Are the rock bands Travis and Shiny Toy Guns from the same country?
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Travis (band) Travis is a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 1990, composed of Fran Healy (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Dougie Payne (bass guitar, backing vocals), Andy Dunlop (lead guitar, banjo, backing vocals) and Neil Primrose (drums, percussion). The band's name comes from the Harry Dean Stanton character Travis Henderson from the film "Paris, Texas". The band is widely claimed by the media as having paved the way for other bands such as Keane and Coldplay to go onto achieve worldwide success throughout the 2000s, particularly through the band's "The Man Who" (1999) album.
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Shiny Toy Guns Shiny Toy Guns is an American rock band that formed in 2002 in Los Angeles, California. They released their first studio album "We Are Pilots" in 2006, after recording it two previous times. It featured three singles that peaked inside the top 30 in the Alternative Songs Chart. "We Are Pilots" was nominated for a Grammy Award. Their second album "Season of Poison" was released in 2008 and featured two singles that peaked inside the top 30 in the Alternative Songs Chart.
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Rockbot (band) Rockbot is an American music group from Richmond, Virginia, with a sound self-defined as "Atari rock", combining synth pop, video game sound effects, and heavy metal music. As bassist Jonathan Sullivan, formerly with the group Jack's Mannequin, and guitaris Clark Fraley joined together to form the band, they wished to feature a female singer, and were introduced to New York-based Apollo Smile. Reinforced by Bryan Stiglich on drums, Adam Thomas on Moog synthesizer, and guitarist Steve Burner, Rockbot went on to record debut extended play "Joystick" in 2002. In 2003, Smile departed the band and was replaced with Kelli Hoosack. That year, they released their first full-length, "Atari Rock". In January 2004, Laura Thomas took the vocal role and also added keyboards.
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III (Shiny Toy Guns album) III is the third studio album by American indie rock band Shiny Toy Guns. It was released on October 22, 2012 by Five Seven Music. The album features the return of the band's original female vocalist, Carah Faye Charnow. The album spawned three singles so far: "Waiting Alone", "Fading Listening", and "Somewhere to Hide".
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Dangerous Toys Dangerous Toys is an Austin, Texas-based rock band with often humorous lyrics. Founded in 1987, Dangerous Toys released four full-length albums and one live album before unofficially disbanding at the turn of the millennium.
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The Growlers The Growlers are an American band formed in Dana Point, California in 2006, now based in Costa Mesa. The band is currently composed of singer Brooks Nielsen, lead guitarist Matt Taylor and keyboard player/guitarist Kyle Straka. They have released five albums, three EPs and a number of singles. The band's sound has been described as "a trademark style of music that somehow combines country, surf, pop, rock and beat" which has been labelled "Beach Goth".
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Transplants (band) Transplants are an American punk rock/rap rock supergroup. They formed in 1999 when Tim Armstrong (of the bands Rancid and Operation Ivy) played his friend and roadie Rob Aston some beats he had made using Pro Tools and asked Aston if he would consider contributing lyrics. Initially, Armstrong played all the instruments himself but as the project grew, he invited musician friends such as Matt Freeman (Rancid), Lars Frederiksen (Rancid), and Vic Ruggiero (The Slackers) to add to the sound. Before long, Armstrong and Aston decided to officially form a band, but to make things complete, they wanted a drummer, so Travis Barker from Blink-182 was asked to join in 2002.
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We Are Pilots We Are Pilots is the debut studio album by American electronic rock band Shiny Toy Guns. After previously being independently released throughout 2005, it was officially released on October 17, 2006 through Universal Motown in the United States and Mercury Records in the United Kingdom, with linear notes of the album referring to it as "version 3.0". Production, recording, and writing dates back as far as the early 2000s, with several songs being written during founding members Gregori Chad Petree and Jeremy Dawson's previous project, Dangerous Insects. Musically, "We Are Pilots" primarily uses influences of both rock music and electronic music whilst also incorporating elements of alternative rock, indie rock, pop, electropop, post-punk revival and disco, with the band receiving comparisons to The Killers and Franz Ferdinand.
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A Gun That Shoots Knives A Gun That Shoots Knives is an independent music band which composes, performs, and records pop music. It is based in Seattle.
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Bullethead (band) BulletHead is an Australian rock band that formed in 2000 under the name Rubikon. Its members consist of Alex Hermescec, Graham Young and Josh Kynaston. The band's music is influenced by Tool, Killswitch Engage, Metallica, Killing Joke and Helmet.
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Toy (David Bowie album) Toy is an officially unreleased album by English musician David Bowie, recorded for release in 2001, and leaked onto the Internet in 2011. Although Bowie had begun recording the album intending to feature new versions of some of his earliest pieces as well as three new songs, its sessions led him to "Heathen" (2002) and it was never released officially.
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Travis Dickerson Travis Dickerson is an American musician and producer, best known for his work with Buckethead and Viggo Mortensen. He also runs "TDRSmusic", a recording studio with its own record label that has recorded and released albums by Bill Laswell, Jethro Tull, Linda Ronstadt, and Vince DiCola. Dickerson can be heard playing keyboards on many albums he recorded and produced.
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Travis and Bob Travis and Bob were an American rock and roll duo from Jackson, Alabama. Its members were Travis Pritchett (born on 18 March 1939 in Jackson) and Bob Weaver (born on 27 July 1939 in Jackson).
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Little Birdy Little Birdy are an Australian indie rock band formed in Perth, Western Australia in 2002 by singer and guitarist Katy Steele, drummer Matt Chequer, guitarist and keyboardist Simon Leach, and bass guitarist Scott O'Donoghue. They gained public attention when their single "Relapse" gained popularity on alternative radio stations such as Triple J, leading them to be signed by the record label . To date, they have released three studio albums (all three of which entered the top ten in the ARIA charts), two EPs, and ten singles.
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Jamie Travis Jamie Travis (born August 13, 1979) is a Toronto-based filmmaker who has written and directed award-winning short films, music videos and television commercials. He received international recognition for his two short film trilogies: "The Patterns Trilogy" and the Saddest Children in the World trilogy. His six short films all premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. His work has had numerous retrospective screenings at festivals and art galleries.
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The Shiny Brights The Shiny Brights are an indie rock band from Adelaide, Australia. The five members have varied tastes in music that all influence their songs; a mix of post-punk, Brit pop and garage rock, held together by lead singer Wolfgang's distinctive voice and the bands four-part gang vocals. They rehearse in a warehouse full of washing machines which inspired the band name, deriven from a laundromat franchise in Adelaide called Shiny Brights.
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Travis Tomasie Travis Tomasie is an American sport shooter who took gold in the 2005 IPSC Handgun World Shoot in the Standard division and silver at the 2008 World Shoot in the Standard division. He is a previous member of the United States Army Marksmanship Unit and current Captain for Team Remington.
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The Strange Boys The Strange Boys are an American rock band based in Austin, Texas, composed of Ryan Sambol (guitar, lead vocals, harmonica), Philip Sambol (bass), Greg Enlow (guitar), Mike La Franchi (drums), Jenna E. Thornhill DeWitt (saxophone, backing vocals), and Tim Presley (backing vocals). Their music incorporates stylistic elements of garage rock, punk, R&B and country music.
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Jeremy Guns Jeremy Carson Guns is an American bassist.
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Cuddly Toys Cuddly Toys were a new wave band from London that grew out of the glam rock-influenced punk rock band The Raped.
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Shotstar Shotstar was a rock band from Tucson, Arizona.
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History of Guns History of Guns are an English cross-genre group combining elements of industrial, punk, big beat, electronica, goth, edm, rock and avant-garde from Hertfordshire, England. The current members are Del Alien and Max Rael.