The Blind Shake
The Blind Shake are an American punk rock band formed in Minneapolis by brothers Jim (vocals/guitar) and Mike Blaha (vocals/guitar), with Dave Roper on drums. They have released four albums and featured as a backing band for a number of artists, including John Reis and Michael Yonkers. Biography The brothers developed an interest in music at an early age, when they were "in Third and Fourth grade, we had a twenty dollar Sears catalogue acoustic". Both began to study guitar with Mike receiving lessons while Jim abandoned the instrument until he was 23. Roper and Mike Blaha had played together in bands during their college years. Inspired by the simple approach of the punk rock, the two began playing together where Mike would use a baritone guitar. In 2004 they released a self-titled single. In 2005, the band released their debut album ''Rizzograph'', that was followed by ''Carmel'' in 2007, both on Learning Curve Records. In the same year they backed Yonkers on the album ''Carb ...
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John Reis
John Reis, also known by the pseudonyms Speedo, Slasher, and the Swami is an American musician, singer, guitarist, record label owner, and disc jockey. He is best known as the singer and guitarist for the rock band Rocket from the Crypt, which he formed and fronted (as Speedo) for the entirety of its career from 1990 to 2005. Prior to this he was the guitarist in the post-hardcore band Pitchfork, and also played in Drive Like Jehu during the early 1990s. In 1999 he formed the Hot Snakes, and in 2000 also formed the Sultans, in which (as Slasher) he sang and originally played bass before switching to rhythm guitar. He played in both these bands until their breakups in 2005 and 2007 respectively. He also released a solo recording under the name Back Off Cupids, which was recorded in 1994 but not released until 1999. Over the years he has performed in many other musical acts including Conservative Itch, Stacatto Reads, Custom Floor, and Beehive & the Barracudas. He is the owner o ...
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Michael Yonkers
Michael Yonkers (born 1947) is an American rock musician from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. His work has been praised for its groundbreaking and highly experimental nature; Cole Alexander of psychedelic-rock band Black Lips said that Yonkers “kind of invented noise and drone guitar techniques," stating further that "when you think of how The Who, Jimi Hendrix and The Velvet Underground were pushing feedback at the time, he was more extreme than all three combined in terms of what he was doing.” However, his work did not reach a wide audience until decades after he began recording, due in part to a debilitating spinal injury that kept him in constant, lifelong pain. His most well-known work is a psychedelic rock record from 1968 called ''Microminiature Love'', which was released on vinyl by De Stijl records in 2002, and later Sub Pop, who released it on CD in July 2003. This led to re-releases of other early albums, including the psych-folk album ''Grimwood'', originally ...
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Baritone Guitar
The baritone guitar is a guitar with a longer scale length, typically a larger body, and heavier internal bracing, so it can be tuned to a lower pitch. Gretsch, Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, ESP Guitars, PRS Guitars, Music Man, Danelectro, Schecter, Jerry Jones Guitars, Burns London and many other companies have produced electric baritone guitars since the 1960s, although always in small numbers due to low popularity. Tacoma, Santa Cruz, Taylor, Martin, Alvarez Guitars and others have made acoustic baritone guitars. Use The baritone-tuned guitar was uncommon until the Danelectro Company introduced an electric baritone guitar in the late 1950s. The electric baritone found some popularity in surf music and film scores, particularly "spaghetti Westerns." "Tic-tac bass" is a method of playing, in which a muted baritone guitar doubles the part played by the bass guitar or double bass. The method is commonly used in country music. Tuning and string gauges A standard guitar's standa ...
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Castle Face Records
Castle Face Records is an American independent record label, founded in 2006 by John Dwyer, Matt Jones and Brian Lee Hughes.Clark Rayburn"Castle Face Records" ''ANP Quarterly'', Volumes 2, No. 7, pages 8-9. The label was initially formed to release ''Sucks Blood'', the sixth studio album by Dwyer's band, Thee Oh Sees. Artists *Apprentice Destroyer *Burnt Ones *Coachwhips (reissues) * Damaged Bug *Dan Melchior * The Fresh & Onlys * Kelley Stoltz *King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard *Male Gaze *Mr Elevator *OBN III'S *ORB *POW! *Prettiest Eyes *Sunwatchers *Thee Oh Sees *The I.L.Y's *Ty Segall * Useless Eaters *White Fence White Fence (also known by the acronym WF) is a predominantly Mexican American street gang in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles. History White Fence is one of the oldest gangs in Los Angeles. The gang itself claims its hist ... *Zig-Zags References {{Authority control Alternative rock record labels American independent record labels ...
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Slovenly Recordings
Slovenly Recordings is an independent record label founded by Pete Menchetti in 2002. The label is based in Reno, Nevada, and has offices in Pennsylvania, Berlin, and Tokyo. History In 2002 Pete Menchetti formed Slovenly Recordings after the dissolution of his previous record label, 702 Records. Menchetti started Slovenly with a mission to release garage rock and psych influenced punk rock from around the globe."Interview with Slovenly Records,"
''Ride A Dove,'' (October 13. 2014). The headquarters shares space with Menchetti’s other business venture, Sticker Guy. In early 2017, Slovenly Recordings became the North American supplier of

Goner Records Albums
Goner may refer to: * Goner, Rajasthan, a village in India * Goner Records, an American independent record label * "Goner", a song by Twenty One Pilots from the album ''Blurryface'', 2015 * "Goner", a song by Trixie Mattel from the album ''the Blonde & Pink Albums'', 2022 * ''Goners'', an unrealized film project by Joss Whedon * The Goner The Goner was a psychedelic folk rock band from Sweden. Starting out as a solo project of Daniel Westerlund in 2008, the lineup quickly expanded and over time developed into a six piece live band; playing an eclectic range of instruments including ..., a psychedelic folk rock band from Sweden See also * '' Gonner'', a video game {{Disambiguation ...
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Musical Groups From The Twin Cities
Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narrative songs sung by the characters * MusicAL, an Albanian television channel * Musical isomorphism, the canonical isomorphism between the tangent and cotangent bundles See also * Lists of musicals * Music (other) * Musica (other) * Musicality Musicality (''music -al -ity'') is "sensitivity to, knowledge of, or talent for music" or "the quality or state of being musical", and is used to refer to specific if vaguely defined qualities in pieces and/or genres of music, such as melodiousnes ...