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LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem debuted with Losing My Edge, a single that became one of the most talked-about indie releases of 2002. A self-effacing spoof of the outrageous pissing contests that often occur whenever music geeks cross paths (”I was there at the first Can show in Cologne,” etc.) laid over a puttering electronic beat with the occasional bursts of discoid clatter, the track was also one of the first released on the DFA label. Several magazines and newspapers would eventually declare James Murphy, the man behind both LCD Soundsystem and DFA, to be one of the coolest people on the planet.

Years of obscurity and the occasional poor decision preceded this. Just before Murphy began to cut his teeth throughout the ’90s, first as a member of Pony (an average post-hardcore band with heavy debts to their inspirations) and then with Speedking (a much stronger, more unique band), he passed up the opportunity to write for the popular sitcom Seinfeld. All the time spent toiling in indie rock took a toll on Murphy, but he built his own studio and became increasingly adept at engineering and producing other bands.

While working on David Holmes’ Bow Down to the Exit Sign, he struck up a relationship with programmer/producer Tim Goldsworthy that developed into a partnership. By the end of 2002, there were several releases on Murphy and Goldsworthy’s DFA label, most of which involved the duo in some capacity. LCD’s “Losing My Edge,” backed with an excellent neo-post-punk dance track called “Beat Connection,” was one of them. Murphy scattered three other LCD singles through the end of 2004 and released a self-titled full-length in January of 2005. At the time of its release, the DFA label was more popular than ever; Murphy and Goldsworthy had remixes for Metro Area, N.E.R.D., Le Tigre, and Junior Senior behind them, as well as failed sessions with Britney Spears that might’ve benefited from an interpreter. Janet Jackson was another unlikely admirer seeking the duo’s assistance, but Murphy didn’t bother to follow up on her request.

Music - Eisley

Eisley is a quintet featuring three sisters, their brother, and their best friend, Tyler, TX’s Eisley formed in 1997 when the DuPree siblings — guitarist Chauntelle, singer/guitarist Sherri, singer/keyboardist Stacy, and drummer Weston — began playing with bassist Jon Wilson. Originally called the Towheads, the band began playing local gigs the following year, when Stacy was just eight years old. Over the next five years, the band wrote and played, expanding their touring area to the Dallas-Fort Worth region and ultimately winning a 2003 Best New Act Award from the Dallas Observer. A few months later, the group released their debut EP, Laughing City, on the indie imprint Record Collection, and toured that spring and summer with Coldplay and Ron Sexsmith. The Marvelous Things EP arrived later in 2003, and early in 2005, their first full-length, Room Noises, arrived.

Eisley turned in their second album to Warner Brothers on April 7, 2007. On April 23, 2007, the Dallas Morning News announced that the album will be called Combinations. Warner Bros. gave the album a target release date of July 31 with the back-up date of August 7, 2007, but has decided that the album will release on August 14, 2007. The band will also be touring with The Fray from July 10 until July 21, 2007. [8]

The song “Invasion” is slated to be the first single from Combinations and there will be two videos shot. One will be a viral-type and the other will be more for television.

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Saturna

Saturna is a 3-piece indie rock outfit from Portland, Oregon. The band consists of Ryan Carroll (guitar, bass and vocals), Steve Anderson (drums, bass and vocals) and Eric Block (guitar). Saturna play music in the vein of Jesus and Mary Chain, Doves, Serena Maneesh, Spiritualized, Secret Machines or Silversun Pickups. Catchy melodies, fuzzy guitars and nice, often backed up vocals, are creatively exploited through every single song.

Their debut EP …All Night serves up a tantalizing cocktail of ethereal guitars and riveting drums, tender harmonies and heart-ripping hooks. Mixing swagger and sweetness, Saturna soundtracks your whole night-from sundown to downtown to dawn.

Be sure to check Saturna, they sound very promising. Recommended!

Saturna - Springboard
Saturna - Pop Rocks
Saturna @ MySpace

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SilverSun Pickups

In the brutally cold world of Big Rock Biz, there’s something very comforting about just knowing that a band like L.A.’s Silversun Pickups exists. That feeling derives from the group’s searingly sumptuous music, sure, but it has a lot to do with knowing their rather humble origins and super-admirable raison d’etre.
Silversun Pickups, you see, rather than being just another fiercely determined young band willing to claw and scrap their way to the top of the rock heap, genuinely appear to be far more like a gang of real, true friends who happened, quite fortuitously, to meet as a result of their mutual love of - shock horror! - music, and who seem to enjoy each other’s company as much as they like playing their own brand of ravishing rock noise.
And in fact, guitarist-singer Brian Aubert, bass player Nikki Monninger, drummer Christopher Guanlao and keyboardist Joe Lester are bona fide pals who’d played together or in mutual friends’ bands when they finally settled on a Silversun lineup and began playing shows at local clubs, which further broadened their innately formidable playing chops and established loving loyalties among a growing crop of seekers and sinners.
Silversun’s initial forays into live performance weren’t exactly stunning achievements in stage artistry, according to Aubert. “In the beginning, we were just trying to figure out what we wanted to do, didn’t even know if this was what we wanted to do. But we were playing clubs while we were learning - and I was learning to be a frontman all of a sudden.”
“But after a little while we started honing in on where things were going and what we liked and didn’t like,” says Aubert. “It was like trial by fire, playing on stage all the time. It was scary, but you learn fast that way.”
Their initially haphazard performances didn’t phase their growing core of devotees, who seemed to easily grasp the inner grace of Aubert’s plaintively savage songs about the whys and wherefores of love lost and found, wrecked loyalties and fear of genetically inherited failure genes. These fans didn’t mind that the band’s otherwise wickedly pretty tunes’ delivery was a bit rough-edged, or that Aubert was initially painfully shy in front of a mike; it was obvious that Aubert and co’s. desire knew no bounds.
The band lived to play, and play they did, at numerous dates at many of the most important L.A. clubs, which found their stage sets growing more confidently not cocky but in greater command of their playing prowess. Aubert’s guitar was a rapidly developing feral beast of tight chipchop splendor and near-Hendrixian fuzzy howl in songs that seemed to reference the spare, driving cool of Neu while injecting a barely constrained glee - something like youthful romance, in the more tormented My Bloody Valentine way - into great walls of shredding white noise and a big throbbing rhythm section. The interplay of Aubert’s guitar with Lester’s spidery/splintery keyboards on songs like “Three Seed” made their combined effect resemble an enormous shiny machine being launched into the farthest reaches of the solar system.
Ex-Pine Marten keyboardist Lester was an important addition to the band, says Aubert, “because a) he was family - we didn’t want anybody we didn’t know, like take out an ad in L.A. Weekly: ‘Must not wear cowboy hats.’ Joe is like having a guy who’s not a keyboard keyboard player — not a scientist, but like an orchestrator. He does things that really trip out the guitar, like sample it and make sounds that you can’t really tell what it is.”
“Or we’ll use our voices with something from Joe, as just a sonic element,” says Monninger
Guanlao adds, “People come up to us and they’ll be like, ‘Dude, how’d you do that sound on the guitar?’ or ‘How’d you do that sound on the keyboard?’ and it’s like, ‘No, the guitar player wasn’t doing that, neither was the keyboardist.’”
Yet Silversun’s secret weapons are the achingly potent melodies of their songs, which poke their lovely, shy heads out and ultimately proclaim their power in rare shades of melancholic ardor. While so many bands oft-claim supreme melody as the underpinning of their noise, with the Pickups it can claim moral superiority: Silversun radiates palpably great melodies that - the real test - simply won’t leave you alone no matter how you try to shoo them away.
That melodic/toughness no doubt encouraged Dangerbird Records to sign Silversun Pickups for an EP, called Pikul (pronounced pie-kul), a six-song set crammed with polished versions of many live favorites such as the growlingly ethereal “Kissing Families” and “…All the Go Inbetweens.” These songs sealed in the love among Silversun Pickups’ L.A. fans and critics, and their subsequent mounting acclaim led the band to undertake an increasingly heavy touring schedule, which found them playing alongside Brendan Benson, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Dead Meadow and Two Gallants, and they returned home to record, Carnavas, their full-length debut for Dangerbird (July 25, 2006).
Produced by Dave Cooley (J Dilla, Rolling Blackouts), engineered by Tom Biller (Sean Lennon, Jon Brion) and mixed by Tony Hoffer (Beck, The Kooks, Belle and Sebastian), the album reveals the Pickups in a full flowering of their considerable melodic, textural and rhythmic gifts, with 11 dark/light songs about “Melatonin,” “Little Lover’s So Polite,” “Future Foe Scenarios” and “Well Thought Out Twinkles,” among other provocatively ambiguous themes. The album rages with a kind of mixed emotion well matched to those themes, a vibrating compound of feral cries amid tender harmony, resonating powerfully with heavily filtered guitar squawk, hovering keyboard clouds, and bass & drums that often seem to lurch their way into divinely propulsive beats.
For the new disc, Silversun Pickups got to play in the studio, which they’d never done before, and, at producer Cooley’s insistence, they got to take their time.
Says Aubert, “We wanted the EP and the record to be two different sort of things, and we knew that we didn’t want the same songs. Basically our live sound was so loud and big, and before we just sort of documented it — Pikul didn’t sound like us live; even though we essentially recorded itlive.”
“We think of records and live shows being two different sorts of worlds,” he continues. “Ironically, in the studio, getting really specific about sounds — how they cut through — made us sound as big as it is onstage.”
Cooley proved an inspiring force for the band, sometimes if only to affirm their belief in doing things their own way.
Says Lester, “Sometimes he’d push and push, and sometimes suggest a bunch of different ideas, and all it did was steel our resolve. It was almost better that way, because it just reaffirmed what we know is the best way to do it.”
Aubert: “In pre-production meetings, we discussed the structure, for example, but he brought out ideas that were already clicking in our heads — we would change things that we didn’t like and had been too lazy to change, or just hadn’t thought about. Or completely battle him and realize, wow, we really do mean this. Having someone who’s antagonizing you and you have to defend your choice, when you didn’t have to defend it before, you realize you actually really believe in that.”
Says Guanlao, “Before that experience, we were very organic about how we got a song going and finished; we would never really think about it too much, we did it how it felt. And then Dave came in and we really had to focus on things, just a measure or a little beat or whatever.
Aubert: “He’s amazing, because he’d push you and push you, but he’d be the first to pull the plug. I remember I’d been singing for days and days, trying to get a track right, and he’d say, ‘No, man, just stop. You’re tired.’ And I’m like ‘No, man, let me drink some more whiskey!’ And he’d be ‘Nope.’ He’d just push the stop button and say ‘It’s not right, it’s not working, it’s too job-like.’”
Not just the songs but their performance and their very sound were all critical factors in the album’s production. Says Lester: “Two measures in on a take, Tom would be like, ‘Snare’s out of tune.’ Stop everything, and we’re like, ‘Really, you can even hear that?’ And then we could hear it. It changed the vibe, and it sounds like the bass and drums are almost one thing. That made it seem way more solid.”
The proof’s in the pudding, and now all you need to do is listen. And all Silversun Pickups need to do is figure out how to transfer the album’s splendorous riot of beauty onto the concert stage - and deal with the acclaim that’ll inevitably follow. But that shouldn’t prove difficult for these dedicated friends, who’re happy to have found each other and make, almost like frosting on the cake, magnificent music together.

Sixties San Francisco Posters and Memorabilia

Since most of the artwork of the sixties was throwaway, advertisting for concerts and various gatherings being the most common, its hard to find. Included here are posters, album covers and a few of the be-in, hippie and San Francisco happening flyers.. and, even, an R. Crumb Mr. Natural cover… enjoy

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Music Stars Real Names

Here is an alphabetical list of the most popular music stars real names.

A
Aaliyah - Aaliyah Dana Haughton
Clay Aiken - Clayton Holmes Grissom
Akon - Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam
Gregg Allman (Allman Brothers Band) - Gregory Lenoir Allman
Tori Amos - Myra Ellen Amos
apl.de.ap (The Black Eyed Peas) - Allan Pineda Lindo
Fiona Apple - Fiona Apple Maggart
Adam Ant - Stuart Leslie Goddard
Little Anthony - Anthony Gourdine
Marc Anthony - Marco Antonio Muniz
Ashanti - Ashanti Shaquoya “Shani Bani” Douglas
Frankie Avalon - Francis Thomas Avallone

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B
Babyface - Kenny Edmonds
Erykah Badu - Erica Wright
Joan Baez - Joan Chandos Baez
Ginger Baker - Peter Edward Baker
LaVern Baker - Delores Williams
Afrika Bambaataa - Kevin Donovan
Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd) - Roger Keith Barrett
Len Barry - Leonard Borrisoff
Ol’ Dirty Bastard (rap artist) - Russell Jones
Beck - Bek David Campbell
Jeff Beck - Geoffery Arnold Beck
Captain Beefheart - Don Van Vliet
Harry Belafonte - Harold George Belafonte
Pat Benatar - Patricia Andrejewski
Tony Bennett - Anthony Dominick Benedetto
Brook Benton - Benjamin Franklin Pierre
Dickey Betts (Allman Brothers Band) - Forrest Richard Betts
Beyonce - Beyonce Giselle Knowles
Bo Bice - Harold Elwin Bice, III
Bjork - Bjork Gudmundsdottir
Big Boi (Outkast) - Antwan André Patton
Marc Bolan (T-Rex) - Marc Feld
Michael Bolton - Michael Bolotin
Bizzy Bone - Bryon McCane
The Big Bopper - Jiles Perry Richardson
Gary U.S. Bonds - Gary Anderson
Jon Bon Jovi - John Francis Bongiovi Jr.
Bono (U2) - Paul David Hewson
Sonny Bono - Salvatore Philip Bono
Pat Boone - Charles Eugene Boone
Wes Borland (Limp Bizkit) - Wesley Scott Borland
David Bowie - David Robert Hayward Stenton Jones
Big Bad Brad (Linkin Park) - Bradford Phillip Delson
Bobby Brown - Robert Barisford Brown
Jackson Browne - Clyde Jackson Browne
David Bryan (Bon Jovi) - David Bryan Rashbaum
Buckethead - Brian Carroll
Chris de Burgh - Christopher John de Burgh Davison

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C
Vitamin C - Colleen Fitzpatrick
J. J. Cale - John W. Cale
Randy California (Spirit) - Randy Craig Wolfe
Freddy Cannon - Frederick Anthony Picariello
Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains) - Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr
Irene Cara - Irene Escalera
Tony Carey - Anthony Lawrence Carey
Eric Carr (Kiss) - Paul Charles Caravello
50 Cent - Curtis Jackson
Gene Chandler - Eugene Dixon
Ray Charles - Ray Charles Robinson
Chubby Checker - Ernest Evans
Cher - Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere
Lou Christie - Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco
Charlotte Church - Charlotte Maria Reed
Eric Clapton - Eric Patrick Clapp
Gene Clark (Byrds) - Harold Eugene Clark
Kelly Clarkson - Kelly Brianne Clarkson
Patsy Cline - Virginia Patterson Hensley
Clown (Slipknot) - Michael Shawn Crahan
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) - Kurt Donald Cobain
Joe Cocker - John Robert Cocker
Nat King Cole - Nathaniel Adams Coles
Judy Collins - Judith Marjorie Collins
Common - Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr.
Perry Como - Pierino Roland Como
Ry Cooder - Ryland Peter Cooder
Sam Cooke - Sam Cook
Coolio - Artis Ivey Jr.
Alice Cooper - Vincent Damon Furnier
Dave “Baby” Cortez - David Clowney
Elvis Costello - Declan Patrick McManus
John Cougar - John Mellencamp
Lobo Courtney - Kent Lavoie
David Crosby - David Van Cortland Crosby
Ice Cube - Oshea Jackson

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D
Willie D (rapper) - William James Dennis
Dick Dale - Richard Monsour
Bobby Dall (Poison) - Robert Harry Kuykendall
Jim Dandy (Black Oak Arkansas) - James Mangrum
Bobby Darin - Walden Waldo Robert Cassotto
Dimebag Darrell - Darrell Abbott
Mac Davis - Morris Davis
Taylor Dayne - Leslie Wonderman
Kim Deal (Pixies) - Kimberly Ann Deal
Jimmy Dean - Jimmy Dean
John Decon (Queen) - John Richard Deacon
Joey Dee - Joseph DiNicola
Kiki Dee - Pauline Mathews
Mos Def - Dante Terrell Smith
John Denver - John Henry Deutschendorf
Rick Derringer - Richard Zehringer
Buck Dharma (Blue Oyster Cult) - Donald Roeser
King Diamond (Mercyful Fate) - Kim Bendix Petersen
Neil Diamond - Neil Leslie Diamond
Bo Diddley - Elias Bates (name upon adoption: Elias McDaniel)
Dido - Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong
Snoop Dogg - Cordazer Calvin Broadus
Thomas Dolby - Thomas Morgan Robertson
Mickey Dolenz (The Monkees) - George Michael Braddock
Fats Domino - Antoine Domino
Donovan - Donovan Phillip Leitch
Dr. Dre - Andre Young
Bob Dylan - Robert Alan Zimmerman

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E
Easy E - Eric Wright
Sheila E. - Sheila Escovedo
Sheena Easton - Sheena Shirley Orr
The Edge (U2) - David Howell Evans
Missy Elliot - Melissa Elliott
Eminem - Marshal Bruce Mathers III
Enya - Eithne Ni Braona
David Essex - David Albert Cook
Gloria Estefan - Gloria Maria Fajardo
Little Eva - Eva Narcissus Boyd
Don Everly - Isaac Donald Everly

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F
Fabian - Fabiona Forte Bonaparte
Falco - Johann Hölzel
Tal Farlow - Talmage Holt Farlow
Freddie Fender - Baldemar G. Huerta
Fergie (The Black Eyed Peas) - Stacy Ann Ferguson
Fieldy (Korn) - Reginald Arvizu
Dani Filth (Cradle of Filth) - Daniel Lloyd Davey
Grandmaster Flash (DJ, rapper) - Joseph Saddler
Flavor Flav / Flava Flav (Public Enemy) - William Jonathan Drayton Jr.
Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) - Michael Peter Balzary
Connie Francis - Concetta Maria Franconero
Black Francis (Pixies) - Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV
Ace Frehley (KISS) - Paul Daniel Frehley
Nelly Furtado - Nelly Kim Furtado

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G
Kenny G - Kenneth Gorelick
Crystal Gayle - Brenda Gail Webb
Bobbie Gentry - Roberta Streeter
J. Geils - Jerome Geils
Ginuwine - Elgin Lumpkin
Boy George - George Alan O’Dowd
Gary Glitter - Paul Gadd
Lesley Gore - Lesley Sue Goldstein
Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam) - Stone Carpenter Gossard
Dobie Gray - Leonard Victor Ainsworth
Macy Gray - Natalie Renee McIntyre

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H
MC Hammer - Stanley Kirk Burrel
Bobby Hatfield (The Righteous Brothers) - Robert Lee Hatfield
Dale Hawkins - Delmar Allen Hawkins
Head (Korn) - Brian Welch
Jimi Hendrix - (born: Johnny Allen Hendrix) (renamed: James Marshall Hendrix)
Herb (Peaches &Herb) - Haer Feemster
Faith Hill - Audrey Faith Perry
Billie Holliday - Eleanora Fagan Gough
Buddy Holly - Charles Hardin Holley
Engelbert Humperdinck - Arnold George Dorsey

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I
Janis Ian - Janis Eddy Fink
Vanilla Ice - Robert Van Winkle
Julio Iglesias - Julio Iglesias de la Cueva
Billy Idol - William Michael Albert Broad
India.Aire - India Aire Simpson
Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath) - Anthony Frank Iommi

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J
Wolfman Jack - Robert Weston Smith
Tito Jackson - Toriano Adaryll Jackson
Mick Jagger - Michael Phillip Jagger
Rick James - James Ambrose Johnson, Jr.
Jazz (Dru Hill) - Larry Anthony JR.
D.J. Jazzy Jeff - Jeffrey A. Townes
Joan Jett - Joan Marie Larkin
Jewel - Jewel Kilcher
Billy Joel - William Joseph Martin Joel
Grace Jones - Grace Mendoza
Tom Jones - Thomas Jones Woodward
Elton John - Reginald Kenneth Dwight
Wynonna Judd - Christina Claire Ciminella
Juvenile - Terius Grey

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K
K.C. (of The Sunshine Band) - Harry Wayne Casey
Kaskade - Ryan Raddon
R Kelly - Robert Kelly
The Great Kat - Katherine Thomas
Alicia Keys - Alicia Augello Cook
Chaka Khan - Carole Yvette Marie Stevens
Andy Kim - Andrew Youakim
Lil Kim - Kimberly Jones
B.B. King - Riley B. King
Uncle Kracker - Matthew Shafer

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L
LL Cool J - James Todd Smith
Patti LaBelle - Patricia Louise Holt
k.d. lang - Kathryn Dawn Lang
Mario Lanza - Alfredo Arnold Cocozza
Queen Latifah - Dana Owens
Cyndi Lauper - Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper
Avril Lavigne - Avril Ramona Lavigne
Brenda Lee - Brenda Mae Tarpley
Geddy Lee (Rush) - Gary Lee Weinrib
Peggy Lee - Norma Deloris Egstrom
Julian Lennon - John Charles Julian Lennon
Blake Lewis - Blake Colin Lewi
Huey Lewis - Hugh Anthony Cregg
Liberace - Wladziu Lee Valentino
Alex Lifeson (Rush) - Alexander Zivojinovich
Limahl (Kajagoogoo) - Christopher Hamill
Lisa Lisa (Cult Jam) - Lisa Velez
Professor Longhair - Henry Roeland Byrd
Courtney Love (Hole) - Courtney Michelle Harrison
Ludacris - Christopher Brian Bridges
Lulu - Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie
Lydia Lunch - Lydia Koch

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M
Mama Cass Elliot - Ellen Naomi Cohen
Spanky MacFarlane - Elaine MacFarlane
Lonnie Mack - Lonnie McIntosh
Madonna - Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone
Taj Mahal - Henry St.Clair Fredricks
Barry Manilow - Barry Alan Pincus
Yngwie Malmsteen - Lars Johann Yngwie Lannerback
Manfred Mann - Manfred Lubowitz
Marilyn Manson - Brian Warner
Little Peggy March - Margaret Battavio
Mick Mars (Motley Crue) - Robert Alan Deal
Dean Martin - Dino Paul Crocetti
Ricky Martin - Enrique Jose Martin Morales
Brian May (Queen) - Brian Harold May
Paul McCartney - James Paul McCartney
Roger McGuinn (Byrds) - James Joseph McGuinn III
Scott McKenzie - Philip Blondheim
Meat Loaf - Marvin Lee Aday
Bill Medley (The Righteous Brothers) - William Thomas Medley
Melanie - Melanie Safka
Freddie Mercury - Farrokh Bulsara
George Micheal - Yorgos Panayiotou
Mitch Miller - Mitchell William
Joni Mitchell - Roberta Joan Anderson
Moby - Richard Melville Hall
Van Morrison - George Ivan Morrison
Morrissey - Steven Patrick Morrissey
Munky (Korn) - James Shaffer
Anne Murray - Morna Anne Murray
Mya - Mya Harrison
Mystikal - Micheal Tyler

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N
Nas / Nasty Nas - Nasir Jones
Rick Nelson - Eric Hilliard Nelson
Nelly - Carnell Haynes, Jr.
Vince Neil (Mötley Crüe) - Vince Neil Wharton
Randy Newman - Gary Newman
Juice Newton - Judy Kay Newton
Stevie Nicks - Stephanie Nicks
Nokio (Dru Hill) - Tamir Ruffin
Noodles (Offspring) - Kevin Wasserman
Nilsson - Harry Edward Nilsson III
Notorious B.I.G. - Christopher Wallace
Gary Numan - Gary Anthony James Webb
Laura Nyro - Laura Nigro

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O
Ric Ocasek - Richard Otcasek
Billy Ocean - Leslie Sebastian Charles
Oliver - William Oliver Swofford
Roy Orbison - Roy Kelton Orbison
Tony Orlando - Michael Anthony Orlando Cassivitis
Benjamin Orr - Benjamin Orzechowski
Gilbert O’Sullivan - Raymond Edward O’Sullivan
Johnny Otis - John Veliotes
Ozzy Osbourne - John Michael Osbourne

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P
Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) - James Patrick Page
Patti Page - Clara Ann Fowler
Robert Palmer - Alan Robert Palmer
Gram Parsons (Byrds,Flying Burrito Brothers) - Cecil Ingram Connor, III
Paul and Paula - Ray Hildebrand and Jill Jackson
Les Paul - Lester Polfus
Johnny Paycheck - Don Lytle
Mike Penda (The Searchers) - Michael Prendergast
CeCe Peniston - Cecelia Peniston
Pepa (Salt-N-Pepa) - Sandra Denton
Pink - Alecia Moore
Iggy Pop - James Jewell Osterberg, Jr.
Cozy Powell - Colin Flooks
Daniel Powter - Daniel Robert Powter
Maxi Priest - Max Elliot
P. J. Proby - James Marcus Smith
Prince - Prince Rogers Nelson
Puff Daddy / P. Diddy / Diddy - Sean John Combs

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Q
Stacy Q. - Stacy Swain
Question Mark (?) (? &The Mysterians) - Rudy Martinez

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R
Dee Dee Ramone (Ramones) - Douglas Colvin
Joey Ramone (Ramones) - Jeffery Hyman
Johnny Ramone (Ramones) - John Cummings
Boots Randolph - Homer Louis Randolph
Chris Rea - Christopher Anton Rea
Jerry Reed - Jerry Hubbard
Lou Reed - Louis Firbank
Paul Revere - Paul Revere
Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran) - Nicholas James Bates
Busta Rhymes - Trevor Tahiem Smith
Buddy Rich - Bernard Rich
Lionel Richie - Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr.
Little Richard - Richard Wayne Penniman
Cliff Richard - Harry Rodger Webb
Johnny Rivers - John Ramistella
Smokey Robinson (The Miracles) - William Robinson
Rockwell - Kennedy Gordy
Henry Rollins - Henry Garfield
Diana Ross (The Supremes) - Diane Ernestine Ross
Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols) - John Lydon
Axl Rose (Guns &Roses) - (born: William Bruce Rose Jr.) (renamed: William Bailey)
Ja Rule - Jeffery Atkins
Leon Russell - Claude Russell Bridges
Bobby Rydell - Louis Ridarelli
Mitch Ryder - William Levise Jr.

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S
Sade - Helen Folasade Adu
Sam the Sham - Domingo Samudio
Leo Sayer - Gerald Hugh Sayer
Boz Scaggs - William Royce Scaggs
Bon Scott (AC/DC) - Ronald Belford Scott
Seal - Henry Olusegun Olumide Samuel
Selena - Selena Quintanilla-Perez
Shaggy - Orville Richard Burrell
Shagrath (Dimmu Borgir) - Stian Thoresen
Shakira - Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll
Del Shannon - Charles Westover
Ben Shepherd (Soundgarden) - Hunter Benedict Shepherd
Gene Simmons (Kiss) - Chaim Klein Witz
Sir Mix-a-Lot - Anthony Ray
Sisqo (Dru Hill) - Mark Andrews
Nikki Sixx (Mötley Crüe) - Franklin Carlton Serafino Feranna
Slash (Guns &Roses) - Saul Hudson
Geace Slick (Jefferson Airplane) - Grace Wing
Fatboy Slim - Quentin Cook (aka Norman Cook)
Guitar Slim - Eddie Jones
Patti Smith - Patricia Lee Smith
Phoebe Snow - Phoebe Laub
Jordin Sparks - Jordin Brianna Sparks
Britney Spears - Britney Jean Spears
Ronnie Spector - Veronica Bennett
Baby Spice (Spice Girls) - Emma Lee Bunton
Ginger Spice (Spice Girls) - Geraldine Estelle Halliwell
Posh Spice (Spice Girls) - Victoria Caroline Adams [Beckham]
Scary Spice (Spice Girls) - Melanie Janine Brown
Sporty Spice (Spice Girls) - Melanie Jayne Chisholm
Dusty Springfield - Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien
Edwin Starr - Charles Hatcher
Ringo Starr - Richard Starkey
Cat Stevens - Steven Demetre Georgiou (1979 - Yusuf Islam)
Ray Stevens - Harold Ray Ragsdale
Rod Stewart - Roderick David Stewart
Stephen Stills - Stephen Arthur Stills
Sting - Gordon Matthew Sumner
Michael Stipe (R.E.M.) - John Michael Stipe
Angie Stone (The Sequence) - Angela Laverne Brown
Joss Stone - Joscelyn Eve Stocker
Sly Stone - Sylvester Stewart
Joe Strummer (The Clash) - John Graham Mellor
Levi Stubbs - Levi Stubbles
Donna Summer - LaDonna Adrian Gaines

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T
Booker T - Booker T. Jones
Ice T - Tracy Marrow
Taboo (The Black Eyed Peas) - Jaime Luis Gómez
Taco - Taco Ockerse
Roger Taylor (Queen) - Roger Meddows-Taylor
Tammi Terrell - Thomasina Montgomery
Joe Tex - Joseph Arrington Jr.
B.J. Thomas - Billy Joe Thomas
Johnny Thunders (New York Dolls) - John Anthony Genzale, Jr
Tiffany - Tiffany Darwish
Tiny Tim - Herbert Buckingham Khaury
Justin Timberlake - Justin Randall Timberlake
Timbaland - Timothy Z. Mosley
Peter Tork (Monkees) - Peter Halston Thorkelson
Peter Tosh - Winston Hubert Macintosh
Randy Travis - Randy Bruce Traywick
Tina Turner - Anna Mae Bullock
Shania Twain - Eileen Regina Edwards
Twista / Tung Twista - Carl Terrell Mitchell
Conway Twitty - Harold Lloyd Jenkins
Bonnie Tyler - Gaynor Hopkins
Steven Tyler - Steven Victor Tallarico

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U
Carrie Underwood - Carrie Marie Underwood
U-Roy - Ewart Beckford
Midge Ure - James Ure
Usher - Usher Raymond

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V
Steve Vai - Steven Siro Vai
Ritchie Valens - Richard Stephen Valenzuela
Frankie Valli - Frank Castelluccio
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) - Edward Louis Severson III
Bobby Vee - Robert Velline
Billy Vera - Billy McCord Jr.
Tom Verlaine (Television) - Thomas Miller
Sid Vicious - John Simon Ritchie
Gene Vincent - Vincent Craddock
Vinnie Vincent (Kiss) - Vincent Cusano
Bobby Vinton - Stanley Robert Vintula, Jr.

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W
Jerry Jeff Walker - Paul Crosby
Junior Walker - Autry DeWalt Walker Jr.
T-Bone Walker - Aaron Thibeaux Walker
Dionne Warwick - Marie Dionne Warwick
Muddy Waters - McKinley Morganfield
Roger Waters - George Waters
Fee Waybill (Tubes) - John Waldo
Bob Weir (Greatful Dead) - Robert Hall
Junior Wells (blues artist) - Amos Blakemore
Leslie West (Mountain) - Leslie Westein
Jack White (White Stripes) - John Anthony Gillis
Kim Wilde - Kim Smith
Will.i.am (The Black Eyed Peas) - William James Adams Jr.
Hank Williams - Hiram Williams
Paul Williams - Billy Paul
Johnny Winter - John Dawson Winter
Steve Winwood - Stephen Lawrence Winwood
Nicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers) - Nicholas Allen Jones
Howlin’ Wolf - Chester Arthur Burnett
Peter Wolf (J. Geils Band) - Peter Blankfield
Stevie Wonder - (born: Steveland Hardaway Judkins) (renamed: Steveland Hardaway Morris)
Hawksley Workman - Ryan Corrigan
Lil Bow Wow - Shad Anthony Moss
Link Wray - Fred Lincoln Wray Jr.
Betty Wright - Bessie Regina Norris
Zakk Wylde (Black Label Society) - Jeffery Phillip Wiedlandt
Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones) - William Perks
Tammy Wynette - Virginia Wynette Pugh

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X
Xzibit (rapper) - Alvin Nathaniel Joiner IV

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Y
Weird Al Yankovic - Alfred Matthew Yankovic
Yanni (New-Age musician) - Yiannis Chrysomallis
Yazz - Yasmin Evans
Yellowman - Winston Foster
Jesse Colin Young (Youngbloods) - Perry Miller
Neil Young - Neil Percival Young
Timi Yuro - Rosemarie Timotea Aurro
Yukmouth (Luniz) - Jarold Ellis, Jr.

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Z
Robin Zander - Robin Wayne Zander
Frank Zappa - Frank Vincent Zappa
Dweezil Zappa - Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa (birth name)
Warren Zevon - Warren William Zevon
Rob Zombie - Robert Cummings
Buckwheat Zydeco - Stanley Dural, Jr.
Zim Zum (Life, Sex &Death, Marilyn Manson) - Timothy Michael Linton

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Source: Music Stars Real Names

The Crash

The Crash are an indie pop-rock band from Turku, Finland. The band formed after Teemu Brunila and Samuli Haataja met in 1991, with both Erkki Kaila and Dani Aavinen joining to complete the line up. Originally the band were called Ladies & Gentlemen, but later changed its name to New Deal. In 1997 the name was changed to The Crash.

Their debut album ‘Comfort Deluxe’, was released in 1999, and was followed by a tour of Europe including Sweden, Germany, and Austria, as well as performance at the In The City festival in Manchester, UK. This caught the attention of Melody Maker and MTV Nordic. A second album, ‘Wildlife’, was released in 2001, with the single from that album, “Lauren Caught My Eye”, being played on MTV, and the music video for “Star” earning the band a nomination for Best Nordic Artist at the MTV Europe Awards in 2002. After a year touring Europe as a headline act and with Eskobar, Weeping Willows and A-Ha, the band regrouped to record their third album ‘Melodrama’. The album is a glorious and unique combination of dance music from the 70’s, classic rock from the 80’s, and a touch of soul from 60’s America.

The new Crash album ‘Pony Ride’ came out in Finland on the 27th of September. It debuted at number 2 on the Finnish album chart. It’s recommended for all who like Scissor Sisters, Starsailor, etc.

The Crash - Lauren Caught My Eye
The Crash @ MySpace

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A Lil’ Ol’ Z

Guitarist Billy Gibbons met his future manager, Waxahachie native Bill Mack Ham, backstage at a Doors concert in Houston in 1967. Gibbons’ band at the time, the Moving Sidewalks, had a local hit with the song “99th Floor.” They soon opened on the Doors’ Texas tour. After later opening for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Hendrix named Gibbons his favorite guitar player during an appearance on “The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson.” The Sidewalks broke up and Gibbons and Ham contracted to form a new band.

The trio spent its first few years playing mostly regional concerts. Ham’s bosses, Houston record producer Pappy Daily and family, cut a deal with him to finance “ZZ Top’s First Album” (1970). Five other records followed on the London Records label. The third album, “Tres Hombres” (1973), brought them national attention. Its hit song “La Grange,” about a whorehouse, was allegedly based on John Lee Hooker’s “Boogie Chillen.” It is still the band’s signature riff tune. Also included was “Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers,” the would-be anthem.

Have mercy.

A haw, haw, haw, haw, a haw.
A haw, haw, haw.
Well, I hear it’s fine if you got the time
and the ten to get yourself in.
A hmm, hmm.
And I hear it’s tight most ev’ry night,
but now I might be mistaken.
hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.

Tres Hombres (1973), ZZ Top’s first gold album, featuring “La Grange,” a signature riff tune and their first Top 40 hit, as well as the twosome “Waitin’ For The Bus” and “Jesus Just Left Chicago.” A review is available from Rolling Stone. D.S. writes, “Waitin’ on the Bus is a real favorite. So is Jesus. And ZZ’s signature song, La Grange (one of Billy’s hottest, but played on a Strat, not Pearly. Listen to it.) That whole album is hot, blue, and righteous. The tone is so incredible it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. This album is the ZZ centerpiece. All the previous cuts led to this, and this led to everything else. This is the one that established ZZ Top. No question about it. Don’t care which is your favorite, this is the one.”

“Eliminator,” featuring musically controversial electronic instruments, debuted ZZ Tops biggest hits, “Legs” and “Sharp-Dressed man.” The synthesizers and drum machines caused controversy in other ways as well. According to former roadie David Blayney in his book, “Sharp Dressed Men,” sound engineer Linden Hudson co-wrote much of the material on the album as a live-in high-tech music teacher to Beard and Gibbons. Hudson claims that in addition to not getting songwriting credit, Ham worked to cover up his contributions to the album. Despite continued denials by the band, it settled a five-year legal battle with Hudson, paying him $600,000 after he allegedly proved he held the copyright on the song “Thug.” Another copyright suit was brought by a co-writer of John Lee Hooker’s “Boogie Chillen,” the alleged basis of “La Grange.” That case was settled and sealed. The group’s eighth album, “Afterburner,” with its continued use of synthesizers, became a worldwide smash hit.

In 1994 ZZ went back to their roots, playing boogie without the electric drums and computers.. with some great tunes winning back a lot of the fans who loved the great old tunes by the ‘lil ol’ band from Texas’. 

Imogen Heap

Imogen Heap

Imogen Heap (born December 9, 1977) is a Grammy-nominated English singer-songwriter from Essex, most famous for her work as part of Frou Frou and for her 2005 solo record Speak for Yourself.

Imogen Heap played music from an early age, and is classically
trained in many instruments, including the piano (her first
instrument), as well as the cello, clarinet, guitar, drums, and the Array Mbira.
She had begun to write songs by the time of her eleventh birthday. Her
mother, an art therapist, and her father, a rocks construction
retailer, separated when Heap was twelve. The boarding school
she was sent to lacked students wishing to pursue music and Heap
clashed with the music teacher. His idea of punishment was to leave
Heap alone to learn for herself, as a result; she principally taught
herself sequencing, music engineering, sampling and production on Atari computers. Following this, Heap went on to study at the BRIT School Of Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon, Surrey, (later attended by artists such as Katie Melua). She signed her first record contract at the age of 17 to independent record label Almo Sounds, having enjoyed a prestigious live debut, performing four songs, backed by friends Acacia, between sets by The Who and Eric Clapton at the 1996 Prince’s Trust Concert in Hyde Park, London.

Heap’s debut album, i Megaphone (an anagram of “Imogen Heap”) was released in 1998 internationally via Almo Sounds, and garnered critical acclaim, comparing the angst-filled tracks to work by artists such as PJ Harvey, Kate Bush and Annie Lennox.
The album was a mixture of self-penned, self-produced tracks, alongside
tracks co-written with, and produced by established producers such as David Kahne, Dave Stewart and Guy Sigsworth.
Promotion for the record included a tour of America, where the album
was becoming popular through word-of-mouth, and performances all around
Europe. Three singles were commercially released in limited quantities
in the UK; “Getting Scared” “Shine” and “Come Here Boy.” “Oh Me, Oh My”
was also sent to US radio stations in place of “Shine.” Almo Sounds cut
funding for the UK promotional, and gave Heap a deadline to deliver
songs for her second album; she was told that they lacked “hit
potential” and left her in limbo for over a year, worsened when it was
announced that the record label had been sold to Universal
and would be shut down and disbanded, with its repertoire of artists
moving or leaving the label. Heap was one of the artists who was
dropped from the label, leaving her without a record contract. After
receiving more commercial success with her work with Guy Sigsworth as
the duo Frou Frou and her second solo album, Speak for Yourself,
Heap was able to secure the re-release of “i Megaphone.” It was
re-released on November 14, 2006 to coincide with her Fall 2006 North
American tour.

i Megaphone Japanese Re-Release - Aozora Records, 2002

In her time in “limbo” with Almo Sounds, Heap appeared on two
further UK singles; “Meantime”, a track written by Guy Sigsworth and
Alexander Nilere for the soundtrack to the independent British movie, G:MT - Greenwich Mean Time
and “Blanket,” a collaboration with Urban Species, which was
commercially released on 2 CDs, as well as being available on the Urban
Species album of the same name. At the same time, i Megaphone was licensed from Almo Sounds to Aozora Records in Japan, who re-released and re-promoted the album in January 2002, featuring “Blanket,” and a Frou Frou
remix of one of her B-sides, “Aeroplane,” for which a video was
released exclusively to Japanese media. The album featured new
packaging, all-new artwork, and a previously unavailable hidden track,
entitled “Kidding,” recorded live during her 1999 tour. Following the
selling and disbanding of Almo Sounds, all versions of i Megaphone apart from the Japanese
re-release are scarce in circulation, having not been re-printed since
1999. A Brazilian label, Trama Records, claim to hold the license to
the record and have started re-printing copies of the album in limited
quantities. The album was also released onto the USA iTunes Music Store
in early 2006, and will be available via Heap’s own digital download
store later on in the year. In the gap between the end of promotion for
i Megaphone internationally, and the re-promotion, Heap had also
begun to think about her second solo album, and had started writing
songs, both solo, as well as working with Guy Sigsworth; however, as
she was left without a record deal, the songs were shelved.

Imogen Heap kept in contact with Guy Sigsworth, who had co-written and produced “Getting Scared” from i Megaphone.
The initial idea was that Sigsworth would put together an album,
featuring tracks written and produced by him alongside a singer,
songwriter, poet or rapper, to be released under the name Frou Frou. Sigsworth himself was also having record label issues, as his band, Acacia
were being ignored. Heap explains that Sigsworth invited her over to
his studio, to write lyrics to a four-bar motif he had, with one
condition - that she include the word “love” somewhere. The first line
she came up with was “lung of love, leaves me breathless,” and the Details
album track, “Flicks” was born. A week later, Sigsworth phoned her up
again, and together they wrote and recorded “Breathe In” and it
happened again and again, until nearly half the album was completed. In
December 2001, they made the conscious decision to form a duo together.
Their first official release as Frou Frou was a remix of “Airplane”
(renamed “Aeroplane”) - a track they had written together at the time
of “Getting Scared,” which was used as a B-side on the “Shine” single
and on the Japanese re-release of i Megaphone.

In August 2002, they released the Details album and singles
“Breathe In,” “It’s Good To Be In Love,” and “Must Be Dreaming” (the
latter two were not commercially available). The album - a full
collaboration between the duo, with Heap giving vocals to tracks they
had written and produced together - was critically acclaimed, but did
not enjoy the commercial success that had been hoping for, and in late
2003, after an extensive promotional tour of the UK, Europe and the
USA, the duo were told that their record label, Island Records
would not be picking up the option for a second album. They were,
however, open to signing Heap as a solo artist; she declined, unwilling
to entrust them with her career after their mistreatment of Details.
She says, “If you had taken a shirt into a dry cleaners and they burned
it, would you then go, ‘Thanks very much. I’ll bring in my other dry
cleaning tomorrow’? You wouldn’t. So I didn’t take the deal.” Heap and
Sigsworth remain firm friends, and have worked together since the
project, including their temporary re-formation in late 2003, when they
covered the Bonnie Tyler classic, “Holding Out For A Hero,” which was featured during the credits of the movie Shrek 2
after Jennifer Saunders’ version in the film. Frou Frou saw a
resurgence in popularity in 2004, when their album track “Let Go” was
featured in the independent movie Garden State. “Let Go” appeared again as a song in the winter holidays blockbuster The Holiday that appeared in the cinemas in 2006.

In August 2006, Heap performed a set at the V Festival,
and it was announced that “Headlock” would be the third single to be
lifted from the album, to be released on 16 October 2006 in the UK, on
CD (in a special digipak
with partially frosted plastic outer sleeve, which renders the single
chart ineligible) and special limited edition 7″ vinyl, once again
remixed for radio as ‘Immi’s Radio Mix’ and accompanied by a new
all-vocal B-side, entitled “Mic Check.” The “Headlock” video premiered
on Manchester-centric
TV station, Channel M, in early September, before being sent to other
music television channels for rotation, and promo CDs of the single
were sent out featuring a drum and bass
remix of the track by High Contrast. In late September and early
October, Heap embarked on a tour of the UK, holding a competition on MySpace
for different support acts for each venue, before touring throughout
Canada and the USA in November & December. She will also be scoring
the soundtrack to a movie documentary about flamingos in late 2006 and
early 2007, having visited Kenya in July 2006 for inspiration and to
begin recording sounds. In December 2006, Heap was featured on the
front page of The Green Room magazine.

On December 7, 2006, Imogen received two Grammy nominations for the
49th Annual Grammy Awards, one for Best New Artist and the other for
Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
for “Can’t Take It In”. In early 2007, a Verizon
commercial featured the instrumental of her song “Headlock”. Heap
recently confirmed that she will not be making appearances for most of
2007 in order to complete the scoring for the Disney documentary and to
work on her forthcoming third solo album that is due out sometime in
late 2007 or early 2008.

“Hide & Seek” is the most commonly used Imogen Heap song in TV shows and other media, and is featured in the Zach Braff movie, The Last Kiss, was used in an episode from season three of the Showtime TV show, “The L Word“, and featured in an episode of US reality show, So You Think You Can Dance. The CBS show Smith used “Hide & Seek” as the ending song for the show’s debut, as did the same network’s CSI: Miami for Episode 4 in Season 5. The O.C. closed with “Hide & Seek” in the final episode of its second season. The song was also used in early previews for the NBC drama Heroes, and UK previews for the Season 3 finale of Lost.

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