The Downbeat 5, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 26 relations: AllMusic, Backing vocalist, Bass guitar, Boston, Boston Herald, British Invasion, DMZ (band), Drum, Drum kit, Garage rock, Girl group, Hi-n-Dry, John Sinclair (poet), Lead guitar, Razorcake, Rhythm guitar, Rock 'n' Roll Rumble, Singing, Steven Van Zandt, Sympathy for the Record Industry, Telegram & Gazette, The Boston Globe, The Patriot Ledger, The Phoenix (newspaper), The Rolling Stones, Underground Garage.

2. Steel Cage Records artists

AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Backing vocalist

A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Boston Herald

The Boston Herald is an American daily newspaper whose primary market is Boston, Massachusetts, and its surrounding area.

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British Invasion

The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture became popular in the United States with significant influence on the rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

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DMZ (band)

DMZ was a first-wave American punk rock/garage rock bands from Boston, Massachusetts, strongly influenced by 1960s garage rock. The Downbeat 5 and DMZ (band) are musical groups from Boston.

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Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.

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Drum kit

A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums in popular music context) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and sometimes other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person.

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Garage rock

Garage rock (sometimes called garage punk or 60s punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced a series of subsequent revivals.

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Girl group

A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together.

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Hi-n-Dry

Hi-N-Dry was a Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA-based independent record label and recording studio.

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John Sinclair (poet)

John Sinclair (October 2, 1941 – April 2, 2024) was an American poet, writer, and political activist from Flint, Michigan.

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Lead guitar

Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure.

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Razorcake

Razorcake is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that publishes the Razorcake fanzine, a DIY punk rock fanzine published bi-monthly out of Los Angeles, California.

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Rhythm guitar

In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drum kit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.

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Rock 'n' Roll Rumble

The Rock 'n' Roll Rumble (now stylized as "Rock & Roll Rumble"; formerly the "WBCN Rock 'n' Roll Rumble"), begun in 1979, is a Greater Boston "battle of the bands" competition sponsored by Boston Emissions, an online local music program formerly broadcast on WBCN (from 1987 until 2008) and WZLX (from 2009 until 2018).

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Singing

Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice.

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Steven Van Zandt

Steven Van Zandt (né Lento; born November 22, 1950), also known as Little Steven or Miami Steve, is an American musician and actor.

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Sympathy for the Record Industry

Sympathy for the Record Industry (also known as Sympathy Records or Sympathy 4 the R.I.) is a mainly independent garage rock and punk label formed in 1988 by John Mermis, known as Long Gone John.

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Telegram & Gazette

The Telegram & Gazette (and Sunday Telegram) is the only daily newspaper of Worcester, Massachusetts.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Patriot Ledger

The Patriot Ledger is a daily newspaper in Quincy, Massachusetts, that serves the South Shore.

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The Phoenix (newspaper)

The Phoenix (stylized as The Phœnix) was the name of several alternative weekly periodicals published in the United States of America by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston, Massachusetts, including the Portland Phoenix and the now-defunct Boston Phoenix, Providence Phoenix and Worcester Phoenix.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.

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Underground Garage

Underground Garage is the name of two different related radio outlets that present Rock 'n' Roll and Garage Rock on radio: a syndicated show and a satellite radio station.

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See also

Steel Cage Records artists

• Antiseen
• Jeff Dahl
• Lime Spiders
• The Downbeat 5
• The Jabbers
• The Leaving Trains

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Downbeat_5