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Mark Hoppus (bassist) and Travis Barker (drummer) of American rock band Blink-182, are scheming their post with singer and songwriter, famous for his role as the co-lead vocalist and guitarist of punk rock band Alkaline Trio, Matt Skiba. Baker who is a musician as well as a producer said that, "Matt Skiba is killing it," "Skiba is fun to play with and write with. We're just getting started, but I think we've got like four or five tracks as of the moment that I'm really, really happy with. We have

The band Sonic Youth was brought to the New York hardcore scene in the 1980s. Like a lot of rock bands the Sonic Youth was started by two college dropouts. Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore moved to New York City and became encouraged by the artistic scene of New York. They fell in to the “underground” music world, which had formed after the fall in popularity of punk music. The bands of New York were driven toward a new sound in music. It was in New York were Moore met Kim Gordon. Gordon was a bass

Charlie Parker and other Bebop musicians played regularly at Minton’s Playhouse on 118th Street in Manhattan. They loved challenges. Kenny Clarke would drum with them. It is known that he changed the way he drummed in the 1930s because of how fast the tunes he played with the Teddy Hill band were. He couldn’t play quarter notes on the bass drum so he would keep the beat on the cymbal instead, which produced a lighter, more flexible way to play, and also allowed for the bass drum to be used for

deep intimacy inherent to his poetic approach and pallid textures. Streams, his second album on ECM, is a more-than-competent follow-up to Gefion, released one year ago on the same label. For this transcendent body of work, Bro kept the outstanding bassist Thomas Morgan on his side, giving the drummer’s chair to Joey Baron, who replaced Jon Christensen. “Opal” starts with a comprehensive circunspection. The trio embarks on a touching quietude that envelops us profoundly, instigating us to fly, open

My Chemical Romance (often abbreviated as MCR) was an American rock band from New Jersey, active from 2001 to 2013. The band's best-known lineup consisted of lead vocalist Gerard Way, guitarists Ray Toro and Frank Iero, bassist Mikey Way and drummer Bob Bryar. Founded by Gerard, Mikey, Toro, Matt Pelissier, and later joined by Iero, the band signed to Eyeball Records and released their debut album I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love in 2002. They signed with Reprise Records the next

WHO WE ARE There is no better cover band for the Dave Matthews Band than the Big Eyed Phish. Led by Brandon DePaul, this band is the only one who managed to recreate the music line-up and styling of Dave Matthews Band as a tribute. Dave Matthews Band is also known simply as DMB. This was an American band who came to be in 1991, and known to have taken a top stop on the Billboard charts for 6 times with their debuted albums. They established their dominance in the music world by selling more than

British Heavy Metal British heavy metal influenced culture and other bands. Movies have been based on British heavy metal bands. and American rock bands often claim that they have been heavily influenced by British heavy metal. Many of today's generation of rock and metal have been influenced by british heavy metal; such as bands as metallica guns n roses aerosmith and type o negative. There was even a movie based entirely on a heavy metal soundtrack “heavy metal” and the sequel “heavy metal 2000”

Clapton then left the Bluesbreakers in 1966 in order to start his own band, Cream, with bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. Clapton wished to start a musical revolution and change what people thought about music, with which he succeeded. His band very quickly became on of the most prominent bands of the 60s, even beginning

The birth of the psychedelic, or as it was sometimes known, ‘acid rock’ genre was the result of an attempt to sonically stimulate the distorted perceptions experienced while under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs such as mescaline, psilocybin and LSD. The term psychedelic had begun to be applied to a few bands already in the early 1960s, with the Grateful Dead making their record debut in the spring of 1967. “By 1966, garage bands were exposed to the first media coverage of LSD and, in some

One of the most iconic and influential bands of all time was formed in Los Angeles during the 1980’s. Consisting of vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler, Guns N’ Roses was beloved by rock fans. Guns N' Roses gained a reputation for their very energetic live performances and rebellious attitude, earning them the name "the most dangerous band in the world." However, internal conflicts plagued the band throughout their