Grant Lee Phillips

前美國西岸另類搖滾大團Grant Lee Buffalo首腦人物，是一位唱作俱佳的全方位音樂人。創作中挾帶著濃厚的低沉憂郁風格，可歸類為哀凄體系（Sad-core）派別。Grant Lee Phillips，曾是 Grant Lee Buffalo樂隊的領軍人物。在取得一系列成績后離開樂隊做自己的音樂。2001年第一張專輯"Mobilize"曾獲得廣泛贊譽，2004年發表了第二張專輯"Virginia Creeper"（弗吉尼亞印記）。Phillips曾被 Rolling Stone選為最佳男歌手。他的歌曲大多敘述故事，揭示人性的悲劇、社會的不公以及過去的時代與目前的現實。這些歌曲就象Phillip說的：緩慢但堅韌的藤蔓，編織在一起，延展攀爬直訴心靈。他的音樂獲得廣泛認可，Entertainment Weekly（娛樂周刊） 稱 Phillips 是"不可戰勝的" ；而 The Chicago Tribune（芝加哥講壇） 稱Phillips"依然以流行的曲調保持了大師的觸覺。" After spending his formative years in Stockton, CA, Grant Lee Phillips headed to Los Angeles to study film. Finding himself beneath the spell cast by area bands the Rain Parade and the Dream Syndicate, Phillips soon joined with Stockton acquaintance Jeff Clark to form Shiva Burlesque. The band dissolved after two critically acclaimed records, and Phillips soon began writing and demoing under the Grant Lee Buffalo alias. Following some solo dates, Phillips invited former bandmates Joey Peters and Paul Kimble to join him, and the trio signed to Warner subsidiary Slash in 1992. Phillips golden, honey-soaked voice went largely to waste in Shiva Burlesque, but the new band enabled him to step out as a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. GLB went on to release four very different LPs, consistent in excellence. A cult following, successful tours, and across-the-board critical acclaim (he was voted Rolling Stones Male Vocalist of the Year following their second LP) didnt translate into sales, however. Frustrated with his labels dead-on-arrival promotion, Phillips asked for his band to be released from their contract, and he was obliged. (It was erroneously reported that GLB had been dropped.) Phillips dissolved his band, anxious to forge a new path. In October of 1999, he headed to Jon Brions studio and recorded a handful of new songs, played exclusively by himself. Dubbed Ladies Love Oracle, it was self-released the following year online and at his numerous appearances at Largo in Hollywood. After landing a deal with Zoe/Rounder, Phillips issued the excellent Mobilize in 2001. The next year, Rounder reissued Ladies Love Oracle in time for Phillips joint tour with Kristin Hersh and Joe Doe. In 2004, he released Virginia Creeper, followed by an album of covers (Nineteeneighties) in 2006. Strangelet appeared in 2007 on Rounder Records.