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.
