| Coordinates | 23°29′11″N46°20′55″N |
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| Name | Jangle pop |
| Bgcolor | crimson |
| Color | white |
| Stylistic origins | Power pop Rock and roll Post-punk Folk rock |
| Cultural origins | Revival in mid-1980s United States |
| Instruments | Standard drum set - 12-string electric guitar - Semi-acoustic guitar - Keyboard - Bass guitar - Electronic organ |
| Popularity | Peaked in mid to late-1980s |
| Derivatives | Indie pop |
| Regional scenes | Dunedin Sound - Paisley Underground |
Jangle pop is a genre of alternative rock from the mid-1980s that "marked a return to the chiming or jangly guitars and pop melodies of the '60s" bands such as The Byrds, with their electric twelve-string guitars and power pop song structures. Mid-1980s jangle pop was a non-mainstream "pop-based format" with "some folk-rock overtones". Between 1984 and 1987, "Southern-pop bands like R.E.M. and Let's Active" and a subgenre called "Paisley Underground" incorporated psychedelic influences.
The etymological derivation of the term "jangle" is uncertain. The term may be derived from the lyric "In the jingle jangle morning, I'll come following you" from The Byrds' cover of Bob Dylan's song "Mr. Tambourine Man", or it may be an onomatopoeia that refers to the chiming sound of a 12-string Rickenbacker guitar's upper-register strings. Jangle pop is related to the power pop genre that developed in the 1970s, including bands like The Raspberries and Big Star, who blurred the line between the two styles.
Jangle pop influenced college rock during the early 1980s, as exemplified by early albums of R.E.M., The Feelies, Game Theory, The dB's, Let's Active, The Connells, Guadalcanal Diary, Marshall Crenshaw , 10,000 Maniacs , and The Beat Farmers. In Austin, Texas the term "New Sincerity" was loosely used for a similar group of bands, led by The Reivers, Wild Seeds and True Believers. Morrissey and Johnny Marr of The Smiths in the United Kingdom purposefully rejected synthesizers and dance music. With Morrissey's songwriting influenced by punk rock and post-punk bands such as the New York Dolls, The Cramps and The Cult, along with the 60s girl groups, and female singers such as Dusty Springfield, Sandie Shaw, Marianne Faithfull and Timi Yuro. With the jangle pop sound of Marr's Rickenbacker and Fender Telecaster guitar playing influenced by Neil Young's work with Crazy Horse, George Harrison and James Honeyman-Scott of The Pretenders. Encyclopedia Britannica comments that the band's "non-rhythm-and-blues, whiter-than-white fusion of 1960s rock and postpunk was a repudiation of contemporary dance pop" which was popular in the early 1980s.
The U.K. C86 scene and twee pop share qualities with jangle pop. There were vibrant scenes in the UK (The Stone Roses, The Brilliant Corners, Jazz Butcher, Monochrome Set, The Popguns, Loft, The Family Cat, Felt, James), Australia (The Go-Betweens, Hummingbirds, The Church) and New Zealand (The "Dunedin Sound" of bands such as The Clean, Mad Scene, Jean-Paul Sartre Experience, The Bats, The Chills, Sneaky Feelings).
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| Coordinates | 23°29′11″N46°20′55″N |
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| Name | The Hummingbirds |
| Background | group_or_band |
| Origin | Sydney, Australia |
| Genre | Indie Pop Jangle pop |
| Years active | 1986–1993 |
| Label | Phantom RooART Polygram Warner IV BMG |
| Related acts | Fragile The Lemonheads Sneeze |
| Past members | refer to Members list below |
The Hummingbirds were an indie pop or jangle pop band from Sydney, Australia formed in 1986 from Bug Eyed Monsters. They were one of the most highly touted outfits to emerge from Sydney's inner-city scene during the late 1980s and were an early signing to the rooArt label. They left rooArt in 1992 and disbanded in 1993.
The Hummingbirds continued recording, releasing another album produced by Easter, April 1991's va va voom, which peaked at #44 on the ARIA album charts. However, its release was delayed due to problems with RooArt. They were freed from their contract after the May 1992 EP You Just Gotta Know My Mind (title track is a Donovan cover) with Dalton again deputising for St. Clare - who was pregnant with her and Holmes' son Milo. The Hummingbirds made two EPs on the small independent label IV Recordings, Gone in February 1993 and Tail in July. The band found it hard to justify their move from a major label like RooArt to the smaller IV Recordings and broke up after the release of Tail. Simon Holmes went on to record other albums with a new band, Fragile. Allanah Russack played in Sydney as a solo artist. Robyn St. Clare, whose composition "Into Your Arms" was a hit for popular 1990s act The Lemonheads (with Dalton on bass guitar), has recorded with Ratcat and Sneeze.
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| Coordinates | 23°29′11″N46°20′55″N |
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| Name | Richard Barone |
| Background | solo_singer |
| Born | Tampa, Florida, U.S. |
| Instrument | Guitar, Mellotron, keyboards, synthesizers, percussion, Stylophone, waterphone |
| Genre | Rock Pop Power pop Chamber pop Alternative rock |
| Occupation | Musician Songwriter Author Music director Record producer |
| Years active | 1980s–present |
| Label | Bar/None Records RCA Records MCA/Universal Geffen Records MESA/Atlantic Sony BMG Fetish Records Passport Records Stiff Records Cooking Vinyl others |
| Associated acts | The Bongos |
| Url | Official website |
Richard Barone is a rock musician born in Tampa, Florida. He works as a songwriter, arranger, author, director, and producer, releases albums as a solo artist, tours, and has created major concert events at Carnegie Hall, Hollywood Bowl and New York's Central Park. His new CD, Glow, was released on September 14, 2010.
Barone actually released his first solo album, Cool Blue Halo (recorded live at the Bottom Line in New York) before The Bongos' amicable breakup in 1987. Anthony DeCurtis, writing in Rolling Stone, praised Barone's "spare, elegant arrangements" and credits him with fashioning "a kind of rock chamber music." While Trouser Press described the record as "intimate but confused," NPR's Tom Moon, in a more recent assessment, called the album "a plaintive masterpiece," and credited Barone with foreshadowing Nirvana's Unplugged performance of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World," adding "Cool Blue Halo feels timeless, and maybe even exotic." Billy Altman, in The New York Times, called his next album, Clouds Over Eden "unquestionably the most fully realized effort of Barone's career," while Trouser Press described the album as "wrenching and thoroughly worthwhile" and "the great album fans always imagined [Barone] making." and concerts for New York's Central Park SummerStage.
Other projects have included executive producing The Nomi Song DVD (Palm Pictures, 2005), which includes his remix of operatic New Wave countertenor Klaus Nomi's "Total Eclipse"; musical direction and orchestration for Bright Lights, Big City at the New York Theatre Workshop (with Rent director Michael Grief); as well as directing and performing in The Downtown Messiah, a modern interpretation of Handel's baroque oratorio, broadcast annually on over 200 public radio stations nationwide for six consecutive years from 1999-2004. His songs and collaborations, including those written with singer-songwriter Jill Sobule, have been heard on several popular television programs, including The West Wing, Dawson's Creek, Felicity, and South of Nowhere.
In 2006, he and the original Bongos reunited in the studio with Moby producing, to create a new version of "The Bulrushes," an early Bongos single, and a music video for the special edition re-issue of the group's debut album. The 27-track collection, Drums Along the Hudson - Special Edition, was released by Cooking Vinyl Records in June 2007. Several Bongos reunion concerts were held, culminating with an outdoor concert in Hoboken, at which the band was honored with a Mayoral Proclamation and the keys to the city.
In September 2007, Barone's memoir, FRONTMAN: Surviving the Rock Star Myth, with a nude cover photo of the author by Mick Rock) was published by Backbeat/Hal Leonard Books. That same month, his complete solo catalog was re-launched at the iTunes Music Store. In late 2007, he began staging a series of 'musical readings' of FRONTMAN, both live and on radio, with excerpts of the book read by television actress Joyce DeWitt and radio personality Vin Scelsa, among others. Musical accompaniment was performed using the new Gibson Les Paul HD.6x-Pro Digital guitar (an instrument to which Barone contributed as artist consultant) in surround sound. On his birthday, October 1, 2008, he brought FRONTMAN: A Musical Reading to the stage at Carnegie Hall in New York City, with "Special Guests and Legendary Friends," including Moby, Lou Reed, The Band's Garth Hudson, Marshall Crenshaw, Terre and Suzzy Roche, Randy Brecker, Carlos Alomar, and others as a benefit for public radio station WFUV.
In July 2009, Barone entered the recording studio to complete production work on the album he began at age 16 for performer Tiny Tim. The album, "I've Never Seen a Straight Banana - Rare Moments: Volume 1," was released in October 2009 on Collector's Choice Records.
In May 2010, he produced, on behalf of Jonas Mekas, a concert to benefit Anthology Film Archives and honor avant-garde filmmaker/author Kenneth Anger. Performing on the bill were Lou Reed, Sonic Youth, The Virgins, Mekas' ensemble, Moby, M.C. Ben Foster and a rare appearance by Anger's experimental music project, Technicolor Skull. In July 2010, Barone joined forces with Pete Seeger, producing and performing in "Reclaim The Coast: Gulf Coast Oil Spill Benefit" at City Winery in New York. In August 2010, he and co-producer Matthew Billy recorded Seeger performing aboard the Sloop Clearwater, symbol of the drive to clean up the Hudson River, which started in the 1960s.
Barone lives in Greenwich Village, where he recently completed tracks for his new album, Glow with veteran producer Tony Visconti. Also working on the project were producers Steve Rosenthal and Steve Addabbo, songwriter Paul Williams, engineer Leslie Ann Jones (at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, California), photographer Mick Rock and others. Glow was released in September 2010 on Bar/None Records.
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| Coordinates | 23°29′11″N46°20′55″N |
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| Name | Mike Pender |
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Michael John Prendergast |
| Born | March 03, 1942 Kirkdale, Liverpool |
| Years active | 1950s - present |
| Associated acts | Mike Pender's Searchers The Searchers |
| Url | mikependersearchers.co.uk |
Mike Pender (born Michael John Prendergast on 3 March 1942 in Kirkdale, Liverpool) was an original founding member of Merseybeat group The Searchers. He is best known as the lead vocalist on many hit singles by The Searchers, including the song Needles and Pins. He pursued a solo career after leaving The Searchers and released several singles before forming his current band, Mike Pender's Searchers who perform songs from his many years with The Searchers in addition to all-new material and a blend of popular rock standards by classic artists such as Buddy Holly, The Drifters and Roy Orbison.
In his early years, Pender worked at a guitar shop as a day job in between playing nightly gigs with The Searchers. According to Pender, he is responsible for choosing the band name for The Searchers. "The Band was founded by myself and John McNally. In 1957 John and I went to see the movie "The Searchers" starring John Wayne. I was an ardent Western Fan and so I dragged John along with me to see it. I take the credit for choosing the name 'The Searchers' and for co-founding the Band in its original form." Some years ago, Mike Pender claimed to be a member of two fictitious groups he played in before his years with The Searchers. Hoping to build more credibility as a musician, Pender claimed to have played in early groups, The Wreckers and The Confederates.
Over the years, some of Pender's personal guitars have included his Gibson ES345 with sunburst finish, the Burns Tri-Sonic in the colour of red with three pickups and the twelve-string Rickenbacker Rose Morris model 1993 coloured in a fireglo finish with deluxe features including the f-hole rather than the slash sound hole. Other guitars he has played include the Aria twelve-string guitar, his Danelectro Bellzouki twelve-string made from wood and hardboard, and the solid Rickenbacker 450/12 in an elegant mapleglo finish, which had a converter comb, which allowed it to be converted into either a 6-string or 12-string guitar. Pender's Rickenbacker 360/12 1993 Model was stolen several years ago; it had been used on many of The Searchers' studio recordings in addition to numerous live performances.
After The Searchers recorded the singles "Sweets for My Sweet" and "Sugar and Spice", Pender took over lead vocal duties from Tony Jackson. During the late 1970s, The Searchers were signed by Seymour Stein's Sire Records and recorded two modernised albums, including "The Searchers" and "Play for Today," which was retitled "Love's Melodies" outside the United Kingdom. The Searchers recorded what would become the final single with Pender, I Don't Want to Be the One. Pender left The Searchers in 1985 to pursue a solo career and in the 1980s, joined an all-star rock band known as "The Traveling Wrinklies", whose name was a parody of the popular rock group Traveling Wilburys. That band included Pender, Brian Poole, Clem Curtis, Tony Crane and Reg Presley, lead singer of The Troggs. With The Searchers continuing to perform, Pender was replaced by a new vocalist, Spencer James.Selecting a group of talented musicians, Pender sought to re–create the unique sound that popularised The Searchers. Forming the band "Mike Pender's Searchers", they began touring in the late 1980s and re-recorded The Searchers hits plus 4 new tracks.Various CDs,featuring these new tracks and the re-recordings have been released in various countries around the world. Mike Pender's Searchers continue to book new shows and tour, targeting Britain, Australia, U.S.A., the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark and The United Arab Emirates. In 1994 Mike Pender's Searchers were the very first 1960's band to be invited to play on board the QE2 as part of the world famous liner's 25th anniversary celebrations. During live performances, Mike Pender's Searchers use their own custom built lighting and sound equipment and Mike Pender uses several different guitars including his famous 12-string Rickenbacker.
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