Which band, The Commuters or Malfunkshun, is often recognized as one of the "Founding Fathers of the grunge scene"
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The Commuters The Commuters are an American alternative rock band from Manhattan, New York. The group was formed in 2010 by singer, songwriter and musician Zeeshan Zaidi. The band released their first full length album "Rescue" on April 17, 2012 on the Communal Records label.
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Malfunkshun Malfunkshun is an alternative rock band formed on Easter Sunday in 1980 by Andrew Wood and his brother Kevin Wood and is often recognized as one of the "Founding Fathers of the grunge scene" or the "Godfathers of Grunge". They formed around the same time bands such as The U-Men (1981), Melvins (1983), Green River (1984) and Soundgarden (1984).
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Grimms GRIMMS was an English pop rock, comedy and poetry group, originally formed as a merger of The Scaffold, the Bonzo Dog Band, and the Liverpool Scene for two concerts in 1971 at the suggestion of John Gorman.
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Area 12 (band) Area 12 is a melodic punk rock band from Bogotá, Colombia. The band was founded in 1998 as a school project. They started out playing in small bars and venues in Bogotá. It was not an easy start, full of adversity. They contributed meaningfully to the creation of a Punk Rock scene in the city. They are considered to be one of the pioneer bands of Colombian punk rock. Their influences include punk rock, melodic punk, Latin punk and hard core punk. They have been strongly influenced by bands such as NOFX and Bad Religion. They have reached a mature and diverse sound over the years, creating their own lyric and musical style. They have performed with bands such as Ska-p, Die toten hosen, MxPx, Voodoo Glow Skulls and Joey Cape from Lagwagon.
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Mantra (Shelter album) In 1995 Shelter released their critically acclaimed album Mantra. It was the band's first and sole release by a major record label (apart from the one immediately preceding it), Roadrunner — all of their previous and following works were released through independent labels, although distributed by major companies. By the time Shelter released "Mantra", punk rock scene was in evidence in America, especially in California, with bands like Bad Religion, Rancid, The Offspring and Green Day achieving mainstream popularity.
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Mark Arm Mark Arm (born Mark Thomas McLaughlin, February 21, 1962) is the vocalist for the grunge band Mudhoney. His former group, Green River, is one of the first grunge bands, along with Malfunkshun, Soundgarden, Skin Yard, the U-Men, and others. He is also the manager of the Sub Pop warehouse and previously worked at Fantagraphics Books.
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Stephen Malkmus Stephen Joseph Malkmus (born May 30, 1966) is an American musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Pavement. He currently performs with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.
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The Punk Group The Punk Group is an electro/synth-rock band originating from Portland, Oregon. The group began in 2002 "as a joke" and consists of two male members who dub themselves "The Model" and "Sex Object" after song titles by the German electronic band Kraftwerk. They record and release all their albums themselves. Critics cite the band's 1980s musical influences, particularly Devo.
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Urinals (band) The Urinals are a punk rock band from Southern California. Known for their minimalist approach to songwriting and recording — their lyrics have been called "punk haiku" — the band influenced other punk rockers of the 1970s and 1980s including the Minutemen. They have also been known as 100 Flowers and Chairs of Perception.
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SNFU SNFU is a Canadian hardcore punk band. They formed in 1981 in Edmonton, and relocated to Vancouver in 1992. They have released ten full-length albums and have been a formative influence on the skate punk subgenre. Their work has on occasion been included in rankings of the best Canadian music.
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Cuckoo's Nest (nightclub) The Cuckoo's Nest (1976–1981) was a punk rock nightclub that was located at 1714 Placentia Avenue in Costa Mesa, California. There were often confrontations with the punks from the Cuckoo's Nest and the cowboys from Zubie's, which shared a parking lot. The police were constantly harassing the punks. Club owner Jerry Roach fought a number of court cases in an effort to keep the club alive, and in his 1981 film on the subject Urban Struggle he suggested that perhaps this was the first time that the authorities would stamp out a fad. The club was a hub of the punk rock in California. The club is notable as being home to the first slam pit. Jim trash from the crowd invented the slam dance at the Cuckoo's Nest according to American hardcore. the Bands such as 999 (band), The Ramones, XTC, The Damned, Redd Kross, Black Flag, T.S.O.L., Circle Jerks, the Vandals, Social Distortion, Agent Orange (band), Blondie Chaplin, JFA, David Johansen, uk Squeeze (band), the Adolescents, X (American band), the Go-Go's, The Lords of the New Church, Bad Brains, the Cramps, Iggy Pop, Dead Kennedys, the Dickies, Violent Femmes, Ultravox (with John Foxx), the Motels, the Bangles, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, John Cale, Suicidal Tendencies, Los Lobos, Fear (band), Wall of Voodoo, the Misfits (band), the Knack, the Crowd, The Blasters, 45 Grave, The Weirdos, China White (band), The Minutemen (band), Civil Defense (band), 20/20 (band), Pere Ubu, Suburban Lawns, sub humans, Magazine (band), The Plimsouls, Rubber City Rebels, Berlin (band), Middle Class (band), all played gigs there. The club was memorialized in the Vandals song "Pat Brown", a song about a club goer who actually tried to run the cops into the ground and urban struggle or I want to be a cowboy...couldn't make it as a punker.
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Punk rock Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the early to mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as "proto-punk" music, punk rock bands rejected perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. Punk bands typically produced short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through informal channels.
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Boiled Beef &amp; Rotting Teeth Boiled Beef & Rotting Teeth is the second EP by the Seattle grunge band Mudhoney. It was released in 1989 and contains the band's first two singles –"Touch Me I'm Sick" and "You Got It"– along with the b-sides of each. The song "Hate the Police" would also be released as a single. The songs on this EP were later included on the compilation album "Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles" (1990).
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Forming (song) "Forming" is the debut single by American punk rock band the Germs. Released on What?, an independent start-up label, in July 1977, it is regarded as the first true Los Angeles punk record.
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Unfun Unfun is the debut studio album by American band Jawbreaker. It was first released on Shredder Records in 1990. In October 2008, it was announced that the album was being remastered for release through drummer Adam Pfahler's label, Blackball Records. Pfahler said that there was "'flutters' in that first pass, which is a techie way of saying that gummy leader tape splices between the songs made the beginnings and endings sound like they had been drinking, which is a longwinded way of saying that it was fucked up." This edition was released on March 30, 2010, adding the 7" mix of "Busy".
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Swell Maps Swell Maps were an experimental DIY rock group of the 1970s from Birmingham, England, that foreshadowed the birth of post-punk.
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Burgerkill Burgerkill is an Indonesian metal band, originally from Bandung, capital city of West Java. The band is named after the fast food restaurant, Burger King, as a prank. The band was founded in May 1995 by Aris Tanto a.k.a. Eben, sometimes called 'Ebenz', a young man from Jakarta, who came to Bandung to continue his study. In Bandung, Ebenz met Ivan Scumbag, Kimung, and Dadan. This four personnel became the first line-up of Burgerkill.
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The Suburbs (band) The Suburbs are an alternative punk rock/funk/new wave band from Minneapolis, Minnesota that was popular in the late 1970s through the 1980s. The band frequently headlined at Minneapolis's most influential music clubs including Jay's Longhorn Bar and First Avenue.
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Voigt/465 Voigt/465 were an Australian post-punk band based in Sydney. They were a feature of the Sydney inner-city music-scene during the late 1970s and their music was critically acclaimed. Their sound was influenced by Krautrock and has been described by a band-member as an "unsettling mixture of song-driven rock elements and free-noise experimentation". Voigt/465 recorded an album, "Slights Unspoken", before they disbanded in late 1979. With their self-funded recordings and determinedly uncompromising music Voigt/465 epitomised the do-it-yourself ethic of the alternative music scene of the late 1970s.
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My Head My Head was a grunge/alternative rock power trio from Los Angeles, California, United States formed in 1993 by singer-songwriter and guitarist Adam Siegel and drummer Greg Saenz. Due to its member's past on Excel, My Head's sound was influenced by early 1980s Crossover Thrash music, but also by the growing grunge movement impulsed by bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. Even after its dissolution My Head recorded three tracks for two different Mike Muir's releases: "Pneumonia" (EP later included on the album "Mas Borracho" by Infectious Grooves) and "Friends & Family, Vol. 2" by Suicidal Tendencies.
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Jejune Jejune is the name of a band which formed in 1996 at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. The band has been commonly identified with the emo genre, and was heavily involved with the scene at the peak of the "second wave" of emo in the mid-late '90s. The three founding members, Arabella Harrison (Bass/Vocals), Joe Guevara (Guitar/Vocals) and Chris Vanacore (Drums), met while studying at the college. The band relocated to San Diego, California, in 1997.
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Catcher in the Rye (band) Catcher in the Rye (麦田守望者 Maitian shouwangzhe) is considered to be one of China's earliest punk rock bands, formed in 1994. The band features Xiao Wei as lead vocalist, and the band's first (self-titled) album was released in 1998.