There is so little to say about Headset. Here is the official bio for the band on iTunes: The brainchild of producer, DJ, and Plug Research label owner Allen Avanessian, the loose project Headset went from dreams to reality when Avanes...

Hailing from Philidelphia, Santi White has a fairly varied background in music. She has worked with artists from Jay-Z to Karen O, from Beastie Boys to Bad Brains, and many more. Her appreciation of music seems quite boundless, and may...

Corky was a 90s Canadian comedy band. Similar to bands like Flight of the Conchords, they would perform parodies of artists style using original material rather than spoofing specific songs. Some of Corky's humor was improvised and str...

Founded in 1994 between two Japanese expatriates, Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda, Cibo Matto mixes a variety of sounds and feels, but are heavily oriented towards Hip Hop and indie rock, for the most part. Miho Hatori was born in Tokyo and...

In the 90s groups like Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, and Daft Punk were dominating the airwaves, appearing in games and movies. House was king. Everyone was experimenting with it in their music, Bjork, Jackson, Madonna, and more....

When you think Rob Zombie, you probably think bloody, dirty, metal and horror flicks. While that is certainly a big part of Mr Cumming's personality, the man is much deeper and varied than you'd expect.Robert Cummings was born in Haver...

Biz Markie is known for a few things, his over the top personality, comedy chops, and off-key singing. Marcel Hall AKA Biz Markie got his start in the early 1980s rapping around local clubs in Manhattan. In 1985 Biz met Marley Marl, a ...

Violent Femmes sounds like one of those recognizable 90s alt rock bands you just can't quite place. Their biggest hit, Blister in the Sun, sounds just like something you'd hear along side Jane's Addiction, Smashing Pumpkins, or Flaming...

De La Soul was formed in 1987 in NYC, the city where many of the greatest rappers came from and the origin of the genre itself. The group is made up of members David Jude Jolicoeur(Dave), Kelvin Mercer(Posdnuos), and Vincent Lamon Maso...

Grayskul is an alt hip hop group from the Seattle/northwest area. They were formed in 2003 by MCs JFK(Fiddleback Recluse AKA Count Magnus), Onry Ozzborn(Reason AKA Count Draven), and bassist Rob Castro (Phantom Ghost El Topo). They emp...

The house-pop band Deee Lite was formed in the mid to early 80s under the name Lady Miss Kier and Super Dj Dmitry. Once Towa Tei joined the band officially became Deee-lite. One thing interesting about Deee-lite is their cultural homel...

I honestly shouldn't have to write anything here, if you don't know who Bach is than there is a serious problem with your music education. Bach was born on the year 1685 in Germany and is widely considered one of the greatest composers...

Humble Pie's original lineup was helmed by two already fairly successful rock stars, Steve Marriott of Small Faces, and Peter Frampton. Formed in 1969 the english group also featured bassist Greg Ridley and a then 17 year old drummer J...

Iron and Wine is a pretty folk-y sound coming from Samuel Beam. Growing up in South Carolina Sam regularly was taken to his grandfather's farm, and this can kind of be felt in his music. It all kind of feels like a man walking a dusty ...

Meat Puppets started out in 1980 as a punk band and have shifted styles repeatedly since then, generally retaining a rock feel of some sort, though that style could vary from punk, grunge, rockabilly, to prog or even a hint of new wave...

There is very little info out there about Rotary Downs, an indie band out of New Orleans. Rotary downs was formed in 2002 between two guitarists Chris Colombo, who also played steel pedal, and James Marler. In 2004 they finally added a...

Decided I'll try and do a few AoTDs as one off since I'm posting so much music in each one and it seems to be confusing when I do two artists instead of one. Today's artist of the day is a little electro pop group by the name of Chrome...

If there is one lesson that glam/hair metal taught us it's that the 80s were an extraordinarily ugly decade. Contrary to the look most people associate with heavy metal, black leather and spikes, hair metal embraces the Vegas look of ...

There are only a handful of successful bands that release one album then disappear into the night never to be heard from again. Almost always these bands are collaborations between already known artists, and this is the case with both ...

This will be one of those handful of AotDs where I basically let the music do the talking. I've always enjoyed this classic style of singing, it's very soothing and nostalgic. The music was always a big selling point for me in the Bios...

Today's artists hail from my hometown, and you can damn well bet there will be at least 2 more articles that cover Sacramento bands. Sacramento, like so many cities, is pretty interesting if you actually read about it. I'll cover some ...

Ee-e-eee, we've all immitated the turntable scratching sound and recognize what it represents: djing. It's even, recently, come into peoples eyes again in the form of Overwatch While a lot djing is done just purely on the computer the...

These songs contain lyrics and words that can easily offend someone. Listen at your own risk. The read itself is safe. This is prob the only AoTD I can think of that I feel I'll need this warning, mainly because of Blowfly. One complai...

Just because you're white doesn't mean you can't be funky. KC & The Sunshine Band were hitmakers for sure, and while many of the band members were black, KC and Richard Finch were the main men behind the band's music. They were the...

Two very opposing sounds and looks. King Diamond is one of the 80s Metal icons while Junior Senior was a small indie pop rock band mostly known for one song. While King Diamond is all about bleak blackness and sharp whites with death b...

Joan Jett originally started as part of an all female group of young girls known as "The Runaways" which featured several musicians still very well known, most notably Lita Ford who not too many years ago was part of the Brutal Legend ...

Today's Artists of the Day are two icons of the classic 50s Jazz era music, specifically, icons of the trumpet. Outside of Louis Armstrong, Dizzy and Miles are probably the most well known trumpet players in jazz history. Dizzy is know...

With the recent release of Fallout 4 I've had a bit of a trip down memory lane. Fallout is a game tied closely to my heart and something important to me. Games are a thing that we here at Destructoid all are passionate about, a single affec...