Soldiers of Allah | zh

Toy Soldiers is a rowdy, hard-working bunch who spent most of 2011 playing 120+ shows across the east coast and southern U.S. tearing through everything from tiny dive bars to festival stages to big theaters with a brand of soulful rock n' roll music that takes it's roots, puts it in a blender and pours out that good old feeling made for today. From it's beginnings as a duo started by Ron Gallo in Philadelphia in 2007, to it's era of fluctuating cast of players and it's eventual growth into a solid 5-piece band consisting of Gallo (lead vocals, guitar),...

Bill Callahan (born 1966), also known as Smog and (Smog), is an American singer-songwriter born in Silver Spring, Maryland. Callahan began working in the lo-fi genre of underground rock, with home-made tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders. Later he began releasing albums with the label Drag City, to which he remains signed today. Callahan started out as a highly experimental artist, using substandard instruments and recording equipment. His early songs often nearly lacked melodic structure and were clumsily played on poorly tuned guitars (possibly influenced by Jandek, whom Callahan admired), resulting in the dissonant sounds on his self-released cassettes...

Faris Nourallah is now at his fourth solo album. After “I Love Faris”, “Problematico”, and the last acclaimed “King of Sweden”, the free-floating pop genius from Dallas is back in action with the brand new and exotically entitled "Il suo cuore di transistor" (“Her transistor heart”), this time on the Italian Awful Bliss imprint. As usual Faris is an inexhaustible mine of surprises, and a beacon from where melodies come easily and non-forced. His personal worlds of melody are painted beautifully on "Il suo cuore di transistor". Played, recorded and mixed all by himself in the inner depths of his...

Abdallah ag Oumbadougou (* um 1962 in Tchimoumouneme bei Agadez) ist ein nigrischer Musiker (Gitarre, Gesang). Er ist Angehöriger der Tuareg und kämpfte als Aktivist für die Rechte seines Volkes. Er gilt als einer der Väter des „Tuareg-Blues“, der Rock und Blues mit traditioneller Tuareg-Musik kombiniert. .

Philadelphia’s blues and soul drenched vocalist and songwriter released her 4th CD entitled “Tell It Like It Is” in October of 2010. The new CD is another successful collaboration between Philadelphia producer/songwriter, Chris Arms and Deb and was recorded at Studio 4 in Conshohocken, PA by Grammy Award winning producer/engineer Phil Nicolo. The CD features 9 new original songs and a cover of “Funkier Than a Mosquita’s Tweeter” originally performed by Tina Turner and written by her sister Aillene Bullock as well as “Cold Irons Bound” a Bob Dylan tune. The road tested band including guitarist Allen James, bass player...