Green Day
Feb 21, 2012 Band Music
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The group was founded in the late ’80s from the ashes of Sweet Children, the band from Rodeo, California, where Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitar) and Mike Dirnt (bass and vocals) will make the bones from the earliest age. In 1989 the Lookout for the group’s first EP, 1000 HOURS, followed a year later by another EP, Slappy, and a first album, 39 smoothe.
Tags: AMERICAN IDIOT, Billie Joe Armstrong, BULLET IN A BIBLE, DOOKIE, Hople Mott, Know your enemy, Mike Dirnt, NIMROD, WARNING
Bloc Party
Feb 16, 2012 Band Music
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Formed in London Bloc Party are Kele Okereke (vocals / guitar), Russell Lissack (guitar), Gordon Moakes (bass / vocals) Matt Tong (drums). Okereke and Lissack met at the Reading festival and form the core of the group, in addition to the other two soon. The first demo was sent around in 2003, as Union. A copy is also sent to Franz Ferdinand, who invited them to play at the party label Domino.
Tags: Bloc Party, Gordon Moakes, Kele Okereke, Matt Tong, Russell Lissack
METALLICA
Feb 5, 2012 Band Music
The group was founded by a meeting between James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich. In January 1982 the training begins to take shape with the arrival of Dave Mustaine on lead guitar and Ron McGovney on bass. At the end of ’82 enters the new bassist Cliff Burton – who dies in a tragic car accident Sept. 26, 1986 – replaced two months later by Jason Newsted.
Metallica record, with Mustaine Kirk Hammett instead of, their debut album, KILL ‘EM ALL, in May 1983. Since then the rise of the group is phenomenal. From MASTER OF PUPPETS, the third album released in March 1986, Metallica only reap success, at least until the celebrated BLACK ALBUM.
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Tags: 1996 Mercury LOAD, ALL KILL'EM, AND JUSTICE FOR ALL, BEYOND, Cliff Burton, Dave Mustaine, DEATH MAGNETIC, James Hetfield, Jason Newsted, Lars Ulrich, LIVE SHIT: Binge & Purge Elektra, MASTER OF PUPPETS, Metallica, RE-LOAD, RIDE THE LIGHTNING, Ron McGovney, ST. ANGER
Jesus and Mary Chain
Jan 17, 2012 Band Music
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In 1984 the brothers William and Jim Reid formed with Douglas Hart and Murray Dalglish the Jesus and Mary Chain. Dalglish will be replaced by Bobby Gillespie and J & MC moved to London to sign with Alan McGee’s Creation Records, releasing the single “Upside Down”. Are introduced to London audiences for their energetic shows, which often end in a brawl, during which their backs to the public.
Tags: AUTOMATIC, Hate Rock 'n' roll, Heroes, HONEY'S DEAD, I want to die like JFK, Jesus and Mary Chain, Sometimes Always
Girls Aloud
Jan 15, 2012 Band Music
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The Girls Aloud formed in England in 2002 after winning a television program called Popstars: The Rivals. The band members are Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, Cheryl Tweedy and Kimberley Walsh.
Tags: CHEMISTRY, Cheryl Tweedy, Girls Aloud, Kimberley Walsh, Long Hot Summer, Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts, No Good Advice, Sarah Harding, Tangled Up, WHAT WILL THE NEIGHTBOURS SAY?
Pearl Jam
Dec 22, 2011 Band Music
Summer 1984: born in Seattle band Green River (formed by Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard). In October, the Green River are the supporter to the Dead Kennedys at the Moore Theatre in Seattle.
December 1987 – January 1988: Green River will melt, but Gossard and Ament formed a new band, Mother Love Bone. Read the rest of this entry »
March 16, 1990: Death of Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone voice. Later that year, despite the band to dissolve, out of the “Apple”, debut album of Mother Love Bone. The album will be released again in 1992 with the new title of “Mother Love Bone.”
Summer 1990: After the results of “Mother Love Bone,” guitarist Mike McCready joins Ament and Gossard and begins to take form the nucleus of a new band. The trio recorded a demo tape that falls into the hands of Eddie Vedder (even in passing of Jack Irons, the future drummer of Pearl Jam), which affects his voice, his songs and sends him back to Seattle.
Tags: Ament, Eddie Vedder, Gossard, I've got a feeling, Jeff Ament, Krusen, McCready, Mookie Blaylock, Pearl Jam, Singles, Soundgarden, Stone Gossard, Temple Of The Dog, TEN
Fiery Furnaces
Dec 2, 2011 Band Music
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The Fiery Furnaces – Matthew Friedberger and Eleanor Friedberger – are formed in Brooklyn in 2000. Signed to Rough Trade in 2002, when he also recorded their debut album, GALLOWSBIRD’S BARK, well received by critics, who compares them to the White Stripes.
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Magnetic Fields
Dec 1, 2011 Band Music
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The Magnetic Fields Stephin Merritt is a project born in 1990 in Boston. Merritt writes, produces, plays (given the nature of multi-instrumentalist) and sings most of the material he wrote.
Tags: DISTANT PLASTIC TREES, DISTORTION, HOLIDAY, Magnetic Fields, THE CHARM OF THE HIGHWAY STRIP
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
Nov 29, 2011 Band Music
After the dissolution of Kyuss, singer guitarist Josh Homme moved from Palm Desert, California to Seattle, where he played for a couple of years with the Screaming Trees, and fits into the local scene, collaborating with former Soundgarden bassist Ben Shepard.
In 1997 as the Queens of the Stone Age with former Kyuss drummer Alfredo Hernandez. The band released an EP, debuting in 1998 and in the same year he joined the band Nick Oliveri, another veteran of Kyuss.
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Tags: Interscope, Josh Homme, Julian Casablancas, Kyuss, Nick Oliveri, OVER THE YEARS AND THROUGH THE WOODS, Paralyze Lullabies, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, SONGS FOR THE DEAF
Steve Earle
Nov 28, 2011 Band Music
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Initially dubbed “the new Bruce Springsteen” for his civil commitment, Steve Earle was born January 17, 1955 in Virginia.
He moved to Houston to pursue a music career, makes it the first album in 1986 GUITAR TOWN, work-oriented country that is revealed to be an immediate success also receiving a gold record.
Tags: Bruce Springsteen, GUITAR TOWN, I'LL NEVER GET OUT OF THIS WORLD ALIVE, SHUT UP AND DIE LIKE AN AVIATOR, Steve Earle, THE HARD WAY, TRAIN A COMIN