What kind of musician does Neil Hannon and Stephen Malkmus have in common?
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Neil Hannon Edward Neil Anthony Hannon (born 7 November 1970) is a Northern Irish singer and songwriter. He is the creator and front man of the chamber pop group The Divine Comedy, and is the band's sole constant member. Hannon wrote the theme tunes for the sitcoms "Father Ted" and "The IT Crowd".
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Stephen Malkmus Stephen Joseph Malkmus (born May 30, 1966) is an American musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Pavement. He currently performs with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.
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Simon Joyner Simon Joyner (born 1971) is an American singer-songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska, United States. He has influenced the music of Bright Eyes. In the early 1990s, Beck listed Joyner in his top 10 albums when asked by "Rolling Stone". He is also known for the so-called "Peel Incident," when British DJ John Peel played his album, "The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll", from beginning to end on air. Joyner has collaborated with John Darnielle, of The Mountain Goats. He is named after Paul Simon.
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Neil Hamburger Neil Hamburger is a standup comedian character played by comedian and musician Gregg Turkington.
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Josh Lattanzi Josh Lattanzi is an American musician best known for his collaborations with Norah Jones, Ben Kweller, The Lemonheads, Albert Hammond Jr., and The Candles.
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Mal Blum Mal Blum (born July 7, 1988) is an American songwriter, musician, writer and performer from New York.
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Steve Phillips (musician) Steve Phillips (born 18 February 1948) is an English blues and country musician. He is mainly renowned for being part of the supergroup Notting Hillbillies along with the Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler and Brendan Croker.
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Laurence Hobgood Laurence Hobgood (born 1959) is a contemporary jazz piano virtuoso, composer, arranger, producer, lyricist and educator. Perhaps best known for his twenty-year collaboration with vocalist Kurt Elling, Hobgood has had a varied and dynamic career. In addition to his prowess at the piano he's identified by many as a key player in the imaginative updating of the "American Songbook", particularly in his arranging for vocalists; his stylized re-imagining of both classic songbook repertoire and more recent artists' work (Carole King; Earth, Wind & Fire; Paul Simon; Burt Bacharach; Sting; U2, etc.) has had a far-ranging influence within the jazz world and beyond.
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Astrid Young Astrid Young (born August 16, 1962) is a Canadian singer/songwriter. She is the daughter of journalist, sportswriter, and novelist Scott Young and his second wife Astrid Carlson, and the half-sister of fellow musician Neil Young, who bought her first amp in the 1970s. After a brief run with 80's Glam metal group Sacred Child, she went on to record backup vocals on several albums through most of the 80's and 90's. Her vocals appeared on Neil Young's albums "Unplugged", "Road Rock Vol. 1" and the Grammy-nominated "Harvest Moon". In 2002, she performed lead vocals and played the bass guitar on rock band's iST album "Pokalolo Paniolo". Young has also released three solo albums, "Brainflower" in 1995, "Matinee" in 2002 and "One Night at Giant Rock" in 2014, which was co-produced by Victor DeLorenzo. In addition to writing a Canadian bestselling book, "Being Young", Young has also co-written music with many fellow musicians, including Nancy Wilson, Lisa Dalbello and the late West Arkeen.
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The Crust Brothers The Crust Brothers, a band formed by Stephen Malkmus and members of Silkworm (Michael Dahlquist, Tim Midgett, and Andy Cohen), released one album, "Marquee Mark", a live recording of their December 5, 1997, show at the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle, Washington. The show was a benefit for the Washington Wilderness Coalition. The band stuck exclusively to covers (Malkmus sang lead on Silkworm's "Never met a man I didn't like"), refusing to play any Pavement songs—notably the requested "Summer Babe." Of the 12 covers on "Marquee Mark", seven are from Bob Dylan & The Band's "The Basement Tapes".
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Frank Hayes (musician) Frank Hayes is an American musician prominent within the science fiction/fantasy genre and culture known as filk. He is also an authority on information technology and, as senior news columnist for "Computerworld" magazine, has contributed numerous writings on the subject for more than two decades.
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Steve Nieve Steve Nieve (born Stephen John Nason, 19 February 1958) is an English musician and composer. In a career spanning almost 40 years, Nieve has been a member of Elvis Costello and the Attractions, the Imposters and Madness. He has also experienced success as a prolific session musician, featured on a wide array of other artists' recordings.
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Phil Lesh Philip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940) is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career.
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Neil Sutton Neil Sutton is an English musician, known for his long term touring member for the synthpop group The Human League. He is best known as the on stage and studio keyboard player, but also has written various lyrics and composed instrumental tracks for the band and has numerous Human League album credits.
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Jonathan Richman Jonathan Michael Richman (born May 16, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 1970 he founded the Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band. Since the mid-1970s, Richman has worked either solo or with low-key, acoustic and electric, backing. Currently, he plays only acoustic to protect his hearing. He is known for his wide-eyed, unaffected and childlike outlook, and music that, while rooted in rock and roll, is influenced by music from around the world.
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John Hanlon (singer) John Hanlon (born 1949) is a New Zealand singer and songwriter. From 1974 to 1976, he collected three successive New Zealand Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year awards, a feat achieved by no other artist before or since, as well as the APRA Silver Scroll two years in succession.
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Neil Yates Neil Yates (born in Stockport, Cheshire, 1970) is a British jazz and folk musician.
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Scott Miller (pop musician) Scott Miller (April 4, 1960 – April 15, 2013) was a singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known for his work as leader of the 1980s band Game Theory and 1990s band The Loud Family, and as the author of a 2010 book of music criticism. He was described by "The New York Times" as "a hyperintellectual singer and songwriter who liked to tinker with pop the way a born mathematician tinkers with numbers", having "a shimmery-sweet pop sensibility, in the tradition of Brian Wilson and Alex Chilton."
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Steve Durand Stephen "Steve" Durand (born ) is a Canadian rock musician, most notable for his work with Tinker and his involvement with Melissa Auf der Maur.
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Tim Finn Brian Timothy "Tim" Finn, OBE (born 25 June 1952) is a New Zealand singer and musician. His musical career includes forming 1970s and 1980s New Zealand rock group Split Enz, a number of solo albums, temporary membership in his brother Neil's band Crowded House and joint efforts with Neil Finn as the Finn Brothers.
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Bill Spooner William "Sputnik" Spooner (born August 16, 1949) is a musician, guitarist, and songwriter, and the founder of The Tubes, a theatrical rock band. His songwriting is known for its use of humor and satire. He has released three solo albums: "First Chud" (1985), "Mall to Mars" (1997), and "Demo-licious". He currently plays in the San Francisco Bay Area with his acoustic group, The Folk-Ups.
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David Yaffe (music critic) David Yaffe (born January 1, 1973) is an assistant professor of humanities at Syracuse University known for his critical writings on music. During the 2008-2009 academic year, he was the Gould Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at Claremont McKenna College. He subsequently returned to Syracuse. His writings have appeared in many publications, including "Harper's Magazine", "The Nation", "Slate", "The New York Times", "New York Magazine", "The Village Voice", "The Daily Beast", and "The Chronicle of Higher Education".