owner of Kintou Media and King's Tower Productions; writer/director/producer/performer/illustrator/etc.
8 Jul 2021 7 minute read 1 comment jozefkrichards
Sometimes the whole really is greater than the sum of its parts. In this case, literally, as the four virtual band members, 2-D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle, and Russel Hobbs, collectively known as Gorillaz, are the creation of just two people: one musici...
5 Jul 2021 7 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards
Two of the most iconic voices in music during the 1960s, Simon & Garfunkel were grade school pals that came up together performing in New York. Bob Dylan's brand of folk rock came from the heartland, but Simon & Garfunkel were of the city, and perhap...
4 Jul 2021 4 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards
They weren't a particularly well-known nor long-lived band, but their music is quite timeless in spite of this. A breed of alternative rock known as "shoegaze", Galaxie 500 takes that sound of the late 80s and early 90s and makes it decidedly dreamie...
3 Jul 2021 4 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards
While I would consider myself a fan of international music, as an English speaker I must admit a bias for English and American artists. Not only is it the music I am surrounded with, but it's the music with lyrics I can understand! Primarily an instr...
1 Jul 2021 8 minute read 2 comments jozefkrichards
Sadly only together for two albums, CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse shone brightly while it lasted and during my final high school years and first years in college, these guys were absolute tops for me. One of the best modern takes on soul music I know,...
30 Jun 2021 7 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards
Together now for almost 55 years, releasing 25 studio albums in that timeframe, touring all the while, and in possession of one of the most "I wish I had thought of that one first" names for a rock and roll band, The Rolling Stones are the behemoths...
29 Jun 2021 5 minute read 1 comment jozefkrichards
Morrison's poetry and Manzarek's use of the keyboard as bass gave The Doors a distinct sound among the many emergent rock talents in the 60s. Decades later, my teenage self would discover the six albums made by this group in Jim Morrison's lifetime a...
28 Jun 2021 7 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards
One of the most visible and talked about bands of my youngest years in the early 90s was definitely Nirvana. My parents had their cassettes and t-shirts and even as a little kid I knew it was atypical for a naked baby to be on the front of one of tho...
22 Jun 2021 7 minute read 2 comments jozefkrichards
One of history's greatest pioneers and players of the guitar, Jimi Hendrix died too young! He went largely unnoticed in the United States until hopping over to the UK and forming "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" with Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, bec...
20 Jun 2021 4 minute read 2 comments jozefkrichards
Many today perhaps do not remember (or have ever even heard of) Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, but I am happy to remind (or introduce) them. A blend of disco and big band/swing, the group was formed by two half-brothers (the group's songwriter...
