The Cure
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The Cure may be the best live band to come out of the 80's “New Wave” genre. The band has toured in one form or another, consistently, for over three decades. Their marathon concerts are legendary and it is not uncommon for a Cure concert to include a 15 minute or longer improvisation of a single song from their catalogue of jam ready classics like “A Forest”.
BLOC PARTY
Equally inspired by Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Gang of Four, and The Cure, East London art punkers Bloc Party mix angular sonics with pop structures. Consisting of singer/guitarist Kele Okereke, guitarist Russell Lissack, bassist/singer Gordon Moakes, and drummer Matt Tong, the band was formerly known as Angel Range and Union before settling on Bloc Party. Okereke and Lissack met each other through mutual friends at the Reading Festival, and discovered that they had musical tastes as well as friends in common. Tong and Moakes soon joined their collaboration, and under the name Union, the quartet issued a demo in early 2003; later that year, they switched their name to Bloc Party.
The group's demo and concerts began to attract attention from both the press and their peers; Okereke sent a copy of the demo to Franz Ferdinand, who invited them to play at the Domino tenth anniversary bash in fall 2003. Early the following year, the band released one of the demo's tracks, "She's Hearing Voices," as a single on Trash Aesthetics. A few months later, Banquet/Staying Fat arrived on Moshi Moshi. That spring, Bloc Party signed to Wichita to release their full-length album in the U.K., and to Dim Mak for U.S. distribution. The band spent summer 2004 recording and touring.
Late that summer, Bloc Party, which collected the band's first two singles, arrived in the States. Their debut album, Silent Alarm, appeared early in 2005 and was released by Vice Records in the States to widespread acclaim. Later that year, Silent Alarm Remixed capitalized on the band's burgeoning popularity, as did the 2006 EP Helicopter. A Weekend in the City, Bloc Party's second proper album, followed in 2007. A Weekend in the City leaked onto the Internet months before the album's street date, which inspired Bloc Party to issue their third album, Intimacy, online in late summer 2008; the album was released on compact disc that fall.
In 2009, the band released the single One More Chance before they went on official hiatus to pursue their own projects.
Discography:
Silent Alarm (2005)
A Weekend in the City (2007)
Intimacy (2008)
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BLINK-182
The new-school punk trio blink-182 was formed in the suburbs of San Diego, California around guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge, bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus, and drummer Scott Raynor. Originally known as simply Blink, the band debuted in 1993 with a self-released EP, Fly Swatter. After releasing the album Buddha in 1994, the trio signed to Grilled Cheese/Cargo and released Cheshire Cat the following year. The threat of a lawsuit from a similarly named Irish band forced them to change their name to blink-182, but the group earned a higher profile touring the world with Pennywise and NOFX on the 1996-1997 Warped Tour, plus appearing on innumerable skate/surf/snowboarding videos.
The third blink-182 LP, Dude Ranch, was jointly released in 1997 by Cargo and MCA. Dude Ranch expanded the group's audience and went platinum by the end of 1998, due in part to the popularity of their infectious teen anthem, "Dammit (Growing Up)." The group also signed officially with MCA, which released the band's fourth album, Enema of the State, in the summer of 1999. The album, produced by Jerry Finn (Green Day, Rancid), also welcomed a new member into the trio's ranks; Travis Barker, formerly with the Aquabats, settled in on drums after Raynor left midway through a 1998 U.S. tour. Enema was greeted with almost immediate success, and helped the band achieve the mainstream status of toilet-humored pop-punk kings that Dude Ranch had only hinted at. Driven by the commercially successful singles "What's My Age Again?," "All The Small Things," and "Adam's Song," music videos for the three songs (whose clips included themes of streaking and boy band spoofs) were MTV smashes as well.
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After selling over four million copies of Enema of the State, the trio played on with the limited-edition release The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back) in fall 2000. The album featured the band's radio hits in a live setting, intertwined with their quirky sense of humor as well as the new song "Man Overboard." Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, issued in spring 2001, saw the band return to their SoCal punk rock roots. Maturity, of a sort, came with 2003's self-titled album, released on Geffen. Not only did the album sport a song ("All of This") that featured Robert Smith of The Cure, but "I Miss You" also topped the modern rock charts in 2005.
In February 2005, however, popular as ever and seemingly indestructible, blink-182 unexpectedly announced they would be going on an "indefinite hiatus," supposedly to spend more time with their growing families. Asking fans for help in selecting tracks, the group issued Greatest Hits that November. Bandmembers also continued on with other projects: Barker -- who had previously released an album with DeLonge as Boxcar Racer -- continued playing with the Transplants and running his clothing company, Famous Stars and Straps. His family was also spotlighted in the MTV reality show Meet the Barkers. Hoppus carried on with his Atticus fashion venture, began producing -- starting with Motion City Soundtrack's Commit This to Memory -- and hosting his own podcasts. He further began work with Barker in a new band, Plus 44. DeLonge also continued work with his lifestyle clothing company, Macbeth, and formally announced his new project, Angels and Airwaves, that fall.
After a terrible plane crash in August 2008 where producer Jerry Finn died and where Travis barely survived with thrid degree burns on his lower body and torso, the outfit got in contact with each other. The following year at the Grammy ceremony, Barker announced the bands reformation. They toured across America that year with Weezer and Fall Out Boy Supporting them.
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THE CURE
The Cure, formed in 1976 and fronted by Robert Smith, are an English rock band largely known for developing the gothic rock genre, thanks to their dark, tormented lyrics and sound.
Beginning life as Easy Cure, the band soon dropped the ‘easy’ and were signed to Chris Parry’s Fiction label in 1978. But by 1982, even after moderate commercial success, fed up of the gloomy reputation the band were getting and after several volatile tours resulted in members leaving, Smith focused on writing more upbeat melodies- the result being 1982’s Let’s Go To Bed and future singles, Love Cats and Friday I’m In Love. By this time, The Cure were enjoying increasing commercial success and in 1984, The Top became a UK top 10 hit and bought them US success when it broke in to the Billboard Top 200.
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Following more band fall outs and line up changes, The Cure returned to their gothic roots with 1989’s Disintegration, which debuted at No.3 and became their biggest chart hit to that point. Following a law suit which was found in favour of singer Smith, the band released album The Wish in 1993 which reached No.1 in the UK and No.2 in the US. Since they formed, the band has been recognised as icons in the world of music, recently receiving NME’s 2009 Godlike Genius Award. (SM)
Original members included Robert Smith (vocals, songwriting), born April 21, 1959, in England; Laurence Tolhurst (keyboards), and Michael Dempsey (bass). Other members include Simon Gallup (drums, bass), Porl Thompson (keyboards, guitar), Boris Williams (drums), and Roger O'Donnell (keyboards).
Band formed, 1976, in Crawley, Sussex, England. Signed with Fiction Records, 1978, recorded first album in Great Britain, 1978. Released first album in America, Boys Don't Cry, 1980; toured America in 1987 and 1989.
Addresses: Record company—Elektra Records, 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10019.
Albums:
Three Imaginary Boys, Fiction, Rhino, 1979.
Seventeen Seconds, Fiction Records (UK), Elektra Records (U.S. 1988 release)
Rhino Records (2006 reissue), 1980.
Faith, Fiction (UK), A&M (U.S. original release), Elektra (1986 reissue), Rhino (2006 reissue), 1981.
Pornography, Fiction (UK), A&M (U.S. original release), Elektra (1986 reissue), Rhino (2006 reissue) 1982.
The Top, Fiction (UK), Sire (U.S. original release), Rhino (2006 reissue), 1984.
The Head on the Door, Fiction (UK), Elektra (U.S. original release), Rhino (2006 reissue), 1985.
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Fiction (UK), Elektra (U.S. original release), Rhino (2006 reissue), 1987.
Disintegration, Fiction (UK), Elektra (U.S. original release), Rhino (2010 reissue), 1989.
Wish, Fiction (UK), Elektra (U.S.), 1992.
Wild Mood Swings, Fiction (UK), Elektra (U.S.), 1996.
Bloodflowers, Fiction (UK), Elektra (U.S.), 2000.
The Cure, I AM, Geffen, 2004.
4:13 Dream, I AM, Geffen, 2008.
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