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Jane Scarpantoni is a classically trained cello
Cello

The violoncello is a bowed string instrument. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra....
 player who has played on a number of alternative rock albums.

She was a member of Hoboken, New Jersey's Tiny Lights
Tiny Lights

Tiny Lights was a music group formed by John Hamilton and Donna Croughn in 1985. Original members include Dave Dreiwitz, Jane Scarpantoni and Andy Demos....
 in the mid-'80s, then went on to play with other musicians especially those associated with the Hoboken underground rock scene of the 1980s and early 1990s, including Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American songwriter, singer and musician. He has recorded and toured with the E Street Band....
, Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an United States singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock music, country music, pop music and folk music, into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards....
, Patti Smith
Patti Smith

Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an United States singer-songwriter, poet and artist who was a highly influential component of the punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses ....
, Richard Barone
Richard Barone

Richard Barone is a rock musician born in Tampa, Florida, Florida. He also works as a songwriter, arranger, author, director, and producer, and releases albums as a solo artist....
, R.E.M., Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls

Indigo Girls are an American folk rock duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They got their start in Atlanta, Georgia as a regular act at The Little 5 Points Pub and were tangentially part of the Athens, Georgia college rock scene that included The B-52's, Pylon , R.E.M., The Georgia Satellites, and Love Tractor....
, 10,000 Maniacs
10,000 Maniacs

10,000 Maniacs was a United States-based alternative rock band, formed in 1981 and active with various line-ups through 2007. Their best-known member is Natalie Merchant, who left the band in 1993 to pursue a solo career....
, Throwing Muses
Throwing Muses

Throwing Muses are an alternative rock musical ensemble formed in 1981 in Newport, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, that toured and recorded extensively until 1997, when its members began concentrating more on other projects....
, Kristin Hersh
Kristin Hersh

Kristin Hersh is an United States singer/songwriter who performs solo acoustic concerts; she also has performed as lead singer and guitarist for alternative rock group Throwing Muses and currently leads the hardcore punk-influenced power trio 50 Foot Wave....
, Lou Reed
Lou Reed

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....
, Chris Cacavas, Bob Mould
Bob Mould

Bob Mould is an United States musician, principally known for his work as guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for alternative rock bands H?sker D? in the 1980s and Sugar in the 1990s....
, John Lurie
John Lurie

John Lurie is an actor, musician, painter and producer born in Minneapolis, MN, United States....
's Lounge Lizards, Boo Trundle
Boo Trundle

Boo Trundle is a musician active in early to mid 1990's. Her style was semi-acoustic alternative indie rock....
, Train
Train (band)

Train is a Grammy Award-winning rock music band formed in San Francisco, California. To date, three of their albums have peaked in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 and have sold a total of over 4 million albums in the US....
 and many others.








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Jane Scarpantoni is a classically trained cello
Cello

The violoncello is a bowed string instrument. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra....
 player who has played on a number of alternative rock albums.

She was a member of Hoboken, New Jersey's Tiny Lights
Tiny Lights

Tiny Lights was a music group formed by John Hamilton and Donna Croughn in 1985. Original members include Dave Dreiwitz, Jane Scarpantoni and Andy Demos....
 in the mid-'80s, then went on to play with other musicians especially those associated with the Hoboken underground rock scene of the 1980s and early 1990s, including Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American songwriter, singer and musician. He has recorded and toured with the E Street Band....
, Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an United States singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock music, country music, pop music and folk music, into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards....
, Patti Smith
Patti Smith

Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an United States singer-songwriter, poet and artist who was a highly influential component of the punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses ....
, Richard Barone
Richard Barone

Richard Barone is a rock musician born in Tampa, Florida, Florida. He also works as a songwriter, arranger, author, director, and producer, and releases albums as a solo artist....
, R.E.M., Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls

Indigo Girls are an American folk rock duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They got their start in Atlanta, Georgia as a regular act at The Little 5 Points Pub and were tangentially part of the Athens, Georgia college rock scene that included The B-52's, Pylon , R.E.M., The Georgia Satellites, and Love Tractor....
, 10,000 Maniacs
10,000 Maniacs

10,000 Maniacs was a United States-based alternative rock band, formed in 1981 and active with various line-ups through 2007. Their best-known member is Natalie Merchant, who left the band in 1993 to pursue a solo career....
, Throwing Muses
Throwing Muses

Throwing Muses are an alternative rock musical ensemble formed in 1981 in Newport, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, that toured and recorded extensively until 1997, when its members began concentrating more on other projects....
, Kristin Hersh
Kristin Hersh

Kristin Hersh is an United States singer/songwriter who performs solo acoustic concerts; she also has performed as lead singer and guitarist for alternative rock group Throwing Muses and currently leads the hardcore punk-influenced power trio 50 Foot Wave....
, Lou Reed
Lou Reed

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....
, Chris Cacavas, Bob Mould
Bob Mould

Bob Mould is an United States musician, principally known for his work as guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for alternative rock bands H?sker D? in the 1980s and Sugar in the 1990s....
, John Lurie
John Lurie

John Lurie is an actor, musician, painter and producer born in Minneapolis, MN, United States....
's Lounge Lizards, Boo Trundle
Boo Trundle

Boo Trundle is a musician active in early to mid 1990's. Her style was semi-acoustic alternative indie rock....
, Train
Train (band)

Train is a Grammy Award-winning rock music band formed in San Francisco, California. To date, three of their albums have peaked in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 and have sold a total of over 4 million albums in the US....
 and many others.

Discography

  • 10,000 Maniacs
    10,000 Maniacs

    10,000 Maniacs was a United States-based alternative rock band, formed in 1981 and active with various line-ups through 2007. Their best-known member is Natalie Merchant, who left the band in 1993 to pursue a solo career....
     - MTV Unplugged
    MTV Unplugged (10,000 Maniacs album)

    MTV Unplugged is a 1993 live album by 10,000 Maniacs. The album was recorded for the MTV Unplugged series and it was also the last album by the band featuring Natalie Merchant as vocalist....
  • Richard Barone
    Richard Barone

    Richard Barone is a rock musician born in Tampa, Florida, Florida. He also works as a songwriter, arranger, author, director, and producer, and releases albums as a solo artist....
     - Cool Blue Halo
  • Richard Barone
    Richard Barone

    Richard Barone is a rock musician born in Tampa, Florida, Florida. He also works as a songwriter, arranger, author, director, and producer, and releases albums as a solo artist....
     - Primal Dream
  • Richard Barone
    Richard Barone

    Richard Barone is a rock musician born in Tampa, Florida, Florida. He also works as a songwriter, arranger, author, director, and producer, and releases albums as a solo artist....
     - Clouds Over Eden
  • Richard Barone
    Richard Barone

    Richard Barone is a rock musician born in Tampa, Florida, Florida. He also works as a songwriter, arranger, author, director, and producer, and releases albums as a solo artist....
     - Between Heaven and Cello
  • Blonde Redhead
    Blonde Redhead

    Blonde Redhead is an United States rock music trio comprising Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace. The band takes its name from the song with the same title by DNA , a no wave band from New York....
     - Misery Is a Butterfly
    Misery Is a Butterfly

    Misery Is a Butterfly is the sixth studio album by Blonde Redhead, released in 2004....
  • Sheryl Crow
    Sheryl Crow

    Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an United States singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock music, country music, pop music and folk music, into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards....
     - Sheryl Crow
    Sheryl Crow (album)

    Sheryl Crow is the second album by United States singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow, released in 1996 . Reaching #6 on the Billboard 200 and #5 on the UK Album Chart, Sheryl Crow has sold 2.9 million units in the US as of January 2008 and is certified 3x platinum....
  • Sheryl Crow
    Sheryl Crow

    Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an United States singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock music, country music, pop music and folk music, into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards....
     - C'mon C'mon
    C'mon C'mon

    C'mon, C'mon is the fourth studio album by United States singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, released in 2002. Lead single "Soak Up the Sun" peaked at #1 on the Billboard magazine Adult Contemporary chart and #17 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming one of her biggest hits since "All I Wanna Do "....
  • Delerium
    Delerium

    Delerium is a band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, formed in 1987, originally as a side project of the influential industrial music act, Front Line Assembly....
     - Chimera
  • Die Monster Die
    Die Monster Die

    Die Monster Die is a New York City alternative/punk band which was originally formed in Athens, Georgia. Their name is a reference to the Die, Monster, Die! of the same name starring Boris Karloff ....
     - Withdrawal Method
    Withdrawal Method

    Originally titled "Vagina Dentata", Withdrawal Method is the second album recorded by Die Monster Die, an alternative rock group consisting of Alice Cohen , Evan Player , Kenny Sanders , Shawn Tracy , Jane Scarpantoni , and Joe McGinty ....
  • Mike Doughty
    Mike Doughty

    Mike Doughty is an American singer and songwriter. He led the band Soul Coughing in the 1990s; in the 2000s he became a solo artist. His most famous songs include "Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well" and "I Hear the Bells," both of which gained prominence from being featured on popular television shows....
     - Haughty Melodic
    Haughty Melodic

    Haughty Melodic is an album by Mike Doughty released on May 3, 2005. Doughty described the album as "a bunch of songs about yearning and redemption and happiness and hope." The album's sound is dense, stuffed full of multi-tracked guitars, horns, keyboards, and Doughty's own voice multiplied over himself in harmony; a departure both from...
  • Ben Folds Five
    Ben Folds Five

    Ben Folds Five was an alternative rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, North Carolina. The group comprised Ben Folds on vocals, piano, and principal songwriting; Robert Sledge played Bass guitar and provided backing vocals; and Darren Jessee played Drum kit, sang backing vocals and co-wrote some of the songs....
     - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
    The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner

    The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner is the fourth and final studio album by Ben Folds Five, released April 27, 1999.The band reunited to play the album in its entirety in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on September 18, 2008....
  • The Grapes of Wrath
    The Grapes of Wrath (band)

    The Grapes of Wrath were a Canada folk rock band, who were one of Canada's most successful pop bands in the late 1980s and early 1990s before disbanding in 1992....
     - Now and Again
    Now and Again (album)

    Now and Again was a 1989 album by The Grapes of Wrath . The band's most commercially successful album, it also contained one of their biggest hit singles, "All the Things I Wasn't"....
  • Adam Green
    Adam Green (musician)

    Adam Green is an United States singer-songwriter.Green's off-kilter style has achieved a moderate college radio following in the United States and enjoys increasing popularity in different European countries, particularly Germany....
     - Friends of Mine
    Friends of Mine

    Friends of Mine is the second solo album by Adam Green , released in 2003. It relies heavily on violin-driven pop melodrama....
  • John S. Hall
    John S. Hall

    John S. Hall is an United States poet, author, singing, and lawyer perhaps best known for his work with King Missile, an experimental music band that he co-founded in 1986 and has since led in various disparate incarnations....
     - The Body Has a Head
    The Body Has a Head

    The Body Has a Head is an album by King Missile lead vocalist John S. Hall, released exclusively in Germany in 1996 in music. Though billed as a Hall "solo album," the collection features considerable input from multi-instrumentalist Sasha Forte, Bradford Reed, and Jane Scarpantoni, all of whom would become members of the next incarnation...
  • Helmet
    Helmet

    A helmet is a form of protective gear worn on the head to protect it from injuries, a variation of the hat. The oldest use of helmets was by Ancient Greek soldiers, who wore thick leather or bronze helmets to protect the head from sword blows and arrows....
     - Aftertaste
  • Kristin Hersh
    Kristin Hersh

    Kristin Hersh is an United States singer/songwriter who performs solo acoustic concerts; she also has performed as lead singer and guitarist for alternative rock group Throwing Muses and currently leads the hardcore punk-influenced power trio 50 Foot Wave....
     - Hips and Makers
    Hips and Makers

    Hips and Makers is the debut solo album by Kristin Hersh, best known as the primary singer and songwriter of the band Throwing Muses. In contrast to Hersh's rock-oriented work with Throwing Muses, the album is primarily acoustic, with Hersh usually playing unaccompanied....
  • Indigo Girls
    Indigo Girls

    Indigo Girls are an American folk rock duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They got their start in Atlanta, Georgia as a regular act at The Little 5 Points Pub and were tangentially part of the Athens, Georgia college rock scene that included The B-52's, Pylon , R.E.M., The Georgia Satellites, and Love Tractor....
     - Swamp Ophelia
    Swamp Ophelia

    Swamp Ophelia is the fifth studio album by the Indigo Girls, released in 1994....
  • Indigo Girls
    Indigo Girls

    Indigo Girls are an American folk rock duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They got their start in Atlanta, Georgia as a regular act at The Little 5 Points Pub and were tangentially part of the Athens, Georgia college rock scene that included The B-52's, Pylon , R.E.M., The Georgia Satellites, and Love Tractor....
     - 1200 Curfews
    1200 Curfews

    1200 Curfews is a live album by the Indigo Girls, released in 1995.Track listing Disc 1#"Joking"#"Least Complicated"#"Thin Line"...
  • Freedy Johnston
    Freedy Johnston

    Freedy Johnston is a New York, New York-based singer-songwriter originally from Kinsley, Kansas.Having scored several minor hits since the early 1990s, Johnston's songs are often about troubled loners, and cover topics like heartbreak, alienation and disappointment....
     - This Perfect World
    This Perfect World

    This Perfect World is an album released by singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston in 1994.It is an album steeped in regret and loss. The narrator of "Across the Avenue" is unable to get past the memory of seeing his lover killed in a pedestrian accident....
  • Freedy Johnston
    Freedy Johnston

    Freedy Johnston is a New York, New York-based singer-songwriter originally from Kinsley, Kansas.Having scored several minor hits since the early 1990s, Johnston's songs are often about troubled loners, and cover topics like heartbreak, alienation and disappointment....
     - Never Home
    Never Home

    Never Home is singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston's 1997 release. Johnston credited producer Danny Kortchmar with imparting a more spontaneous, live-sounding feel to this album than its predecessor, This Perfect World....
  • King Missile III
    King Missile

    King Missile is an experimental music band that has been led in various disparate incarnations by poet/singer John S. Hall since 1986 in music....
     - Failure
  • King Missile III
    King Missile

    King Missile is an experimental music band that has been led in various disparate incarnations by poet/singer John S. Hall since 1986 in music....
     - Royal Lunch
    Royal Lunch

    Royal Lunch is the ninth album by experimental music band King Missile, and the band's third in its incarnation as "King Missile III." It was released on September 21, 2004....
  • Ray LaMontagne
    Ray LaMontagne

    Raymond Charles "Ray" LaMontagne is an United States singer-songwriter who lives on a farm in Maine with his wife and two sons. Reportedly, after hearing a Stephen Stills song, LaMontagne decided to quit his job at a shoe factory and pursue a career in music....
     - Till the Sun Turns Black
    Till the Sun Turns Black

    Till the Sun Turns Black is singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne second album release, which was released on August 29, 2006. The album was produced by Ethan Johns and recorded at Allaire Studios in Shokan, New York....
  • Safe as Houses
    Safe as Houses

    Safe as Houses was a Scottish television real estate programme on STV, hosted by Rangers TV presenter Ali Douglas and money advisor Fergus Muirhead....
     - Three Days Since Monday
  • Sarah McLachlan
    Sarah McLachlan

    Sarah Ann McLachlan, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia is a Canada musician, singer and songwriter.She is known for the emotional sound of her ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range....
     - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
    Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

    Fumbling Towards Ecstasy is an album by Sarah McLachlan. It was produced by Pierre Marchand in Montreal, and released in 1993.The album was an immediate hit in Canada, where McLachlan was already an established star....
  • Sarah McLachlan
    Sarah McLachlan

    Sarah Ann McLachlan, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia is a Canada musician, singer and songwriter.She is known for the emotional sound of her ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range....
     - Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff
    Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff

    Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff is a 1996 album by Sarah McLachlan.It is a compilation of tracks that McLachlan recorded for film soundtracks, remixes of McLachlan's songs, and material that she recorded in collaboration with other artists....
  • Bob Mould
    Bob Mould

    Bob Mould is an United States musician, principally known for his work as guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for alternative rock bands H?sker D? in the 1980s and Sugar in the 1990s....
     - Workbook
  • R.E.M. - Green
    Green (album)

    Green is the sixth album by the United States band R.E.M. It was their debut major label release for Warner Bros., released in November 1988....
  • Lou Reed
    Lou Reed

    Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....
     - Animal Serenade
    Animal Serenade

    Animal Serenade features Lou Reed onstage in Los Angeles at the Wiltern Theatre in 2003 after The Raven . The show features a drummer-less band and Reed delivers dramatic readings of some of his most compelling work....
  • Edward Rogers
    Edward Rogers

    Edward Rogers is a Los Angeles based musician and composer for film, television and videogames. He has written the music for several critically acclaimed television series, including NYPD Blue and Over There as well as numerous advertising spots, television movies and short films....
     Sunday Fables
  • Silverchair
    Silverchair

    Silverchair is an Australian alternative rock band . The band formed as Innocent Criminals in Newcastle, Australia, New South Wales, in 1992, with their current lineup of vocalist and guitarist Daniel Johns, bass guitarist Chris Joannou, and drummer Ben Gillies....
     -     Freak Show
    Freak show

    A freak show is an exhibition of rarities, "freaks of nature" ? such as unusually tall or short humans, and people with intersexuality ? and performances that are expected to be shocking to the viewers....
  • Silverchair
    Silverchair

    Silverchair is an Australian alternative rock band . The band formed as Innocent Criminals in Newcastle, Australia, New South Wales, in 1992, with their current lineup of vocalist and guitarist Daniel Johns, bass guitarist Chris Joannou, and drummer Ben Gillies....
     -     Neon Ballroom
    Neon Ballroom

    Neon Ballroom is the third studio album by Australian post-grunge band, Silverchair and was released on March 9, 1999. The album is certified RIAA certification in the United States and contained the singles "Anthem for the Year 2000", "Ana's Song ", "Miss You Love" and "Paint Pastel Princess"...
  • Bruce Springsteen
    Bruce Springsteen

    Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American songwriter, singer and musician. He has recorded and toured with the E Street Band....
     -     The Rising
    The Rising (album)

    The Rising is the 12th studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 2002. In addition to being Springsteen's first studio album in seven years, it was also his first with the E Street Band in 18 years....
  • Throwing Muses
    Throwing Muses

    Throwing Muses are an alternative rock musical ensemble formed in 1981 in Newport, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, that toured and recorded extensively until 1997, when its members began concentrating more on other projects....
     -     University
  • Ween
    Ween

    Ween is an alternative rock group formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania when Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in an eighth grade typing class....
     -     White Pepper
    White Pepper

    White Pepper was Ween's seventh full-length album, and the last album they would release on Elektra Records. It was released on May 2, 2000....
  • Suzanne Vega
    Suzanne Vega

    Suzanne Nadine Vega is an American songwriter and singer known for her highly literate lyrics and eclectic folk music-inspired music.Record companies saw little prospect of commercial success in the beginning; Vega's demo tape was rejected by every major record company?twice by A&M....
     -     Nine Objects of Desire
    Nine Objects of Desire

    Nine Objects of Desire is Suzanne Vega's fifth studio album, released September 10, 1996. It peaked at number 92 in the Billboard 200. The single "Caramel" is featured in the soundtrack for The Truth About Cats & Dogs and the trailer for the film Closer ....
  • Kat Larios - Bathos in Aqua


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