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Muse is a two-time Grammy Award-winning rock band formed in Teignmouth, Devon, England in 1994. The band consists of Matt Bellamy (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Chris Wolstenholme (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Dominic Howard (drums). ). The band started out as a gothic rock band called the Rocket Baby Dolls. Their first show was a battle in a group competition […]

JP Cooper is an English singer and songwriter. Known for playing on the Jonas Blue single 'Perfect Strangers'. The song was widely popular and was certified platinum in the UK. Cooper later released his solo single 'September song'. He is currently signed to Island Records. Childhood and Education John Paul Cooper […]

Armin van Buuren is a popular DJ, producer and remixer from the Netherlands. He is best known as the radio host of the blockbuster State of Trance. His six studio albums have become international hits. Armin was born in Leiden, South Holland. He started playing music when he was 14 years old and later he started playing as […]

If Mephistopheles lived among us, he would look a hell of a lot like Adam Darski from Behemoth. A sense of style in everything, radical views on religion and social life - this is about the group and its leader. Behemoth carefully thinks through their shows, and the release of the album becomes an occasion for unusual art experiments. How it all began The story […]

The Soviet “perestroika” scene gave rise to many original performers who stood out from the total number of musicians of the recent past. Musicians began to work in genres that were previously outside the Iron Curtain. Zhanna Aguzarova became one of them. But now, when the changes in the USSR were just around the corner, the songs of Western rock bands became available to the Soviet youth of the 80s, […]

When we hear the word reggae, the first performer that comes to mind is, of course, Bob Marley. But even this style guru has not reached the level of success that the British group UB 40 has. This is eloquently evidenced by record sales (over 70 million copies), and positions in the charts, and an incredible amount […]