Genre: Alternative/Indie
Described as David Bowie meets David Byrne at a Door's concert. Euphonic Dissonance employ hardware and software instruments to channel the zeitgeist in a hybrid sonic sance assembled from elements of rock (classic, gothic, and indy) and electronic dance (idm, breaks, and techno).
Genre: Rock/Pop
Battle are a British band that make great music.
They released the 'Back to Earth' EP in October 2006 and their debut album comes out in 2007.
Genre: Electronic-Dance
In 2004, Clap!Clap! was born with a mission: to bring energy back to live shows and to make the energy infectious amongst the audience. Armed with 8 members, the band hopes to continue its quest to bring back audience participation and energy to live shows. With influences such as The Faint and The Rapture, dance and electronic rock is the... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Clinker is a London, UK based band formed by Peter Jordan in 1999. Originally all recorded by Peter himself, its gradually turned into the current form of Peter Jordan ( vocals, guitar), Tomoko Matsumoto (backing vocals, keyboard & guitar), Marcus Moir (drums) and Benedikt Blume (bass, backing vocals). They are deeply influenced by The Beatles,... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Happy Ghosts are Adelaide Australia based duo Andrew Muecke and Ashley Starkey. Andrew writes the music, plays the instruments and does the engineering. Ashley does the singing, videos and graphics. The Happy Ghosts musical style is a cross somewhere between ambient and electronic music from the edge.
Genre: Rock/Pop
C’est en 2000 que le projet iThAK naît de l’imagination de Sébastien Saint-Lézin (alias Seb El Ezin). S’associe bientôt à lui le batteur Erick Borelva ( aka Dr. Fonkaphobia), qu’il rencontre par l’entremise de la chanteuse japonaise Mami Chan. Commence alors la longue quête du saxophoniste baryton prêt à joindre... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 70s, 80s, 90s
Lizzy Mercier Descloux was a pioneering force in avant-garde rock and in the worldbeat genre, chalking up significant achievements in the latter field well before it existed. Tremendously precocious in an artistic sense, Mercier Descloux dropped out of art studies in order to co-manage a punk boutique and record store in Paris with future ZE... [+] Read More
Genre: Alternative/Indie
A few random facts or wild lies about the band...Can you tell the difference? Joe and Tom are main songwriters in the band: Joe's songs often work on theme and variation, with tinges of southern rock, grunge, and roots rock n roll, and Tom's songs generally show a wide variety of influence, very broadly including surf rock, indie rock, punk... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Back when Milk in Vienna started, they were a two-man group working on instrumental demos. With a few lineup changes, including a departure (O.T. Jennings) and additions (Paul Davila, Rick Luna, and Jorge Garcia), MIV became a four-piece and quickly made a mark in Laredo's scene. 2006 was their year, playing show after show relentlessly,... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 70s, 80s
Best known for their early-'80s new wave pop hits, particularly "I Got You," Split Enz -- after surviving a dizzying array of image and personnel changes and a full decade without any recognition outside of their homeland -- became the first New Zealand band to achieve worldwide success. Although they never reached superstar status outside of... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 70s, 80s
Although they barely receive credit, Suicide (singer Alan Vega and keyboardist Martin Rev) is the source point for virtually every synth pop duo that glutted the pop marketplace (especially in England) in the early '80s. Without the trailblazing Rev and Vega, there would have been no Soft Cell, Erasure, Bronski Beat, Yaz, you name 'em, and while... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 70s, 90s
Television were one of the most creative bands to emerge from New York's punk scene of the mid-'70s, creating an influential new guitar vocabulary. While guitarists Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd liked to jam, they didn't follow the accepted rock structures for improvisation -- they removed the blues while retaining the raw energy of garage... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 70s, 80s, 90s
The Ramones are the first punk rock band. Other bands, such as the Stooges and the New York Dolls, came before them and set the stage and aesthetic for punk, and bands that immediately followed, such as the Sex Pistols, made the latent violence of the music more explicit, but the Ramones crystallized the musical ideals of the genre. By cutting... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
Over the course of a recording career spanning several decades, the Residents remained a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions; cloaking their lives and music in a haze of willful obscurity, the band's members never identified themselves by name, always appearing in public in disguise -- usually tuxedos, top hats and giant eyeball masks -- and... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
The Tubes were arch satirists of popular culture whose outrageous performance-art concepts -- which swung wildly from soft-core pornography to suit-and-tie conservatism -- frequently eclipsed their elusive musical identity. The beginnings of the group originate in Phoenix, Arizona in the late '60s, where guitarist Bill Spooner, keyboardist Vince... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
Combining a knack for infectious melodies with a quirky, bizarre sense of humor and a vaguely avant-garde aesthetic borrowed from the New York post-punk underground, They Might Be Giants became one of the most unlikely alternative success stories of the late '80s and early '90s. Musically, the duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell borrowed... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
The textbook American cult band of the 1980s, the Violent Femmes captured the essence of teen angst with remarkable precision; raw and jittery, the trio's music found little commercial success but nonetheless emerged as the soundtrack for the lives of troubled adolescents the world over. The group formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the early... [+] Read More
Genre: Alternative/Indie
What is the name of your band and who are the current members? Warpharin consists of John Farmer (guitar, vocals), Dan Thies (bass), Keith Shank (guitar, vocals), Ryan Simpson (drums, vocals), Ken Pilkington (keyboards), and Lori Brooks (backup vocals). How did you all get together to form the band? Most of us have known each other since... [+] Read More
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s
XTC was one of the smartest -- and catchiest -- British pop bands to emerge from the punk and new wave explosion of the late '70s. From the tense, jerky riffs of their early singles to the lushly arranged, meticulous pop of their later albums, XTC's music has always been driven by the hook-laden songwriting of guitarist Andy Partridge and... [+] Read More
