is quite accidental. The Ambient/Illbient quality of Prince Charming’s compositions reflect his back ground in cinematic sound design, and the influence of classic Psychedelia and Dub tricknology; his work is also influenced by Ambient Industrial Post-Post-Punk records of the 1980s (where urban...