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The Rhythm Messiahs is the music project of multi medium artist and 24/7 thought broadcaster J.D. Casten. Free tracks can be downloaded at the offical website, http://therhythmmessiahs.postegoism.net. Hailing from Eugene, Oregon, USA, Schizophrenic multi-medium artist and 24/7 thought broadcaster, J.D. Casten, born in 1968, has been listening to background music almost constantly since 1993, in order to drown out the voices he hears in his head. Having undergone extensive treatment for his condition, including repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation experiments at Yale, he recaptured some of his creative time, and besides creating art and poetry, tried his hand at playing guitar,...

Prefab Sprout are an English pop band from Witton Gilbert, County Durham formed in 1976, who rose to fame during the 1980s. Though critically acclaimed, and considered by many to have released some of the best pop albums of the decade, the band never matched this acclaim with commercial success. The band's best known lineup comprised Paddy McAloon (vocals, guitar, keyboard), Wendy Smith (vocals, guitar, keyboard), Martin McAloon (bass), and Neil Conti (drums). Their biggest commercial and critical success came with 1990's Jordan: The Comeback (one of two albums produced by Thomas Dolby), which was a hit in the UK...

The Prefab Messiahs began as a proto-lo-fi post-punk left-field garage pop band associated with the "Wormtown" (Worcester, Massachusetts) punk/arts scene of the early 1980s. Stylistically, their early sounds have been compared with Television Personalities, Swell Maps, Josef K, White Fence, Thee Oh Sees, The Clean, and King Tuff. Originally together from 1981-1983, they played basement and club shows fairly often. Aside from the 1983 cassette Flex Your Mind, though, no recorded material was available from them until 1998's Devolver CD-R anthology. Several songs on the album were produced by their friend (outsider psychedelic singer-songwriter) Bobb Trimble. At their first-ever gig,...

The Screaming Blue Messiahs were a band formed in 1983 in London by Bill Carter (vocals and guitar), Chris Thompson (bass and vocals) and Kenny Harris (drums). Featuring a high-octane sound sometimes described as "rockabilly from hell" and an almost unhealthy obsession with Americana, they initially released the mini-album Good and Gone before signing to WEA. Three full-length albums followed. The first, Gun Shy, produced the single "Wild Blue Yonder," which although a minor hit, would resurface in 2006 as the closing music of an episode of FX's Rescue Me. The second album, Bikini Red, provided their only hit in...