This is a list of notable singers that did not start making music in the role of lead singer. The musicians listed here began their career by playing a different musical instrument before eventually switching over to vocals.
Great singers are not born, but rather made…
Kurt Cobain speaking about Os Mutantes
April 23, 2016
Os Mutantes is one of the most interesting psychedelic rock bands of the 1960’s. The group was especially important for the counterculture movement in their home country of Brazil. Together with musicians like Caetano Veloso or Gilberto Gil they are associated with the…
Weird Rock Star Action Figures
March 12, 2016
The crafting of action figures is a business that normally focuses on the assumed physical likeness of world-famous comic book superheroes. These are the make-believe characters possessing superpowers, characters with a selfless desire to change the world, those who appeal…
Nirvana and the Screaming Trees planned a Leadbelly covers album
February 22, 2016
First of all, it never actually happened. But it almost did. In the summer of 1989 Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic of Nirvana and Mark Lanegan and Mark Pickerel of the Screaming Trees organized two recording sessions with the intention of recording covers of Leadbelly…
The Half Japanese method of playing guitar
February 21, 2016
Some bands simplify their way into musical excellence, other bands, like Half Japanese, prefer to reinvent the medium in their image. Here’s your guitar method via this great experimental rock group.
In terms of DYI punk ethics few groups have taken it to the…