Jackyl is an American rock band formed in 1987. Their sound has been described as hard rock, heavy metal and Southern metal.
Their eponymous album has sold more than a million copies in the United
States with released hit singles like "Down on Me" and "When Will it
Rain". The band is best known for its song "The Lumberjack", which
features a chainsaw solo by lead singer Jesse James Dupree.
En tête d'affiche de plusieurs festivals britanniques chaque été,
Kasabian collectionne les nominations et les récompenses, étant élu par
deux fois « Meilleur groupe britannique » en 2010 et 2012, respectivement aux Brit Awards et aux NME Awards. Par ailleurs, leurs quatre premiers albums studio et leur premier album live, Live from Brixton Academy, sont tous au minimum disque de platine au Royaume-Uni. En dehors de l'album éponyme, classé 4e à son meilleur, les autres ont été en tête des ventes d'albums outre-Manche à leur sortie. Un deuxième album en concert, intitulé Live!, est sorti à l'été 2012.
Kasabian (/kəˈseɪbiən/kə-SAY-bee-ən) are an English rock band formed in Leicester in 1997. The band's original members consisted of vocalist Tom Meighan, guitarist and vocalist Sergio Pizzorno, guitarist Chris Karloff, and bassist Chris Edwards. The band's line-up was completed by drummer Ian Matthews in 2004 after a string of session drummers. Karloff left the band in 2006 and founded new band Black Onassis. Jay Mehler joined as touring lead guitarist in 2006. Mehler left the band for Liam Gallagher's Beady Eye in 2013. Kasabian are often seen as one of the best British bands of the 21st century and, in 2010 and 2014, won the Q Awards
for 'Best Act in the World Today'. They are well known for being
commended for their live performances, being named 'Best Live Band' at
the award ceremonies on numerous occasions. The band's music is often
described as "indie rock", but Pizzorno has said he "hates indie bands"
and does not feel Kasabian fit into that category.
Kasabian have released five studio albums – Kasabian (2004), Empire (2006), West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (2009), Velociraptor! (2011), and 48:13 (2014). The band's music has been described as a mix between The Stone Roses and Primal Scream with the swagger of Oasis. Their music has won them several awards and recognition in the media, including a Brit Award in 2010 for Best British Group, and their live performances are generally lauded, the most notable of which was their appearance as headliners at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival.
Members from bands such as Staind, Seether, Alter Bridge, and Diecast have listed Witherspoon and Sevendust as musical influences. In March 2008, Witherspoon was recognized in Hit Parader
as one of the "Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time." He was ranked
number 35, placing over numerous famous rock vocalists such as Bret Michaels, Scott Weiland, and David Bowie.
Créé en 2005,
la formation enregistre sa première démo grâce à l'argent remporté par
les jumeaux Nathan et Matthew Leone lors de leur participation à
l'émission américaine Fear Factor. Finalement, ils signent avec le labelrockRoadrunner Records.
En 2006, Madina Lake livre tout d'abord un maxi single baptisé The Disappearance Of Adalia. Un an plus tard, leur premier album, From Them, Through Us, To You, est dans les bacs. Le public y retrouve à la production Mark Trombino (Blink 182, Finch, Silverstein).
Graham William Nash, OBE
(born 2 February 1942) is a British singer-songwriter known for his
light tenor voice and for his songwriting contributions with the British
pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock super group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. A dual citizen of the United Kingdom and United States, Nash became an American citizen on 14 August 1978.
Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer. He was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1997 and as a member of The Hollies in 2010.
Nash holds four honorary doctorates, including one in Music from the University of Salford in 2011. and his latest Doctorate in Fine Arts from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Ocean Blue, formed in Hershey, Pennsylvania in 1986, is an American indie pop
band that combines melodic guitars and synthesizers. Its core original
members included David Schelzel on lead vocals/guitar, Steve Lau on
keyboards/saxophone, Bobby Mittan on bass guitar and Rob Minnig on drums
and vocals.
Its current line-up includes David Schelzel on lead vocals/guitar, Oed Ronne on keyboards/guitar/vocals, Bobby Mittan on bass guitar and Peter Anderson on drums.
The band's sound may be best described as jangly guitar-based modern rock. Influences include such bands as The Smiths, Cocteau Twins, R.E.M., Echo & the Bunnymen and New Order.
The Ocean Blue's earliest shows always consisted of a healthy dose of
covers by these bands. To this day, The Smiths and New Order covers
still punctuate concert encores.
Robert Allen Palmer est un chanteur britannique né le à Batley, dans le Comté de Yorkshire et mort le 26 septembre2003 à Paris. Il est connu pour sa voix de rocker et ses mélanges musicaux sur des albums, combinant la musique soul, le jazz, le rock, le reggae ou encore le blues. Connu pour les tubes Best Of Both Worlds et Every kinda people en 1978, Johnny and Mary en 1980 (single vendu à 459 000 exemplaires sur le territoire français) et Looking for Clues en 1981 (single vendu à 332 000 exemplaires en France).
Robert Palmer habitait en Suisse depuis 1997. Il a toujours assuré
n'avoir jamais été attiré par les excès du rock et de la célébrit. Il est mort d'une crise cardiaque, que rien ne laissait présager, dans un grand hôtel parisien à 54 ans.
Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer-songwriter and musician. He was known for his distinctive soulful voice, eclectic mix of musical styles on his albums, combining soul, jazz, rock, pop, reggae and blues and sartorial acumen. He found success both in his solo career and with Power Station, and had Top 10 songs in both the UK and the US.
His iconic music videos directed by British fashion photographer Terence Donovan for the hits "Addicted to Love" and "Simply Irresistible"
featured identically dressed dancing women with pale faces, dark eye
makeup and bright red lipstick, which resembled the women in the art of Patrick Nagel, an artist popular in the 1980s. Palmer's involvement in the music industry commenced in the 1960s, covered four decades and included a spell with Vinegar Joe.
Groupe britannique qui a connu le plus grand succès commercial de ces trente dernières années, Queen a vendu plus de 300 millions d'albums à l'échelle internationale en 2009 dont 32,5 millions aux États-Unis. Selon un sondage d'opinion commandé en Grande-Bretagne par la BBC Two et paru en 2007, Queen est considéré comme étant le « meilleur groupe britannique de tous les temps », devançant les Beatles et les Rolling Stones. Queen est aussi l'un des pionniers du clip vidéo, ayant exploité ce mode de communication dès 1975. Queen a conservé, après la mort de son leader Freddie Mercury en 1991, de très nombreux admirateurs inconditionnels dans le monde entier.
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), John Deacon (bass guitar), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals). Queen's earliest works were influenced by progressive rock, hard rock and heavy metal, but the band gradually ventured into more conventional and radio-friendly works by incorporating further styles, such as arena rock and pop rock, into their music.
Before joining Queen, Brian May and Roger Taylor had been playing together in a band named Smile with bassist Tim Staffell.
Freddie Mercury (then known by his birth name of Farrokh "Freddie"
Bulsara) was a fan of Smile, and encouraged them to experiment with more
elaborate stage and recording techniques after Staffell's departure in
1970. Mercury himself joined the band shortly thereafter, changed the
name of the band to "Queen", and adopted his familiar stage name. John
Deacon was recruited prior to recording their eponymous debut album in 1973. Queen enjoyed success in the UK with their debut and its follow-up, Queen II in 1974, but it was the release of Sheer Heart Attack later in 1974 and A Night at the Opera in 1975 that gained the band international success. The latter featured "Bohemian Rhapsody", which stayed at number one in the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks; it charted at number one in several other territories, and gave the band their first top ten hit on the US Billboard Hot 100. Their 1977 album, News of the World, contained two of rock's most recognisable anthems, "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions".
By the early 1980s, Queen were one of the biggest stadium rock bands in the world, with "Another One Bites the Dust" their best selling single, and their performance at 1985's Live Aid is regarded as one of the greatest in rock history. In 1991, Mercury died of bronchopneumonia,
a complication of AIDS, and Deacon retired in 1997. Since then, May and
Taylor have occasionally performed together, including a collaboration
with Free and Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers under the name Queen + Paul Rodgers which ended in May 2009. Since 2011, May and Taylor have collaborated with vocalist Adam Lambert under the name of Queen + Adam Lambert. In November 2014, Queen released a new album, Queen Forever, featuring vocals from the late Freddie Mercury.
The band have released a total of 18 number one albums, 18 number one
singles, and 10 number one DVDs. Estimates of their record sales
generally range from 150 million to 300 million records, making them one
of the world's best-selling music artists. They received the Outstanding Contribution to British Music Award from the British Phonographic Industry in 1990, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.
The Radiators, également connu sous le nom de The New Orleans Radiators, est un groupe de rock de La Nouvelle-Orléans en Louisiane qui a combiné les styles musicaux traditionnels de leur ville avec le rock et Rhythm and blues pour former le Swamp rock qu'ils appellent le fish-head music. Décrit par OffBeat magazine comme "New Orleans' longest-running and most successful rock band"
Radiators ont eu un succès commercial limité.Fait exceptionnel, les
cinq musiciens du groupe sont toujours les mêmes que lors de la
formation en 1978.
The Radiators, also known as The New Orleans Radiators, were a rock band from New Orleans, Louisiana, who combined the traditional musical styles of their native city with more mainstream rock and R&B influences to form a bouncy, funky variety of swamp-rock they called fish-head music. Described by OffBeat magazine as "New Orleans' longest-running and most successful rock band",
The Radiators' had only limited commercial success, with only a handful
of chart appearances, but, as a party band from a party town, their
enthusiastic live performances, danceable beats and relentless touring
earned the band a dedicated following and the admiration of many of
their peers. In a feat of continuity rarely seen in the rock music
world, the five-man line up in the year of their breakup (2011) is the
same one as when the band formed in 1978.
The Radiators had a repertoire which included over three hundred
original songs—many never released on album—and over one thousand covers
(or partial covers used as part of a medley). With the band's approval,
over 500 concert recordings have been made available for free (for
non-commercial use) on the Internet Archive.
On June 10, 2011, at Tipitina's in New Orleans, LA, during the second
of their final three concerts, The Radiators were inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.
The Saints est un groupe australien originaire de Brisbane (d'abord nommés Kid Galahad and the Eternals).
The Saints are a rock band, originating in Brisbane, Australia founded by Chris Bailey (singer-songwriter, later guitarist), Ivor Hay (drummer), and Ed Kuepper
(guitarist-songwriter) in 1974. Alongside mainstay Bailey, the group
has had numerous line-ups. In 1975, contemporaneous with United States' Ramones,
The Saints were employing the fast tempos, raucous vocals and "buzz
saw" guitar that characterised early punk rock. With their debut single,
"(I'm) Stranded",
in September 1976, they became the first alleged punk band outside the
US to release a record, ahead of better-known acts including the Sex Pistols and The Clash. They are one of the first and most influential groups of the genre.
In early 1979, the Saints had imploded, leaving Bailey to continue the band, with a variable line-up. All Fools Day peaked in the Top 30 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart in April 1986. Bailey also has a solo career and had relocated to Sweden by 1994. The band was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame in 2001.
The Saints continue to record and perform worldwide. In 2014 Bruce
Springsteen covered their classic "Just like fire would" on his "High
Hopes" album.
Talk Talk est un groupe britannique de musique pop, initialement affilié au mouvement new wave, en activité entre 1981 et 1991.
Talk Talk was an English musical group, active from 1981 to 1991. The group was part of the Britishnew wave movement. They had a string of early hit singles including "Today", "Talk Talk", "It's My Life", "Such a Shame",
and "Dum Dum Girl". Always uncomfortable with the requirements and
pressure of the pop industry, Talk Talk moved away from synthpop toward
more experimental music in the mid-1980s. A few more singles, including "Life's What You Make It"
and "Living in Another World", achieved success in Europe and in the
UK, but their commercial appeal receded quickly as their critical
reputation increased.
The band broke up in 1991. Singer Mark Hollis released one solo album
before retiring from the music industry. Founding bass player and
drummer Paul Webb and Lee Harris played in a couple of bands together; de facto fourth member Tim Friese-Greene continued in the business as a musician and producer. Their final two albums, Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock, were highly acclaimed and remain influential to experimental alternative rock genres, especially post-rock. 25 years after the release of what The Guardian called their masterpiece (1988's Spirit of Eden),
Talk Talk was still praised as a classic example of a band refusing to
compromise its art to commercial pressure, and Hollis and his bandmates
are one of the acts that came out of the synthpop movement of the 1980s
whose music remains influential today.
Ultra Vivid Scene était un groupe de rock alternatif de la fin des années 80 et du début des années 90 fondé par Kurt Ralske. Le groupe a enregistré trois albums (Ultra Vivid Scene, Joy 1967-1990 et Rev), et quelques EP.
Former Nothing But Happiness and Crash guitarist Ralske started Ultra Vivid Scene in 1987, was signed to 4AD Records in 1988, and released his first UVS EP, She Screamed, in 1988. The debut album Ultra Vivid Scene released October 1988, was written, produced and performed entirely by Ralske, whose influences include The Velvet Underground and The Jesus and Mary Chain. The second album, Joy 1967-1990, was released in April 1990. The same month they played their first tour dates in the United Kingdom.
The last album, Rev,
was released in October 1992, and was performed by a band comprising
Julius Klepacz (drums) and Jack Daley (bass) with Ralske on vocals and
guitar. This album was picked up by the Chaos imprint of Columbia Records (Sony Music Distribution) during the time rival Warner Bros. was having some success with its imprints' 4AD relationships (4AD/Sire, 4AD/Elektra, 4AD/Reprise).
As a live act, Ultra Vivid Scene performed only a handful of US dates
in support of the first album in 1989. The second album in 1990 was
supported by one month of touring in Europe and two months in the US.
1993 saw one month of US tour dates for the third and final album.
Ralske has gone on to do solo work, and has also produced albums for such artists as Rasputina, Ivy and Charles Douglas. His last known musical endeavor was the solo release in 2001 Amor 0 + 01. Since that time, Ralske has worked as a visual artist.
Van Halen est un groupe de hard rockaméricain fondé en 1972 à Pasadena en Californie. Le guitariste du groupe, Eddie Van Halen,
est rapidement devenu célèbre pour ses prouesses techniques et sa
sensibilité musicale. Il a surtout inspiré un nouveau courant de « guitar heroes » grâce à la popularisation de la technique du « tapping ». Leur premier chanteur David Lee Roth s'est imposé comme un véritable show man.
The band went on to become major stars, and by the early 1980s they were one of the most successful rock acts of the time. 1984 was their most successful album. The lead single, "Jump", became an international hit and their only single to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The following singles, "Panama" and "I'll Wait",
both hit number 13 on the U.S. charts. The album went on to sell over
12 million copies in the U.S. alone. In 1985, the band replaced lead
singer David Lee Roth with ex-Montrose lead vocalist Sammy Hagar.
With Hagar, the group would release four U.S. number-one albums over
the course of 11 years. Hagar left the band in 1996 shortly before the
release of the band's first greatest hits collection, Best Of – Volume I. Former Extreme frontman Gary Cherone was quickly recruited as lead singer to replace Hagar, and Van Halen III
was released in 1998. Cherone left the band in frustration in 1999
after the tour due to the poor commercial performance of the album.
Van Halen went on hiatus until 2003 when they reunited with Hagar for
a worldwide tour. The reunited band released a second greatest hits
collection the following year, The Best of Both Worlds. Like Volume I before it, The Best of Both Worlds
included material from both the Roth and Hagar eras but omitted any
Cherone era tracks. The album featured three brand new tracks recorded
by the reunited band, two of which were released as singles. Hagar again
left Van Halen in 2005 and in 2006, Roth returned as lead vocalist for
their highest-grossing tour, and one of the highest-grossing tours of
that year. Anthony was not invited to participate in the tour and was
essentially fired from the band, replaced by Wolfgang Van Halen, Eddie's son. In 2012, the band released the commercially and critically successful, A Different Kind of Truth, with Roth as lead vocalist. According to the RIAA, Van Halen is the 19th-best-selling band/artist in United States history, selling 56 million albums in the U.S. They were also revealed at number 4 on the Billboard's top moneymakers list in 2013. Van Halen is one of only five rock bands that have had two studio albums sell more than 10 million copies in the U.S. Additionally, Van Halen charted the most number-one hits in the history of Billboard 's Mainstream Rock chart and they are one of the world's best-selling bands of all time, having sold more than 80 million records.
Van Halen achieved worldwide fame for their many popular songs and
larger-than-life stage performances; unfortunately, they also became
known for the drama surrounding the departures of former members.
Controversy surrounded the band following the exits of Roth, Hagar, and
Anthony; this controversy often included numerous conflicting press
statements between the former members and the band. In 2007, Van Halen
was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. VH1 ranked them 7th on their list of the top 100 hard rock artists of all time.
The Wallflowers est un groupe américain de rock, originaire de Los Angeles fondé en 1989. Il est composé de Jakob Dylan (guitare et chant), Rami Jaffee (piano et orgue Hammond B3), Greg Richling (basse), Jack Irons (batterie) et Stuart Mathis
(guitare). Ils ont sorti six albums studio, un album de compilation et
ont eu plusieurs chansons à la télévision et films. Ils ont remporté
deux Grammy Awards pour la meilleure performance rock par un duo ou groupe et Best Rock Song Vocal pour leur chanson One Headlight en 1998.
Ils sont les pionniers du revival du Rock' n Roll des années 1990.
The Wallflowers a su s'imposer sur la scène américaine et mondiale.
Jakob Dylan, l'essence du groupe, possède un sens poétique reconnu.
Quelques titres des Wallflowers : Sleepwalker, 6th Avenue Heartache, One Headlight, Ashes to Ashes, Empire in My Mind, When You're on Top, I've Been Delivered, Heroes (reprise de David Bowie), Letters from the Wasteland, Beautiful Side of Somewhere et Closer 2 You.
Les Wallflowers jouèrent la B.O. du film Godzilla "Heroes" une
reprise de la version moins construite, mais plus rock que celle de
David Bowie.
The Wallflowers are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1989 by singer-songwriter Jakob Dylan and guitarist Tobi Miller. The band has gone through a number of personnel changes but has stayed centered around Dylan.
After releasing their eponymous debut album in 1992, the Wallflowers released what would become their best-known and highest-selling album, Bringing Down the Horse in 1996, which featured songs such as "One Headlight" and "6th Avenue Heartache".
They went on to release an additional three albums before going on a
7-year hiatus, beginning in 2006. In 2012, The Wallflowers reunited to
release their sixth studio album, Glad All Over.
The Wallflowers have won two Grammy awards: Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Rock Song for their song "One Headlight" in 1998. "One Headlight" is also listed at #58 in Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Pop Songs.
Clan of Xymox, aussi connu selon le nom de Xymox à certaines époques de leur carrière et familièrement désigné par les fans par l'acronyme COX, est un groupe darkwave/rock gothique formé en 1983 à Nimègue, aux Pays-Bas, par Ronny Moorings et Anke Wolbert, des membres originaux, seul Ronny Moorings fait encore partie du groupe de nos jours.
Clan of Xymox, also known as simply Xymox, are a Dutch rock band formed in 1981. Clan of Xymox featured a trio of songwriters — Pieter Nooten, Ronny Moorings and Anka Wolbert — and gained success in the 1980s, releasing their first two albums on a prestigious independent UK label, a third and fourth album on a major US label and scoring a hit single in the United States. Early pioneers of the dark and moody electronic music known as dark wave, their 1980s releases included synthpop/electronic dance music.
Though the band is still active and continues to tour and release
records, of the original songwriters (Nooten, Moorings and Wolbert),
only Moorings remains in the band today. After the departure of Nooten
and Wolbert in the early 1990s, their music turned increasingly goth.
Zebra is a hard rock band founded in 1975 in New Orleans, Louisiana. It features Randy Jackson (guitar and vocals), Felix Hanemann (bass, keyboards and vocals) and Guy Gelso (drums and vocals). Their mainstream debut on Atlantic Records was in 1983 with their eponymous album, produced by Jack Douglas
and highlighted by the singles "Tell Me What You Want" and "Who's
Behind The Door". Zebra got their start on the US East Coast club
circuit, frequently playing at clubs on Long Island.
Zebra started their career by playing covers of Led Zeppelin, The Moody Blues and Rush
songs; it was their early fans' reaction to their Led Zeppelin
renditions that helped convince the band to bring their act to New York.
They had introduced their original material into their cover sets years
before they were signed to Atlantic Records, including "The La La Song", "Free" and "Bears" (originally entitled "The Bears are Hibernating").
Zebra had been noticed by local colleges and even had some of their
early original performances recorded by Long Island FM radio station WBAB, culminating in the inclusion of one of their songs on a release of "WBAB Homegrown Album", which commemorated some of the station's best local acts and performances culled from their on-air "Homegrown Hour" program.
The band continued to tour throughout the 1980s but put a temporary
hold in the early 1990s after being dropped by Atlantic Records. Randy
Jackson formed his solo band, Randy Jackson's China Rain, and
released its only album in the year 1993. Zebra finally reunited in 1997
and released Zebra IV in 2003, their first album of all-new material
since 1986. A DVD of recent live performances, mostly from a show at the
House of Blues in New Orleans, was released in the summer of 2007.
On July 10, 2010, during their 35th-anniversary performance at New
Orleans' Mahalia Jackson Theater, Zebra was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs est un groupe de rock américain originaire de New York. Leur musique est un mélange de styles rétro avec des guitares heavy rock/post-punk, des sons artificiels, des cris et des « vocalises bluesy », à mi-chemin entre Blondie et Siouxsie and the Banshees.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs are an American indie rock band formed in New York City in 2000. The group is composed of vocalist and pianist Karen O, guitarist and keyboardist Nick Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase. They are complemented in live performances by second guitarist David Pajo, who joined as a touring member in 2009 and replaced Imaad Wasif who had previously held this role. According to an interview that aired during the ABC network's Live from Central Park SummerStage series, the band's name was taken from modern New York City vernacular.
The band has recorded four studio albums; the first, Fever to Tell, was released in 2003. The second, Show Your Bones, was released in 2006 and was named the second best album of the year by NME. Their third studio album, It's Blitz!, was released on March 31, 2009 in the US and on April 6, 2009 elsewhere. Their fourth album, Mosquito, was released on April 15, 2013. The band has been nominated for three Grammy Awards.
XTC est un groupe new wave formé à Swindon, en Angleterre, en 1976.
Après plus de vingt ans de carrière et plus d’une douzaine d’albums,
XTC reste surtout connu du grand public français pour son « tubesque » Making Plans For Nigel, bien
qu’il soit considéré par les professionnels de la musique et la
critique comme l’un des groupes majeurs de la pop anglaise post beatles. Leurs deux derniers albums Apple And Venus Vol.1 et Wasp Star – Apple And Venus Vol.2 ont d’ailleurs bénéficié d’un excellent accueil de la critique spécialisée lors de leurs sorties.
XTC were a performing and touring band up until 1982. For the
remaining twenty-three years of XTC's existence they were a studio-based
project involving session players around a nucleus of Partridge,
Moulding and Dave Gregory.
David Wakeling (born 19 February 1956) is an English rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is most famous for singing and writing songs for the 1980s 2-Tone band The Beat (known in the U.S. as the English Beat) and also General Public.
To date, Ugly Kid Joe have released three full-length albums, two
compilation albums and two EPs. Their best selling records are As Ugly as They Wanna Be (1991) and America's Least Wanted (1992), which were both certified double platinum by the RIAA; the former is notable for being the first EP to go platinum. The band broke up in 1997, but announced a reunion in 2010.
