Alternative | Musicosity

Alternative

Children Collide

Background information:
Origin Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Genres Rock, indie rock, alternative rock
Years active 2005–Present
Labels Universal, Dine Alone Records Members:
Johnny Mackay
Heath Crawley
Ryan Caesar Children Collide are an indie rock band from Melbourne, Australia. Their debut album, The Long Now was released on October 11, 2008 and was produced by David Sardy. The first single from their debut album "Social Currency" is making the rounds on Australian radio and Australian music video networks whilst their profile is currently rising in the Australian music scene...

Artist Type: 

Faker

Faker is an Australian alternative rock band, formed in Sydney in 1996. The band consists of vocalist Nathan Hudson, drummer Evan Mannell, guitarist Nic Munnings, and bassist Ash Moss. Their touring keyboardist is Dizzi de Cazz. The band has released two studio albums, and despite forming in 1996, Faker's first studio album Addicted Romantic, was only released in 2005. Prior to that, the band played multiple local gigs, and also released two EPs. In 2007, Faker became a mainstream success with their second album, Be the Twilight, and went on to continue touring nationally.

Artist Type: 

Big Scary

Tom was a strummer. Jo was a drummer. Tom and Jo jammed in Jo's living room. Tom and Jo had fun and they thought their music was alright. Tom and Jo recorded a few songs, and decided they should be a band called Big Scary, even though it's not very big, or scary. ...Pleased with their efforts with these songs, Tom and Jo decided to record a few more, and make a mini-EP. Tom and Jo then uploaded some of these for your listening and downloading pleasure. The EP as a whole received single of the week in Beat and the band were described as "talented and fearless".

Artist Type: 

Hyro Da Hero

Hyro da Hero doesn't have to front. The Houston-born, Los Angeles-based rapper has a vision for music. It doesn't include flavor-of-the-week ringtones and absurd novelty dances. It has nothing to do with pre-packaged Hollywood pretense or fluffed and folded egos. Much to the contrary, Hyro's vision involves real rhymes about real life, music with a message, buoyant, bombastic beats and daggers shot right between the eyes of every fake MC on the scene. Hyro isn't afraid to tell it like it is.

Artist Type: 

Nunchukka Superfly

From http://www.myspace.com/nunchukkasuperfly NUNCHUKKA SUPERFLY ARE ALIVE AND WELL IN SYDNEY!!! Unless you've been living in a cave for the last twenty years you would have heard of THE HARD-ONS: yes, the Hard-ons, that legendary multi-racial punk band that lay waste to all and sundry before them with their "Motorhead meets Beach Boys" death-pop sonic assault, and that continues to this day, to leave foot prints on the top of your skull with their violent yet well-meaning aural attack.

Artist Type: 

Ratatat

Ratatat, from Brooklyn, New York, United States is an electronic music duo with post rock influences: guitarist Mike Stroud and synthesizer driver and producer Evan Mast (E*vax). Stroud and Mast originally met as students at Skidmore College, but did not work together musically until 2001, when their project was named Cherry (later the name of the final song in their debut album). Written and recorded in the bedroom of Mast's Crown Heights, Brooklyn apartment, the band's debut album Ratatat for XL Recordings was released in 2004.

Artist Type: 

THE GETAWAY PLAN

The Getaway Plan is an alternative rock band from Melbourne, Australia, formed in 2004.

Currently comprising of vocalist/guitarist Matthew Wright, guitarist Clint Owen Ellis (Splattering), bassist Mike Maio and drummer Dan Maio.

Their debut release was a demo in 2004. In 2006, The Getaway Plan signed to Boomtown Records and made their debut release through a label, an EP titled Hold Conversation. They found commercial success upon the release of their debut studio album Other Voices, Other Rooms, in 2008. The album peaked at #1 on the Australian Independent Records (AIR) charts and #14 on the ARIA albums chart, spending four weeks in the ARIA top fifty. On February 25th, 2009, they announced that they had split up. Their last shows were held in June.

In November, 2010, they reformed with an announcement of a new album and national tour. In April, 2011, the band headed to Canada to record their second studio album, Requiem which was released on November 4th, 2011.

On July 1st, 2013 the band announced they parted ways with original bass player Dave Anderson, and were no longer with their long time record label/management, UNFD.

On September 1st, 2014, The Getaway Plan announced their plans for their third LP, entitled Dark Horses. The band chose to avoid record labels and remain independent and set up a crowd-funding campaign through Pledgemusic. The band self recorded a 4 track EP entitled Journaux which was made available as an exclusive to pledgers. Dark Horses is set to be released on July 3rd, 2015.

On July 3rd, 2015, The Getaway Plan released their third LP, Dark Horses. The album debuted at #10 on the ARIA albums chart. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

Artist Type: 

Soundgarden

Soundgarden is a Seattle rock band who helped to define the sound that came to be called grunge. Despite starting years earlier, and having a sound that more closely resembled Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin than their contemporaries, they are usually considered one of the "big four" of the '90s Seattle grunge bands, along with Alice In Chains, Nirvana and Pearl Jam. The band was formed in 1984 by Chris Cornell (vocals, and originally drums) and Hiro Yamamoto (bass), to be joined later by Kim Thayil (guitar) and Scott Sundquist (drums).

Artist Type: 

Dredg

dredg is a progressive alternative band from Los Gatos, California, USA formed in 1993. Their first studio album, Leitmotif, was released by the Universal music label on September 11, 2001. Prior to that, it had been self-released by the members of the band. After the album hit music stores, Dredg acquired an almost immediate cult following thanks to Leitmotif's unique sound and concept. There has also been a movie planned for release as a music video for the entire album, though the project has been scrapped due to the death of the lead actor.

Artist Type: 

Story of the Year

Story of the Year is a post-hardcore band from St. Louis, Missouri originally formed in 1995. The band currently consists of vocalist Dan Marsala, lead guitarist Ryan Phillips, rhythm guitarist and back up vocalist Philip Sneed, bassist Adam Russell and drummer Josh Wills. Initially named Big Blue Monkey, they changed their name to Story of the Year in 2002 because a blues group of the same name had already existed.

Artist Type: