New York's George Usher recently found an American label with as much faith in his art as the Europeans exhibit. After four solo and collaborative releases overseas?Miracle School, Ludlow, Neptune (with House of Usher), and the Gornack Brothers' Refund (an acoustic album with Beat Rodeo's Steve Almaas)?Usher's latest, Dutch April, was released by Parasol Records on November 17, 1998. Tabbed by Pulse! as '?one of the New York scene's most underappreciated resources?' Usher is best known as a late-stage par...   [ read more ]

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Second album from Steve Almaas (Suicide Commandos, Beat Rodeo) and his significant other Ali Smith (Speedball Baby). Ali Smith's musical background is steeped in punk, rockabilly and most notably, the blues stomp of Speedball Baby. Steve Almaas was in on the ground floor of punk rock in the late-70s, as a founding member of Minneapolis' Suicide Commandos, as well as a precursor to alt-country with his band Beat Rodeo during the 80s. As with their self-titled debut their shared love of American song manifes...   [ read more ]

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'Art-pop singer/songwriter George Usher was born in Cleveland, where his early demo recordings gained local radio airplay while he was still in his teens. He had already cut enough demo material to fill out a good 30 albums before he relocated to New York in 1977, soon forming the power-pop band the Decoys; by the middle of the following decade, Usher was a member of the cowpunk outfit Beat Rodeo, appearing on their 1986 LP Home in the Heart of the Beat. A satellite member of the Bongos, during the late 1...   [ read more ]

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