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40-480: According to AllMusic , LiLiPUT "made some of the best, most adventurous, most exhilarating, and most critically derided music" of the punk rock era. Under the name Kleenex, the band formed in Zürich in 1978, with an initial line-up that included Lislot Ha (Lieselotte Hafner) on drums, Klaudia Schiff (Klaudia Schifferle) on bass and vocals, and Regula Sing on lead vocals. Marlene Marder (Marlene Marti), an acquaintance of

80-480: A jazz club , and worked for the World Wide Fund for Nature . Schiff has devoted her time to painting. In 1993, Swiss label Off Course Records released Kleenex/LiLiPUT , a double-disc CD compilation of the band's recordings from 1978 to 1983. Marder was closely involved in coordinating the compilation, which includes tracks sourced from tapes in her possession, while Schiff designed its cover art. The compilation

120-451: A British experimental post-punk band. Ana da Silva ( vocals , guitar ) and Gina Birch (vocals, bass ) formed the group in 1977 while they were students at Hornsey College of Art in London. Signed to the label Rough Trade , the band released three albums in their early incarnation: The Raincoats (1979), Odyshape (1981), and Moving (1984). They reformed in 1993 and released

160-476: A compilation of the band's early material, in 2016. LiLiPUT's exuberant sound combined spirited thrashy punk with unconventional vocals and lyrics, both in English and German. Their music featured husky or squealing vocals, ramshackle drums, scratchy and twanging guitar, thick funky bass, saxophone and occasionally flute, violin, or other instruments. The cut-up surreality of their lyrics and energetic sound put them in

200-411: A diverse selection of cheap second-hand instruments such as the balophone , kalimba and gamelan on Odyshape , and the album incorporated British folk , dub basslines, polyrhythmic percussion and elements of free jazz among other world music influences. Its eclectic mix of musical genres has been described as one of the "great lost moments of women-in-rock". "The basic theme in rock'n'roll

240-534: A goal to create an open-access database that included every recording "since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost". The first All Music Guide , published in 1992, was a 1,200-page reference book, packaged with a CD-ROM, titled All Music Guide: The Best CDs, Albums & Tapes: The Expert's Guide to the Best Releases from Thousands of Artists in All Types of Music . Its first online version, in 1994,

280-545: A league with bands like The Raincoats (frequent tour partners), Delta 5 , The Slits , Essential Logic and Bush Tetras . The band's sound developed throughout their career, due in part to line-up changes; the earlier recordings are more noisy and energetic, while the later songs are more complex and haunting. Kurt Cobain of Nirvana reserved one spot for "anything by Kleenex" on his list of his 50 favourite albums. As Kleenex As LiLiPUT AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG )

320-534: A second album, Schiff and Marder, exhausted from touring, expressed their desire to end the band. Spirit offered to take on managerial duties in LiLiPUT in order to ease her tired bandmates' workload. The trio ultimately recorded a second album, Some Songs , which was released in December 1983. By the time of its release, however, LiLiPUT had agreed to split up, as Spirit's pregnancy and desire to focus on motherhood meant that

360-495: A show at The Garage in London in March 1994 with Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) on drums and Anne Wood on violin to celebrate the album re-releases. They recorded a session for BBC Radio 1 's John Peel , which was released as Extended Play on Paul Smith's Blast First and Shelley's label Smells Like Records . Cobain invited them to play on Nirvana's planned UK tour in April, but he died

400-500: A week before the tour began. The Raincoats released Looking in the Shadows on Rough Trade/ Geffen in 1996, produced by Britpop producer Ed Buller (who had previously worked with Suede and Pulp ). Musicians included Wood (violin, bass), Heather Dunn (drums) and Pete Shelley ( Buzzcocks ). In 1995, the Tim/Kerr label released a Raincoats compilation, Fairytales . Since 1996,

440-546: Is an American online music database . It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands . Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne . AllMusic was launched as All-Music Guide by Michael Erlewine , a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in

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480-521: Is what goes on between men and women...Rock'n'roll is based on black music. And it's based in the exclusion of women and the ghettoization of blacks. Which is why we want to put a bit of distance between what we do and the rock'n'roll tradition." — The Raincoats interviewed by Greil Marcus In December 1982, the Raincoats recorded a live album at The Kitchen arts space in New York. The Kitchen Tapes

520-582: The All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide (at first released as The Experts' Guide ), which includes a series of publications about various music genres. It was followed by the Required Listening series, and Annual guides. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president and the main editor of the series. In August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its "Top 100 Classic Websites" list. The Raincoats The Raincoats are

560-870: The Kill Rock Stars label in the U.S. The band performed at Matt Groening 's All Tomorrow's Parties festival in May 2010 at Minehead in Somerset . The following week, the Raincoats played their debut album live for an ATP Don't Look Back concert at London's Scala , supported by the Raincoats-influenced band Trash Kit. On 21 November 2010, the Raincoats performed a concert as part of the PopRally series at MoMA in New York City. The band were invited by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform their debut album live at

600-685: The Kleenex trademark, prompted Kleenex to change their name to LiLiPUT. Angie Barrack joined the band on saxophone soon after. As LiLiPUT, the band released two further singles, "Eisiger Wind" (1980) and "Split" (1981), both of which became hits on the UK Independent Singles Chart , the former after being reissued by Rough Trade in 1981. Ha and Barrack left the band around this time, followed by Freund. Astrid Spirit (Astrid Spirig) took over Freund's role as LiLiPUT's lead vocalist, while saxophonist Christoph Herzog and drummer Beat Schlatter also joined

640-730: The Nuits Sonores Festival in Lyon on 18 May 2007. On 28 March 2009, The Raincoats-Fairytales-A Work in Progress , directed by Birch and produced by the Raincoats, was screened at the British Film Institute in London. On 25 April, the band performed at Donaufestival in Austria. On 9 November 2009, the Raincoats' debut album was reissued on vinyl on We ThRee (the band's own label) in the UK and on

680-576: The Rough Trade Shop in Talbot Road, London in search of a new copy of The Raincoats , and Jude Crighton sent him around the corner to see da Silva at her cousin's antique shop. Cobain wrote passionately about this meeting in the liner notes of Nirvana's Incesticide album. In late 1993, Rough Trade and DGC Records reissued the band's three studio albums, with liner notes by Cobain and Sonic Youth 's Kim Gordon . "I don't really know anything about

720-504: The All Tomorrow's Parties festival in March 2012. In December 2011, it was announced that the Raincoats would also appear at the 35 Denton music festival in Texas the same month. The Raincoats invited Angel Olsen to collaborate for the 40th anniversary of Rough Trade at London's Islington Assembly Hall on 3 November 2016. On 5 October 2017, Jenn Pelly's 33⅓ book The Raincoats , about

760-530: The Raincoats became an all female band as they were joined by the Slits' ex-drummer Palmolive and the classically trained violinist Vicky Aspinall , with this line-up making their live debut at Acklam Hall in London on 4 January 1979. Geoff Travis , the founder of Rough Trade Records , recruited Mayo Thompson of the Red Krayola to produce the band at this time; they suggested that Aspinall approach her violin in

800-405: The Raincoats except that they recorded some music that has affected me so much that, whenever I hear it I'm reminded of a particular time in my life when I was (shall we say) extremely unhappy, lonely, and bored. If it weren't for the luxury of putting that scratchy copy of the Raincoats' first record, I would have had very few moments of peace. I suppose I could have researched a bit of history about

840-627: The Raincoats have played some special events such as Wyatt's Meltdown in 2001, and Chicks on Speed 's 99 Cents album release party in Berlin in December 2003. Birch and da Silva recorded a cover version of "Monk Chant" for a tribute album of Monks songs called Silver Monk Time , and performed the song live with the Monks at Berlin's Volksbühne in October 2006. They played at Ladyfest in Leeds in April 2007, and

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880-411: The album Looking in the Shadows in 1996. Da Silva and Birch were inspired to make a band after they saw the Slits perform live earlier that year. Birch stated in an interview with She Shreds magazine, "It was as if suddenly I was given permission. It never occurred to me that I could be in a band. Girls didn’t do that. But when I saw The Slits doing it, I thought, ‘This is me. This is mine.’” For

920-585: The band but I feel it's more important to delineate the way I feel and how they sound. When I listen to the Raincoats I feel as if I'm a stowaway in an attic, violating and in the dark. Rather than listening to them I feel like I'm listening in on them. We're together in the same old house and I have to be completely still or they will hear me spying from above and, if I get caught – everything will be ruined because it's their thing." — Cobain's liner notes for The Raincoats "I loved The Slits because of their boldness and that they actually had commercial songs, but it

960-494: The band could not tour to promote the album. Marder wrote the book The Diary of the Guitarist Marlene Marder, Kleenex/LiLiPUT , published in 1985, in which she recounted her experiences as a member of the band. She helped operate a record store for several years, before playing in the band Danger Mice from 1989 to 1992. Marder later started her own artist management agency, helped oversee administration and promotion at

1000-558: The band on his radio shows, as well as Rough Trade Records , who subsequently signed the band. Kleenex released their debut single "Ain't You" in November 1978, and embarked on a tour of Europe throughout the following year. After the tour, Sing left the band and was replaced by Chrigle Freund. A second single, "You", was issued in 1979, and was the band's last release under the Kleenex name. The threat of legal action by Kimberly-Clark , who owned

1040-579: The band's first concert on 9 November 1977 at The Tabernacle , the line-up included Birch, da Silva, Ross Crighton (guitar) and Nick Turner (drums). Guitarist Kate Korus (from the Slits and later the Mo-dettes ) joined briefly but was replaced by Jeremie Frank. Nick Turner left to form the Barracudas , and Richard Dudanski (ex– the 101ers and later Public Image Ltd. ) sat in on drums, while filmmaker Patrick Keiller replaced Frank on guitar. Late in 1978,

1080-452: The band's self-titled debut album. Palmolive had left the band in September, shortly before The Raincoats came out, and teenager Ingrid Weiss joined the band on drums. The Raincoats' second album, Odyshape , was released in 1981 and featured Weiss as well as drumming contributions from Dudanski, Robert Wyatt ( Soft Machine ) and Charles Hayward ( This Heat ). The Raincoats employed

1120-455: The band, filled in on guitar during the encore portion of their first live performance, and thereafter remained in the band as their full-time guitarist. Kleenex financed the recording of their eponymous debut EP , which was released in 1978 in Switzerland by Sunrise, a local label operated by friends of the band. The EP attracted the attention of English disc jockey John Peel , who championed

1160-403: The band. After a successful German tour, Herzog and Schlatter departed LiLiPUT, though the latter continued to contribute drumming to studio recordings by the band. Now consisting of Schiff, Marder, and Spirit, LiLiPUT released their self-titled debut album in 1982. They toured in support of the album and released a new single, "You Did It", in 1983. While Spirit was enthusiastic about a recording

1200-415: The books about punk have failed to realise that these women were involved for no other reason than that they were good and original". The Raincoats' distinctly uncommercial sound did not appeal to everyone; after witnessing an early performance by the band, Danny Baker remarked that "they are so bad that every time a waiter drops a tray we'd all get up and dance". On 21 November 1979, Rough Trade released

1240-524: The company after its sale. Alliance filed for bankruptcy in 1999, and its assets were acquired by Ron Burkle 's Yucaipa Equity Fund. In 1999, All Music relocated from Big Rapids to Ann Arbor , where the staff expanded from 12 to 100 people. By February of that year, 350,000 albums and two million tracks had been cataloged. All Music had published biographies of 30,000 artists, 120,000 record reviews and 300 essays written by "a hybrid of historians, critics and passionate collectors". In late 2007, AllMusic

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1280-513: The mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard . After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan , he founded All Music Guide with

1320-516: The style of the Velvet Underground . Managed by Shirley O'Loughlin , the band went on their first UK tour with Swiss female band Kleenex , in May 1979 after Rough Trade released their first single , "Fairytale in the Supermarket". Johnny Rotten was an early admirer of the band, and later stated: "The Raincoats offered a completely different way of doing things, as did X-Ray Spex and all

1360-409: The tone of the music and the platforms on which the music is sold. It then connects that data together, in a way that can intelligently tell you about an entire type of music, whether a massive genre like classical, or a tiny one like sadcore ." In 1996, seeking to further develop its web-based businesses, Alliance Entertainment Corp. bought All Music from Erlewine for a reported $ 3.5 million. He left

1400-568: Was a text-based Gopher site. It moved to the World Wide Web as web browsers became more user-friendly. Erlewine hired a database engineer, Vladimir Bogdanov , to design the All Music Guide framework, and recruited his nephew, writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine , to develop editorial content. In 1993, Chris Woodstra joined the staff as an engineer. A "record geek" who had written for alternative weeklies and fanzines, his main qualification

1440-500: Was an "encyclopedic knowledge of music". 1,400 subgenres of music were created, a feature that became central to the site's utility. In a 2016 article in Tedium , Ernie Smith wrote: "AllMusic may have been one of the most ambitious sites of the early-internet era—and it's one that is fundamental to our understanding of pop culture. Because, the thing is, it doesn't just track reviews or albums. It tracks styles, genres, and subgenres, along with

1480-422: Was purchased for $ 72 million by TiVo Corporation (known as Macrovision at the time of the sale, and as Rovi from 2009 until 2016). In 2012, AllMusic removed all of Bryan Adams ' info from the site per a request from the artist. In 2015, AllMusic was purchased by BlinkX, later known as RhythmOne . The AllMusic database is powered by a combination of MySQL and MongoDB . The All Media Network produced

1520-555: Was reissued in the United States by the Kill Rock Stars label in 2001, and subsequently by Mississippi Records as a four-LP box set in 2011. In 2010, Kill Rock Stars released Live Recordings, TV-Clips & Roadmovie , a CD/DVD compilation of the band's live and televised performances and music videos , as well as other miscellaneous footage shot during the band's tours. On 15 May 2016, Marlene Marder died at age 61. Kill Rock Stars and Mississippi Records released First Songs ,

1560-441: Was released on cassette by ROIR in 1983. The Raincoats recorded Moving in 1984. Tired of constant touring and "pulling in different musical directions", the band members began work on solo projects shortly after the album's release. Birch and Aspinall formed Dorothy, while da Silva worked with choreographer Gaby Agis on a series of dance projects and formed Roseland with Hayward. In 1992, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana went into

1600-484: Was the Raincoats I related to most. They seemed like ordinary people playing extraordinary music. They had enough confidence to be vulnerable and to be themselves without having to take on the mantle of male rock/punk rock aggression...or the typical female as sex symbol avec irony or sensationalism ." — Gordon's liner notes for Odyshape Later, Cobain listed the Raincoats debut album at No. 20 in his 50 favorite albums. O'Loughlin persuaded Birch and da Silva to play

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