Scott Miller

Singer/songwriter/guitarist Scott Miller is one of the more underrated and oft-overlooked disciples of sweet yet sinister power pop masters Alex Chilton/Big Star. In the early '80s, Miller formed college radio fav Game Theory in his hometown of Sacramento, CA, releasing four albums (1985's Real Nighttime, 1986's Big Shot Chronicles, 1987's Lolita Nation, and 1988's Two Steps From the Middle Ages), before breaking up the band upon the dawn of the '90s. But Miller quickly launched another band, Loud Family, picking up musically where his former band left off, and issuing albums steadily throughout the '90s.
—Greg Prato, All Music Guide

See Scott's lists of the top 20 albums, 1965-1999

E-mail Scott at scottmiller @ 125records.com

Anton Barbeau

Anton Barbeau is a cult-hero's cult hero. With his esoteric and highly-personalized brand of psychedelic power-pop, his "mind-bending" stage show, and his auto-neurotic humour, he is quietly yet quickly building a global fan-base. The release gig for his record Guladong was held at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. His previous disk, King of Missouri, recorded in Bromley with psychedelic legends the Bevis Frond as backing band, was released in Europe on the Frond's Woronzow label and in North America on Vancouver's Bongo Beat Records. The album has been described as "a stellar display of psychedelic power pop" while The Sunday Times of London says of it "...like Bob Dylan fronting some great lost British freak-beat band." In his hometown of Sacramento Barbeau has won a number of SAMMIE Awards for Album of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, and most recently the somewhat puzzling Most Popular Folk Singer Award.

Upcoming projects include an album called The Automatic Door with Su Jordan and featuring the Soft Boys' Kimberley Rew on guitar. Barbeau has recently finished work on two solo albums. The first, In the Village of the Apple Sun, is a Beatles-meets-Julian Cope-meets-Joe Meek psychedelic pop odyssey featuring Cake's Gabe Nelson and Oxford folkstress Sharron Kraus, to be released on San Francisco's Four-Way Records. The sister disk, Drug Free, coming out in England on Pink Hedgehog, mixes traditional American/English pop structures with Kraut-inflected space rock stretchiness and features crowd-pleasers such as the title track and "Leave it with Me, I'm Always Gentle." All this while Barbeau continues relentlessly touring the UK. Oh, and yes, Adrienne Barbeau IS his cousin!

E-mail Anton at anton @ antonbarbeau.com

Other musicians who have been members of the Loud Family

Jozef Becker
Dawn Richardson
Kenny Kessel
Alison Faith Levy
R. Dunbar Poor
Gil Ray
Zach Smith
Paul Wieneke

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photos of scott & anton by N.D. Koster.