Underground: Rainbow Rising to Stargazer
Yo ho! Nightrider here. Ritchie Blackmore kept Ronnie James Dio from Rainbow's first album Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow and recruited drummer Cozy Powell, keyboard Tony Carey, and bassist Jimmy Bain. They created Rainbow's second album Rising and released it on 17 May...
Underground: Digital Lizards Of Doom
Today on underground we are going to talk about a band that is 100% the most unique and original acts out there and one of the best-kept secret in music and they are Digital Lizards Of Doom. Based out of San Diego, CA, this two-person group of Gabriel Valentin and...
Underground: Michael Gray The Weekend
Today on underground we are going to talk about a song that became a hit back in 2004 and again in 2019, thanks to meme videos, and it's The Weekend by British DJ Michael Gray featuring Shena. This disco house track was released back on November 1, 2004, as a single...
Underground: Jeru The Damaja and 25 Years After The Sun Rises in the East
Yo Ho! Nightrider here! On 24 May 1994 Jeru The Damaja debuted his hip-hop career with his album The Sun Rises in the East. Produced solely by DJ Premeir, Jeru's themes in this album criticizes commercial hip-hop artists and their record labels. Alongside fellow East...
Underground: Hotel Pools Constant
Today on underground I'm going to talk about an album that just came out last month and from start to finish it turns out to be something grand, and this album is Constant by Hotel Pools. The entire album has this chillwave meets synthwave sound vibe and mix them into...
Underground: Hole’s Live Through This 25 Years Later
Yo Ho! Nightrider here! I was a kid when MTV Unplugged in New York premiered on MTV in December 1993. Shortly after Kurt Cobain's death on 8 April 1994, Hole's second album Live Through This was released on 12 April 1994. It was an album that caught my attention for...
Underground: Ikutaro Kakehashi – The Godfather of Electronic Musical Instruments
Today on underground we are going to talk about a man that has contributed to music a lot more then anyone has before him. He was an engineer, an inventor, and an entrepreneur and to his credit help pave the wave of music genres from the 1980s till now with his...
Underground: Taja Nicholle’s For Now(I Promise)
Today on underground we are going to look at an up and coming artist with a very different sound that is not mainstream, but it will surely turn heads upon listening. This artist is Taja Nicholle with her single For Now(I Promise). The song is nothing of any music...
Underground: Hotline Miami Soundtrack
Today on Hidden Gems we are going to talk about a video game soundtrack that came out in 2012 that at the time was one of the best albums that came out that wasn't mainstream at all, and that album was the Hotline Miami soundtrack. The soundtrack for the game was all...
Underground: Carl W. Stalling and The Music of Cartoons
Yo ho! Nightrider here. If you're a fan of The Looney Tunes Show, you would remember the character Gossamer singing "September in the Rain" in one episode and singing "I Love to Singa" in a short segment of another episode. What people today don't realize is that...
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