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Prog band formed in St. Louis, MO, United States, members were: Rick Bess (electric guitar, bass, 12-string acoustic guitar), Blair Blake (Hammond organ, grand piano, MiniMoog, bass pedals, synthesizer, celeste), Dave Kelly (drums, timpani, bells, gongs, triangle, guiro), Mark Biehl (vocals, flute, trumpet, piccolo) .

The Viceroys, who had hits in Seattle with "Granny's Pad" and "That Sound," changed their name to The Surprise Package and recorded for the Columbia and LHI labels. They reformed again as American Eagle. .

Top Surprise is a noise pop four-piece based in Brazil. Their debut EP, "Everything Must Go", came out in 2010 on Pug Records. It is available in cassette, as well as for free download at http://www.pugrecords.com/top-surprise/ www.topsurprise.bandcamp.com www.myspace.com/topsurprise .

In the U.S., Japan is notorious for its sugary sweet pop groups and its warped high-octane psycho-delic noise outfits. Tokyo's Space Streaklings is most definitely not the former. They could eat Shonen Knife for dinner. Hell, they could eat the Boredoms for dinner! Shonen Knife would just be an appetizer! In other words, they cook up an electronic hyper-spastic, neo-Dadaist Japanese messy stew that's so exciting you'll completely lose your taste for familiar foods. The foursome, comprised of multi-instrumentalists Screaming Stomach, Captain Insect, Karate Condor, and Kame Bazooka, has released a full-length, 1994's Nana-Toku, and a couple of seven-inches, all...