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BUMP OF CHICKEN is a Japanese rock band formed in 1994 by 4 members: Motoo Fujiwara (Vocal/Guitar), Hiroaki Masukawa (Guitar), Yoshifumi Naoi (Bass) and Hideo Masu (Drums). They have been friends since preschool in the city of Sakura, Chiba Prefecture. Motoo's lyrics in particular receive acclaim. The band chose the English name to mean "cowards strike back" although they have admitted in interviews that it might not be grammatically correct English.
The band has been influenced especially by The Beatles and they actually started out playing covers of The Beatles songs at school festivals. Although their music can be quite...
Born Armando Anthony Corea in Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA, on June 12, 1941, Chick began studying piano at age four.
Chick Corea is one of the most prolific and acclaimed of jazz artists from the second half of the 20th century, with contributions to most forms of modern music, including straight-ahead jazz, electric fusion, avant-garde and orchestral music. In 2010 he entered the DownBeat Magazine Hall of Fame and was named Artist of the Year.
As a member of Miles Davis's band in the 1960s, and later as founder of Return to Forever, he participated in the birth of the electric...
Lunachicks were an all-women Rock band from New York City. The band formed in 1987 and has been on hiatus since 2000. Their music was described as "a frenzied mix of punk, metal, pop and rock". The band claimed influences including The Ramones, Kiss, and the MC5. .
Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is an influential Japanese electropop band, formed in 1978. They are renowned as a major influence in popular music, and for pioneering the electropop music genre. The principal members are Haruomi Hosono (bass), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards).
The band was originally conceived as a one-off studio project by Hosono, the other two members being recruited session musicians - the idea was to produce an album fusing orientalist exotica (cf their cover version of Martin Denny's Firecracker) with modern electronics. However the first album (with its cutting-edge production) was very popular, and the studio...
Dixie Chicks is an American country music trio which has also crossed over into other genres. Formed in 1989 in Dallas, Texas, the band is composed of founding members (and sisters) Martie Erwin Maguire and Emily Erwin Robison, and lead singer Natalie Maines. The trio is currently ranked as the highest-selling female musical group in the USA, according to RIAA Gold & Platinum album certifications. As of 2012, the Dixie Chicks had won 13 Grammy Awards. While Dixie Chicks continues, Maguire and Robison are writing and recording as Court Yard Hounds as of Feb 2010.
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Rusty Hinge
'Tain't What Yo Do
Blues In My Heart
I May Be Wrong
Lindyhoppers Delight
Strictly Jive
'Tain't What You Do (It's The Way That Cha Do It)
02 - Big John's Special
Lona
Lona
Lona
Azure
Imagination
Strictly Jive
Go Harlem
Rock It For Me
Wacky Dust
Rusty Hinge
Heebie Jeebies
True
Harlem Congo
14 - Dinah
Blue Lou
Harlem Congo
The Dipsy Doodle
Heebie Jeebies
Whackey Dust
Go Harlem
09 - King Porter Stomp
Down Home Rag
That Naughty Waltz
What A Shuffle
I'm Up A Tree
10 - Don't Be That Way
Dog Bottom
Dog Bottom
Blue Minor
Soft and Sweet
'Tain't What You Do (It's The Way That Cha Do It)
Claps Hands! Here Comes Charley (1937)
Moonlight and Magnolias
What a Shuffle
What a Shuffle
Blue Lou
That Naughty Waltz
07 - Liza
Sugar Pie
Love Marches On
Rock It For Me
Darktown Strutters' Ball