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Yeah Yeah Yeahs
14th Aug 2010
Discovered in the wake of the Strokes‘ popularity and the subsequent garage rock revival, New York’s art punk trio the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are comprised of singer Karen O, guitarist Nicolas Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase. O met Chase at Ohio’s Oberlin College and met Zinner through friends after she transferred to NYU. Zinner andO formed the band in 2000; originally, they were
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The Strokes
Equally inspired by classic tunesmiths like Buddy Holly and John Lennon as well as the attitude and angular riffs of fellow New Yorkers Television and the Velvet Underground, the Strokes were also equally blessed and cursed with an enormous amount of hype — particularly from the U.K. music press, whose adulation for the group rivaled their fervor for Oasis in
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Also tagged Albert Hammond Jr, indie, indie-rock, Last Night, Rough Trade, roughtrade, The Strokes, This Is It
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Cody ChesnuTT
Cody Chesnutt was beginning to live the life every struggling musician dreams about. His band The Crosswalk was signed to Hollywood Records and had completed a debut album “Venus Loves A Melody” when problems arose. Victims of label politics, The Crosswalk was sent packing and Chesnutt’s band broke apart. Cody retreated to the comfort of
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