Which band, "VHS or Beta" or "Knuckle Puck," is originally from a city that is further west?
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VHS or Beta VHS or Beta is a band originally from Louisville, Kentucky, later based in Brooklyn, New York, that combines elements of rock, house and disco. Their self-released debut EP "Le Funk" found some success on the charts, but the band became better known in the wake of the 2004 album "Night on Fire". After two and half years of touring, VHS or Beta recorded 2007's "Bring on the Comets" in Asheville, North Carolina, marking a slight change in direction towards a more straightforward pop sound, achieved without sacrificing their trademark dance sensibility. Later singles "Feel It When You Know" (2009) and "All Summer in a Day" (2010) were issued on their own Chromosome Records label. The band's third album "Diamonds and Death" was released in September 2011 by Krian Music Group, followed by a dub version of the album in 2012.
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Knuckle Puck Knuckle Puck is an American pop punk band from the south suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. The group started out covering songs, before the band members started writing songs in April 2011. Following this, the group released a number of EPs, one of which, "While I Stay Secluded" (2014), peaked at number 5 on the Heatseekers Albums chart. The band released a split EP with the UK band Neck Deep. The group signed to Rise in December 2014 and released its debut album, "Copacetic", through the label in July 2015.
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Volcano the Bear Volcano the Bear are an improvisational/experimental English band formed in Leicester in 1995. The group's members are Aaron Moore (drums, trumpet, vocals), Nick Mott (saxophone, guitar, vocals), Clarence Manuelo (tapes, electronics) and Daniel Padden (keyboards, guitar, clarinet, vocals). Although the principal roles of each member are as listed, the group use a large array of additional sound-making objects to create their music.
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Captain Tractor Captain Tractor is a Canadian folk rock band, based in Edmonton, Alberta. They play a punk-influenced variant of Celtic folk music, similar to such bands as Great Big Sea, The Pogues or Spirit of the West. Their songs are often rich in local, cultural, and geographical references.
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Escape from Brooklyn Escape from Brooklyn is a VHS/DVD video album by the American/Danish hard rock band White Lion, released in 1992. The video features all of the band's music videos to this point and also features behind the scenes footage, interviews with band members and a look at the band's most recent World tour in support of their fourth studio album "Mane Attraction".
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Bill Spooner William "Sputnik" Spooner (born August 16, 1949) is a musician, guitarist, and songwriter, and the founder of The Tubes, a theatrical rock band. His songwriting is known for its use of humor and satire. He has released three solo albums: "First Chud" (1985), "Mall to Mars" (1997), and "Demo-licious". He currently plays in the San Francisco Bay Area with his acoustic group, The Folk-Ups.
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Thinkbabymusic Collective and TBMr Records Thinkbabymusic is a collective based in Athens, Greece, founded in 2003 and ran by Vice Lesley and Dorah X, members of Athens' local garage, rock n roll band, The Velvoids. Along with booking shows and producing an endless amount of artwork in the local underground scene, its most notable attributes include an online and printed fanzine, entitled "The Zine"; having interviewed an array of artists such as Cheetah Chrome, Legs McNeil, James Williamson of The Stooges, Kid Congo Powers, Joel Gion of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Richard Lloyd (guitarist), King Khan (musician), Bob Weston of Shellac (band), artist Brian M Viveros, Leighton Koizumi, Jerome T. Youngman, Glen Matlock, The Underground Youth, Henri Paul Tortosa, Billy Rath of The Heartbreakers, The Vibrators, photographer Steve Gullick and many more.
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Night on Fire Night on Fire is the debut album by VHS or Beta. It was released September 21, 2004 on Astralwerks.
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The Wee-Beasties The Wee-Beasties are a punk rock band from Denton, Texas formed in 2000. The band is notable for its use of a brass section, which is largely regarded as unusual within their genre. Formed in 2000 as a three-piece by vocalist/guitarist Richard Haskins, bassist David Dutton, and drummer Brian Hutmacher, the band remained fairly unknown in their region of North Texas for several years. Their addition of a brass section and focus on a notoriously wild live show (Haskins often takes to the stage in nothing but women's underwear) has gained them a substantial cult following as their career has progressed, however numerous break-ups and line-up changes have plagued the band almost their entire existence. Many of their releases remain out of print after the first or second pressing are sold, yet attendance levels at live performances continue to surpass that of many other current and more broadly known groups.
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Boulevard (band) Boulevard is a Canadian band (originally called BLVD) formed in 1983 in Calgary by Mark Holden (saxophone/vocals). The band dissolved in 1991. They reunited in 2014 and played at Firefest in Nottingham, England. The band has also started to write new songs for a record which was scheduled to be released in 2016. They released a DVD, "Live from Gastown", in December 2015.
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The Golden Dogs The Golden Dogs are a pop-rock band based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Formed in 2001, the band is known for their wild, energetic live shows and were labelled as one of the best live bands in Canada by "Chart" Magazine.
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Welcome to the Dirt Welcome to the Dirt, also known as "For Us By Us", is Texas progressive rock band Fair to Midland's first DVD release. It consists mainly of a collage of fan footage of the band's performances. The DVD was released exclusively through the band's official website in November, and was also offered together with re-releases of the band's first two independent albums, inter.funda.stifle and The Carbon Copy Silver Lining. The release helped to fund a professional recording of the band's performance that took place on December 17, 2011 in Flint, Michigan, "Live at the Machine Shop", which resulted in the latter DVD release.
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Videoplasty Videoplasty is the third home video by Primus, following 1993's "Cheesy Home Video" and the fan club exclusive "Horrible Swill". "Videoplasty" was released at the end of 1998 to complement the band's recent covers EP "Rhinoplasty", and is composed mostly of highlights from a live show performed on October 14 that year at The Phoenix Theater in Petaluma, California. This live footage is interspersed with montages of clips filmed during previous tours and at other recent shows, footage shot backstage and in the studio, animations by bassist Les Claypool, and the band's then-current music videos, spanning the previous two years back to the recording of the "Brown Album" and presented in approximate reverse-chronological order.
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Vector (band) Vector was a rock band formed in Sacramento, California in the early 1980s by Jimmy Abegg, Steve Griffith and Charlie Peacock. The band had several drummers over the years, including Aaron Smith and Bruce Spencer, both of whom also played drums for The 77s.
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Whirlwind Heat Whirlwind Heat is a three-piece band from the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Although they are avid genre-hoppers, they are often categorized as alternative rock.
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Zuckerbaby Zuckerbaby is an Alberta-based rock band who found success in the late 1990s. The band formed out of local Calgary groove band Calliope. The band was known for its power pop influences and the thick lead guitar sounds of Reed Shimozawa, an alumnus of Calgary-based hair metal band Smash L.A. "Andromeda", "Heavy" and "Shampoo" were singles released from their debut, self-titled album. Their second CD "Platinum Again" was released in 2000 and two singles were released from it ; "Overexposure" and "Holiday". The band was dropped from its label when Mercury Records was reorganized under Universal Music.
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Monovox Monovox was an American rock band. In 1992, four band members - Matthew Schaeffer, Matthew Kramer, Cliff Hammer, and Tony Krug – started writing and performing songs while they were still in high school. They graduated and went their separate ways for a while until moving to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1995. In 1997 while performing at Chicago's Beatlefest, they were discovered by Chicago record producer Joey Donatello. He developed the band and got their first album, "Burlap and Broadcast", released in 1997. Their career and time together were short lived.
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Smut Peddlers Smut Peddlers are a punk band originally from Redondo Beach, California. The band has been performing live since 1993 and has toured in Europe and North America. The Smut Peddlers are notorious in Southern California for their spirited and rowdy live shows, but are virtually unknown outside these confines.
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No Cigar No Cigar is an EP by the Swedish punk rock band Millencolin, released on May 8, 2001 by Burning Heart Records in Sweden, Epitaph Records in North America, and Shock Records in Australia. The title track is a single from the album "Pennybridge Pioneers", and the EP itself is an extended single release. The North American release includes "No Cigar" as well as the tracks from the album's other two singles "Penguins & Polarbears" and "Fox". In Australia "No Cigar" was released as an enhanced CD single including the band's songs from their split EP with Midtown as well as four videos. "No Cigar" was also featured on the soundtrack to the video game, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and the game's HD re-release "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD".
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Slapstick (band) Slapstick is a punk-ska fusion band from the Chicago area that was primarily active from 1993 to 1996. Started by a group of friends from the Elgin area, the group took inspiration from Operation Ivy and the guttural punk vocals of Crimpshrine. Since disbanding in 1996 Slapstick has periodically reunited to perform shows for various reasons, including benefits and anniversaries. The band is known for being the root of the "Slapstick Family Tree", a group of musical projects which spawned from members of Slapstick, including Alkaline Trio, The Lawrence Arms, The Broadways, Tuesday, Duvall, Colossal, The Honor System and The Falcon.
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Clayton Scrivner Clayton Scrivner (born November 15, 1976 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was the drummer for the Salt Lake City band The Rodeo Boys. Formerly he played drums in the Las Vegas band Chapter Eleven with Rodney E. Pardey. Also in Las Vegas, in the early 1990s, Scrivner played in Captain Go with his brother Lee Scrivner, and with Marty Crandall formerly of The Shins.
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Primitive Calculators The Primitive Calculators are an Australian post-punk band, formed in Melbourne, Victoria in 1978. Described by British critic Everett True as sounding like "a very aggressive Suicide", the band is known for its mix of harsh guitar noise, fast and repetitive drum machine beats, and abrasive synthesizers. Along with fellow Melbourne act Whirlywirld, the Primitive Calculators played a leading role in founding the experimental Little Band Scene in the late 1970s, wherein both bands and numerous other acts formed large numbers of short-lived bands by frequently swapping members and inviting non-musicians to join in at live shows.