Martha Ladly
Martha Jane Ladly is a Canadian academic, designer and musician.
She is professor of design at OCAD University.
Ladly also has had a long career as a musician and achieved international fame as part of rock band Martha and the Muffins.
She had a solo career in the mid-1980s and then worked in design and education.
Martha Johnson (singer)
Martha Johnson( born December 18, 1950) is a Canadian rock singer, keyboardist and songwriter.
She is best known as the vocalist of the 1980s rock band Martha and the Muffins.
The Muffins
The Muffins were an American Maryland- based progressive rock/ avant- jazz group.
They were formed in Washington, DC in the early 1970s and recorded four albums before disbanding in 1981.
In 1998 the group reformed and recorded a further five albums and a DVD.
The Muffins played at Symphony Space on Broadway in NYC with Marion Brown in 1979, and also performed at a number of festivals, starting with the ZU Manifestival in New York City in 1978, The Villa Celimontana festival in Rome, Italy in 2000, two appearances at Progday in 2001 and 2002, NEARfest in 2005, and the" Rock in Opposition" festival in France in 2009.
In 2010, The Muffins headlined at Progday, making a third appearance at this long running festival.
The Muffins are largely an instrumental band inspired and influenced by avant- garde jazz, progressive rock, 20 th- century music, and the English Canterbury scene.
They work in an" underground genrePerfect Sound Forever" called" the avant- garde side of latter- day US progressive jazz- rock", and place" the joy of creation over commercial concerns The Rolling Stone Record Guide" called them the" spiritual American cousins of Henry Cow and Soft Machine", and AllMusic described their music as a" unique blend of Canterbury progressive, fusion, improvisation and much more."
Then Again: A Retrospective
Then Again: A Retrospective is a 1998 compilation album by Martha and the Muffins.
Although credited to the band's original name, it includes songs from both the full name and M + M phases of the band's career.
The album contains one new song, "Resurrection", one of only two new tracks released by the band between their 1992 album "Modern Lullaby" and the 2010 album Delicate (album).
Echo Beach (disambiguation)
" Echo Beach" is a song by Martha and the Muffins.
Echo Beach may also refer to:
Jocelyne Lanois
Jocelyne Chantal Lanois is a Canadian musician, bass player and songwriter from Hull, Quebec, who has been a member of the bands Martha and the Muffins and Crash Vegas.
She has also had touring stints as bassplayer with Ani DiFranco and Chris Whitley, and played on Sarah McLachlan's album" Solace".
She is the sister of record producer Daniel Lanois, and was partner at his experimental Lab Studio with producer, musician Malcolm Burn, collaborating on his solo release," Redemption".
Lanois went on to develop a career in scoring music for films and documentaries.
Between 2006 and 2008 she wrote and recorded songs in collaboration with Martha Johnson, Mark Gane and Leonardo Valvassori, playing bass, guitar, percussion and vocals.
The Creases
The Creases are an Australian indie rock band formed in Brisbane in April 2013.
Initially a duo, with Joe Agius on lead vocals and guitar and Jarod Mahon on bass guitar and vocals; they were joined in October by Aimon Clark on lead guitar and Bridie McQueen on drums.
In 2014 McQueen was replaced on drums by Gabriel Webster.
They performed at Australian festivals and supported gigs by Franz Ferdinand.
The band issued their five- track, first extended play," Gradient", in July 2014.
It was recorded in the previous December with Simon Berckelman producing.
" Beat Magazine" s Simon Welby felt,"[ its] sunny and relatively slick production quality is a marked sonic advance from the tracks that initially brought them attention ...
Stylistically, the EP steps beyond the jangly garage pop of'I Wo n't Wait' to align itself with acts of the shoegaze and dream pop ilk( Yo La Tengo, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Ride)."
The Creases released their debut album," Tremolow", in July 2017, which reached the ARIA Top 100 Physical Albums and No. 21 on the ARIA Hitseekers Albums charts.
Jack Gobbe of" Outlet Mag" observed," With charming song writing and catchy hooks that are often emphasised by stirring backing vocals, you'll soon find a significant chunk of the record ringing in your head for days to come."
Metro Music
Metro Music is the debut album by Canadian new wave band Martha and the Muffins.
It was released in 1980 on the record label Dindisc.
The album contains the single" Echo Beach", which became an international hit single for the band.
The cover image design by Peter Saville is a map of Toronto, the band's hometown, and is based on a map from the National Topographic System of Canada.
The entire" Metro Music" album also formed the first part of Martha and the Muffins' 1987 compilation" Far Away in Time".
The Muffins
The Muffins were an American Maryland- based progressive rock/ avant- jazz group.
They were formed in Washington, DC in the early 1970s and recorded four albums before disbanding in 1981.
In 1998 the group reformed and recorded a further five albums and a DVD.
The Muffins played at Symphony Space on Broadway in NYC with Marion Brown in 1979, and also performed at a number of festivals, starting with the ZU Manifestival in New York City in 1978, The Villa Celimontana festival in Rome, Italy in 2000, two appearances at Progday in 2001 and 2002, NEARfest in 2005, and the" Rock in Opposition" festival in France in 2009.
In 2010, The Muffins headlined at Progday, making a third appearance at this long running festival.
The Muffins are largely an instrumental band inspired and influenced by avant- garde jazz, progressive rock, 20 th- century music, and the English Canterbury scene.
They work in an" underground genrePerfect Sound Forever" called" the avant- garde side of latter- day US progressive jazz- rock", and place" the joy of creation over commercial concerns The Rolling Stone Record Guide" called them the" spiritual American cousins of Henry Cow and Soft Machine", and AllMusic described their music as a" unique blend of Canterbury progressive, fusion, improvisation and much more."
Martha and the Muffins
Martha and the Muffins are a Canadian rock band, active from 1977 to the present.
Although they only had one major international hit single" Echo Beach" under their original band name, they had a number of hits in their native Canada, and the core members of the band also charted in Canada and internationally as M+ M.

Question: Are both Martha And The Muffins and The Creases from the same country?
Answer: no