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The Shibuya-kei trio known as Natural Calamity is a bit of an anachronism compared to others in the rich Japanese pop scene characterized by Cornelius and Pizzicato Five. The earthy trip-hop blues produced by Shunji Mori and Kuni Sugimoto, plus American Stephanie Heasley's countrified vocals come in marked contrast to Tokyo's many French/Brazilian/exotica aficionados. Mori and Sugimoto met in the early '90s, and produced their first album Dawn in the Valley for File Records, owned by Toshio Nakanishi of Love T.K.O. Let It Come Down and Sundance followed, as well as the collaboration LP Group of Gods, recorded with Nakanishi...

Los Angeles-based Calamity Magnet melds the world of indie-pop with girl group harmonies of the sixties, adding a hint of country flavor and the occasional peek at a Beatles influence. The brainchild of Texas-born songwriter/musician Sara Radle (ex-The Rentals), Calamity Magnet picks up where her critically acclaimed solo records left off. For a band that only started playing together in October 2007, Calamity Magnet already have a lot under their belts. They headed into the studio in January 2008 to work with multiple Grammy Award winning engineer Dennis Moody, and created their first group of recordings together. Three months later,...

An alias of betwixt & between, used for Industrial Hardcore and Experimental tracks. .

There are at least four bands named Calamity Jane. 1. Calamity Jane formed around 1988 in Olympia, USA. The band originally consisted of Lisa Koenig on drums, Ronna Era on bass and Gilly Ann Hanner doing vocals and guitar. The band played under different monikers, such as 'Catbox' and 'Sometimes Why'. Era left the band to form Treehouse and was replaced with Hanner's sister Megan. The band stuck with Calamity Jane for unknown reasons. Successful shows in Portland, OR led the band to move there in 1989. Soon afterwards the band recorded their first album (singles had been released earlier...