Michael Gira
By Andrew Perry, eMusic Contributor
Across three ear-ruining decades, Michael Gira has been one of American rock's most uncompromising and unrelenting artists. For 15 years, he led the grinding post-hardcorists, Swans, with an iron fist, along the way virtually creating the sound of "industrial" music, and earning a deserved rep as the world's loudest band. He was a contemporary of Sonic Youth in post-No Wave New York, but chose the road of dark experimentalism over selling out to the grunge… more »