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Queens of the Stone Age is a rock band from Palm Desert, California, United States. The band is frequently labeled stoner rock, although they reject the label. They developed a style of riff-oriented, heavy music which the band's founder and mastermind Josh Homme described as "robot rock", saying that he "wanted to create a heavy sound based on a solid jam, just pound it into your head". Since then, their sound has evolved to incorporate a variety of different styles and influences.
While in high school, Homme got together with locals Brant Bjork, Chris Cockrell (later replaced by Nick Oliveri)...
The Homecoming Queens are a ska band from Huntington, Long Island. They started out as a three-piece high school punk band named Public Humiliation in 2003, with guitarist Jon Graber and drummer Lauren Miller, which later added trumpeter Rich Seibert, coining their style "Long Island Trumpet-Core". Over the next year, they evolved into a ska group, adding bass player Ben Silverman, saxophonist Kevin Miller, and trombonist Craig Fried. After playing their first show under the moniker Plan B, they changed their name to The Homecoming Queens the next day. From 2004 onward they played many shows on Long Island with...
The Teen Queens were an American musical group from the 1950s, most remembered for their hit single "Eddie My Love", which reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in March 1956.
The group consisted of sisters Betty and Rosie Collins, sisters of Aaron Collins, a singer with the doo wop group The Cadets. It was Aaron who wrote their debut song, and the single that became their biggest hit. "Eddie My Love" was released by RPM Records, and following its success, was followed by a string of other releases. These included "Baby Mine", "Billy Boy", "Red Top", "Rock Everybody"...
Offshoot formed by ex-personnel of Mahotella Queens.
Recorded songs in both the major Black languages of South Africa, Zulu and Sotho. .
Mahlathini, the Queens and the Makgona Tsohle Band had become famous as individual artists, but had frequently recorded together since 1964. It was only in 1986, when the demand for South African music arose through Paul Simon's Graceland album, that Gallo Record Company (the three artists' label) paired them together permanently.
Mahlathini was known as the "Lion of Soweto" (his voice was a low, "gravel-like" groan) and was well known throughout South Africa and neighboring countries such as Zimbabwe and Botswana during his career. He began singing in the 1950s, often working in conjunction with top producer Rupert Bopape at...
