Letter from a Thief is by a band formed in what Chicago suburb?
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Letter from a Thief "Letter from a Thief" is the second single from Chevelle's album, "Sci-Fi Crimes". It was released on December 7, 2009. Chevelle originally debuted this track on April 9, 2009 at a concert in Atlanta. Frontman Pete Loeffler said the song is about a personal experience for the band when their gear was stolen in Dallas, and his prized red PRS guitar seen in the video for "Send the Pain Below" was stolen, along with the rest of the band's gear, and returned by a man in California who returned the guitar to PRS after learning it was Loeffler's.
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Chevelle (band) Chevelle is an American alternative metal band that formed in 1995 in the Chicago suburb of Wildwood, Illinois. The band was originally composed of brothers: Pete Loeffler (lead vocals and guitar), Sam Loeffler (drums and percussion) and Joe Loeffler (bass and backing vocals). When Joe left the band in 2005, Geno Lenardo subbed-in as the bassist until he was replaced by Pete and Sam's brother-in-law, Dean Bernardini.
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The Mekons The Mekons are a British-American rock band. Formed in the late 1970s as an art collective, they are one of the longest-running and most prolific of the first-wave British punk rock bands. Through the years, the band's musical style has evolved, incorporating aspects of country music, folk music, alternative rock and occasional experiments with dub. They are known for their raucous live shows. These days, The Mekons are often described as a post-punk, cowpunk and/or alt country band. The band is currently based in Chicago.
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Keys to the City (song) "Keys to the City" is a song from American industrial metal band Ministry, in collaboration with "Co-Conspirators", as a gift for the Chicago Blackhawks ice hockey team. The song was written by Al Jourgensen (Ministry, Revolting Cocks), Joshua Bradford (Revolting Cocks) and Paul Raven (Killing Joke, Ministry).
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The Suicide Commandos The Suicide Commandos are an American punk rock trio from Minneapolis, Minnesota. They formed in 1975 and released two 7" EPs on an indie label in 1976 and 1977 before signing with Blank Records (a subsidiary label of Mercury Records) in 1977 and releasing one album, "Make a Record". Despite their short original 4-year stint together, the Suicide Commandos are considered the pioneers for jump-starting a punk rock music scene in the Twin Cities, which eventually produced bands like The Suburbs, Hüsker Dü, The Replacements and Soul Asylum.
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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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Buffalocomotive Buffalocomotive is an American rock band formed in 2012, in Joliet, Illinois–a suburb of Chicago. The founding members, bassist/lead vocalist/lyricist Brahm Taylor and guitarist/backing vocalist Marc Kaducak, have been collaborating musically since 1987. The duo has teamed with a number of percussionists including drummer Scott Carneghi who joined Taylor and Kaducak to form a power trio, even prior to the Buffalocomotive moniker, after completing the final leg of the 2003 Ozzfest Tour with Grade 8. The current lineup includes drummer Jim Shea.
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HoZac Records HoZac Records is a record label formed in Chicago, Illinois, United States in late 2006 by Todd Killings and Brett Cross after the demise of "Horizontal Action Magazine" (1997–2005). Concentrating on releasing records from musicians of the underground rock 'n' roll world, HoZac started off with 7" singles for the first two years and released their first LP by The Smith Westerns.
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From Zero From Zero was a nu metal band from Chicago, Illinois.
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Neighborhood Newspaper Group Neighborhood Newspaper Group is the community newspaper publisher based on the Southwest Side of Chicago. The group currently publishes the "Journal News", which covers Archer Heights, Brighton Park and McKinley Park, and "City Newshound" which covers Clearing and Garfield Ridge. Both papers are released weekly every Wednesday. The "Journal News" was known as "Back of the Yards Journal" until February 2008, when the publisher moved its headquarters west and shifted focus to the Southwest Side.
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AM Taxi AM Taxi (formerly known as American Taxi) is a rock band from Chicago, Illinois. They are praised for their live shows in such Chicago venues as The Metro and The Beat Kitchen.
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Messengers (band) Messengers is an American Christian metal band, and they primarily play thrash metal. They come from Dallas, Texas. The band started making music in 2008, and their members are lead vocalist, Chad Paramore, lead guitarist, Chance Paramore, bassists, Travis Kilgore and Phillip Germ, and drummer, Noah Boyce. The band released an extended play, "Anthems", in 2010 with Facedown Records alongside Strike First Records. Their second extended play, "No Shelter", was released in 2013. They are not to be confused with the UK Prog band, "Messenger", whose demo "Solid Chirps" sounds entirely different.
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No One (band) No One is a four-piece nu metal band from Chicago, Illinois. They released one studio album through Immortal Records in August 2001 to minimal success. No One has performed on Ozzfest and alongside the likes of Slipknot and System of a Down. After lagging commercial success, the group disbanded in 2003. They reformed in 2010 and began performing concerts again.
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Sybris Sybris is an American indie rock band from Chicago, Illinois.
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Grave Robber (band) Grave Robber is an American Christian punk band, and they primarily play horror punk, while to a lesser extent punk rock. They come from Fort Wayne, Indiana. The band started making music in 2005. Their first two studio albums, "Be Afraid" and "Inner Sanctum", were released by Retroactive Records, correspondingly in 2008 and 2009. The subsequent two studio albums, "Exhumed" and "You're All Gonna Die!", were released by Rottweiler Records, correspondingly in 2010 and 2011.
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OutLaw Gangster Disciples The OutLaw Gangster Disciple Nation is a faction of the Gangster Disciples street gang. It was formed in the Chicago Housing Authority's Cabrini-Green public housing project on the Near-North Side of Chicago, Illinois in the early 1990s, by Gangster Disciple board member and Cabrini resident Charles "Big Chuck" Dorsey, But now all is branched out over the South-Side of the city.
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Meat Puppets Meat Puppets is an American rock band formed in January 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona. The group's original lineup was Curt Kirkwood (guitar/vocals), his brother Cris Kirkwood (bass guitar), and Derrick Bostrom (drums). The Kirkwood brothers met Bostrom while attending Brophy Prep High School in Phoenix. The three then moved to Tempe, Arizona (a Phoenix suburb and home to Arizona State University), where the Kirkwood brothers purchased two adjacent homes, one of which had a shed in the back where they regularly practiced.
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Crime (band) Crime was an early American punk band from San Francisco. The band was formed in 1976 by Johnny Strike (vocals, guitar), Frankie Fix (vocals, guitar), Ron "The Ripper" Greco (bass; ex-Flamin' Groovies), and Ricky Tractor (Ricky Williams) (drums). Their debut, the self-financed double A-side, "Hot Wire My Heart" and "Baby You're So Repulsive", appeared at the end of 1976, and is the first single released by a U.S. punk act from the West Coast.
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North Lawndale, Chicago North Lawndale, known to residents as simply "Lawndale", is located on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the well-defined community areas in the city of Chicago.
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The Bollweevils The Bollweevils is a punk band from Chicago, Illinois.
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The Mentally Ill The Mentally Ill were a punk band originating from Deerfield, Illinois in the late 1970s. Their legendary 1979 7" single Gacy's Place named after notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy, is considered by many to be one of the most unusual records of the early Chicago punk rock scene. They also released Sex Cells 7" and then dropped into obscurity.
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The Cash Box Kings The Cash Box Kings is an American blues band from Chicago, Illinois, United States, specializing in Chicago-style blues from the 1940s and 1950s as well as Delta blues style music from the 1920s and 1930s.